Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening) [Paperback]

Rosemary McCreary (Author)

Book Description

Series: How-to Gardening | Publication Date: September 2000

Container-grown plants offer gardeners dozens of opportunities to add color to their yards, porches, decks, and balconies, no matter how small the space. These 57 projects offer easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for designing, planting, and caring for a variety of plants, from colorful annuals, perennials, and bulbs, to edible herbs and vegetables-and even shrubs and trees.

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Giving your yard the professional appearance it deserves doesn't have to cost a fortune. Container Gardening is a comprehensive treatment of the process, giving even the novice a handle on how to plan and execute a project in container gardening. After an informative introduction, the guide covers all the basics of container gardening such as plant selection, a container and materials primer, and general plant care to assimilate those weary do-it-yourself projects. The remainder is organized into projects that offer your yard completeness through adding seasonal and year-round plants, as well as projects of special interests, such as hanging gardens.

*Contains over 35 step-by-step projects of varying difficulty, created and tested by gardening professionals

*Detailed color photos, ordered sequentially to make the steps clear

*Includes sidebar information on climates, zone maps, tools, soil evaluation, types of plants, and much more

About the Author

Rosemary McCreary writes a weekly garden column for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Educated at the University of Illinois and certified by Strybing Arboretum, she regularly conducts classes and workshops in Botany. She has written and contributed to several books, including Houseplants and Taylor's 50 Best Trees.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Time Life Education (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0737006242
• ISBN-13: 978-0737006247
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,941,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars --Wonderful ideas for potted gardens--, July 1, 2003

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This review is from: Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening) (Paperback)

CONTAINER GARDENS is a great source of information for planting in every type of outside container that you can imagine.

Instructions are given for the various plantings and the photographs make everything very easy to follow. The containers include, strawberry jars, wire baskets, wooden boxes, traditional clay pots and hypertufa troughs. There are suggestions given to which plants do best in the various containers and advice on potting soil, fertilizing and pruning.

This is a very concise guide to potted gardens and the photographs really make you want to duplicate the plantings yourself.