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The Container Gardener

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The Container Gardener by Frances Tophill is a comprehensive guide to growing plants in containers, perfect for anyone limited by space yet eager to cultivate a green area. This book explores the practical, sustainable, and creative sides of container gardening, covering a wide variety of planting options from herbs to ornamental flowers. It includes 40 inventive ideas for pairing plants with pots, encouraging upcycling and creating personalised containers to enhance every outdoor or indoor space.
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This book is ideal for urban dwellers, beginner gardeners, or anyone interested in sustainable and stylish gardening solutions within small or unconventional spaces.

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Whether you love growing, love creating, or just want to liven up your outdoor space, a container garden is just the answer.

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Whether you love growing, love creating, or just want to liven up your outdoor space, a container garden is just the answer. So many of us nowadays are crammed into our homes and a garden is a luxury that few can afford. But there is always room for a bit of greenery; whether it's herbs and spices to add fresh flavour to your food, or putting a jungle on your windowsill, a container can enable growers to bring nature to the most inhospitable and smallest spaces.

The Container Gardener by Frances Tophill covers the sustainable, crafty and culinary aspects of container gardening. From urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets alongside what to grow inside themโ€”bonsai to annuals, bulbs, grasses and bamboos, tumbling and creeping plants and flowersโ€”there are also 40 ideas on how to pair plants and pots, including upcycling existing items and creating your own containers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914239601

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kyle Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Frances Tophill is a Horticulturalist and Botanist who trained at The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Since 2012 she has been a presenter on ITV's Love Your Garden, with Alan Titchmarsh. She also presents regularly on BBC Gardener's World. She works closely with the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and WWF, championing the importance of growing for us as individuals and as communities. She is the author of three books; First-Time Gardener, The Container Gardener, Re-Wild Your Garden and, most recently, The Modern Gardener.

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