Jim Wilson's Container Gardening: Soils, Plants, Care, and Sites - Softcover

Wilson, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878331905 ISBN 13: 9780878331901

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Jim Wilson's Container Gardening is an inspirational, practical guide for today's gardener. The Master Gardener tackles subjects such as the various types of containers available, maximizing plant growth and health with potting soils, matching plants to containers, creating landscape focal points, and much more.

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Review:

This inspiring and beautiful step-by-step book is a great reference for your container gardening needs. (Homeplace Happenings)

A comprehensive look at growing plants in pots, from a national expert...Jim Wilson has a down-to-earth approach to planting pots that will give any beginner confidence. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Wilson offers a thoughtfully balanced workbook with a range of information on container gardening that will meet gardeners' needs without straining their attention spans...[T]his slender volume is jammed full of practical information. (Publishers Weekly)

An ideal instruction guide for the novice gardener. (Midwest Book Review)

This book is filled with practical directions on how to coax lush foliage from restricted conditions. Wilson also provides pragmatic tips on selecting and caretaking of plants in various climates. (Foreword Reviews)

Appeared in The Chicago Sun Times.

...Jim Wilson has written this book for us from his vast store of gardening knowledge in a light, entertaining way but based on much practical knowledge. (Joanne S. Carpender National Gardener, Garden Club Of America)

There's information for all skill levels, from beginners who are content to buy planted containers at nurseries to skilled gardeners seeking new cultivars and unusual container forms. (Elizabeth Lee The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

TV's Victory garden co-host has written a timely book for container gardeners that is modern in its use of today's manufactured soil, advanced cultivars and lightweight hypertufa containers. His tips and techniques have a down-home wisdom that has brought success to millions of hobby gardeners. (Container Gardens)

From Publishers Weekly:

Citing lifestyle trends like "smaller yards, longer commutes, less time for gardening, and a keener appreciation of plants as an artistic medium," Wilson (former host of The Victory Garden on PBS) offers a thoughtfully balanced workbook with a range of information on container gardening that will meet gardeners' needs without straining their attention spans. Far from a coffee-table book, this slender volume is jammed full of practical information, from the proper proportion of plant to pot, to soilless mixes and fertilizers. At the same time, the book, like Wilson's television show, reveals bits of personality. While some gardeners continue to plant geraniums in "retired work boots," he says, his own weakness is Malaysian pottery glazed a delicious cobalt blue and teal, because they "look so good against green foliage." He devotes an entire chapter to "hypertufas," lightweight containers with the durability of concrete and the ability to take on an attractive patina. He even includes a recipe and instructions for creating your own hypertufa trough. The book's second half contains a condensed encyclopedia of container-friendly plants. Organized according to plant habits (such as low growing and trailing, mounded, or tall and slender) and climates, this palette of plants will empower both novice and master gardener to combine flower, foliage, texture and color for contrast or complement. Wilson's personal favorites, abutilon ("set the pots up on posts so you can look up at the dangling blossoms") and the wishbone flower ("a good 'story' flower for children"), are rounded out with lists of container plants preferred by public gardens representing every clime of the U.S. Color photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0878331905
• ISBN 13: 9780878331901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200