Lizzie Boyd
Window Gardens
How to Create Beautiful Windows Indoors and Out
New York 1985
Stron 144, format: 22x26 cm
Papier kredowy. 82 kolorowe i 21 czarno-białych fotografii.
Książka UŻYWANA: stan bardzo dobry.
Here's a book that will be welcomed by gardeners everywhere, but especially by city dwellers for whom windowsills and ledges are the only garden space they possess. Window Gardens is packed with ideas for making the most of these potentially rich and often underutilized areas. Gorgeous full-color photographs were taken all over the world, including the United States, England, Spain, and France. Together with detailed captions, they offer suggestions for color schemes and plant combinations that will bring warmth and cheer to every type of window as well as ideas for plantings that look beautiful when seen from both indoors and out. Here are tiny apartment windows, where every available space is filled with flowers and foilage; elegant town houses with sophisticated coordinated plantings; and simple country cottages banked with a profusion of color and greenery. The plants range from the conventional but extremely pretty mix of lobelias, petunias, and trailing geraniums to succulents, bulbs, and more permanent plantings of perennials, shrubs, and climbers.
A practical "Window Gardening" section provides all the information the avid window gardener needs to know: how to make and plant a window box; the best ready-made window boxes; ways to improvise containers (baskets, tubs, buckets, and cans); how to plant hanging
baskets. It also gives advice on composts, fertilizers, watering methods, and tools and shows how to train plants around windows for a decorative effect.
An alphabetical "Window Plants" section presents detailed descriptions of more than 100 plants, including glossy greens, shrubs, and evergreens; fragrant flowering plants; trailing vines; numerous herbs; and plants that can be grown in borders alongside windows.
An invaluable chart lists all the plants and their characteristics, giving at-a-glance information on flowering seasons, color, shape, and height.
Window Gardens is an indispensable and inspiring book both for beginners and for experienced green thumbs who want to create stunning gardens in a limited space.
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