The Townhouse Gardener

By Sherry Mitchell

Book Overview

A veteran of gardening in small spaces and a teacher of garden and landscape design, Mitchell helps townhouse owners turn their tiny yards into sanctuaries. Fifteen garden plans with three-dimensional... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889324094
• ISBN13: 9781889324098
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Epm Pubns Inc
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Only book a Philly gardener needs

This is unequivocally the best garden book I own. After extensive research into "colonial" plants, Pennsylvania native plants, cold zones, planting zones, what does well in sun, shade, coordinating colors within a plantscape, what plants are the right size for my needs, etc. all I did was come up with confirmation that the best plan was already whole, complete, and in this book. I could have saved myself much time and trouble if I had just followed Miss Mitchell's plans. I am on my second copy, and would give this as a gift to any of my friends interested in gardening in the city. Hint: you can find almost everything you need on "Monrovia.com".

The best book on landscaping

This book is the single most inspirational garden book I have ever read. I have a single family house with much more ground than a townhouse and the ideas in this book are easily to translated to to larger sites. The author covers design, implementation and maintence basics quite well. The best part of the book are garden plans and container garden combinations, an excellent source of plant combinations for the mid-atlantic region. If you only own one garden book this is the one.

Finally!!

Finally, someone has written a landscaping book on the terrors of landscaping a small townhouse back and front yard. Sherry Mitchell's book is clearly laid out, and along with detailed black and white renderings of the proposed yards, she includes a detailed plant list for each and every area...TO include, I might add, the ever-dreaded area "under-the-deck" where usually you can only grow moss and mushrooms. Most designs include small fountains or ponds as well. I have waited a LONG time for something to show me the way to something other than grass and fence. Thanks, Sherry!