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 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.