The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter [Hardcover]

Stephanie Donaldson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 2001

This is an essential guide to successful gardening in containers, outside and inside the home.

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About the Author

Stephanie Donaldson is the author of many gardening books. As a child she learnt her love of gardening from her grandfather. Later, as an adult, she returned to gardening, working for a specialist alpine necessary, running the vegetable garden on an organic farm and then managing a large formal garden for eight years. She now lives on the sea on the south coast of England where the mild climate allows her to experiment with growing Mediterranean plants in between writing.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Anness (July 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754809323
• ISBN-13: 978-0754809326
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,065,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty and inspiring, August 22, 2002

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Rebecca Sprang "vfxgirly" (Shawnee Mission, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter (Hardcover)

Lots of great ideas here-- interesting color and plant combinations, and a wide variety of containers. They are grouped into different categories, such as different seasons, edible plantings, even a section of kids' projects. The photos are beautiful, and the directions are very clear, with photos of each step. There's not a lot of advice on how to care for plants, the emphasis is on matching the plants to the containers.

A word of warning: If you already own a container gardening book by this author, check inside before you buy! I have seen this book with three different covers, all with different titles. "The Complete Guide to Container Gardening" (also available on Amazon) is the same book inside, but there is nothing in the item descripton to indicate this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful and informative for a Container Gardening Newbie, December 25, 2009

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Jesith Morgaine "Jesith" (Mid-Atlantic, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter (Hardcover)

The Ulimate Container Garden spent more time discussing what pot(s) to use than container gardening per se. For me being new to container gardening (left my cutting gardens and flower beds when we moved to the city) I found this book extremely useful. The use of photos also was a plus helping me transition from flowerbeds to containers.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful gardening source for urban dwellers, August 13, 2007

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Richard "novice gardener" (Arlington, VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter (Hardcover)

Being someone who lives in the city but still enjoys seasonal flowers, I like this book because it appears to take the guess work out of what plants work well together in containers. With reasonable care as prescibed in the book, anyone can have a nice looking balcony or patio.