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Foreword to the New Edition | x | |
Foreword | xiii | |
Preface | xvii | |
1. | Getting Started | 3 |
A backward glance | ||
Getting to know your place | ||
Existing plants | ||
The search for sun | ||
A balcony ceiling | ||
Assessing your pollutants | ||
The soil | ||
Coping with wind | ||
The travel route | ||
Beginning thoughts on design | ||
The formal approach | ||
A naturalistic view | ||
Space with style | ||
Garden Plans and Photographs | 14 | |
2. | Nonplant Considerations | 33 |
What goes on outside | ||
What's underfoot | ||
Coping with leaks | ||
Paving surfaces | ||
Something to sit on | ||
Neighborly fences | ||
Lattice patterns | ||
Trompe l'oeil | ||
Garden mirrors | ||
Gazebos | ||
Awnings | ||
On windy rooftops | ||
Let there be light | ||
3. | Meet Nature's Dramatics Personae | 49 |
All the garden's stage | ||
The woody ones | ||
Perennials | ||
Ferns | ||
Ornamental grasses | ||
Annuals | ||
Tender perennials | ||
Houseplants outside | ||
Biennials | ||
Bulbs and their cousins | ||
Herbal delights | ||
Vines and climbers | ||
Using leaners | ||
And espaliers | ||
Topiary whimsies | ||
4. | Narrowing the Choices: Some City Plants I've Known | 65 |
Where to begin | ||
The crossword puzzle approach | ||
The leading players: splendid shrubs and terrific trees | ||
The supporting cast: favorites for flowers, foliage, fragrance or flavor | ||
Creative covers: climbers for walls and fences | ||
Garden Plans and Photographs | 94 | |
5. | Finding and Buying Your Plants | 113 |
On temptation | ||
Where hardy plants come from | ||
Finding a nursery | ||
The importance of roots | ||
Container plants | ||
B & B plants | ||
Seedlings | ||
Mail-order catalogues | ||
The wild things | ||
Learning your Latin | ||
Facing a move | ||
Gardening safely | ||
6. | The Secret Is in the Soil | 129 |
Soil is not dirt | ||
Sand | ||
Vermiculite | ||
Perlite | ||
How much lightener | ||
Restoring soil fertility | ||
The soil conditioner | ||
NPK, the big 3 | ||
Understanding the label | ||
Fertilizer sources | ||
The mystery of acidity and alkalinity | ||
Plants for acid soil | ||
Increasing pH | ||
Analyzing soil | ||
7. | Containers for Summer and Winter | 145 |
The windowbox | ||
The quest for planters | ||
Basics for building with wood | ||
Use containers to create the space | ||
Container gardens for winter | ||
Where there's wind | ||
Containers built for root pruning | ||
Watch your weight | ||
Happiness is a good container mix | ||
Reducing soil weight | ||
Preparing the "hole" | ||
Be fearless | ||
Garden Plans and Photographs | 158 | |
8. | Planting and Other Earth-Shattering Ideas | 177 |
An early beginning | ||
Shrubs, small trees, hardy perennials | ||
B & B plants | ||
Spacing for now and then | ||
Seedlings of flowers, veggies and herbs | ||
The importance of mulch | ||
The instant lawn | ||
Plants to use as ground covers | ||
The front-door garden | ||
Useful invaders | ||
9. | Water Comes Not from Heaven Alone | 191 |
The finger test | ||
When to water | ||
Roots in the ground | ||
Roots in containers | ||
Plants that tolerate moist soils | ||
Plants with minimal water needs | ||
Controll-ing soil moisture | ||
The watering can | ||
The hose | ||
Keep those plants clean | ||
A basic watering system | ||
Watering containers when it's cold | ||
The balcony ceiling | ||
Use your snow | ||
10. | Continuing Through Autumn | 205 |
End-of-season blues | ||
Coping with compost | ||
Humus without tears | ||
Soil restoration | ||
City plowing downstairs | ||
And upstairs | ||
Sampling autumn's splendor | ||
Autumn alterations | ||
A spring plot for bulbs | ||
Plants that tolerate wind | ||
A winter setting | ||
11. | City Girth Control | 221 |
Nature's rampant growth | ||
Controlling the woody crowd | ||
Division | ||
Needle evergreens | ||
Plants for hedges | ||
Globes, pyramids and other topiary shapes | ||
When you can't grow up | ||
Beautiful weepers | ||
Espaliers | ||
The right tool | ||
Pruning time | ||
Root pruning container trees and shrubs | ||
Compensating for root loss | ||
Dwarf shrubs | ||
Garden Plans and Photographs | 238 | |
12. | Not Quite Eden | 257 |
Behold the caterpillar | ||
Controlling nature | ||
Balancing nature | ||
Getting to know some "good guys" | ||
Discouraging undesirables | ||
Choosing your weapon | ||
A selection of pests | ||
Pesticide application | ||
And formulation | ||
Air pollutants | ||
Nonpathogenic problems | ||
Plant diseases | ||
The birds and bees | ||
Squirrels | ||
Poisonous plants | ||
13. | The City Gardener's Almanac | 279 |
Early spring | ||
Late spring | ||
Early summer | ||
Late summer | ||
Early autumn | ||
Late autumn | ||
Winter | ||
Afterword | 285 | |
Elizabeth Scholtz | ||
Where to Find What by Mail | 288 | |
Finding suppliers | ||
Smart shopping | ||
Sources of garden furnishings | ||
Garden ornaments | ||
Gazebos | ||
Tools and other essential gadgets | ||
Soil tests | ||
Natural controls and fertilizers | ||
Garden plants | ||
Seeds, perennials (may include annuals), ornamental shrubs and trees | ||
Roses | ||
The edible landscape | ||
Bulbs | ||
Tropicals and house-plants | ||
Water plants, fish and aquatic supplies | ||
Bibliography | 299 | |
With Gratitude | 303 | |
Index | 304 |
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