Title: Edibles and Ornamentals for Small-Space Gardening
Covering a broad array of landscape plants, including
edibles, flowering, and fruiting trees and shrubs, evergreens, and perennials,
horticulturist Jessica Walliser takes a deep dive into the emerging category of
compact plants.
Whether short, narrow, columnar, or dwarf, this new and exciting group of plants provide the same decorative functions full-sized ornamental plants, but in a fraction of the space. Plus, edible compact plants offer comparable productivity, without having to add more square footage to the garden.
In this comprehensive guide, Jessica uses her numerous contacts in the seed and plant production world to give space-challenged gardeners a heads up on what's new, as well as re-introducing a few traditional small-footprint favorites.
In both urban and suburban neighborhoods, yards are shrinking, and big plants and gardens require too much maintenance for today's time-starved homeowners. If you're searching for plants that require less space and reduced day-to-day maintenance, dwarf shrubs, and other compact plants to the rescue! With little to no pruning required, columnar trees, dwarf shrubs, mini veggies, short-statured perennials, and other compact plants fill a much-needed niche.
In the Gardener's Guide to Compact Plants, you'll discover fantastic, brand new dwarf and compact plant varieties you didn't even know existed. And, you'll learn how to grow more flowers, fruits, and veggies than ever before, no matter how much—or how little—space you have. It's the perfect book for homeowners with small yards, urban gardeners, container growers, or anyone looking to grow a beautiful and productive small-scale garden.
Whether short, narrow, columnar, or dwarf, this new and exciting group of plants provide the same decorative functions full-sized ornamental plants, but in a fraction of the space. Plus, edible compact plants offer comparable productivity, without having to add more square footage to the garden.
In this comprehensive guide, Jessica uses her numerous contacts in the seed and plant production world to give space-challenged gardeners a heads up on what's new, as well as re-introducing a few traditional small-footprint favorites.
In both urban and suburban neighborhoods, yards are shrinking, and big plants and gardens require too much maintenance for today's time-starved homeowners. If you're searching for plants that require less space and reduced day-to-day maintenance, dwarf shrubs, and other compact plants to the rescue! With little to no pruning required, columnar trees, dwarf shrubs, mini veggies, short-statured perennials, and other compact plants fill a much-needed niche.
In the Gardener's Guide to Compact Plants, you'll discover fantastic, brand new dwarf and compact plant varieties you didn't even know existed. And, you'll learn how to grow more flowers, fruits, and veggies than ever before, no matter how much—or how little—space you have. It's the perfect book for homeowners with small yards, urban gardeners, container growers, or anyone looking to grow a beautiful and productive small-scale garden.
Need some great garden designs for your small space? No
matter if you want to have a fruit, vegetable, herb or just to add a few pollinators
flowers to your small yard this book will help you not only design but to also
buy plants ideal for small spaces.
For some reason, we have it in our heads that gardening in any form no matter if its flowers, vegetables or just some simple herds that we
need tons of space in order to have these things, but that is not the case whatsoever. You can use containers
to grow tons of different vegetables and even perennial flowers. Herbs are really great
for containers, so get to researching with books like this and get out and
plant and this book will help you achieve your goals in any form of gardening in small spaces.
I'm so bad with plants I killed an air plant. lol
ReplyDeleteLOL Don't feel bad I kill cacti all the time. LOL
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