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Blue spruce holiday container garden from the book Container Gardening for All Seasons

I love how this blue spruce holiday container garden featured in Container Gardening for All Seasons:
Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs combines a Christmas tree style plant with a base of red  plants, specifically Nandinas (Nandina Domestica 'Firepower').

Click on this page from Container Gardening for All Seasons: Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs to enlarge and read how to plant a blue spruce holiday container garden.

More about the Cool Springs Press book:

Container Gardening for All Seasons:
Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs

by

Barbara Wise

More than a collection of inspiring container gardening photographs, Container Gardening for All Seasons provides a shopping list of materials and a helpful planting diagram for each of the more than 100 container options. Designed like a recipe book, the book offers even the most novice gardeners a no-fail, easy-to-follow instruction format for each container. Gardeners can choose the recipes by season that fit the sun and shade conditions of their landscape. Author Barbara Wise includes all you need to know to plan, plant, grow and maintain a container garden. Fabulous colorful fall and winter container choices are also included.

Barbara Wise is the Floriculture Director for the Southern Land Company. Dubbed by her community as “The Flower Lady,” she has a job that involves planting with her staff around 700 containers each year for the homeowners and communities where she works. Visit her online at www.bwisegardening.blogspot.com.

 

How to plant a container garden featuring red twig dogwoods from the book Container Gardening for All Seasons

I don't get to share too much about gardening, but today I have a container gardening project that features my latest favorite plant: the red twig dogwood (Cornus stolonifera 'Artic Fire"), featured in the book Container Gardening for All Seasons: Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs. I spotted this plant in gardens at the Getty Center and just fell in L.O.V.E. with it!

Click on this page from Container Gardening for All Seasons: Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs to enlarge and read all about  how to create this beautiful container garden.

More about the Cool Springs Press book:

Container Gardening for All Seasons:
Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs

by

Barbara Wise

More than a collection of inspiring container gardening photographs, Container Gardening for All Seasons provides a shopping list of materials and a helpful planting diagram for each of the more than 100 container options. Designed like a recipe book, the book offers even the most novice gardeners a no-fail, easy-to-follow instruction format for each container. Gardeners can choose the recipes by season that fit the sun and shade conditions of their landscape. Author Barbara Wise includes all you need to know to plan, plant, grow and maintain a container garden. Fabulous colorful fall and winter container choices are also included.

Barbara Wise is the Floriculture Director for the Southern Land Company. Dubbed by her community as “The Flower Lady,” she has a job that involves planting with her staff around 700 containers each year for the homeowners and communities where she works. Visit her online at www.bwisegardening.blogspot.com.

 

How to make a recycled soda bottle bird feeder from the book Build Your Own Backyard Birdhouses and Feeders

As it becomes more of a challenge for our winged friends to find food, why not help them out by going to your recycle bin, grabbing a 2-liter plastic soda bottle, and making a bird feeder that will also turn your window into nature's TV?! See how to make a recycled soda bottle by following this great tutorial featured in the book Build Your Own Backyard Birdhouses and Feeders.

Click on these pages from the book Build Your Own Backyard Birdhouses and Feeders to enlarge and read all the instructions on how to make a recycled bird feeder.

More about the Cool Springs Press book:

Build Your Own Backyard Birdhouses and Feeders

by

Cool Springs Press

Filled with easy-to-follow, detailed plans, Build Your Own Backyard Birdhouses and Feeders is a must-have for woodworkers, birding enthusiasts, and hobbyists. This comprehensive guide features plans in a variety of styles, from very simple to a bit more challenging; full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions to guide every step; and a complete materials list that notes everything needed to finish the project.