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Small-Space Gardening: How to Successfully Grow Flowers and Fruits in Containers and Pots
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Product Description
Expanding the notion of the garden, SMALL-SPACE GARDENING will find a spot in every gardener’s library.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #663939 in Books
- Published on: 2004-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Small-Space Gardening includes everything necessary for most unusual and stunning selections of plants available to grow in containers. It will stretch your imagination."--National Garden Clubs Book Reviews
"Small Space will find a spot on every gardener's bookshelf."--Houston Lifestyles & Homes
From the Back Cover
There's no end to the advantages of gardening in containers, and gardening expert Peter Loewer's new book on the subject provides the perfect introduction.
Containers, of course, are the norm in cities and many suburbs, where space is at a premium, but gardeners with plenty of room will also appreciate the benefits of container planting. Containers dress up front walks and mailboxes, hang brightly from the limbs of trees, and energize a deck with color and life. They are a great laboratory for "experiments," and also allow a gardener to grow plants that wouldn't otherwise winter over in northerly climate zones. Older gardeners also love container gardening for its relative simplicity and ease of maintenance.
In concise chapters, Loewer explains:
Light, dormancy, temperature, and watering
Potting and soil mixes
Vertical gardens, including vines in pots
How to create your own pool and surround it with a beautiful water garden
Growing fruits like bananas, alpine strawberries, and mangos in containers
Forcing bulbs
Expanding the notion of the garden, Small-Space Gardening will find a spot in every gardener's library.
Containers, of course, are the norm in cities and many suburbs, where space is at a premium, but gardeners with plenty of room will also appreciate the benefits of container planting. Containers dress up front walks and mailboxes, hang brightly from the limbs of trees, and energize a deck with color and life. They are a great laboratory for "experiments," and also allow a gardener to grow plants that wouldn't otherwise winter over in northerly climate zones. Older gardeners also love container gardening for its relative simplicity and ease of maintenance.
In concise chapters, Loewer explains:
Light, dormancy, temperature, and watering
Potting and soil mixes
Vertical gardens, including vines in pots
How to create your own pool and surround it with a beautiful water garden
Growing fruits like bananas, alpine strawberries, and mangos in containers
Forcing bulbs
Expanding the notion of the garden, Small-Space Gardening will find a spot in every gardener's library.
About the Author
Peter Loewer has written for all the national gardening magazines, and has written and illustrated several gardening books, including The Wild Gardener, which was named one of the 75 Great Gardening Books by the American Horticultural Society. He also wrote Solving Deer Problems and Solving Weed Problems. His radio show, The Wild Gardener, can be heard on National Public Radio in North Carolina. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Customer Reviews
Somebody has to do it!
Thanks to a small press being sold to a larger press then that press sold to another press, here's just one of the hundreds of books every year that are lost to a deserving readership because of corporate greed. Loewer has been writing about and illustrating plants since 1973, has won dozens of awards for both activities, and this isn't the first time he--like many others--has gone by the book wayside. This is a great book and if you don't want to spend the money, go to your local library.
