Reviews for Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener's Journal

The average rating for Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener's Journal based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-06 00:00:00 Carl Rondeau I'd actually give this a 3.5. I ran across this book a few summers ago and found myself enchanted. The photography and the simplicity lured me right in. I started thinking "I could grow corn in pot! Apple trees in a pot! Anything and everything in a pot!!!" It pretty much falls into the category of "things I probably won't ever do completely, but might be inspired to try one or two of these ideas." The problem of course, is that for many of the plants, to be able to successfully grow them in pots, you'd need to get your hands on a variety of specialty dwarf varieties. As such, all the potential crops in pots based on this book are not terribly realistic. Still, it's fun to think about, and there are some practical tips and options for the average home gardener.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-04-24 00:00:00 Audrey Bayze This book was quite the whirlwind of basic planting information. Occasionally it would give oddly specific suggestions or say things that no other container gardening book has recommended before (not necessarily wrong things possibly but it raised a few flags). If you don't have full sun none of these ideas are for you. It also referenced having access to dirt-in-the-ground/outside yard space. The "finished product" photos were awesome but having been foiled by several bad years of container gardening anyone who can get their containers to look like the photos is probably capable of magic.