The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce
Bring color and life to your garden during the cold winter months with Emma Hardy’s wonderful planting ideas.

There are plenty of creative ways here to bring vitality to your backyard in winter, with ideas for planting pots, forcing bulbs, growing winter crops, and more. In the first chapter, Stems and Leaves, you will learn how to make a stunning wreath from succulents, plant a decorative tabletop display of miniature conifers, and grow ferns in a reclaimed sink. Add scent to your winter garden with Beautiful Bulbs, where you will find bright hyacinths in glass jars, crocuses in jello molds, a china tureen of snowdrops, and other imaginative ideas. Winter Color has bright designs such as a vivid vertical display of cyclamen in vintage cake tins, an indoor terrarium with hellebores and violas, festive poinsettia pots, and a variety of containers planted with small-scale shrubs laden with berries. And if you are keen on growing your own food, there are projects in Winter Harvests to make the most of hardy herbs, cabbages, chard, and lettuces. Whether you want to decorate your entrance with colorful pots, brighten up your balcony or windowsills, or grow a winter harvest by the kitchen door, you will find The Winter Garden packed with ideas and inspiration.
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The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce
Bring color and life to your garden during the cold winter months with Emma Hardy’s wonderful planting ideas.

There are plenty of creative ways here to bring vitality to your backyard in winter, with ideas for planting pots, forcing bulbs, growing winter crops, and more. In the first chapter, Stems and Leaves, you will learn how to make a stunning wreath from succulents, plant a decorative tabletop display of miniature conifers, and grow ferns in a reclaimed sink. Add scent to your winter garden with Beautiful Bulbs, where you will find bright hyacinths in glass jars, crocuses in jello molds, a china tureen of snowdrops, and other imaginative ideas. Winter Color has bright designs such as a vivid vertical display of cyclamen in vintage cake tins, an indoor terrarium with hellebores and violas, festive poinsettia pots, and a variety of containers planted with small-scale shrubs laden with berries. And if you are keen on growing your own food, there are projects in Winter Harvests to make the most of hardy herbs, cabbages, chard, and lettuces. Whether you want to decorate your entrance with colorful pots, brighten up your balcony or windowsills, or grow a winter harvest by the kitchen door, you will find The Winter Garden packed with ideas and inspiration.
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The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce

The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce

by Emma Hardy
The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce

The Winter Garden: Over 35 step-by-step projects for small spaces using foliage and flowers, berries and blooms, and herbs and produce

by Emma Hardy

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Bring color and life to your garden during the cold winter months with Emma Hardy’s wonderful planting ideas.

There are plenty of creative ways here to bring vitality to your backyard in winter, with ideas for planting pots, forcing bulbs, growing winter crops, and more. In the first chapter, Stems and Leaves, you will learn how to make a stunning wreath from succulents, plant a decorative tabletop display of miniature conifers, and grow ferns in a reclaimed sink. Add scent to your winter garden with Beautiful Bulbs, where you will find bright hyacinths in glass jars, crocuses in jello molds, a china tureen of snowdrops, and other imaginative ideas. Winter Color has bright designs such as a vivid vertical display of cyclamen in vintage cake tins, an indoor terrarium with hellebores and violas, festive poinsettia pots, and a variety of containers planted with small-scale shrubs laden with berries. And if you are keen on growing your own food, there are projects in Winter Harvests to make the most of hardy herbs, cabbages, chard, and lettuces. Whether you want to decorate your entrance with colorful pots, brighten up your balcony or windowsills, or grow a winter harvest by the kitchen door, you will find The Winter Garden packed with ideas and inspiration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782497875
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Publication date: 08/13/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Emma Hardy is a keen gardener and an equally keen crafter. Emma’s books for CICO include Small Summer Gardens, Teeny Tiny Gardening, Tiny Tabletop Gardens, Handmade Candles and Smudge Sticks, Making Children's Clothes, Quilting in No Time, Hand-Crafted Cards, and Green Crafts for Children. Married with two daughters, Emma lives in south London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Basic techniques 8

Plants for winter 12

Chapter 1 Stems & Leaves 14

Splendid succulents 16

Metal hanging planter 20

Family of ferns 22

A trunk of grasses 26

Tabletop trough 30

Skimmia and stone 34

Wreath of succulents 38

Hanging basket of heucherellas 42

Underplanting an ornamental tree 46

Ornamental cabbages 48

Clematis and pussy willow 52

Conifer collection 56

Chapter 2 Beautiful Bulbs 60

Hyacinths in glass jars 62

Narcissi in cream vases 66

Silver gray and zingy lime 68

Potted amaryllis 72

Bulbs in metal molds 76

China tureen of snowdrops 78

Signs of spring 80

Chapter 3 Winter Color 84

An abundance of berries 86

Windowbox pansies 90

Winter blues 94

Glass jar terrarium 98

Winter whites 102

Vibrant cyclamen 104

Shades of pink and green 108

Poinsettia pots 112

Frosty windowbox 114

Black and gold 116

Enamel tub tower 120

Garden gate welcome 124

Chapter 4 Winter Harvest 126

Swiss chard and sorrel 128

Windowbox of herbs 130

Edible cabbages and herbs 134

Evergreen bay tree 136

Winter lettuce 140

Index 142

Resources & acknowledgments 144

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