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Title: The Complete Container Garden by David Joyce ISBN: 0-7621-0422-8 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not enough for Part/Shade Gardening
Comment: I enjoyed this book but found it's primary focus was on "sunny" container gardening. Since I need to focus on part-shade and shade plants the book was not as helpful as I would have liked.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential for your garden book collection!
Comment: This book has it all! It has practical tips for container planting, maintainence, topiary, and inspiration. It does emphasize ornemental plantings, but it really does offer a well-rounded approach to container gardening.
It has lots of eye-candy to boot! Who can beat that? The best of both worlds, informational, and artistic.
My only complaint is that it does not always say what the light requirements for the plants presented, but the container blue-print section makes up for that in some degree. A good staple for container gardening.
Rating: 4
Summary: Color Groupings Distinguishes This Work
Comment: Beautifully presented, this book provides two different functions. The first part of the book is a standard introduction to container gardening, with information about how to plant pots, the order, and how best to arrange them. The author has some very nice instructional graphics to illustrate the steps, disembodied hands working in the dirt. The second and more interesting part of the book involved his breakdown of container plant types by color. Each main area of the color wheel is given a section, and plants for that color are described for spring, summer, and fall/winter. If you like to work and create your arrangements by combining color schemes, this will be very helpful. I'm still at the stage where a book like Hillier's 'Container Gardening Through the Year' was more appropriate providing concrete examples that you can go out and put together. Joyce does do that for a variety of pots, indicating through pot-maps where things should be planted etc., but that's not the main thrust of the book it appeared. I did like the presentation and can understand the high rankings this work receives.
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Title: Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes by Halina Heitz ISBN: 0812062787 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Container Gardening Through the Year (DK Living) by Malcolm Hillier, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Matthew Ward ISBN: 078943296X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Container Gardening Encyclopedia by Sue Phillips, Neil Sutherland ISBN: 1571458425 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Stephanie Donaldson ISBN: 0754809323 Publisher: Lorenz Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Balcony, Terrace and Patio Gardening by Margaret Davis ISBN: 1555912567 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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