Practical Container Gardening: 150 Planting Ideas in 140 Step-By-Step Photographs: Everything You Need to Know about Planning, Designing, Growing and

By Stephanie Donaldson

This is an essential guide to successful gardening in containers, outside and inside. It assumes little or no gardening experience and guarantees to be an endless source of fresh inspiration for the experienced gardener. Projects are expertly presented with step-by-step photographs and all the techniques are clearly explained, including advice on selecting plants to suit the location as well as general care and maintenance. There are innovative ideas for unusual planters and materials - from edible displays and herb baskets to adapting watering cans and chimney pots - but also for traditional containers such as hanging baskets or window boxes.

The 150 projects for creating beautiful containers of all kinds, from hanging baskets and window boxes to terracotta pots and stone troughs, are presented with 1400 gorgeous photographs. Detailed advice for choosing plants, preparing containers and planting displays the whole year round will ensure this volume is an endless resource of inspiration for planters to transform and embellish any space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840382627
• ISBN13: 9781840382624
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Anness Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Useful and informative for a Container Gardening Newbie

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.

Useful gardening source for urban dwellers

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.