Green Places in Small Spaces: A Practical Guide to Designing and Planting a Small-Space Garden

136 pages. Spine fadedSo you don't have an expansive yard in the country for your dream garden. May be you don't have a yard at all. No matter. Any area is a potential garden. Your balcony, dooryard space, curbside turf, or window box can still be transformed into a welcome, lush space for planting. Author Kerwin Fischer, a veteran of pac king plants into every available nook and cranny, offers his strategies for gett ing every petal of color out of your spot of earth throughout the growing season . With Green Places in Small Spaces, Fischer gets vicarious gardeners into the s oil as he explains small-space gardening from the emergence of spring bulbs to f all cleanup. This gardener of wit and discernment offers advice on choosing a ga rden site, planting in shady or sunny areas, and selecting compact or dwarf plan ts, and gives tricks for growing several plants in the same area. Along with a d ose of easy-to-understand gardening basics, Green Places in Small Spaces include s help on designing traditional and container gardens, finding a garden style th at suits you, choosing the tools you really need, and combating urban problems l ike vandalism. Full-color photographs and drawings bring the planning and planti ng to life.…