Teeny tiny gardening : 35 step-by-step projects and inspirational ideas for gardening in tiny spaces

Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. No matter how tiny your space #x96; indoor or outdoor, garden, yard, balcony or even just a windowsill or tabletop #x96; here you will find original, fun and inspiring ideas. The 35 projects range from an elegant fern terrarium and a scented spring bulb basket to colourful woven bags and hessian sacks filled with cheerful summer blooms. There are edible gardens, including fruit bushes planted in catering-sized kitchen pans and a vertical garden of herbs grown on a wooden stepladder. You will find lots of ideas for using recycled and salvaged containers, such as a metal bathtub filled with vegetable plants, metal food tins used for an indoor garden of wildflowers and a stack of wooden drawers filled with trailing plants. And at the teeniest end of the scale, there are even miniature tabletop gardens created in eggshells and bottle tops! Children can learn basic gardening skills, too, by following the step-by-step photos to make their own magical fairy garden or a mysterious dinosaur den. Whether you are looking for ideas for all-year foliage or for a summer display of flowers, wanting to grow your own veggies and herbs, or needing to revamp your balcony, Teeny Tiny Gardening will provide you with all the inspiration and practical knowledge you need Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. No matter how tiny your spaceindoor or outdoor, garden, yard, balcony, or even just a windowsill or tabletophere you will find original, fun, and inspiring ideas. The 35 projects range from an elegant fern terrarium and a scented spring bulb basket to colorful woven bags and hessian sacks filled with cheerful summer blooms. There are edible gardens, including fruit bushes planted in catering-sized kitchen pans and a vertical garden of herbs grown on a wooden stepladder. You will find lots of ideas for using recycled and salvaged containers, such as a metal bathtub filled with vegetable plants, metal food cans used for an indoor garden of wildflowers, and a stack of wooden drawers filled with trailing plants. And at the teeniest end of the scale, there are even miniature tabletop gardens created in eggshells and bottle tops! Children can learn basic gardening skills, too, by following the step-by-step photos to make their own magical fairy garden or a mysterious dinosaur den. Whether you are looking for ideas for all-year foliage or for a summer display of flowers, wanting to grow your own vegetables and herbs, or needing to revamp your balcony, Teeny Tiny Gardening will provide you with all the inspiration and practical knowledge you will need. Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; introduction; basic techniques; chapter 1 bright & beautiful; eggshell gardens; dainty teacups; spring garden basket; auricula theater; woven shopping baskets; vibrant planted chair; lavender trunk; flowery stepladder; seaside garden; country rose garden; pretty vintage tin; metal dish displays; blooming buckets; wire cake stand; open suitcase garden; chapter 2 fabulous foliage; fern terrarium; green-roof birdhouse; desert garden glasses; fairy garden; succulents in drawers; topiary garden; colander baskets; dinosaur swamp garden; tiny terrariums Vertical gardenlush water garden; exotic bog garden; cake-stand terrarium; chapter 3 crops in pots; herb trolley; salad in a tub; guttering gardens; berries in a bread bin; kids' edible garden; herb buckets; vegetable crate; resources; index Presents step-by-step instructions for small-scale gardening projects that use containers ranging from teacups and eggshells to suitcases and birdhouses