Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening)
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Book Description
Container-grown plants offer gardeners dozens of opportunities to add color to their yards, porches, decks, and balconies, no matter how small the space. These 57 projects offer easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for designing, planting, and caring for a variety of plants, from colorful annuals, perennials, and bulbs, to edible herbs and vegetables-and even shrubs and trees.
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Giving your yard the professional appearance it deserves doesn't have to cost a fortune. Container Gardening is a comprehensive treatment of the process, giving even the novice a handle on how to plan and execute a project in container gardening. After an informative introduction, the guide covers all the basics of container gardening such as plant selection, a container and materials primer, and general plant care to assimilate those weary do-it-yourself projects. The remainder is organized into projects that offer your yard completeness through adding seasonal and year-round plants, as well as projects of special interests, such as hanging gardens.
*Contains over 35 step-by-step projects of varying difficulty, created and tested by gardening professionals
*Detailed color photos, ordered sequentially to make the steps clear
*Includes sidebar information on climates, zone maps, tools, soil evaluation, types of plants, and much more
Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening)
Container Gardens: Simple Steps to Beautiful Potted Plants (How-to Gardening),Rosemary McCreary,Time-Life Books,0737006242,Container,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Reference
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