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| Easy Container Gardens (Pamela Crawford's Container Gardening) | 
 enlarge | Author: Pamela Crawford
Publisher: Color Garden Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 21936
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 172
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0971222061
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.986
EAN: 9780971222069
ASIN: 0971222061
Publication Date: February 8, 2008
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Product Description
Pamela Crawford has created a complete guide to simple container gardening designed for anyone who has ever killed a plant. It includes illustrated instructions to create gorgeous, fool-proof container gardens that even you can t kill! This book introduces blue ribbon plant combos that you plant in the spring and just add water for the entire growing season. That's right: no trimming, no fertilizing, and no spraying for up to seven months! Learn the 48 easiest plants and how to arrange them into 70 fabulous container recipes.
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A Good Resource June 4, 2008
I very much enjoyed this book. I do a lot of containers and this book gave great tips on plants that do well in containers. The containers the author uses are much bigger than mine, but the concepts are the same, I just use fewer plants. This book is a keeper, and one I will refer to time and again.
Easy to follow, lots of photos May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great. When I use a garden book, I like photos and this one is loaded with them. It is also simple to follow and has great advice for new container gardeners or veterans. I adapted some of the ideas to a garden bed as well and they look great.
Visual walk through container gardens March 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Living in Georgia and loving gardening and I am transitioning into container gardening !
"Easy Container Gardens" explain, educate and walk you through textures, colors, and color combinations of plants to recipes of success for containers. My reaction to the cover photo is "I can do that," showing complimentary plant blooms. There is a lengthy chapter on container basics. And another chapter on "Best Container Plants" sums up the Blue ribbon winners and container successes. The color photos are just beautiful and an inspiration to be creative with plants.
Beautiful Book, Informative Inspiration March 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow! Pamela did it again! I already owned another book by Pamela so when I saw Easy Container Gardens on a friend's coffee table I just had to take a look. Once I got into the book I didn't want to put it down, even for the supper call! I had to have my own copy. I love the quote on the front, "For anyone who has ever killed a plant!" She might as well add my name to that list. Pamela's books are always so helpful with directions, pictures (wow, what pictures), and suggestions for keeping your plants among the living. Easy Container Gardens is written so that it is easy to read with lots of step by step directions that will make you look like a pro. I feel that Pamela has a personal connection with every living thing by the way she knows her stuff. I highly recommend this book to those who garden, those who want to garden, or those who just like to look at beautiful pictures of gardens. Go get your own copy. You'll be glad you did!
The Very Best Container Garden Book on the Market February 26, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Bravo Pamela Crawford, you have done it again by giving us yet another brilliant book on gardening. Easy Container Gardens is the step by step instructions of not only putting together a container garden, but also explains just how pick out the right plants for that perfect container. She not only covers the basics, like container (color, size and shape) but also covers pruning, fertilizing, watering, insects, troubleshooting, the lifespan we can expect from the garden, where and how to display the new garden and so much more.
With today's working Moms, container gardening is now the way to go, but getting headed in the right direction to have it work for you is another. Ms. Crawford has covered all the angles and made this task a simple, effortless and a fun thing to do.
There are many container gardening books on the market today (I know, because I probably have read every one of them) this one is "head and shoulder" over them all, with the exception of Ms. Crawford's Container Gardens for Florida which is an excellent reference book. With Easy Container Gardens tucked tightly under your arm, you are ready to head off to the local pottery store to shop for that ideal container. When that is accomplished it is off to the local nursery for the soil and plants. With all this in hand it is time to head home and start creating that dazzling container garden that you have been dreaming about. When people ask where you purchased the lovely container garden, you can say with pride, "it was nothing, I did it myself" and said with a big smile of accomplishment on your part and some help from Pamela Crawford's Easy Container Gardens book.
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