Product Description

Whether you have a city window ledge or a large well-stocked garden, you can use containers to enhance your outdoor space. This manual includes recipes and plans for over 30 container planting schemes. Step-by-step photographs show how to plant every kind of container, with tips on fixing and supporting heavy baskets and window boxes, decorating containers, training standards and topiary. A catalogue of more than 1000 plants is provided to enable the reader to choose successful colour combinations in every season.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25390 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

From the Publisher
Review coverage
"One of the Books of the Year"

The Irish Garden December 2000

About the Author
David Joyce is a celebrated garden writer and planting adviser who has lived and gardened in New Zealand, France and Hong Kong as well as in London and Suffolk. He has written many successful books on a range of gardening topics.

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Pots
We bought "The Ultimate Container Garden" by David Joyce five years ago, when we moved to our new house. We have a large patio and no flower beds, so colour has to be achieved with planting pots & containers. David Joyce's schemes and ideas have been simple to carry out and have produced outstanding results. We are not very good gardeners, but our patio is full of colour from May to November. I recommend this book without reservation.

covers everything
Fantastic book. Great colour photos, yes some of the gardens you may have seen before but a really diverse mixture of containers to inspire you which come with 'recipes' and cross referenced to the plant info at the back of the book. Also details of how to propagate, winter protection, pests and diseases and just about all you need to know. Easy to follow format, highly recomended.

Lovely book
This book was bought as a present and was very well received. There are plenty of good ideas to brighten up any garden or patio.