Tabletop Gardens: Create 40 intimate gardens for the home, no matter what the season

By William Holt, Rosemary McCreary, Sarah Dawson

Create dazzling miniature landscapes that bring warmth and beauty to your home as they grow and develop under glass, in bowls, and even in water environments. In this imaginative guide, Rosemary McCreary shows you how to design and maintain stunningly unique tabletop gardens, including step-by-step instructions for 40 designs that showcase exotic orchids, soft grasses, and colorful bulbs. With advice on the best materials and habitats for growing a variety of plants, you'll be inspired create your own unique, lusciously vibrant tabletop tableaux.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580174663
• ISBN13: 9781580174664
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Storey Books
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book

There are a lot of great ideas and visually stunning photos in this book. A welcomed addition to the plant enthusiasts' book collection.

Stunning!

I love houseplants and the pictures in this book are a great inspiration to try new arrangements with my plants.

A beautiful and practical book for enhancing your home!

I purchased this book several months ago and have been thrilled with it's beautiful photography, clear instruction and easy (yet clever) ideas for gardening indoors. My home is not set up for big outdoor gardens, so these small container and tabletop gardens have been a godsend! I had never thought of decorating my kitchen and bathrooms with live plantings, and wow, what an improvement! I am buying copies for my friends and family. This makes a wonderful housewarming gift. Don't miss it!

Beautiful design and practical

Received this as a gift and found it so well written and photographed that I ended up buying a few as gifts for others. Fabulous book design and layout. Beautiful pictures. Great container ideas and very clear information for ongoing care. The grass garden section was especially neat. The author suggests new takes on indoor gardens such as using mini primroses in a flat basket. I've always planted them outdoors but never imagined how nice they would look inside the house.

Uncomplicated advise and easy-to-follow instructions

Tabletop Gardens: Create 40 Intimate Gardens For The Home, No Matter What The Season by gardening expert Rosemary McCreary offers a wealth of imaginative approaches to miniature indoor gardening. Included are ideas for deploying and displaying plants under glass, in bowls and trays, and even in water environments. The uncomplicated advise and easy-to-follow instructions will allow for any aspiring gardener to create harmonious combinations of plants in perfect containers. Whether working with herbs, grasses, bulbs, water plants, vines, or miniature shrubs, Tabletop Gardens is wonderfully illustrated, thoroughly "user friendly", and very highly recommended.