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Townsend, Sara Begg.

Continuous container gardens / by Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins. - North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., 2010. - 270 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Expand your plant world -- The four-act container garden -- Picking plants -- Get thee to a nursery -- A village of underplantings -- Containers are your cardigans -- Practical matters -- Planting up and swapping out -- Planting up your container -- Initial underplanting -- Swapping the underplanting -- Planting out in the garden -- Caring for your contained garden -- Colorful sticks -- Cool bark -- Summer flowers -- Topiary goodness -- Flowers for spring -- Deluxe purple foliage -- Woodland shrubbery -- Flowering tree -- Very berried -- Transplant city -- Ornamental grass -- Structure & vines.

Explains how to leverage container gardening for year-round beauty, in a book that includes twelve projects, each with four different looks for the seasons.

ISBN: 9781603427029 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1603427023 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010030123

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Container gardening.
Container gardening.

LC Class. No.: SB418 / .T69 2010

National Agricultural Library Call No.: SB418 / .T69 2010