A beautifully photographed guide for gardeners keen to attain the elusive colour-packed 'year-round garden'. Covering ideas on how to use, combine, design with and prolong colour, the book focuses on achievable ways of growing plants of every tone through 12 months of the year. It provides gardeners with an inspiring and surprising palette of plants to furnish their plots with sumptuous colour with detailed lists for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Bursting with practical advice on establishment and maintenance, the book also embraces plants for pots, cutting, difficult spaces and tiny gardens, and features long-season gardens from around the world.

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Nick Bailey has worked as a professional horticulturalist for more than two decades, creating gardens and plantings in the UK, South Africa, Australia and Spain. He currently works as Head Gardener at London's renowned Chelsea Physic Garden, where he has refined the site for a contemporary audience as well as added to its year-round colour appeal.