Classic Garden Structures: 18 Elegant Projects to Enhance Your Garden

by Jan Gertley and Michael Gertley

Book Overview

Attractive trellises, planting boxes and other gardening structures can be expensive and difficult to find. Now with basic woodworking tools and this helpful book, gardeners, homeowners, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561582417
• ISBN13: 9781561582419
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Projects

Several usuable attrictive garden projects - beautiful photos - I'm no woodworker so I'll have to hire someone to make them - but if you have basic woodworking skills the projects look dooable.

I love this book

REALLY nice garden projects, not too difficult to make if you have some type of power cutting tool. I keep coming back to this book for ideas. In fact, I've bought other book by the Gertleys just because I like their style so much.

Great Book for the Gardening Woodworker

The projects are not so challenging as to be overwhelming; they are fairly simple and can be completed in an evening or over the weekend. The exception is the greenhouse, which has a block waist wall and wood framing for the glass top. I am building the tomato towers and will start the strawberry tower to use next year. There are several smaller projects - a sting-line row marker, caddies and dibble that can be made with scraps you may already have.I am blessed with a shop full of power tools and shop-made jigs, which makes ripping and cutting complicated angles easier, faster and more accurate, but many of these can be built with simple hand tools and attention to detail.The book is well laid out, profusely illustrated with color photographs of the completed projects and clear construction drawings and plans. They even recommend specific woods for each project - mainly cedar - but I had a bunch of pressure treated yellow pine left over from other projects which I am using. They also recommend finishes for each project.If you are looking for something to do when it is too hot, cold or wet to work outside; here's your book. Your garden will be more beautiful and efficient. Your plants will thank you.

power tools not necessary

I agree that the projects are very nice, but disagree that power tools are needed. Some experience is definitely useful, but I have been happily building these projects with only hand tools -- save the occasional drill for driving lots of screws!

Exquisitely presented, distinctive designs

We've just finished building our strawberry tower, an obelisk to grow 90 strawberry plants in a couple of square feet of space. We're beaming from the rave reviews of friends who find our project attractive and functional. The Gertley's do a superb job of presenting their unique projects with gorgeous pictures in attractive settings. I have a whole list of projects I intend to create--and I know that each one will be classy and distinctive. This is a book for people who like to build garden projects that they know they won't see any where else around the neighborhood.