Flowerpots: A Seasonal Guide to Designing, Planting and Displaying Pots: A Seasonal Guide to Planting, Designing, and Displaying Pots - Hardcover

Keeling, Jim

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9781570762734: Flowerpots: A Seasonal Guide to Designing, Planting and Displaying Pots: A Seasonal Guide to Planting, Designing, and Displaying Pots

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ISBN 10: 1570762732 ISBN 13: 9781570762734

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 2004

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The design of the flowerpot and the style of the garden are as important as the plants you put in them. Here, by weaving together the pot-making process with planting design, Jim Keeling demonstrates how you can bring container gardening alive. Divided into the seasons of the year, Jim Keeling describes the planting and plant are stages. In Autumn he discusses how to plan ahead for the next year, choosing bulbs, making cuttings and propagating plants. In Winter Jim looks at hardy plants that will keep your pots full of interest during the cold months, while Spring examines planting seeds and bulbs, growing and forcing plants, greenhouse maintenance and how to deal with pests and diseases. Finally the glory of Summer is explored, from bedding out your plants to growing vegetables. Each chapter begins with illuminating information on the design and production of flowerpots, from the history of pot making to the seasonal routine at Whichford. Jim looks at the art of throwing, moulding and decorating pots, the origins and background of classic shapes such as the long tom and lemon pot, glazing and glazeware as well as his experiments for the future and the pursuit of the ever-larger pot. Jim also shares his design expertise in multi-species plantings and pot displays, honed both in his own gardens and his award-winning Chelsea shows. For gardeners and potters alike, this is a unique approach to the art of container gardening.

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Review:

Book of the week... practical and beautifully illustrated -- Sunday Telegraph, April 04

It makes an educational and inspiring read. -- BBC Gardeners World Magazine, January 2005 issue

Not only a practical handbook, the colour photographs make it an inspirational style guide -- Scotland on Sunday, April 04

entertaining as well as informative... a book for all lovers of pots as well as plants -- The Irish Garden, May 04

mesmerising... fascinating... as inspirational as it is practical -- Ideal Home, June 04

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Container gardening is increasingly popular as the climate becomes more variable, exotic plants more available, and gardens smaller. Following the cycles of the seasons, Jim discusses plant care as well as plant choosing and design. In Autumn he discusses planning ahead: selecting bulbs, making cuttings and collecting seeds, and in Winter he examines hardy plants that will create shape and colour throughout the cold months. In Spring Jim covers sowing seeds and bulbs, greenhouse maintenance and how to deal with pests and diseases, and in Summer there is advice on bedding out plants and growing vegetables. The design of the flowerpots is of paramount importance to the style of the garden, and Jim explains how to display both plant and pot to the best advantage, with glorious photographs of potted gardens throughout.

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