The Garden Trellis

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"Vertical gardening" is hot, and what could better exemplify vertical gardening than a trellis? Ferris Cook's exquisitely illustrated book The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate inspires gardeners everywhere to incorporate small trellises into their gardens and shows how to build nine simple but elegant designs. Thirty fully illustrated plant profiles help trellis gardeners choose vines—honeysuckles or roses, porcelain berries or scarlet runners—that are appropriate for their gardens and for particular trellis designs.
The Garden Trellis is informed with personal experience as well as botanical fact. Cook—editor of Garden Dreams (iggi) and Invitation to the Garden (1992)—calls upon ten years of experience in her New York State
_ garden to share a wealth of practical ^^^ . information about trellis
Vl®?^^^ gardening. Filled with
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Fülszöveg

"Vertical gardening" is hot, and what could better exemplify vertical gardening than a trellis? Ferris Cook's exquisitely illustrated book The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate inspires gardeners everywhere to incorporate small trellises into their gardens and shows how to build nine simple but elegant designs. Thirty fully illustrated plant profiles help trellis gardeners choose vines—honeysuckles or roses, porcelain berries or scarlet runners—that are appropriate for their gardens and for particular trellis designs.
The Garden Trellis is informed with personal experience as well as botanical fact. Cook—editor of Garden Dreams (iggi) and Invitation to the Garden (1992)—calls upon ten years of experience in her New York State
_ garden to share a wealth of practical ^^^ . information about trellis
Vl®?^^^ gardening. Filled with
BSjp"'^ anecdotes and recollec-
^Hv tions, this charming hook convinces gardeners who think they are all A T thumbs that trellises are easy to build. Vj 1 An extensive list of sources of plants, seeds, and ready-made trellises
will help the novice trellis gardener get started.
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Ferris Cook is an award-winning illustrator, writer, editor, and gardener. Her books include Garden Dreams (i 991) and Invitation to the Garden (1992), both of which won Quill & Trowel awards from the Garden Writers Association of America. She and her husband, Ken Krabbenhoft, collaborated on two illustrated collections of poems by Pablo Neruda, Odes to Common Things (1994) and Odes to Opposites (1995). She gardens in upstate New York. Vissza