Tabletop Gardens 40 Stylish Plantscapes For Counters And Shelves, Desktops And Windowsills

Bring the beauty and allure of living plants indoors with 40 miniature gardens, designed to lend warmth and interest to a variety of surfaces. Through exquisite photography, a dazzling array of creative ideas, step-by-step instructions, and all the practical advice you need, you'll discover how simple it is to enhance your home and satisify your winter gardening urges at the same time. Tabletop Gardens shows you how to integrate a project with your decor, choose plants and flowers that will thrive indoors, work with space limitations, manipulate light, and select creative containers. You'll learn all the basics that ensure success-- watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, and propagating. Innovative designs include plants and styling for all tastes, from delicate gardens under glass to Zenlike stone mosaics. Exotic orchids, soft grasses, easy-to-grow herbs, and colorful bulbs are among the plants that take center stage. And adding personality to every project are the containers-- from clear glass jars to indoor fountains, shallow ceramic trays to wicker and wire baskets. Vitality and elegance-- yours throughout the year.McCreary, Rosemary is the author of 'Tabletop Gardens 40 Stylish Plantscapes For Counters And Shelves, Desktops And Windowsills' with ISBN 9781580178372 and ISBN 1580178375.