A veteran of gardening in small spaces and a teacher of garden and landscape design, Mitchell helps townhouse owners turn their tiny yards into sanctuaries. Fifteen garden plans with three-dimensional drawings are included.
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Sherry Mitchell is a teacher, landscape designer, and natural habitat activist in Northern Virginia.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Townhouse Gardener: Distinctive Landscape Designs for Small Gardens in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Paperback)
A pretty decent book on gardening in confined spaces. There are a lot of useful tips and ideas that are presented throughout. However, the book in my opinion is poorly illustrated, which is somewhat strange for a gardening book. The illustrations are sketches with no color, doesn't give you that feel I think one looks for in a gardening book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Only book a Philly gardener needs,
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This review is from: The Townhouse Gardener: Distinctive Landscape Designs for Small Gardens in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Paperback)
This is unequivocally the best garden book I own. After extensive research into "colonial" plants, Pennsylvania native plants, cold zones, planting zones, what does well in sun, shade, coordinating colors within a plantscape, what plants are the right size for my needs, etc. all I did was come up with confirmation that the best plan was already whole, complete, and in this book. I could have saved myself much time and trouble if I had just followed Miss Mitchell's plans. I am on my second copy, and would give this as a gift to any of my friends interested in gardening in the city. Hint: you can find almost everything you need on "Monrovia.com".
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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The best book on landscaping,
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This review is from: The Townhouse Gardener: Distinctive Landscape Designs for Small Gardens in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Paperback)
This book is the single most inspirational garden book I have ever read. I have a single family house with much more ground than a townhouse and the ideas in this book are easily to translated to to larger sites. The author covers design, implementation and maintence basics quite well. The best part of the book are garden plans and container garden combinations, an excellent source of plant combinations for the mid-atlantic region. If you only own one garden book this is the one.
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According to the National Association of Home Builders, townhouses comprise 10 percent of all new homes built in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
townhouse garden, container gardens, white petunias, wood decking, container plantings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flowering Dogwood, Cherry Laurel, Coral Bells, Eastern Redbud, Black-eyed Susan, Bird Bath, Dwarf Nandina, English Boxwood, Highbush Blueberry, Koreanspice Viburnum, Solomons Seal New!
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According to the National Association of Home Builders, townhouses comprise 10 percent of all new homes built in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
townhouse garden, container gardens, white petunias, wood decking, container plantings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flowering Dogwood, Cherry Laurel, Coral Bells, Eastern Redbud, Black-eyed Susan, Bird Bath, Dwarf Nandina, English Boxwood, Highbush Blueberry, Koreanspice Viburnum, Solomons Seal New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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