Container Gardening Books
Gardening in the ultimate small garden space!
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Absolutely Beautiful Containers:
The ABCs of Creative Container Gardens
Book Description: With a patio, porch, or windowsill, gardeners can grow almost anything anywhere using containers. Arrangements in this guide begin simply, with one type of plant in a decorative container. The projects move on to combinations of two plants, then on to more complex pots involving three or more plants—some of the arrangements are even meant to go from container to garden plot. Design principles including color, texture, height, and depth are considered, and ideas for themed containers are included for holidays and other festive occasions. Species range from the tried-and-true garden varieties, such as impatiens and petunias, to newer plants on the market, such as a striking red ornamental millet. The planter plans include detailed photographs, diagrams, and instructions on getting the very best results from container gardening, for lasting natural beauty in any space.
Balcony, Terrace and Patio Gardening
The Complete Container Garden
Everything here from pot selection, plant combinations to painting pots, this book has it all.
Book Description Equal parts gorgeous and practical, Reader's Digest's The Complete Container Garden provides clear and straightforward advice accompanied by brightly colored close-up photography. From spring bulbs to winter berries, the range of plants and containers is tremendous, and the how-to tips are invaluable. You'll find techniques for training vines and topiary or planting strawberry jars, and generous coverage of basics like pruning, feeding, wintering, and deadheading.
Container Gardening
Book Description: Taking a new approach to containers for "real gardeners," Container Gardening features more imaginative plants than most books on the subject and looks at the latest designs and new materials for containers. Offering practical advice on planting and year-round maintenance, as well as looking at inspirational ideas for today's more style-conscious gardener, the emphasis is always on the plants themselves with expert practical advice on how to grow and maintain them through the year.
The Container Gardening Encyclopedia
Although I haven't read this one myself I have hear good reviews from other container gardening enthusiasts, so I am planting it here for you to think about. All those enthusiasts can't be wrong can they?
Book Description With the wide variety of containers available today, and the ever-increasing range of plants, the possible combinations are excitingly large. The Container Gardening Encyclopedia spans the world of container gardening in the most comprehensive manner possible, not only in terms of the vast array of different plants featured, but also the projects presented. The book is divided into thirteen distinct parts for easy reference. Parts One, Two and Three cover the basics, from choosing and making containers to the principles of container gardening. The remaining ten parts each cover a different aspect of container gardening, from window boxes to patio pots and from water gardens to herbs in containers. Practical advice is offered on selecting the right plants for particular types of containers and locations, while the essential techniques for planting, growing and keeping the plants in peak condition are shown in over 1000 color step-by-step photographs. A huge range of plants and planted containers is shown in over 500 photos.
Container Gardening Through the Year
We can now grow plants in pots year round and Hillier shows us how to grow plants in a container from season to season. A good book for beginners and experienced container gardeners alike!
From Publishers Weekly For the gardener buying only one book on container planting this season, this delectable, concise volume is the choice.Starting with spring, British florist and writer Hillier (Container Gardening; The Book of Fresh Flowers) offers an irresistible selection of container plantings for all four seasons. Initially considering containers, he confesses a partiality to patinas, irregularities, moss and lichen and even suggests brushing new terracotta with yogurt to speed the aging process. Discussing plant selections, he examines light, soil and moisture requirements and offers valuable tips about shape, proportion, texture and color effects. Best of all are the sparkling, one-per-page planting suggestions in the main chapters.
Container Gardens: Fresh Ideas for Creating Beautiful Potted Gardens
Book Description Any gardener who wants to enliven an entrance with an arrangement of pots or create a pocket of instant color will enjoy the practical and imaginative possibilities for window boxes, hanging baskets, troughs, and all-season planters in Container Gardens, published by Better Homes and Gardens.
Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes
Contain Yourself
Book Description: Covering an array of the most beautiful ornamental grasses, perennials, and annuals ever put in window boxes, baskets, pots, and urns, this full-color guide provides basic container gardening designs as well as detailed information and suggestions for plant possibilities. Eighty plants are profiled with photographs and information on height, light requirements, frost hardiness zone, flowering time, habits, and characteristics. Diagrams and detailed instructions for re-creating 90 designs are complemented by information on container characteristics, care clues, and plant personalities. Attention is given to plants recently introduced to the market.
Creating and Planting Garden Troughs
Book Description Troughs, those elegant stone containers so treasured by alpine gardeners, can now be made at home with a lightweight concrete-based material called hypertufa, formed with simple molds. Like original stone, hypertufa troughs are weatherproof, combine well with other landscape materials, and make the perfect environment for evocative miniature gardens.
Each trough can have its own microenvironment with the perfect size, soil type, rock forms, mulch, and siting for the desired plants. Sedums and succulents, alpines and dwarf evergreens are some of the plants that can be showcased in trough gardens. Authors Joyce Fingerut, much in demand for her trough-building workshops, and Rex Murfitt, alpine gardening authority, present specialized information on making and planting successful troughs in a most readable yet thorough manner. This book also includes hundreds of photographs, drawings, a plant directory, sample planting plans, resource lists, bibliography, subject index, and plant index. Instructions are complete for making the troughs as well as for planting them.
The Edible Container Garden: Growing Fresh Food in Small Spaces
Book Description No space is too small to grow delicious and healthy food. Enjoying tasty and fresh produce no longer requires a trip to the local farm stand or gourmet grocery. With The Edible Container Garden as your guide, everything from salad greens and savory herbs to luscious fruits and vegetables can be as close as your patio, balcony, or rooftop.
The Edible Container Garden explains how to plant, grow, and harvest vegetables, edible flowers, fruits, and herbs, even when time and space are limited. Discussing the wide variety of planting options, from simple window boxes and raised garden beds to trellises and other vertical structures, The Edible Container Garden shows you how.
Gardening in Containers: Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners
From Booklist: "A host of articles culled from Fine Gardening magazine comprise varying perspectives on the art of container gardening. Rob Proctor, Gordon Hayward, and Sydney Eddison are among well-known garden writers and designers who share their expertise and suggest creative ways to pair eye-catching plant combinations with pots of all kinds. . ."
Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden
Book Description In this unique book on container gardening, accomplished gardening author and expert Sydney Eddison tells readers how to plant and grow a lush garden on any deck, terrace, balcony, or in the backyard. Container gardens are easy to maintain and require a minimum of physical effort, which makes them ideal for today’s on-the-go gardeners whether they live in the city, suburbs, or country.
In Gardens to Go, Eddison offers guidance on designing container gardens, including how to coordinate plants for color and texture, and how to mix and match various flora to have a beautiful garden...anywhere. There is also information on how to change your foliage for different looks from month to month. Eddison concentrates on summer gardens, but includes recommendations for plants and techniques suitable for multi-seasonal container gardens. The book's engaging layout includes sidebars with tips, a color wheel, recommended reading, sources for gardening supplies, a USDA plant hardiness zone map, and an index.
Instant Container Gardens
Book Description: Instant Container Gardens covers a revolutionary, new container garden system that will completely transform your garden. The basis for the system is a unique type of container that has holes in the sides that are large enough to accommodate mature plants. Planting through these holes, along with planting the top of the basket, yield instant, fabulous results. And it is easy! Most of the containers in this book were planted by beginners! The containers are available as hanging baskets, window boxes, wall pots, and dramatic, new baskets on columns. The book includes 33 container profiles that were personally grown by the author. Each profile includes complete planting and maintenance instructions. Step-by-step illustrated demonstrations, along with lots of practical planting and maintenance information, make designing and growing plants in these containers quick and easy. The author planted over 10,000 plants in the course of researching the material for the book. She recommends 34 of the top choices, with detailed growing instructions for each. Before and after photos show complete makeovers of the front of a house, a porch, front walkway, and porch. Learn how to transform your home in as little as a few hours with this unique, new container system.
Kitchen Gardens in Containers
Book Description: Growing your own has never been simpler! With containers, even the smallest outside space--a patio, roof, balcony, or window box--can become a garden bursting with delicious organic fruits, tasty vegetables, and fragrant herbs. Use them to cook, make beauty preparations, and decorate. Along with fabulous photographs that show how wonderful this mini garden can look, get all the basics on plant selection and care, plus choosing and preparing containers. Pictures display a wealth of attractive and practical ideas, like low-growing herbs surrounding an evergreen box topiary; a charming miniature peach tree that fits so nicely into a tight corner; and purple ornamental kales (flanked by cyclamen and winter heather) that grow right on a sill. Bonus: a plant directory with detailed information on over 140 varieties and mouthwatering recipes!
McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: A Container Garden of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers
Both authors of this book garden in the Willamette Valley in Oregon so their advice is personalized for our climate.
Book Description With few exceptions, everything that's grown in the traditional garden can be successfully raised in a container. Which means that even if you have just one pot on the balcony or patio, delicious fresh produce can be yours for the harvesting.
P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens
60 Container Recipes to Accent Your Garden
Book Description: Just as stylish accessories bring a room to life, gorgeous planted containers are the finishing touch for every garden home. With this book, America’s favorite gardener, P. Allen Smith, shows how to create a beautiful container garden in a matter of minutes, in an innovative recipe-style format complete with ingredients lists, step-by-step planting instructions, and advice on how to effectively display these colorful accents.
Beautiful and versatile, these container designs are the perfect solution for decks, porches, balconies, and gardens that need a focal point or a splash of color. Each container recipe fulfills one of the 12 Principles of Design that Allen established in his first bestselling book, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home. As a result, the container will wonderfully frame the view from a window, offer a welcoming reception in an entryway, help to establish a sense of rhythm along a walkway, or extend your home’s color and décor into the garden. Allen shares the secrets he uses to make his eye-catching arrangements, as well as special planting and display tips for placement in your garden. The designs range from sophisticated to casual, yet the instructions are so easy to follow that you can assemble these containers in no time at all—even with little or no gardening experience. There are recipes for every season of the year, to ensure that you can enjoy lush container gardens year-round.A special resource section includes a complete plant directory, tips on how to select the right container to complement your garden’s style, grooming and plant-care guidelines, and basic instructions for planting pots, window boxes, and hanging baskets. Lavishly illustrated with more than 150 photographs, this book is sure to inspire seasoned gardeners as well as beginners interested in enhancing the beauty of their Garden Home with P. Allen Smith’s signature container designs.
Planted Junk: A New Approach to Container Gardening
I don't know about you but creating something from junk gets the creative juices flowing! We all think planting "hens and chicks" into an old boot is cute, but someone created the idea years ago. This book inspires you to take junk and turn it into beautiful or fun containers full of plants. Anything to inspire the creative streak in you. Don't think you have any creativity in you? I disagree, you just haven't given yourself permission to let it flow. Start with this book, stop denying yourself, and be a child for at least one day!
Book Description Gardener and artist Adam Caplin explains how to choose the right pot for your purposes and the right plant for your pot. He offers loads of original ideas for using junk-in materials as diverse as metal, plastic, wicker, and glass-to make your garden a more beautiful place. A directory of the author's favorite container plants, including maintenance tips, completes the horticultural feast.
Potted Gardens
Book Description: This book provides designs for every season and location--from a spring window box filled with bright yellow daffodils to a summer wicker basket full of wild strawberries
Potted Gardens: A Fresh Approach to Container Gardening
Book Description Rebecca Cole--once an actress/activist and now the owner of the trend-setting Greenwich Village store Potted Gardens--introduces a whole new way to garden. Using any container--from the bed of a toy truck to a bedpan--and any kind of plant--from rose to weed--would-be gardeners can follow Rebecca's guidance and plant a bit of beauty in a corner of their homes or gardens.
Starting at the beginning--what a garden means to urban dwellers and their country cousins and how to stimulate your own imagination--she then helps us hunt for plants at neighborhood nurseries and markets (which she advocates over catalogue shopping); gather containers from dumps, attics, flea markets, and antiques stores; and put it all together in potted gardens for windowsill, desk, and patio. In a chapter on terraces, she turns to the great outdoors, explaining the design and creation of complete gardens made up of containers, artfully arranged to make the most of small spaces. And all along the way she shares her own experiences with breaking all the rules to achieve ebullient flowering displays.
Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting
Book Description: No longer a technique just for apartment dwellers or novice gardeners, the use of ornamental containers on decks, patios, terraces, and in the garden itself can save time, space, and money, while offering experienced home gardeners unique creative challenges, site flexibility, and experimental fun. Author and award-winning horticulturist Ray Rogers takes you on an engaging exploration into basic design principles as well as how to create focal points, use water, exploit the potential of empty containers, and more. Stunning photographs by Richard Hartlage provide guidance and inspiration, as well as visually explaining each principle. Gardeners at every level of experience will find inspiration and instruction in this comprehensive book.
The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter
Book Description: Gardening is therapeutic and rewarding pastime but traditionally it demands a lot of time and energy and of course luxury of a lot of space outside. Planting in containers is a hugely popular form of gardening.
This book is the essential new guide to successful gardening in containers, outside and inside. It assumes little or no previous gardening experience and guarantees to be a tireless source of fresh inspiration for the the experienced gardener.
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