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Title: Contain Yourself: 101 Fresh Ideas for Fantastic Container Gardens by Kerstin P. Ouellet ISBN: 1-883052-33-5 Publisher: Ball Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful book!
Comment: This is a delightful gardening book. It is easy to read and understand. The ideas will definitely keep my container garden looking great year after year. A keeper!
Rating: 4
Summary: An Excellent Resource for the Novice Container Gardener
Comment: Contain Yourself offers a clever way to teach gardeners to break out of the "marigold/impatien" cycle through creative "recipes" for container gardens featuring more color, height and texture than most novices are able to do on their own.
By presenting the material in this fashion, Ouellet gives the reader the tools to ultimately be able to create his or her own container masterpieces by using portions of multiple recipes. In essence, the reader learns new techniques as the book progresses. Once the basic techniques are learned, gardeners should be able to design beautiful gardens on their own.
The book includes care instructions for containers (which need more frequent watering than traditional gardens) and information on the growing habits of the plants used in the designs. While it's true that there is not a huge variety of containers used (as noted by another reviewer), how many households have endless supplies of different containers? I rather like the lesson taught that any one container may be used in many different ways.
More seasoned gardeners might find the text and instruction somewhat remedial. Even so, it's a beautiful book with excellent content for anyone who wishes to learn more about expanding the horizons of traditional gardening.
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy and beautiful!
Comment: I'm not one of those gardeners who can spout off the botanical names of the plants. I just like things to look good. But I also like to do it myself, so when I found Contain Yourself, I thought "Maybe I can find some ideas for the planters and window boxes around my house." Because admit it, it you're like me, you depend too much on geraniums for the sunny spots and impatients for the shady ones. Kerstin's book shows me what to do with all those cool new plants I've been seeing in the garden shops. My new favorites? Wave petunia, verbena, bidens, helichrysum and chalibrachoa (I'llhave to check my spelling on this one). It looks like a miniature petunia. The authors designs look great all summer long and even now - my neighbors are coming to ME for advice! I tell them to buy the book - I gave one to my sister!
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Title: The Complete Container Garden by David Joyce ISBN: 0762104228 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Euroamerican Container Garden Cookbook by Kerstin P. Ouellet, Ball Publishing ISBN: 1883052254 Publisher: Ball Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Container Gardening Through the Year (DK Living) by Malcolm Hillier, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Matthew Ward ISBN: 078943296X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Container Gardening Encyclopedia by Sue Phillips, Neil Sutherland ISBN: 1571458425 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Beautiful Hanging Baskets (Practical Gardening Library) by Stephanie Donaldson, Marie O'Hara, Janine Hosegood ISBN: 0754808041 Publisher: Lorenz Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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