The bestselling book on planting containers with a designer's eye.
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No longer a technique just for apartment dwellers or novice gardeners, the use of ornamental containers on decks, patios, terraces and in the garden itself can save time, space and money, while offering experienced home gardeners unique creative challenges, site flexibility and experimental fun. Author and award-winning horticulturist Ray Rogers takes you on an engaging exploration into basic design principles as well as how to create focal points, use water, exploit the potential of empty containers and more. Stunning photographs by Richard Hartlage provide guidance and inspiration as well as visually explaining each principle. Gardeners at every level of experience will find inspiration and instruction in this comprehensive book.
248 pp, 205 x 230 mm, 240 colour photos, hardcover
ISBN13 9780881928341
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This is a serious book on design, and all gardeners, whether they be container lovers or not, will get plenty out of its insights... The high-quality photographs, by Richard Hartlage, are used brilliantly.
Ray takes you through all the basics on containers: soil requirements, pot size, and basic design elements: color, line, form, repetition, texture, space and placement. And then he throws out all the rules.
I'll be consulting Pots in the Garden as I continue my own quest for magnificent containers.
Rogers is a horticultural Einstein whose container theories are sure to inspire even the most insipid containers of garden relativity.
The quintessential book for creating container gardens. It's bold, beautiful, and useful to boot.
A serious book on design, and all gardeners, whether they be container-lovers or not, will get plenty out of its insights.
This spring I have shifted my thoughts to Design, with a capital D, because of a new book, Pots in the Garden. ... Mr. Rogers has a lot to say about color, line, form and texture in a garden full of pots. So does Mr. Hartlage, whose gorgeous color pictures illustrate Mr. Rogers's every point.
Expertly discusses the principles and elements of design that apply to container gardening. ... Extraordinarily thorough in content ... Highly recommended.
You'll get plenty of ideas from Ray Rogers' new offering, not only for what to put in pots, but also where to put them and how to combine them. There are potted plants for every situation and every taste, including those stuffed with color and texture and dramatic one-specimen containers.
A veritable library of container plantings that teaches landscape design techniques. ... Understanding design is his first lesson before one plant is planted or one container purchased. This is what I enjoyed most ... learning how to put a garden together comes before doing it.
Filled with discussions about color, form and texture, this book doesn't merely make plant and arrangement suggestions. Rather, Rogers instructs on design principles, pot-selection, planting techniques and more, inspiring the reader to find his own style and develop his own applications.
Full of good ideas about color grouping and plant selection. ... He's easy to read and a natural teacher.