Boxes, Baskets, Planters, and Pots: A Practical Guide to 100 Inspirational Containers

By Stephanie Donaldson

Book Overview

This lavishly illustrated volume provides easy-to-follow step photography and instructions for creating stunning containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets for every season and possible location. Here are ideas for pots of edible flowers, scented flowers, flowers that attract butterflies and many more. There are also evergreens to prolong the season, plantings to suit hot and dry conditions, and information about choosing a container, selecting the right plant for the right location, and general care and maintenance-- Includes 100 designs illustrated with step-by-step sequences-- Exquisite photographs of the finished project-- All plants are clearly identified

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765193930
• ISBN13: 9780765193933
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lots of pretty projects and ideas

I think this book is great. It has over 600 photographs, and gives step-by-step directions for each container arrangement. It gives you a list of what plants you will need and what materials to gather, then, step-by-step (with photos to guide you) it tells you what to do. It covers a variety of different types of containers that you can use and how to make it work, how often it will need watering and care, insecticide use, etc.. Everything from window boxes, to hanging plants, to tubs, wicker baskets, terra cota, wooden planters, etc.. is covered. The photos are inspiring, and by following the instructions for a certain project, it gives you more chance of knowing what yours will look like once it takes root. This is a great book.

Just amazed at the first reviewers "opinion"

Take the sentence part that says "it shows innovative ways to use old or discarded items as planting containers" look at the subtitle of the book "A practical guide to 100 inspirational containers" looks like it matches to me. A good book on it's chosen subject.