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

by Linda Vater (Author)

Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights.

*Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category*

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.

Author Biography

Linda Vater, author of The Elegant and Edible Garden and The Garden Journal, is a garden designer and stylist who writes and produces garden content for TV, magazines, social media, and her own website. She lived and gardened at her 1935 English Tudor home in Oklahoma City for 30 years, and is now busy creating a new garden at another home in the city. Her gardens have 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.