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Container Gardener's Handbook

Pots, Techniques, and Projects to Transform Any Space
Frances Tophill
$19.99 USD
$19.99 USD
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Product Type: Paperback / softback
Description

With over 40 projects to make your own creative containers, Container Gardener's Handbook will show you how to reveal the full potential of overlooked pots and transform your garden. Whether you have only a modest balcony, a small square of patio, or just a windowsill, you can add greenery to your life! Container Gardener's Handbook covers a range of different planting techniques and types of containers, from urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets. You’ll find expert advice here on what to grow, from bonsais, bulbs, and bamboos to tumbling and creeping plants and flowers. Learn how to make a living wall, a pond in a metal trough, and even your own homemade containers. There are 41 inspired projects for creative and sustainable container gardens that will bring nature to even the most inhospitable and smallest of spaces. Discover how to choose the right size, shape, and materials for your container. Learn how to pair plants and pots, upcycle existing items, and create your own containers. Get expert advice on drainage, compost, additives, fertilizers, mulch, feeding, watering, deadheading, and more. It all comes with step-by-step instructions and bright, informative photography. Turn your small spaces into lush, beautiful natural wonders!

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Pages 160
Publish Date 2019-03-12
Series  
Size 8.25" x 9.25" x 0.0"
Author Frances Tophill
Product Form Paperback / softback

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ready projects, which range in difficulty and time required, each include a list of tools and materials, along with usually fewer than a dozen steps. A final chapter addresses maintenance, including watering, pruning, and repotting. Avid watchers of British garden TV shows may recognize engaging presenter and now author Tophill, whose conversational style translates well from the screen to the page. — Anne Heidemann
Container gardening is popular for its convenience, flexibility, and design potential. This guide to growing in containers features large color photos that provide inspiration as readers learn about techniques and plant varieties. Many types of containers are profiled, with tips and details about which plants go well in which settings. One chapter outlines the process of planting in a container with a balanced focus on both form and function. Forty projects with a definite emphasis on upcycling range from creating a planter out of a pallet or using a colander as a hanging basket to creating a living wall or a mini water feature in a metal trough. These Pinterest
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Publisher's Weekly: For plant lovers hampered by equally constrained budgets and living spaces, this lively offering from horticulturist Tophill, host of the BBC show Gardener’s World, will be a boon. Combining economy, creativity, and plant knowledge, this practical guide highlights varied projects that enable even the most space
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The Columbia Dispatch
Whether you have space for a grouping of large pots or only a bare patch of exterior wall for a hanging container, the authors show — and tell and inspire — how to succeed at this small
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step instructions illustrated throughout with bright and informative photography, "Container Gardener's Handbook" is especially and unreservedly recommended for community library Gardening instructional reference collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that "Container Gardener's Handbook" is also available in a digital book format. Midwest Book Review
With "Container Gardener's Handbook: Pots, Techniques, and Projects to Transform Any Space" anyone can add some greenery to their life as UK

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About the Author

Frances Tophill is a UK-based horticulturalist, television presenter, and author of First-time Gardener. She is a presenter on the long-running BBC Television program Gardeners' World, as well as on ITV's top-rated show Love Your Garden, available for streaming on Netflix. Frances first started gardening at the age of 7 and trained at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh

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