{"id":13132,"date":"2014-12-08T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2014-12-08T04:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:10:20","slug":"garden-colour-from-books-or-dahlias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/garden-colour-from-books-or-dahlias\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Garden Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0563521716\/richardpettin-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0563521716.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" width=\"247\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0563521716\/richardpettin-21\">Colour for adventurous Gardeners by Christopher LLoyd<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Colour to Attract Book Worms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>My personal favourite plants for colour tend towards the bright, brash and bold of Dahlias, Roses, Gladioli and even <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9610\">Gerbera<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I do not have much of an eye for harmony or hazy, pastel shades but go for in your face hot colours that form part of my Shock and Awe campaign.<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Lloyd may educate me with his book on adventurous gardeners use of colour but we will see.<\/li>\n<li>In the meantime I will keep growing my brash coloured<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/dahlias-posts-propagating-and-pointers-2\/\"> Dahlias<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Cactus Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3926950756\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2445\/3926950756_be3fe12272.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus Dahlia\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cactus Dahlia Spike by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3941596357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2457\/3941596357_27d1163620.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus Dahlia Spike\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3986868226\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3525\/3986868226_4f9a34dc57.jpg\" alt=\"Dahlia\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=gardening&amp;tag=richardpettin-21&amp;index=blended&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738#\/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=garden+colour&amp;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Agarden+colour\">Books<\/a> on colour in your garden emphasise the design and planing aspects.<br \/>\nI am of the plonk it in and hope for the best type gardener. When I get a combination right I am surprised to bits. When I get it garishly wrong I am less surprised but not fazed by the colour riot.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pink dahlias by robynejay, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/learnscope\/2924128728\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3088\/2924128728_c4fb8564ef.jpg\" alt=\"Pink dahlias\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credit<\/strong><br \/>\nPink dahlias by robynejay mosaic CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/185894547X\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/185894547X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Colour in the Garden<\/strong> <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/185894547X\/richardpettin-21\">by Val Bourne<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;A colourful garden has the extraordinary power to lift the spirits no matter the time of year.<br \/>\nMany people struggle to create their own colour combinations that are suitable to site and soil.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images of Dahlia illustrate the colour in my garden rather than the books on my shelves but the books are there to consult through winter. As with all things in the garden and book shelf a good mixture can be most appealing and useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,10],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-flowers","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}