Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces
eBook - ePub

Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

About this book

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!

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Abelia x grandiflora ‘Kaleidescope’, 103
Abutilon sp., 45
Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’, 191
Achillea filipendulina ‘Coronation Gold’, 41
Actinidia kolomikta, 45
Agastache foeniculum, 186
air-conditioning unit screening, 69
air plant, 159, 198
air pruning, 155
Akebia quinata ‘Shirobana’, 53
amaranth, 126
Amsonia hubrichtii, 55
angel’s trumpet, 57
Anigozanthos ‘Bush Red’, 48
Anigozanthos ‘Harmony’, 48, 184
Aralia elata ‘Variegata’, 56
arbor
along a path, 15
and planting, 27
architectural style, 18
for curb appeal, 17
for intimacy, 26, 28
front yard, 12-18
benefits, 19
detail, 17
location, 14, 15
planted, 15
selection, 18
garden room, 19-26
design, 20, 26
nooks, 21-22
taming, 23
overhead, 22
selection, 27-28
material, 29
to direct view, 19
to mark entrance, 17-18
Aristolochia durior, 173
Asplenium viviparum, 55
Azara microphylla, 39, 190
backyard
garden nook, 21-22
balcony
containers, 83
fruit tree, 130
garden, 79, 80, 88-89
Juliet, 97
maximizing space, 95-96
plants
black-eyed Susan vine, 171
Clematis ‘Arctic Queen’, 170
dwarf honeysuckle, 172
hyacinth bean vine, 172
Passiflora sanguinolenta ‘Maria Rosa’ (passion vine), 171
sun, 86
trees
boxwood, 192
heavenly bamboo, 192
Japanese maple, 191
purple hopseed bush, 193
timor black bamboo, 193
bamboo
heavenly, 45, 180
trellis, 30
Bambusa lako, 19...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Invasive Plants
  5. Introduction: Why Garden Up?
  6. Arbors and Trellises
  7. Skinny Spaces
  8. Garden Secrets
  9. Urban Gardens
  10. Edibles
  11. Living Walls
  12. Plant Picks
  13. Design Spotlights–Then & Now
  14. Photo & Illustration Credits and Resources
  15. Index
  16. Meet Rebecca & Susan
  17. More from Cool Springs Press
  18. Acknowledgments & Dedications
  19. Copyright Page