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Swap In the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs Year-Round
Sara Begg Townsend & Roanne Robbins
Continuous
ContaIneR gardens
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COnTeNtS
Preface ........................................................ iii
Introduction ................................................vi
Expand Your Plant World...........................10
The Four-Act Container Garden ..............20
Picking Plants .............................................26
Get Thee to a Nursery ...............................34
A Village of Underplantings .....................42
Containers Are Your Cardigans ................49
Practical Matters ........................................57
Planting Up and Swapping Out ................64
Planting Up Your Container .....................73
Initial Underplanting .................................80
Swapping the Underplanting ...................88
Planting Out in the Garden ......................98
Caring for Your Contained Garden ..........106
Colorful Sticks ............................................112
Cool Bark .....................................................119
Summer Flowers .........................................127
Topiary Goodness ......................................135
Flowers for Spring ......................................144
Deluxe Purple Foliage ................................152
Woodland Shrubbery .................................159
Flowering Tree ............................................169
Berry Delights .............................................178
Sun-Loving Perennials ..............................185
Ornamental Grass ......................................198
Structure & Vines .......................................208
Resources ....................................................210
Index ............................................................212
PART 2 TWELVE
CONTAINERS
THROUGH THE
YEAR
PART 1 A New
Perspective
on Container
Gardening
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Containers that Change with the Seasons
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COLORFUL STICKS
SpRInGTo us, a New England spring
is pillowy patches of moss
growing along icy woodland
streams, clusters of fl owering
bulbs in front of stone walls, and
swaths of branch tips turning
a mahogany tone and swelling
up in preparation for bloom.
We tried to capture that feel-
ing here—to bring a little piece
of spring to the setting. We
emphasized the yellowness of
the sticks by massing daff odils
around the base and gave the
planting a more ornamental
feel by adding the pansies and a
medley of herbs.
For plant information turn to
page 24.
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‘JETFIRE’ DAFFODIL
‘SORBET BABYFACE’ PANSY
SAGE, PARSLEY, AND THYME
YELLOWTWIG DOGWOOD
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6COLORFUL STICKS
SUmMeRIn summer, the yellowtwig
dogwood is fully leafed out.
Its beautiful yellow sticks
are somewhat concealed at
this point, and without an
underplanting, the com-
position would feel visually
top-heavy. To off set this, we
planted a vibrant underplant-
ing, full of color, motion, and
gusto, starring the diva Abelia
‘Kaleidoscope’. This shrub
packs a punch, off ering not
only intense color but wonder-
ful movement and weight.
We fi nd that it’s sometimes
best to let one plant dictate
the seasonal color story — in
this case, we found our palette
by extracting tones from the
foliage of ‘Kaleidoscope’. Plum-
purple, yellow, chartreuse,
orange . . . they’re all here, and
when artfully arranged, they
keep your eyes moving around
the composition.
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7Orange lights up the vibrant color palette of summer
‘KALEIDOSCOPE’ABELIA
PALACE PURPLEHEUCHERA
‘SUNRISE’COREOPSIS
‘GOLD HAZE’HEATHER
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Publicity Contact: Amy Greeman (413) 346-2113 or [email protected]
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Sara Begg Townsend is a freelance writer and
the former executive editor of Horticulture maga-
zine. She’s also worked for Country Journal, and
The Gardener magazine, and Winston Flower &
Garden. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she now
gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Roanne Robbins is
a garden and floral
designer and the owner
of Nature Contained, a
company that offers cre-
ative container plantings,
small-space gardens, and
floral designs for events,
holidays, and home
décor. She also works as a design consultant at
Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, Massachusetts,
creating small-space and container-garden
designs. She lives in Rhode Island.
Continuous Container GardensFull-color; photographs throughout
224 pages; 9 x 8‹/¢
Paper:$19.95 US / $24.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-60342-702-9
No. 62702
stay in step with the seasons
The Authors
AvailableFebruary 2011!
Photos © John Gruen
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