Renowned garden artist and photographer Meadows has run a full-service landscaping company in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30-plus years; her own garden has been featured on a variety of television programs and in numerous magazines, including Sunset, Metropolitan Home, and Horticulture. Gardeners of all experience levels will find inspiration in her delightful book, illustrated throughout with vivid, sometimes whimsical, photographs and drawings. The text is filled with practical suggestions for exploring "color" in general and personal color preferences in particular, for use in creating gardens. Through numerous and varied examples, Meadows demonstrates ways to fully incorporate color knowledge and tastes into dazzling gardens using a full palette of plants, paving, walls, benches, containers, and art objects. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)