Gardens to Go

Creating and Designing a Container Garden
by Sydney Eddison

We love the flexibility and creativity of container gardening, so conducive to discovery and experimentation. Sydney Eddison, an accomplished garden author and a longtime instructor at The New York Botanical Garden, uses some terrific examples, including her own displays, to reveal the basic principles and techniques of this underappreciated but ever more important style of horticulture. The plants, pots, and properties she shows here should inspire anyone to create a container garden on a deck, terrace, or balcony, or in the backyard.

Container gardens are easy to maintain and require a minimum of physical effort, which makes them ideal for today’s on-the-go gardeners. Eddison shows how to coordinate plants for color and texture in every season, and how to mix and match various flora to have a beautiful garden anywhere. Just make sure you have some willing neighbor to water the plants while you're up on the Cape or down on the Banks.

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