Jim Wilson's Container Gardening: Soils, Plants, Care, and Sites

By Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson's Container Gardening is an inspirational, practical guide for today's gardener. The Master Gardener tackles subjects such as the various types of containers available, maximizing plant growth and health with potting soils, matching plants to containers, creating landscape focal points, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878331905
• ISBN13: 9780878331901
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Jim Wilson's Container Gardening

I love this book! jim Wilson inspired me to plant my own tomatoes in a barrel on my deck. No longer do I have to wait for someone to offer "home-grown" tomatoes. With his concise information, I have also become a "container" flower gardener. What a joy to have all the beauty without the weeds. The book is full of good information, it's not just a bunch of pretty pictures. Some of the plants he recommends are now my favorites for pots. I have shared this book with many of my friends who have enjoyed it just as much. I highly recommend it. JS

An ideal instruction guide for the novice gardener

Jim Wilson's Container Gardening showcases container gardening and illuminates gardeners of every circumstance about the limitless possibilities for both plant types and container styles. Readers will learn how to find and create containers (including detailed instructions for making hypertufa containers); how to maximize plant growth with potting soils and soilless mixes; how to match plants to containers; and how to create landscape focal points. An ideal instruction guide for the novice gardener, Jim Wilson's Container Gardening is further enhanced with an encyclopedia of modern plants adapted to container growing, including mounding, tall and slim plants, low-growing, trailing, heat-resistant or cool-weather-loving plants.