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Title: Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes by Halina Heitz ISBN: 0-8120-6278-7 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: May, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for flowers and ornamentals
Comment: Every page covers two plants each with a large photo on top. They present very compact information, consistently covering when flowers bloom, heights, wind, sun, watering, overwintering, which will help plan a full year graden.
Largely the book is about flowers and ornamentals. Only 12 herbs and 7 vegetables are covered and insufficently. FOr the vegetables I was interested in found terms/instructions used not in the glossary and descriptions that diagrams would have helped more on. BOUNTIFUL CONTAINER for growing edibles in containers was by far better for that topic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply the Best!
Comment: I found information on overwintering plumbagos that I couldn't find any place else. Focused on containering, no raised beds, no plant biology. It's informative, and the pictures make it entertaining to read, as well. Easy to read picture symbols let you know right away which plants need sun, and which need shade, how much water they need, and how much light they need. In the front there are seasonal suggestions for combining plants and how to make their suggestions. Yes, roses and hydrangeas grow in a tub! There's information on how to make chemical-free potions for your plants to take care of fungal infections, aphids, and mildew. And for the brave, you can start your patio collection from seed...helpful instructions show how. I've done them and trust me, if I can do it, anybody can!
I can't say enough about this book. I consider this book my container garden bible, and has been very useful for me in creating a garden environment on my 7x10 apartment patio in the Oklahoma City area! This is simply the best book I've seen on container gardening.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Helpful Overwintering Reference Sections
Comment: This makes book 4 in a row in my quest to learn the wonders of container gardening, and it does a pretty good job. The first third of this work follows the lead of the previous, it shows the four seasons and a decent number of example containers along with the dimensions and what it would take at the nursery to put it together. The final two thirds though is where it shines, the author provides a compact encyclopedia of container plants arranged by scientific name. The plus here is that they include information for each and every one on overwintering. Starting my garden in November in Zone 8 I found this information extremely useful when picking out my next project. Overall a very good offering, especially for the reference information contained therein. For further reading, I suggest Hillier's book [for great ideas/examples], and David Joyce's for classification based on color.
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Title: The Complete Container Garden by David Joyce ISBN: 0762104228 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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: McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: A Container Garden of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers by Rose Marie Nichols McGee, Maggie Stuckey, Michael A. Hill ISBN: 0761116230 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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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