New Container Style

Publisher: Ryland Peters and Small Paperback, 142 pages Creatively planted containers can look good absolutely anywhere: on a doorstep, a windowsill, a roof terrace, or in a garden large or small. In New Container Style, award-winning garden designer and artist Adam Caplin introduces a fresh and imaginative twist to this type of gardening: wonderful plants matched with pots that can be found in your kitchen cupboard, a junk shop or even in your own back yard.From galvanized steel buckets to old wine boxes, from a collection of tomato tins to a row of brightly coloured plastic tubs, there is a great range of affordable and innovative containers to suit any style of garden. Adam explains how to choose the right pot for your purpose and the right plant for your pot. He offers a mass of original ideas for using discarded containers in materials as diverse as metal, plastic, wicker and glass to make your garden a more beautiful place. A directory of the authors favourite plants for containers, including maintenance tips, completes the horticultural feast.