Handmade for the Garden : 75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space With Diy Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

Handmade for the Garden 75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space With Diy Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

Susan Guagliumi, 1948-

Book - 2014

Presents seventy-five projects for making garden structures and accessories using inexpensive, readily-available materials, including such items as rustic fencing, plant markers, painted terracotta pots, stakes, hypertufa planters, and sieves.

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Subjects
Garden ornaments and furniture > Design and construction.
Published
New York : STC Craft 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Susan Guagliumi, 1948- (-)
Other Authors
John Gruen, 1958- (-), Sun Young Park
Item Description
"A Melanie Falick book"
Physical Description
208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781617690976
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Early Season Gardening
  • Chapter 2. Potting
  • Chapter 3. Mosaics
  • Chapter 4. Cement & Hypertufa
  • Chapter 5. Standing Tall: Single Supports, Tripods & Tuteurs
  • Chapter 6. Rustic Trellises, Fences, Arbors & Box Supports
  • Chapter 7. Off-Season: Projects & Planning
  • Sources for Supplies
  • Recommended Reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Library Journal Review

Guagliumi, author of many books on knitting (Hand-Manipulated Stitches for Machine Knitters), takes a trip to the garden with this lovely book. Chapters are arranged to follow the gardening year. Early season projects involve making newspaper cups for seedlings, seed tapes, coverings, and planting tools. Some sections are weak-the one on painting and altering terra cotta pots is a little less adventurous, and the part about making concrete containers and building plant supports lacks needed detail-while other sections shine (the areas devoted to making sieves, garden baskets, and gift seed packages are quite well done). Step-by-step illustrations are only sporadically provided, though instructions are well written. A better choice for readers learning to make concrete containers is Sherri Warner Hunter's Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculptures & More; those seeking information on plant supports and related structures would be best served by Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds: 50 Easy, Unique, and Useful Projects You Can Make with Common Tools and Materials. VERDICT Despite some flaws, this pretty, fresh work would round out any garden project collection. Recommended. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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