Including a chapter on various colours - from 'Challenging Orange' to 'Sophisticated Black', this title explores them in relation to others. It advocates a touch of pink to make you sit up; and suggests bright scarlet rose hips in a purple bed to introduce a note of rebellion.[...]

The first book to explore the evolution of the Persian paradise garden from its ancient beginnings to today's modern designs, "Gardens of Persia" is available once again. Buildings, water and plants combine to give these gardens a beauty and a spiritual quality which have inspired garden design thro[...]