Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.