No Garden? No Problem!: Design and Planting Ideas for the Smallest of Spaces : Steps, Walls, Roof Terraces, Balconies, Basements and Courtyards

by Pilcher, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780715311714
• ISBN10: 0715311719
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: F & W Media Inc

Summary

The smallest space can be turned into a mini garden: windowsills, balconies, even stairs and front doorsteps. With plant suggestions, design ideas and step-by-step projects, No Garden? No Problem! can bring style, color and beauty in to your home making sensational garden spaces you never thought existed.

Author Biography

Mike Pilcher has been fascinated by all things horticultural since the age of six when he was found digging up carrots for his pet guinea pig in a neighbour's allotment. A spell at Massey University in New Zealand was followed by a successful career editing a national gardening magazine. Now freelance, he writes for a range of magazines, newspapers and books in between which he enjoys his own microscopic garden

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
why garden?	8	(28)
door	22	(14)
project: light fantastic	28	(8)
basement	36	(62)
project: mirror box	42	(8)
step	50	(10)
project: one step at a time	54	(6)
yard	60	(16)
project: a carpet of bricks	68	(8)
wall	76	(12)
project: artscape	82	(6)
room	88	(10)
project: plant skates	92	(6)
balcony	98	(42)
project: screen two	108	(6)
roof	114	(16)
project: growing globes	120	(10)
care	130	(10)
index	140