A guide to growing crops in pots. It offers various tips and techniques, from companion planting to deter pests to choosing the right container for the right crop, along with advice on feeding and watering, knowing when to harvest and treating common diseases without resorting to the use of chemical sprays.
Takes you on an exploration into basic design principles as well as how to create focal points, use water, exploit the potential of empty containers, and more. This book features photographs that provide guidance, and is intended for gardeners at every level of experience.
A practical introduction to filling pots and containers that guides you through the basic techniques you need to know to get you started including choosing pots and containers, choosing plants, designing containers, potting and repotting plants, mulching, weeding, pruning, staking and supporting, general care and maintenance.
Container gardening is ideally suited to today's lifestyles-it provides the excitement, versatility and variety of gardening to those with limited space, time and resources. With over 500 stunning photographs included, even a brief dip into this authoritative reference will show just how spectacular a well-grown container garden can be.
It is becoming increasingly popular to enhance the garden and to create the idea of an 'outdoor room'. Using topiary is a way of enlivening the garden with living ornaments. This book shows you how to combine the two to create topiary in containers. It also covers the basics of cultivating, pruning and training plants.
Offers 200 ideas for pots, window boxes and hanging baskets that transform gardens. Organised seasonally, this book demonstrates how readers can continually re-style their gardens using containers with minimum effort and to maximum effect. It also includes container ideas for children and vegetable growing tips.
A guide to growing plants in small spaces, indoors and out. Packed with ideas for design and practical growing tips, it features the plants that have been organised by growing conditions and key qualities to direct you to just what you need. It offers solutions for common plant diseases and pests to keep your pots looking perfect.
Offers advice on hanging baskets, window boxes, patio pots and sink gardens. This book offers advice on compatibility of containers and plants such as bulbs, climbers and fruit and vegetables, and how to arrange them for maximum visual and olfactory impact.
Provides information on growing vegetables in different kinds of containers. This guide explains how to choose the rights plants, select appropriate containers and tools, provide balanced nutrition, care for plants throughout the growing season, control pests without chemicals, and more.
Introduces you to easy container gardening to add year-round colour to your home and garden, from hanging baskets and windowboxes to terracotta pots and planters. This work offers ideas to decorate containers, from a shell-encrusted windowbox to a verdigris painted bucket.
How can urban dwellers without ready access to fertile land enjoy the benefits of traditional gardening? And for those with a yard, how do you maximize the harvest of fresh, healthy edibles? This book shows you how to save up to 70 per cent on your produce bill by growing fruits and vegetables in pots.
Compiled from the pages of "Fine Gardening" magazine, this title takes the reader by the hand and provides a tutorial on the three major aspects of container gardening: designing beautiful pots, combining plants that can thrive in any region of the country, and keeping the plants healthy and beautiful all season.
Containers are wonderful accents anywhere in the landscape. For those with small spaces or beginner skills, they offer an easy and affordable way to add stylish touches to their surroundings. With over 300 photos, plant recipes, and designs, this title is suitable for container gardens of various shapes and sizes.
Container gardening is the ideal way to bring instant colour to a garden, to provide interest in a dark corner, and to grow plants that have specific soil, sun, shade or watering needs. Offering basic techniques you need for planting in pots, this title presents ideas for unusual containers such as plastic water bottles, gift bags and kitchenware.
With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. This title provides what the beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create the container displays of waterwise plants.
Venus flytraps are becoming extinct in their native habitat of the southern USA because of their value to collectors. This kit brings the prized plants within everyone's grasp. It includes an accompanying book that tells what you need to know to grow and care for your plant. It includes: Venus flytrap seeds; Mini planter; and more.
A manual on container gardening, including plans for over 30 container planting schemes and a catalogue of over 1000 plants. Step-by-step photographs show how to plant every kind of container, with tips on fixing and supporting heavy baskets and window boxes, and on decorating containers.
Contains what you need to know to create plantings for spring, summer, autumn and winter. This guide to successful container gardening includes practical ideas for creating 150 beautiful containers of all kinds, from hanging baskets and window boxes to terracotta pots and stone troughs.
Truth be told, you can grow almost anything in a pot and you can place those pots anywhere... on a deck, patio or rooftop. That's why so many people love container gardening. This collection includes 300 useful tips, shortcuts and tried-and-true techniques, celebrating the growing popularity of container gardening.
Nothing beats the taste of home grown fruit and vegetables. Even if you only have a tiny patio, balcony or just a windowsill, you can still grow a bountiful crop. This title features recipe ideas, and includes 40 projects for containers in 'Crops in Pots'. It offers planting plans, plant profiles, symbols and recipe suggestions.
Features over 160 step-by-step projects for the window boxes and hanging baskets, both inside and outside. This title contains advice and guidance for caring for over 180 different types of houseplant. It offers themed ideas for the containers, including displays based on colour, scent or the seasons.
Useful for growers, this container garden book aims to provide the tools necessary for a successful container program, including a wholesale cost and suggested retail guide and a guide to designing and planting hanging baskets, patio planters, and window boxes.
Solves the problems, answers the questions and reveals the secrets of successful container gardening. This book features containers from old tyres to plant towers, plants from lilies to apple trees, and designs from single plants to year-round massed groupings.
Gives advice and shares the author's ideas on how to transform patios, walls, courtyards and doorsteps. This book offers step-by-step recipes that guide the reader through the process of both planting and aftercare, either for short-term seasonal schemes or for longer-term projects. It provides opportunities for novice and experienced gardeners.
The essential guide for anyone with a small space or no decent land; for those who want something more manageable and easy to reach; for those want the exciting visual effects. It will show you how to choose types of containers; how to grow different types of plants; and how to maintain. With clear text and attractive illustration.
With a patio, porch, or windowsill, budding gardeners can bring the outdoors in using this guide to growing in containers. It features species that 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.
With small spaces, lack of privacy, and limited greenery, being a city-dweller can be tough. Luckily, Fern Richardson, the award-winning writer and gardener, is here to help with a fun-filled guide to transforming a balcony, patio, or rooftop into a gorgeous garden oasis.