| Introduction.
PART I: Container Plants: To Know Them Is to Grow Them.
Chapter 1: Neat Things to Do with Container Plants.
Chapter 2: Cultivating Your Little Corner of the World.
Chapter 3: Containing Your Excitement.
PART II: How to Plant.
Chapter 4: Soil Mixes.
Chapter 5: When Plant Meets Container.
PART III: The Plants.
Chapter 6: Annuals.
Chapter 7: Perennial Pleasures.
Chapter 8: Lighting Up Containers with Bulbs.
Chapter 9: Big Shots of the Garden: Shrubs and Trees.
Chapter 10: Vegetables and Herbs.
Chapter 11: Fruits and Berries.
Chapter 12: Cactus and Succulents.
Chapter 13: Indoor Container Gardening.
PART IV: Designing and Decorating.
Chapter 14: Matchmaking, Container-Style.
Chapter 15: 12 Tested Recipes forMixed Plantings.
PART V: Special Effects.
Chapter 16: Hanging Baskets.
Chapter 17: Containers with Extra Character.
PART VI: Maintenance.
Chapter 18: Thirst Quenching.
Chapter 19: Feeding.
Chapter 20: All the Other Chores.
Chapter 21: When Bad Things Happen: Pests and Diseases.
PART VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 22: More Than Ten Container Plants for Special Situations.
Chapter 23: Ten Container Plants for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
Chapter 24: Ten Handy Tools for Container Gardening.
Chapter 25: Almost Ten Words about Bonsai.
Appendix: Additional Resources.
Index.
Book Registration Information.
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