Shocking Beauty FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Portable Drama," "Staging Incidents," "Zonal Denial" - all these and more
concepts presented by iconoclastic and trend-setting garden visionary Thomas Hobbs in this
challenging, cutting-edge book on innovative garden design. Using examples from exceptional
gardens throughout North America and Europe, Hobbs shows how freeing up the mind from the
bonds of conventional garden design concepts can result in gardens of singular allure. Hobbs
attests that we can learn from Nature how best to blend color, texture, and species of plants to
create beauty in the garden. Luxuriantly illustrated with over 190 striking four-color photographs,
this thought-provoking book is a fount of ideas you can use to invigorate your garden's visual
appeal.
FROM THE CRITICS
Steve Silk - Fine Gardening
Thomas Hobbs gardens out on the cutting edge of contemporary horticulture. Daring color combinations, foliage with startling hues, hordes of tender perennials, and big, blowsy tropical plants are just some of the ingredients that go into making his eye-popping garden in Vancouver. Hobbs is one of the foremost proponents of a visually striking style that's rapidly gaining favor among cognoscenti, and examples abound all over the Pacific Northwest and in many of North America's best public gardens.
Those who love it will delight in the inspiring, almost luridly colorful photographs that fill the pages of this gardening manifesto. They will delight, too, in the brief, essaylike chapters that are a virtual call to arms, an impassioned plea to liberate ourselves from the confines of stodgy, traditional design and to create our gardens with an electrifying sense of drama and flamboyance.
For trowel-wielding daredevils yearning to take the plunge, Hobbs delivers design ideas aplenty, to appropriate as is or to use as a springboard to realizing your own inner visions. So go ahead and take a look. Then, take a chance.
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