Container Gardening

by Cynthia Overbeck Bix

Learn design principles or follow ready-made plans to arrange beautiful container landscapes. Receive practical guidance on selecting plants and choosing the best containers. Has easy, illustrated steps for planting and maintaining your container gardens.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Reference, Nature

112 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1984

Reviews

[Daniel Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This compact, useful guide to container gardening is a resource I plan to keep around on my shelf because I do quite a bit of container gardening. While I mostly focus on vegetables or edible plants and this book largely focuses on decorative, flowering plants I still was able to get a lot of good, general information (as well as a short chapter specific to vegetables in containers). This is especially good because I'm still fairly new at this hobby, and I think perhaps a more experienced green thumb might want more specifics when it comes to temperatures, amounts of water, etc. I also am not so much interested in the aesthetic aspect of my plants, which was a large focus of this book. That being said, it was very informative and I am looking forward to more of the Sunset books, one of which specifically focuses on my region.

[Trisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great general resource book on the subject.

[Elizabeth]

trade paper
ave condition

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly has information on flowers. Best used if you want to just copy their designs.

[Atlanta · Rating 5 out of 5]

My go to book for container gardening!