Continuous Container Gardens — Book Layout and Design (sample pages)

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Swap In the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs Year-Round

Sara Begg Townsend & Roanne Robbins

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Preface ........................................................ iii

Introduction ................................................vi

Expand Your Plant World...........................10

The Four-Act Container Garden ..............20

Picking Plants .............................................26

Get Thee to a Nursery ...............................34

A Village of Underplantings .....................42

Containers Are Your Cardigans ................49

Practical Matters ........................................57

Planting Up and Swapping Out ................64

Planting Up Your Container .....................73

Initial Underplanting .................................80

Swapping the Underplanting ...................88

Planting Out in the Garden ......................98

Caring for Your Contained Garden ..........106

Colorful Sticks ............................................112

Cool Bark .....................................................119

Summer Flowers .........................................127

Topiary Goodness ......................................135

Flowers for Spring ......................................144

Deluxe Purple Foliage ................................152

Woodland Shrubbery .................................159

Flowering Tree ............................................169

Berry Delights .............................................178

Sun-Loving Perennials ..............................185

Ornamental Grass ......................................198

Structure & Vines .......................................208

Resources ....................................................210

Index ............................................................212

PART 2 TWELVE

CONTAINERS

THROUGH THE

YEAR

PART 1 A New

Perspective

on Container

Gardening

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SpRInGTo us, a New England spring

is pillowy patches of moss

growing along icy woodland

streams, clusters of fl owering

bulbs in front of stone walls, and

swaths of branch tips turning

a mahogany tone and swelling

up in preparation for bloom.

We tried to capture that feel-

ing here—to bring a little piece

of spring to the setting. We

emphasized the yellowness of

the sticks by massing daff odils

around the base and gave the

planting a more ornamental

feel by adding the pansies and a

medley of herbs.

For plant information turn to

page 24.


‘JETFIRE’ DAFFODIL

‘SORBET BABYFACE’ PANSY

SAGE, PARSLEY, AND THYME

YELLOWTWIG DOGWOOD


6COLORFUL STICKS

SUmMeRIn summer, the yellowtwig

dogwood is fully leafed out.

Its beautiful yellow sticks

are somewhat concealed at

this point, and without an

underplanting, the com-

position would feel visually

top-heavy. To off set this, we

planted a vibrant underplant-

ing, full of color, motion, and

gusto, starring the diva Abelia

‘Kaleidoscope’. This shrub

packs a punch, off ering not

only intense color but wonder-

ful movement and weight.

We fi nd that it’s sometimes

best to let one plant dictate

the seasonal color story — in

this case, we found our palette

by extracting tones from the

foliage of ‘Kaleidoscope’. Plum-

purple, yellow, chartreuse,

orange . . . they’re all here, and

when artfully arranged, they

keep your eyes moving around

the composition.


7Orange lights up the vibrant color palette of summer

‘KALEIDOSCOPE’ABELIA

PALACE PURPLEHEUCHERA

‘SUNRISE’COREOPSIS

‘GOLD HAZE’HEATHER


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Publicity Contact: Amy Greeman (413) 346-2113 or [email protected]

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Storey books are distributed in the gift and book trade by Workman Publishing. To order, please see your sales representative or call (800) 722-7202. Storey books are distributed in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son, LTD, (800) 387-4333.

Sara Begg Townsend is a freelance writer and

the former executive editor of Horticulture maga-

zine. She’s also worked for Country Journal, and

The Gardener magazine, and Winston Flower &

Garden. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she now

gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Roanne Robbins is

a garden and floral

designer and the owner

of Nature Contained, a

company that offers cre-

ative container plantings,

small-space gardens, and

floral designs for events,

holidays, and home

décor. She also works as a design consultant at

Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, Massachusetts,

creating small-space and container-garden

designs. She lives in Rhode Island.

Continuous Container GardensFull-color; photographs throughout

224 pages; 9 x 8‹/¢

Paper:$19.95 US / $24.95 CAN

ISBN: 978-1-60342-702-9

No. 62702

stay in step with the seasons

The Authors

AvailableFebruary 2011!

Photos © John Gruen

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