Create Your Own Beautiful Hanging Garden [The evolution of the hanging garden -- the planting displays -- Baskets and boxes: annuals and bedding plants -- Hearty half-hardies: frost-tender perennials -- Anything goes: annuals and bedders in unusual containers -- Small-scale versatility: perennials, alpines and shrubs -- What goes up.: climbers and trailers -- A cook's delight: vegetables, fruits and herbs -- Elegant foliage, cool contrasts: ferns and grasses --Classic favourites: Roses -- The charm of the wild: wildflowers and natives -- Practical matters -- Further reading -- List of suppliers]

1st ed., 1st printing ; 160 unnumbered pages ; 27 cm ; ISBN 9780747212119, 0747212112 ; OCLC 60282464 ; red cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; 'The Hanging Garden' is full of ideas to help you create stunning displays of flowers in hanging baskets, window boxes, raised beds and arches. ; SUE FISHER is Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. She is author of In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions and co-editor of Negotiating the Margins: The Gendered Discourses of Power and Resistance, both published by Rutgers University Press. ; Contents: The evolution of the hanging garden -- the planting displays -- Baskets and boxes: annuals and bedding plants -- Hearty half-hardies: frost-tender perennials -- Anything goes: annuals and bedders in unusual containers -- Small-scale versatility: perennials, alpines and shrubs -- What goes up.: climbers and trailers -- A cook's delight: vegetables, fruits and herbs -- Elegant foliage, cool contrasts: ferns and grasses --Classic favourites: Roses -- The charm of the wild: wildflowers and natives -- Practical matters -- Further reading -- List of suppliers; FINE/FINEFINE/FINE. …