Small Summer Gardens: 35 bright and beautiful gardening projects to bring color and scent to your garden

by Emma Hardy

Overview

Turn your garden into a bright summer paradise with a collection of 35 projects to create stylish, fragrant and abundant displays. There are gorgeous flowering plants, lush foliage, special occasion displays, and edible fruit and vegetable harvests. The projects in Small Summer Gardens include hanging baskets, window boxes, beautiful flower beds, large and small pots, and pretty recycled containers. Create a display of foxgloves and woodland plants in a rusty trunk, scented sweet peas in a tub, a mini water garden with flowering water lilies, a wreath made from alpine flowers, fruit bushes in pots and much more. With Emma Hardy's expert advice, you will learn everything you need to know about growing annuals from seed, growing bulbs, using inexpensive bedding plants in interesting ways, combining perennials and small shrubs and growing and maintaining fruit and vegetable plants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782497677
Publisher:	CICO Books
Publication date:	12/06/2018
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Emma Hardy is a keen gardener, with an RHS level 2 certificate in Horticulture. She has gardened on an allotment for several years, and has created an urban garden with fruit, vegetables, and as many plants as it is possible to squeeze into a small space. She loves planning and creating gardens, but most of all she enjoys getting her hands dirty, and just pottering. Emma’s previous books include The Winter Garden, Tiny Tabletop Gardens, Teeny Tiny Gardening, The Urban Wildlife Gardener, and Green Crafts for Children, all published by CICO Books. Married with two daughters, Emma lives in London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Materials and techniques 8

Chapter 1 Bright florals and scents 14

Green enamel container 16

Rusty trunk with foxgloves 18

Beauty in a black bowl 22

Metal tub with mini roses 26

Fragrant sweet pea container 30

Wooden tray with zinnias 34

Rusty planter with daisies and snapdragons 36

Rustic orange tray with bright flowers 40

Olive container with euphorbia 44

Blue enamel bowl with purple flowers 48

Pretty planted basket 52

Enamel dish with dahlias and achilleas 56

White pot with lavender 58

Country garden in metal tubs 62

Chapter 2 Lush foliage 66

Succulents in pretty pastel pots 68

Grasses in metal containers 70

Indoor plants in baskets 72

Heuchera stand 76

Container water garden 80

Metal planter with thistles and grasses 84

Chapter 3 Special occasion displays 88

Tiered hanging basket 90

Glass vase with flowers 94

Poppy and petunia stone trough 96

Pink metal box 98

Thyme wreath 100

Small tree containers 104

Planted ladder pots 108

Geraniums and petunias in pots 112

Chapter 4 Fruits and harvests 114

Herbs in concrete pots 116

Hanging basket with cherry tomatoes 118

Strawberry tower 122

Raised bed for edibles 126

Potted kumquat 130

Nasturtium cone 134

Pepper and basil metal planter 138

Resources 142

Index 143

Acknowledgments 144