Give your garden a low-cost makeover with stunning containers that you make, decorate, and plant yourself. More than 60 quick and easy projects allow you to make a big impact in even the smallest space. Use painting, marbling, mosaic, gilding, and additional techniques to add color, style, and individuality to your doorways, windowsills, balconies, and other areas of the yard. Hang beautiful dwarf chrysanthemums in eye-catching beaded pots. Draw the eye with shocking-pink painted containers filled with shocking-pink flowers. From pretty and romantic to sleek and sophisticated, these containers and plantings complement every style.
Colour: red; pink; blue; orange; yellow; silver and grey. Making
containers work: choosing the right containers for your garden; eye-catching
focal points; sentries; windowsills, balconies and steps; changing and
defining space; grouping containers. The collections: opulence and riches;
passion and daring; cool sophistication; pretty romantics; contemporary;
sunbaked Mediterranean. Decorative techniques: painting pots; lead effects;
mosaic; marbling; gilding. Plant care: planting and composts; maintenance,
feeding, deadheading, watering; irrigation systems.
Clare Matthews is an innovative garden designer. Her own garden has been filmed by BBC Gardener's World and has featured in many leading publications. She is married with three children.
