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A Creative Step-by-Step Guide to Container Gardening / author Sue Phillips ; photographer Neil Sutherland.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB418 .P44 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Sue.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Container gardening.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 108, [4] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Container Gardening
- Place of Publication:
- [North Vancouver, BC] : Whitecap Books Ltd., 1995.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Choosing containers
- Crocking and liner options
- Choosing soils
- Watering and feeding techniques
- Suitable plants for containers
- Unsuitable plants for containers
- Container plants for sun
- Container plants for shade
- Making a container from hypertufa
- The container emerges
- Alpines in hypertufa
- An alpine garden
- Planting drought-proof alpines in a pot full of crevices
- Creative alpine displays
- A versatile windowbox
- Wonderful windowboxes
- Planting up a wooden barrel
- A pot for a shady place
- Planting up a plastic urn
- Bulbs for spring displays
- Planting tulips in a container
- Planting daffodils and anemones
- Spring annuals-pansies
- A plastic tub of annuals
- Variation on a summer theme
- A taste of the Orient
- Planted pots galore
- Planting a large traditional hanging basket
- Using a rigid liner
- Using a flexible basket liner
- Rescuing a dried-out basket
- Regenerating a lopsided hanging basket
- Indoor hanging baskets
- Hanging basket on show
- A herb hanging basket
- Planting up a plastic wall planter
- A chic terracotta wall display
- A formal display in a wire wall basket
- Planting a trough of culinary herbs
- A miscellany of herb containers
- Climbers in containers
- A classic strawberry pot
- Planting a fruit bush
- Setting up a vegetable garden in containers
- Vegetables all set to grow
- Experimenting with tubs
- Decorating with containers.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1994 by CLB Publishing Surrey, England.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- ISBN:
- 155110153X
- 9781551101538
- OCLC:
- 884344328
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