New Container Style: Simple and Innovative Ideas for Planing Recycled Pots

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 cabinet, a thrift store - or even in your own backyard. From galvanized steel buckets to old wine boxes, from a collection of tomato cans to a roe of brightly colored plastic tubs, there is a wonderful choice of affordable and innovative containers to suit any style of garden. Adam explains how to choose the right pot for you 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. Transform your outdoor space with new Container Style. Vibrant photography by Frencesca Yorke. A directory of the author's favorite plants for containers, including maintenence tips, completes the horticultural feast.

Adam Caplin studied horticulture of Reading, in southern England, before running several successful nurseries and garden centers, including The Chelsea Gardener. He is co-author of New Kitchen Garden (Ryland Peters & Small) and a contributor to Easy Gardening and BBC Gardeners' World magazine.