Everyone loves to be surrounded by plants, but who has the time, energy, and patience needed to cultivate a large, work-intensive garden? Here's a guide for everyone who wants the peace and tranquility of a private retreat without the fuss. Easier to create and tend, patio and courtyard gardens also offer more enjoyment per square foot than other gardens. They are designed for living--eating, entertaining, or simply sitting--not admiring from afar. All you need to know to make these intimate "outdoor rooms" is found in these pages. Learn how to choose and lay the surface. . .pick containers...construct raised beds. . .even add finishing touches such as lighting. And, a comprehensive, fully illustrated plant directory gives a host of ideas for filling your garden with flowers and foliage--and tips to ensure they will thrive. So, relax--the perfect garden retreat is just outside your door.

Cassell's Directory of Courtyard and Patio Plants (Creating a garden)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Jane Courtier

Lucy Huntington

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cassell Illustrated*

Herbs

Ward, Lock

Easy Success With Potted Plants Container Gardening

Time-Life-Books

Year In Your Garden

Parragon Publishing

If you've never owned a garden or gardened before, or just feel you need to brush up on the basics and gain some sound horticultural advice, then this is the book for you. The New Gardener covers everything you need to know about starting a garden and maintaining it. Packed full of inspiring color photographs, this book will prepare and motivate you to garden, whether you are a complete beginner or not.

The New Gardener (The Essentials Collection)

Anthony Atha

Margaret Crowther

Paragon (?}

Indoor Plants. The Essential Guide To Choosing And Caring For House Plants

graham-clarke

READER\'S DIGEST

Une année au jardin

Divers

A Year in Your Garden (Essential Gardening)

Parragon Plus.

Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles shows homeowners how to use every square inch of available space to grow fresh vegetables in the shortest possible time. Guides to growing in small gardens, in containers, and in window boxes. How to select and plant the quickest growing varieties of vegetables.

Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles: Quick Crops for Small Spaces (Creative Homeowner) Expert Gardening Tips for Fast-Growing Vegetables, Fruits, & Herbs, Improving Your Soil, Fighting Pests, Harvesting & More

How-To

Gardening

Vegetable

Creative Homeowner

This guide offers a variety of ways of using plants to beautify your surroundings, however limited the space, light or soil may be. The text features a plant directory, which contains 150 species selected for their suitability for growing in confined spaces or containers. There are four sections to the book: the first discusses the principal types of "no garden" situation, enabling the reader to identify his or her own particular situation; the second looks at the value of design in small spaces; the third covers the practicalities of growing plants in small spaces; and the fourth contains the plant directory.

The No-garden Gardener: The Essential Guide to Gardening in Small Spaces

Marshall Publishing

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