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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.*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 masseThe function of symmetry in a potager gardenWays to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundingsTips for blending your family’s needs and lifestyle into the gardenAdvice on how to utilize focal points and garden ornaments in your garden’s layoutThe importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager designHow to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mindWhere to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destinationBest practices for growing your beautiful new garden organicallyCreate 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.

Chronicle life in your garden with this elegant 5-year journal full of tracking tools, planning space, gardening guidance, and inspiration.Compiled by garden personality Linda Vater, The Garden Journal is an essential record-keeping tool for every gardener, no matter what you grow. From daily happenings and garden successes to plant lists, variety names, and seasonal to-dos, you’ll be able to stay organized and keep a carefully curated record of current activities and future tasks. This gorgeous, heirloom-quality journal acts as a logbook and guide through 5 years of your garden’s life. Keeping track of success and failures, wishes and wants, has never been more beautiful! The special lay-flat binding allows the book to stay open on a table or potting bench, making it easy to write in without having to hold the pages open. Sprinkled with season-by-season guidance, inspirational words of wisdom, and growing tips from Linda, this tastefully illustrated journal is bursting with dozens of useful charts and tables to track everything from planting dates to weather events, right along with all of the other pertinent details you need to make the most of your passion for the garden. An interior cover pocket for keeping plant tags or seed packets and a ribbon page marker further serve to help you stay organized and on task. Included in this indispensable garden planner:Inventory charts for plants, seeds, and toolsGarden planning and design pages with plenty of room for sketchingA year-at-a-glance calendar for essential notesTracking pages for pest controls, soil test results, and harvest yieldsPlaces to record planting dates, bloom times, and personal remindersPages for noting garden measurements and dimensions, bulb-planting locations, and other tough-to-remember infoBudget planning pages to organize garden purchases and expensesDaily weather and activity logs for 5 yearsThe Garden Journal is sure to become a treasured garden companion. With time and curation, it will hold not just precious information, but also personal thoughts and missives about all the pains and pleasures of a life spent in the garden.

Your dream garden awaits with this beautiful two-book collection from garden designer and stylist Linda Vater.  Create a stylish and welcoming garden space where food and flowers grow side by side with The Elegant and Edible Garden. It’s companion, The Garden Journal, is the perfect place for you to chronicle your gardening activities, successes, and challenges for five full years. Together, they help you design, plant, and care for an edible garden that’s a celebration of grace and charm.The boxed set includes:  The Elegant and Edible Garden, in which you’ll learn garden planning, planting, and care practices that rejoice in the seasonality of a modern and tasteful potager garden. With the advice and insight found inside, you’ll combine and tend flowers, fruits, herbs, and vegetables together with harmony and elegance.The Garden Journal, a gorgeous, heirloom-quality garden planner with a special lay-flat binding where you can track plant and seed inventories, planting schedules, seasonal tasks, weather events, and so much more. Daily logs allow you to record garden moments and memories through the course of five growing seasons. This classically stylish and charming two-book set is the perfect way to bring your dream garden to life!