Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens

by Marty WingatePhotographs by Jacqueline Koch

• ISBN13: 9781570612756
• ISBN10: 1570612757
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-01-21
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Summary

Transform your too-small yard into a beautiful, textured, and colorful garden with this new book! Master Gardener and Seattle Post-Intelligener columnist Marty Wingate details design, planning, and planting ideas that will bring a bounty of flowers, variety, and volume to small yards, tight spaces with limited sunlight, decks, and balconies. This colorful book of great ideas proves that garden-making possibilities for small spaces are enormous! Book jacket.

Author Biography

Marry Wingate is a Seattle-based Master Gardener and freelance writer who contributes a weekly column on plants and gardening to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Jacqueline Koch is a garden and news photographer whose work has appeared in The Seattle Times "Pacific Northwest" magazine and in Time, Newsweek, and The Washington Post

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Considerations	1	(30)
The Front Garden	31	(36)
The Side Garden and Pathways	67	(26)
The Back Garden	93	(26)
Balcony and Rooftop Gardens	119	(20)
Courtyard, Patio, and Deck Gardens	139	(16)
Can I Do That?	155	(16)
Plant Lists	171	(35)
Grasses	172	(3)
Ground Covers and Edgers	175	(5)
Hedges	180	(3)
Narrow Plants	183	(2)
Perennials	185	(5)
Shrubs	190	(5)
Small Conifers	195	(2)
Trees	197	(3)
Variegated Plants	200	(3)
Vines and Climbers	203	(3)
The Gardens and the Gardeners	206	(1)
Index	207