The Elegant and Edible Garden: Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality, Desires, and Lifestyle

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Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane.

Host of The Potager Blog (@potagerblog), author and garden stylist Linda Vater, shares her vision for creating a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side. Known as a potager, these gardens are formal in their framework yet flexible and personal in their edible yields. A potager garden is both lovely to look at and productive. Doubling as an outdoor living area, it is also the perfect place to entertain family and friends. Inside you'll learn:

- How to grow flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together en masse
- The function of symmetry in a potager garden
- Ways to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundings
- Tips for blending your family's needs and lifestyle into the garden
- Advice on how to utilize focal points and garden ornaments in your garden's layout
- The importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager design
- How to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind
- Where to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destination
- Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically

Create a garden that rejoices in seasonality while still allowing your style and personality to shine. The Elegant and Edible Garden is a vision of the very best things a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe.

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"Perhaps most importantly, Vater reminds us that the joy is in our gardening journeys and in the multifaceted beauty of the gardens we create and share with others." -- Andrea Siegel * Washington Gardener *
"Are you looking for the perfect gardening book to inspire you to create the perfect kitchen garden If so, we think you will loveThe Elegant & Edible Garden." -- Susan Bewley * Budget Earth *
"...as The Elegant and Edible Garden illustrates, with a bow to necessity, it is possible to create the garden of our dreams..." * Connecticut Horticultural Society *

Author Bio

Linda Vater is a garden designer and stylist who writes and produces garden content for TV, magazines, social media, and her own website. She has lived and gardened at her 1935 English Tudor home in Oklahoma City for the past 30 years. Her garden has been featured in numerous magazines, including Southern Living, Victoria, Garden Gate, Oklahoma, Mother Earth News, and others. Linda has hosted a weekly gardening segment on Oklahoma's News 4 for 14 years. She also runs her own online television channel, Linda Vater TV, and has partnered with brands such as HGTV, Park Seed, the Home Depot, and the Southern Living Plant Collection. Linda's line of gardening products, the Linda Vater Signature Collection, will debut on QVC in the spring of 2021.