The Elegant and Edible Garden: Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality, Desires, and Lifestyle

The Elegant and Edible Garden is a book that shows how to create a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side, combining style and productivity. It offers advice on growing flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together, creating visual harmony, blending family needs and lifestyle, utilizing focal points and garden ornaments, and creating a garden that celebrates seasonality while still allowing personal style to shine.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2022
Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Discover the art of partnering ornamental plants with edible ones to create a garden that exudes both storybook charm and a bountiful array of culinary delights. This captivating guide, winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category, takes food growing to a whole new level. Hosted by the talented author and garden stylist Linda Vater, known as a "potager," these gardens combine formality with flexibility, offering edible yields that are both visually stunning and productive.

A potager garden is not only a feast for the eyes but also a functional outdoor living area, perfect for entertaining family and friends. Inside, you'll embark on a journey of learning, exploring how to grow flowers, fruits, vegetables, and herbs together in harmonious abundance. You'll discover the importance of symmetry, visual harmony, and matching the style of the garden to its surroundings. Tips on blending your family's needs and lifestyle into the garden will guide you, as will advice on utilizing focal points and garden ornaments to enhance the layout.

Rhythm, repetition, and harmony are key elements in potager design, and you'll learn how to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind. The book also offers insights on where to place your potager for convenience and to create a destination that beckons visitors. Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically are shared, ensuring that you can enjoy the fruits of your labor while nurturing the environment.

The Elegant and Edible Garden is a celebration of the very best that a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe. It is a vision of the perfect blend of seasonality, allowing your style and personality to shine through. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a beginner seeking to create a culinary haven, this guide will inspire and guide you on your journey to a garden that rejoices in the wonders of both nature and culinary delights.

Weight: 900g
Dimension: 209 x 260 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760372371