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

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 designHow 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.