Horticulture/Gardening: Containers

You don't need lots of time or space to have a beautiful garden. Containers give you the freedom to grow flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, vegetables, fruits, and herbs on a balcony, deck, or even a windowsill.

The House Plant Expert has been the indoor gardening bible since its introduction in 1960.Over the years it has become the best-selling plant book the world has ever known and there are now more than 14 million copies in print. Updates have appeared at regular intervals, and now at last the long-awaited sequel is available.

This is a limited edition resource on container gardening, featuring over 800 photographs and large print for easy reading.
Published in 2002 by Anness Publishing, this illustrated book covers various garden designs and offers valuable tips on creating beautiful container gardens.
With a focus on gardening, nature, and leisure, this 256-page trade paperback is a valuable resource for both novice and experienced gardeners looking to enhance their outdoor spaces.

This is a season-by-season approach for the all-weather container gardener. The book gives a survey of the range of containers available and the plants best suited to container gardening, and catalogues planting projects for every conceivable type of container.

New techniques, new plants, and new products--celebrate the breakthroughs changing the face of container gardening. From cutting-edge soil mixes to lightweight, winter-resistant, and decorative pots, the seemingly infinite innovations in the field add up to low maintenance and high quality. See how much more beautiful your container garden can be with these breathtaking design concepts, numerous recommendations for outstanding flowers and greenery, and inspired combinations. Every visually amazing page bursts with creative and stylish ideas for herb, vegetable, hanging, water, alpine, and desert gardens. Build your own planter or window box, select antique or collectible containers, and come to terms with your climate by choosing hardy or drought-tolerant plants and implementing water survival techniques. Whether you're thinking of a single urn for a small apartment or an entire range of plantings, the only thing you won't be able to "contain" is your imagination!

This beautiful and informative compendium of facts and advice is for all who enjoy having plants in their house or apartment. Though designed for beginners, it also contains information often sought by experienced plant and garden experts. Basics of successful plant care are presented and carefully organized for maximum usefulness and easy reference. Topics include choosing the right plant for the right location, controlling temperature, humidity, light, watering, using the right soils, pots and fertilizers, controlling plant diseases and pests, pruning and propagating. Also featured is essential information of more general nature, including the basics of botany, buying tips, Bonsai techniques, and a dictionary of garden terms.

"With 288 color pages, Liang's is one of the best [books on the subject]. Her book includes a breath-taking photo gallery of bonsai, basic styles, group planting, plant physiology, cultivation, propagation, transplanting and repotting, and training and dwarfing--in other words, everything the bonsai grower needs to know."-- Booklist

Some would-be gardeners simply have the opposite of a green everything they touch seems to wilt. But perhaps the problem lies not with the person but with the plant! These 37 varieties of flowers, foliage, and cacti will hold their own in the face of minimal TLC?which is absolutely perfect for anyone who wants lush greenery but hasn’t the time to spare. Best of all, there’s no need to sacrifice- the selection includes the delicate Baby’s Tears, a Chinese Evergreen, a Lacy-Tree Philodendron, African Violets, a Peace Lily, and Christmas Cactus. In addition to an easy-to-follow basics section, the entries include photos, information on caring for each plant, and tips for growing them like a pro.

It’s a whole new world of houseplants, so make yourself at home in it! If you love the idea of keeping houseplants, but struggle to care for them, you’ll find solace and invaluable advice in this comprehensive guide from expert gardener Barbara Pleasant. Even experienced houseplant enthusiasts will benefit from Pleasant’s expansive knowledge of indoor gardening, which includes personality profiles, growing needs, and troubleshooting tips for 160 blooming and foliage varieties. Create a greener world, one houseplant at a time.

Ferns, Palms, Cordyline Dracaena and Yucca, Marantas, Figs, Arums, Foliage plants, Bromeliads, Orchids, Cacti, Euphorbias, Succulents, Carnivorous plants, Container plants, Fuchsias and Geraniums

Covering 140 readily-available plants, ranged from A to Z, all the practical information you need to care for and display indoor plants can be found in the most up-to-date photographic guide on the market.

Growing plants in the home has always been popular, and in this volume interior and garden designer, Diana Yakeley, shows how to choose and position plants to create maximum impact, taking into account scale and proportion, form and shape, color and scent, and texture and pattern. There is also guidance on finding just the right containers and accessories to suit different plants and room schemes. A section on interiors looks at each room of the house in turn, revealing the best plants to create a striking focal point. The remaining chapters are a visual extravaganza of plant displays. Choose from the understated elegance of architectural plants, cacti and succulents or foliage plants in "Plant Sculpture", or indulge those creative urges with the section on "Color". "Seasonal Displays" shows how to ring in the changes throughout the year, while "Edible Plants" explains how to grow herbs, salad leaves and tender fruits indoors. A useful section at the end of the book gives practical advice on how to care for indoor plants, while "Plant Focus" provides detailed horticultural information on a range of different plants.

Original and unique, this guide to luscious, choice indoor plants will convert anyone to a passion for gardening indoors. The possibilities presented are dazzling — lush flowering vines or petite carnivorous plants, intoxicating fragrant jasmine or spiky sculptural succulents. Included are chapters on sustenance, container choices, light, water and temperature requirements, propagation, pests and diseases, even how to summer plants outdoors and travel with them on holidays. Over 200 gorgeous color photographs round out the detailed descriptions of 175 choice plants native to both tropical and temperate regions. In her entertaining style, plant fanatic Ellen Zachos invites everyone, from the horticulturally clueless to the avidly addicted, to share her passion for exotic and unusual indoor plants.