Rainy Side Gardeners' Featured Book
Pots in the Garden, Expert Design & Planting Techniques
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By Ray Rogers
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.
Pots in the Garden: Expert Design & Planting Techniques presents a fresh approach to container planting and design. Author and award-winning horticulturist Ray Rogers doesn’t simply provide a finite number of “recipes” for specific planting combinations. Rather, he takes you on an engaging exploration into basic design principles, including how to use color, form and mass, texture, line and repetition, and spacing and siting, as well as how to create focal points, use water, exploit the potential of empty containers, and more. Rogers arms you with the knowledge to choose distinctive pots and develop planting combinations suited to your garden’s specific conditions, local climate, and your own personal style. Stunning photographs by Richard Hartlage provide guidance and inspiration.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Container gardening continues to grow in popularity, especially as people look for ways to economize on the time and effort they spend gardening
- Design-oriented, aesthetically sophisticated approach to container gardening, while still offering the basic information that readers need to create their own planted containers
Lifelong gardener RAY ROGERS worked at arboretums, nurseries, and horticultural societies before turning to a career as a garden editor and writer, working on more than 40 garden titles. He pursues his horticultural interests as a home gardener, an amateur hybridizer of amaryllis, and an awardwinning botanical exhibitor.
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