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

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 *

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.