An inspirational yet thoroughly practical guide to creating beautiful vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens, this richly illustrated book features 455 color photographs, drawings, and plans.

Creative Vegetable Gardening offers the most up-to-date and original information on potager design and edible landscaping, allowing gardeners to beautify existing gardens, or to create new gardens that are both handsome and productive. The myriad of suggestions offered are suitable for gardens of all sizes. Even a tiny vegetable patch can be imaginatively designed and planted. The chapters include information about how to design a garden; how to plant for dramatic effects; and how to use fruit as a decorative element, as well as gardening techniques from propagation to pest control and an extensive A to Z plant directory of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and fruits.

The author is a renowned expert on growing vegetables. As displayed in the pictures specially commissioned for this book, she creates stunning decorative effects by using color, texture, and form. More than 50 color illustrations, in addition to the 400 color photographs, clearly show how to reproduce the techniques discussed. Suitable for beginners and experienced gardeners, this book is ideal for vegetable lovers who want the best of both worlds—a vegetable garden that is as productive and attractive as any conventional flower garden.

About the Author:

Joy Larkcom is a well known author, lecturer, and television broadcaster. She has traveled extensively in the U.S., Europe, and China researching plants and the methods used to create decorative effects.