Jim Wilson's Container Gardening is an inspirational, practical guide for today's gardener. The Master Gardener tackles subjects such as the various types of containers available, maximizing plant growth and health with potting soils, matching plants to containers, creating landscape focal points, and much more.
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Citing lifestyle trends like "smaller yards, longer commutes, less time for gardening, and a keener appreciation of plants as an artistic medium," Wilson (former host of The Victory Garden on PBS) offers a thoughtfully balanced workbook with a range of information on container gardening that will meet gardeners' needs without straining their attention spans. Far from a coffee-table book, this slender volume is jammed full of practical information, from the proper proportion of plant to pot, to soilless mixes and fertilizers. At the same time, the book, like Wilson's television show, reveals bits of personality. While some gardeners continue to plant geraniums in "retired work boots," he says, his own weakness is Malaysian pottery glazed a delicious cobalt blue and teal, because they "look so good against green foliage." He devotes an entire chapter to "hypertufas," lightweight containers with the durability of concrete and the ability to take on an attractive patina. He even includes a recipe and instructions for creating your own hypertufa trough. The book's second half contains a condensed encyclopedia of container-friendly plants. Organized according to plant habits (such as low growing and trailing, mounded, or tall and slender) and climates, this palette of plants will empower both novice and master gardener to combine flower, foliage, texture and color for contrast or complement. Wilson's personal favorites, abutilon ("set the pots up on posts so you can look up at the dangling blossoms") and the wishbone flower ("a good 'story' flower for children"), are rounded out with lists of container plants preferred by public gardens representing every clime of the U.S. Color photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Wilson enthusiastically advocates container gardening as an invigorating artistic pursuit. On a practical level he discusses various types of containers, explains the make-up of potting soils, offers design tips, and provides sound advice on selecting plants based on characteristics such as summer, autumn, and winter color. Wilson addresses regional issues, too, so gardeners from across the country can expect helpful recommendations. Additional chapters are devoted to growing herbs and veggies, creating vessels made of hypertufa, and an encyclopedia of choice plants. An especially noteworthy chapter contains reports from a host of public gardens, and Wilson also provides detailed lists of winning container specimens grown in each particular garden from coast to coast. Alice Joyce
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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An ideal instruction guide for the novice gardener,
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This review is from: Jim Wilson's Container Gardening: Soils, Plants, Care, and Sites (Paperback)
Jim Wilson's Container Gardening showcases container gardening and illuminates gardeners of every circumstance about the limitless possibilities for both plant types and container styles. Readers will learn how to find and create containers (including detailed instructions for making hypertufa containers); how to maximize plant growth with potting soils and soilless mixes; how to match plants to containers; and how to create landscape focal points. An ideal instruction guide for the novice gardener, Jim Wilson's Container Gardening is further enhanced with an encyclopedia of modern plants adapted to container growing, including mounding, tall and slim plants, low-growing, trailing, heat-resistant or cool-weather-loving plants.
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This review is from: Jim Wilson's Container Gardening: Soils, Plants, Care, and Sites (Paperback)
I love this book! jim Wilson inspired me to plant my own tomatoes in a barrel on my deck. No longer do I have to wait for someone to offer "home-grown" tomatoes. With his concise information, I have also become a "container" flower gardener. What a joy to have all the beauty without the weeds. The book is full of good information, it's not just a bunch of pretty pictures. Some of the plants he recommends are now my favorites for pots. I have shared this book with many of my friends who have enjoyed it just as much. I highly recommend it. JS
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