New Container Style: Simple and Innovative Ideas for Planing Recycled Pots

by Adam Caplin, Francesca Yorke (Photographer)

Creatively planted containers can look good absolutely on a doorstep, a windowsill, a roof terrace, or in a garden large or small. In New Container Style, award-winning garden designer and artist Adam Caplin introduces a fresh and imaginative twist to this type of wonderful plants matched with pots that can be found in your kitchen cabinet, a thrift store - or even in your own backyard. From galvanized steel buckets to old wine boxes, from a collection of tomato cans to a roe of brightly colored plastic tubs, there is a wonderful choice of affordable and innovative containers to suit any style of garden. Adam explains how to choose the right pot for you purpose and the right plant for your pot. He offers a mass of original ideas for using discarded containers - in materials as diverse as metal, plastic, wicker, and glass - to make your garden a more beautiful place. Transform your outdoor space with new Container Style. Vibrant photography by Frencesca Yorke. A directory of the author's favorite plants for containers, including maintenence tips, completes the horticultural feast.

Genres: Gardening

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2006

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting ideas for unique containers for the garden.

For anyone else interested in container gardening FYI this book and the book 'Planted Junk' by the same author Adam Caplin are exactly the same book. Different cover and title but the content is exactly the same! Im not complaining or anything just thought I would point that out as I was a bit surprised by it my self.

[Grey853 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a quality paperback with lovely photographs of rather unique containers one can use for flowers. There's nothing really new in terms of techniques for using containers, but the photos are first rate. I got it as a gift, but I don't think I would've bought it.