Container Gardens for Florida

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Starring: Pamela Crawford
Type: DVD
Studio: Color Garden Inc

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A must have for anyone living in Florida!
Our climate is so very difficult to successfully grow flowers, especially in containers. No more hit and miss attempts, my containers are the most beautiful I have ever grown...now all my fingers have become green thumbs! I highly recomment this book to anyone who wishes to grow beautiful container gardens. It has become my planning and planting bible!

Container Gardens
One of my gardens always fills up with water anytime it rains, so the soil and plants get washed away. This book shares creative and decorative ideas for having container gardens so the all of the Florida rain does not wash away your garden.

Learn How To Create Beautiful Hanging Baskets and Container Gardens
This book is a must for any gardener in Central or South Florida. The author identifies in detail which plants will perform well and how to artisticly arrange them in pots and hanging baskets. She even has a unique way of displaying hanging baskets on posts. The book is filled with planting information and it has an incredible number of color pictures. This is my favorite gardening book.

Succeed with Container Plantings
I love puttering with my plants on the lanai, so I was pleased to discover this book after reading a South Florida Sun-Sentinel review. It pointed out that the author has a degree in landscape architecture and tested 10,000 plants in more than 300 containers. That sounds a little overwhelming, but she owns a nursery so can work on that scale.
The book points out that the most common mistakes are overwatering and underplanting (not putting enough plants in the pot). She recommends fiberglass pots which don't wick away the moisture like terra cotta and are more lightweight. Plants she particularly recommends include bromeliads, succulents, dragon wing begonias, palms and crotons.

worth every penny
If only this book was available 20 years ago when I moved to Florida, the time and money I would have saved would have paid for it multiple times. Finally a book that is specific to our hot sun, pool decks, and frequent showers. After reading this book I re-did my pool enclosure container garden using many plants that I already had and it has never looked better. For example, I never thought of mixing bromeliads with my potted flowers even though I've got many varieties crawling all over the property, as do most of my neighbors. This book is full of practical information and great ideas for a truly stunning garden, thank you Pamela Crawford!