The Bold and Brilliant Garden

As a jobbing gardener I bought this for a client so that we could share ideas on colour, placement and clever planting. He has no gardening knowledge but is keen to input and has found lots of useful info in the very well presented, reasonably priced hardback book. We have completely overhauled his garden, changing the design and aspect, and he even hopes to take part in the National Open Gardens scheme next year. So from humble beginnings Sarah Raven's book on colourful, year round gardening has been a great success. I'll be buying it for all my clients from now on. Thanks.

This book will teach you how to use bold colours in the garden to the greatest advantage. It is packed with lots of cultivars of perennials with the most striking colours and plenty of inspirational ideas on combining plants. Mere browsing through the book will amaze you and get you addicted to charm of flowers.

Well laid out by seasons which was useful for planning, and beautiful photographs throughout.

Sarah's book, and the subsequent visit to her house and gardens has prompted me to spend many happy days shopping, hunting down and planting dozens of perennials and seeds for next year. Hopefully these will encourage insects and birds to visit the gardens of my town house, front and back, something so simple and effective that I can offer, to help our struggling environment. And I just can't wait to see the palette of colours when all these gorgeous variety begin to bloom. What an amazing ambassador and wonderful artist she is.

I'm a novice gardener and was hoping to find a book that would help me create or design a garden from scratch. This was not it

Fabulous in every sense of the word!I adore leafing through this book on a wet and wild day, imagining adding plants to my boarders.Lots of plant lists, how to plant and combinations. A real Gem.

My mum loves it as a retired pro rhs gardener

It is what it says on the cover .... and inspirational with it. I have a new garden, well established and lovely but lacking some colour - wow, did this show what is possible and was very helpful in giving detail. I will use this a lot, its well thumbed already.