Grow a living wall : create vertical gardens with purpose : pollinators - herbs & veggies - aromatherapy - many more

Grow a living wall Create vertical gardens with purpose : pollinators - herbs & veggies - aromatherapy - many more

Shawna Coronado

Book - 2015

In Grow a Living Wall, you'll find clear, step-by-step information that explains everything you need to know to create your own vertical gardens. Choosing equipment and plants, making growing medium, planting and watering, and even hanging your creation are covered in full detail. Each featured garden has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make. Like Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life-affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.--COVER.

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Subjects
Vertical gardening.
Gardening.
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Cool Springs Press 2015.
Language
English
Main Author
Shawna Coronado (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
160 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN
9781591866244
  • How to create living walls. Which living wall system is right for you? ; Tools that help ; Getting started ; Watering the living wall ; Soil and compost ; Choosing and obtaining plants for your living wall
  • Living wall gardens with a purpose. Herbal cocktail garden ; Moss and shade wall art ; Vegetable "balconies" garden ; Fern garden ; Cactus living wall ; Therapeutic hanging gardens ; Hydroponic pollinator garden ; Shade pellet garden ; Insulate-a-wall garden
  • Bookshelf fence garden ; Succulent living wall ; Vertical vegetable farm ; Aphrodisiac wall garden ; Freestanding entrance garden ; Culinary kitchen garden ; Aromatherapy garden ; Money-saving garden ; Smart garden ; Colorful living wall ; Vitamin-rich culinary garden ; Urban water-saving garden
  • Living wall maintenance.
Review by Library Journal Review

In her latest garden book, proponent of green-style living, photographer, columnist, and garden lecturer Coronado (Illinois Getting Started Garden Guide; Indiana Getting Started Garden Guide) urges readers to "grow up" by using vertical space in creative and purposeful ways. Twenty themed projects employ an array of various hardscape and plant materials to create living walls. Step-by-step instructions outline plant selection, required tools and materials, and installation techniques. The colorful photos supplementing the text show that many of these compact hanging or standing gardens look like garden-show entries. A range of budgets and styles are offered. Projects may be simple, such as hanging a planted container on a gate, or more challenging, with greenery that covers a wall. Readers can choose from examples of culinary, herbal, pollinator, or aromatherapy gardens. Several plans address different environs and types of spaces-balconies, for example, or shaded areas. Each project has at least one purpose, which may be to help the environment, set a mood, embellish landscapes, or grow edibles. The author successfully demonstrates how to grow imaginative and purposeful space-saving gardens on an upright plane. VERDICT A green thumbs up! All levels of garden hobbyists and landscapers will enjoy this upbeat book.-Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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