The Bold and Brilliant Garden

This work offers a new approach to planning and planting. It shows how tohrow caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scento spectacular effect from spring until autumn.;The key is colour: intense,trong and voluptuous - deep crimsons combined with acid green andncandescent orange, for example. Integral to Sarak Raven's vision is aeeling for dramatic scale: plants with huge presence, architectural foliage,trong, sculptural shapes. To complete the effect, she includes flowers withilken and velvety textures and describes how to flood the garden with scent.here are schemes for sunny, open beds and borders for shady areas, for dampoils and to clothe walls and fences - many of which include lots ofuick-growing annuals and take only a season to achieve.

Sarah Raven has created a bold and brilliant garden at Perch Hill, the Sussex farm where she lives with her husband, Adam Nicolson, and their two daughters. She also writes a gardening column for the Daily Telegraph and runs flower arranging and cut flower and vegetable growing courses and a mail order seed service