Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants

by Rosemary McCreary and Kevin Kennefick

Book Overview

These 57 projects offer step-by-step instructions for designing, planting, and caring for plants in containers, from colorful annuals, perennials, and bulbs to edible herbs and vegetables and even... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737006242
• ISBN13: 9780737006247
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

--Wonderful ideas for potted gardens--

CONTAINER GARDENS is a great source of information for planting in every type of outside container that you can imagine.Instructions are given for the various plantings and the photographs make everything very easy to follow. The containers include, strawberry jars, wire baskets, wooden boxes, traditional clay pots and hypertufa troughs. There are suggestions given to which plants do best in the various containers and advice on potting soil, fertilizing and pruning.This is a very concise guide to potted gardens and the photographs really make you want to duplicate the plantings yourself.