Discusses elements of garden design, preparing the site, selecting plants, and choosing accessories.

Expert insights help the home gardener select and grow beautiful plants. Add spectacular color to a landscape with the latest gardening information from Ortho. Includes scores of photos and in-depth instructions.

Planning the perfect courtyard with ideas, plantings, case studies and over 250 photographs.

When surrounded by shrubs and small trees, perennials and annuals, ornamental grasses and vines, your deck becomes an appealing link between your home and yard. In this book, you'll find everything you need to know to create your dream deck environment. Barbara Ellis offers dozens of creative ideas and fail=proof techniques.--COVER.

Small? Yes. A concrete slab populated with plastic chairs and an abandoned grill? Not anymore. Small-Space Container Gardens layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions, encouraging us to think “outside the pot.” You'll learn how to tackle unique challenges, like windy conditions several stories above street level, and how to care for plants and troubleshoot problems like garden pests and diseases. From design basics to essential plant picks, Small-Space Container Gardens proves you don't need a yard to have a happy, healthy garden. For anyone who wants more green in their life, it's time to start gardening creatively in small spaces.

Sonia Day is the recipient of Landcsape Ontario`s Gardening Communicator of the Year Award (2003) and her book Tulips won a Garden Globe Award of Achievement for writing (2003), from the Garden Writers Association of America. Growing plants on balconies—and rooftops, terraces, decks and patios—has become the hottest gardening trend as cities across North America experience tremendous growth in the building of condos and other small living spaces. Aimed squarely at this gardening crowd, The Urban Gardener is packed with incredible detail: dos and don’ts, tips on what plants and tools are best, potting instructions, hints that will save you money and tips from real small space gardeners. Every unique aspect of urban gardening is addressed. You’ll learn: - how to get started when the soil for your garden has to be hauled up in elevators - what will work on cold, windy balconies, damp courtyards, backsides of townhouses - where to buy plants when you don’t have a car - how to create a quick and colourful instant garden - mixing in herbs and vegetables - growing up–vines that climb - how to help your oasis survive when winter comes. If you long to create your own natural sanctuary amidst urban smog and concrete, The Urban Gardener is the book you need to guide you on your way.(March 2003)

Anyone looking for design ideas for patios, terraces, and other compact outdoor spaces will find this inspirational sourcebook invaluable, whether starting afresh or fine-tuning an existing design. This is the ultimate resource for innovative terrace, roof garden, patio, and balcony design ideas for outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes. Featured inside this lavishly illustrated sourcebook are 600 full-color photographs and diagrams of uniquely beautiful projects from around the world, by well-known and up-and-coming garden and landscape designers. They reveal how to create exterior spaces in a variety of styles, from a classic urban roof garden with romantic garden plantings to clean, modern, and innovative spaces. Traditional as well as cutting-edge materials that are practical, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly are featured throughout. Most importantly, the design ideas featured can easily be tailored to the unique tastes and individual needs of a particular site or project.Truly an inspirational sourcebook for anyone aspiring to create or update an outdoor room, the book includes designs from all parts of the world--the United States, Canada, England, Japan, and France, among other countries--by some of the very best contemporary garden designers and landscape architects at work today. This book is destined to become a perennial resource.