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Pots: Stylish Ideas for Outdoor Containers

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'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful. Anyone can do it.' The Standard

If you like colour and design or are seeking a flexible, low-fuss way to garden, then planting in containers is for you. A selection of well-chosen plants matched with a stylish pot will transform your outdoor space and make it feel like it belongs to you.

POTS reveals 40 inspiring ideas for outdoor pots and planters, with an emphasis on stylish design and sustainable practices. Full of useful, practical information, it is a definitive guide for people with small outdoor spaces, and the go-to book for a new era in container-gardening.

This book includes:

- Where to put your pots

- Choosing containers

- Choosing plants

- Using colour

- Growing food in pots

-Watering and feeding

- How to plant a container

- Annuals

- Bulbs and tubers

-A season-by-season guide to 40 planting projects

Lucy Bellamy

Lucy Bellamy is a British garden writer. The former editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine, she writes widely on gardening for the national press, including for the Guardian and the Financial Times. She writes a regular container-design column for BBC Gardeners' World magazine and is an RHS Expert tulip judge. Lucy is the author of Grow 5 and Colour in the Garden, also published by Mitchell Beazley.

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