Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

by Susan Morrison, Rebecca Sweet

Overview

Vertical gardening is the latest, most talked about trend in gardening. Outdoor living walls planted with anything from succulents to vegetables, are springing up in urban and suburban areas and even commercial spaces. Home gardeners are now ready to take advantage of the vertical spaces in their own gardens. Ornamental gardeners searching for help with narrow planting beds or choosing the appropriate trellis, small space gardeners in need of specific solutions, edible gardeners interested in creative ways to mix edibles with ornamentals will find the help they need. Garden Up! offers inspiration and how-to information for enhancing any outdoor space. Authors Susan Lee Morrison, and Rebecca Sweet offer advice on plant selection across the country, and include easy do-it-yourself projects than add unique touches to any garden.

This innovative book was named to the Top 10 Home&Garden list for Amazon's Best Books of 2011!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610598248
Publisher:	Cool Springs Press
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	45 MB
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About the Author

Susan Morrison

Table of Contents

 

 

1.      Vertical Garden Design

a.       Arbors and Trellises

b.      Garden Rooms

c.       Focal Points

d.      Bringing the Outside In

2.      Small Space Solutions

a.       Gardening Up Instead of Out

b.      Side Yard Makeovers

c.       Creating Privacy

3.      Garden Secrets

a.       Make Eyesores Disappear

4.      Balconies and Courtyards

a.       Creative Containers

b.      Ideas for Fences, Walls and Corners

c.       Plant Choices

5.      Edible Gardening

a.       Maximizing space

b.      Mixing edibles and ornamentals

c.       Recycled containers

d.      Fruit Trees for tight spaces

6.      Vertical Innovation

a.       Living Walls

b.      Creative Color

c.       Non-traditional structures

7.      Plants

a.       High Performance Climbing Plants

b.      Show Stopping Vines and Climbers

c.       Training Plants to Grow Vertically