Turn your backyard 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.