Container Gardening

This book is a WONDERFUL resource for those who are looking for information on "how to" create containter gardens. Its contents include beautiful color photos, which I find a big plus, as well as information on how color, texture, scale/proportion, shape, repetition, and grouping play a part in creating a beautiful garden design.Each garden creation includes information on the selected plant material, planting details, and container details. (Site, planting, scale and lifespan of each garden also appear at the top of each page.) The book also contains information on containers, container principles--which come in handy whether you are a novice or a seasoned gardner--as well as a helpful container plant directory.The author, Paul Williams, is one of UK's top horticultural gardeners and he really kept the reader in mind when writing this book. I use this book for inspirational purposes when creating for myself and clients. A small book with great ideas and useful information. This author got it right! WARNING--Container gardening can be addicting! Merry--Zenspiration GardensTM

This book has everything you want to know about container gardening. The how-to descriptions are very clear and the photos, which I appreciate, are beautiful. I'm really liking this type of gardening. It's a very creative process and I surprise myself constantly with what I design.

I purchased this book as a housewarming present for a friend who moved into an apartment with a deck. I don't know if it was useful to her, but I thought it contained beautiful photographs and inspiring ideas for container gardening.

This is one of the best container books that I have found. Great ideas that the average person can do.

A very good reference book for container gardening. We copied the container garden on the cover.Alas, the Agastaches faded about a week later. Looking forward to repeating this container gardennext year.

Although I've read a number of gardening books, I seem to have been having terrible luck with one container garden. Finally, I tossed all the soil and read this book. After realizing the draining system was not in place, not to mention I was using the wrong soil and the root system was in a tangle, I finally was able to create a fushia and violet themed flower garden complete with Daddy Blue Petunias, Easter Bonnet Violet Alyssum and pink Bearded tongue. The Columbine flowers are mixed in someplace and I think I have to rescue them from the petunias that are now taking over the planter.Page 135 shows how to drill holes in the base of the planter, which was very needed. Then, while at the store, I accidentally dropped a clay pot, which was just perfect because you use the broken pot pieces to ensure free passage of water through the potting mix. The Miracle Grow potting mix now also has some water-retaining crystals mentioned on page 151.By reading this one book you can learn everything you need to know to set up your own container garden in short order.Features:- Paul Williams original arrangements with close-up shots of every plant featured.- An A-Z plant directory- Detailed sections on how to water, choose pots, move heavy pots and design arrangements.- Information on "when to repot" plants- Interesting arrangements with "ingredients, planting details and container details."- How to Clean Containers- Choosing the right potting mix- Interesting "capillary" watering method. Might workif you travel a lot.The arrangements all have themes. You might want a low-maintenance pink arrangement filled with Osteospermum jucundum (delicate pink daisy-style flowers) or create a lively arrangement bursting with golden stars (Bidens ferufolia). Many of the arrangements also help to set dreamy moods, like the Purple Haze with the fuzzy lotus hirsutus meandering with blue trailing petunias.Paul Williams was trained at one of the UK's top horticultural colleges and is a regular contributor to horticultural magazines. His ideas are practical and inspiring.I was so happy to read this book! Now I can look out of my bedroom window and see a beautiful, long-lasting arrangement inspired by Paul Williams.~The Rebecca Review

I wanted ideas for good-looking container gardens for my screened lanai. This books really delivers what I needed:*large photos showing handsome pots and lush plantings*exact instructions for number & names of plants to reproduce the 44 pictured container gardens*info on sun/shade requirements, plant care and lifespan of the plantsThe last 30 pages is an encyclopedic listing of suitable plants accompanied by color photos.The book also has sections on choosing a container, drainage, potting mix, plant maintenance, color, scale and proportion. Really a very useful guide!

I just wanted to write a quick review to say this these are the most stylish ideas that I have ever seen (and I've probably looked at least 30 books on the same subject). If you want modern, sleek looking container designs, then this is your book. These are the kinds of pots you see outside hip restaurants and boutiques.

I have many books on container gardening; this one is slightly different from the rest, being a virtual sales catalogue of 100 different kinds of container - with details of who sells them. Being published ten years ago, it might therefore be slightly out of date in some respects - but at least one of the retailers listed is currently selling on Amazon. This number, of course, represents but a small selection of those available today, and the selection is predominantly contemporary. This might not suit everyone. But at least the author spares us the old shoes, discarded kitchen utensils and other monstrosities favoured by "designers".Where it falls down in my view is by completely ignoring the self-watering container, which I have used exclusively for almost 50 years. I couldn't imagine using any other kind, and I convert the ordinary variety into self-watering from day one; it's a very simply DIY job, and makes managing large numbers of containers so much less burdensome - especially in hot weather..Like any other art, container planting is highly subjective; one man's potful of elegant foliage is the Petunia specialist's boring clump, and so on. By my lights, the samples shown here are a mixed bunch, some work for me, some don't; but most do have the advantage of being long-lasting, whereas in some of my books, the examples shown in flower would last about a couple of weeks. And you'll need a greenhouse to overwinter many of the suggestions, or even to grow them to a workable size.But as value for money, it's well worth the £2.81 for which you can buy a new or nearly new copy these days, despite any shortcomings one might perceive.

Great book.

Delighted with book. Well packaged and sent very promptly. I have quite a few container gardening books but this turns out to be by far the best.

Wonderful book for anyone wanting to grow plants in pots. Good recommendations and information about suitable plants to grow and how to group them together.

So so .