Product Description

"Vertical gardening" is hot, and what could better exemplify vertical gardening than a trellis? Ferris Cook's exquisitely illustrated book The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate inspires gardeners everywhere to incorporate small trellises into their gardens and shows how to build nine simple but elegant designs. Thirty fully illustrated plant profiles help trellis gardeners choose vines--honey-suckles or roses, porcelain berries or scarlet runners--that are appropriate for their gardens and for particular trellis designs.

The Garden Trellis is informed with personal experience as well as botanical fact. Cook--editor of Garden Dreams (1991) and Invitation to the Garden (1992)--calls upon ten years of experience in her New York State garden to share a wealth of practical information about trellis gardening. Filled with anecdotes and recollections, this charming book convinces gardeners who think they are all thumbs that trellises are easy to build. An extensive list of sources of plants, seeds, and ready-made trellises will help the novice trellis gardener get started.