Colour in the Garden Stylish ideas for year-round colour

A stylish but practical guide to using color in the garden, including small spaces, through the year.

'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful. Anyone can do it.' - Evening Standard

Jam-red poppies, giant umbels of yellow-flowered fennel, inky blue Agastache, Euphorbia in inchworm green . . . imagine a small garden steeped in color, where ground-hugging bumps of Teucrium and thyme are dotted with tall, diaphanous flowers; salvia, eryngium and single-flowered dahlias in saturated colors.

The way we use color in our outside spaces is changing. Color-themed borders with planting strictly planned around the color wheel, and seasonal color highlights maintained to be kept 'just so' have been replaced by changeable, textural planting using plants with different hefts and heights so that color shifts throughout the seasons.

Featuring inspirational real gardens, plant lists, a year-round planner and plenty of ideas for using color inventively in containers, this book shares a new approach for using color in small outdoor spaces.

Lucy Bellamy was Editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine, the 'Vogue of gardening', for five years. Her first book, Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year, was awarded practical book of the year by the Garden Media Guild (2018) and has been translated into German, French and Dutch. Her first book for Mitchell Beazley, Grow 5, has been translated into German and French. She has written about gardening in the national press, including for the Guardian and The Times.

Lucy lives in Bristol and has a small, city garden.