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Containers in the garden
2022
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A Danish designer, florist and gardener showcases his distinctive container gardening style that combines textures and colors with beautiful pottery and provides home gardeners with tips and techniques to create the container garden of their dreams. Illustrations. - (Baker & Taylor)

Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the Scandinavian planting techniques featured in Containers in the Garden.

*Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Gold Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category*

Celebrity gardener and Danish floral designer Claus Dalby shares his signature container gardening style in this gorgeously illustrated book. His distinctive use of a single plant species in each pot, with dozens of planted pots collected together, creates elegant and eye-catching garden displays. Partnered with an abundance of textures and often a monochromatic color palette, Claus’s container gardens change with the seasons. By combining flower and foliage colors with beautiful pottery and layered displays, the results are nothing short of extraordinary.

In Containers in the Garden, the English-language version of his top-selling Danish gardening book, Claus shares his best-kept secrets so that you, too, can create the container garden of your dreams. Season by season and color by color, you’ll learn how to plant, organize, tend, and share your potted plantings. Whether your display is on the front steps or the back patio, the simple yet bold design methods found here create unique garden features that are a joy to behold.

The breathtaking photography found within, coupled with Claus’s descriptive and personal text, features:
 

  • Early season container plantings of tulips, primroses, narcissus, and other spring-flowering beauties
  • Lush summer pots, overflowing with dahlias, roses, hydrangea, and foxgloves
  • Colorful and textural foliage-only containers to add structure and interest to the collection
  • Unusual container plants such as spikemosses, wintergreen, oxalises, and even edible plants
  • Tropical beauties bring a summer explosion, including cannas, Brugmansia, and hibiscus
  • Autumnal fireworks of bronze, gold, and rust round out the seasonal display

Step inside Claus Dalby’s Danish garden, and find ideas and inspiration for bringing a bit of lykke and hygge to your home with Containers in the Garden. - (Grand Central Pub)

Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden. - (Grand Central Pub)

Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden.  - (HARPERCOLL)

Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the Scandinavian planting techniques featured in Containers in the Garden.

Celebrity gardener and Danish floral designer Claus Dalby shares his signature container gardening style in this gorgeously illustrated book. His distinctive use of a single plant species in each pot, with dozens of planted pots collected together, creates elegant and eye-catching garden displays. Partnered with an abundance of textures and often a monochromatic color palette, Claus’s container gardens change with the seasons. By combining flower and foliage colors with beautiful pottery and layered displays, the results are nothing short of extraordinary.

In Containers in the Garden, the English-language version of his top-selling Danish gardening book, Claus shares his best-kept secrets so that you, too, can create the container garden of your dreams. Season by season and color by color, you’ll learn how to plant, organize, tend, and share your potted plantings. Whether your display is on the front steps or the back patio, the simple yet bold design methods found here create unique garden features that are a joy to behold.

The breathtaking photography found within, coupled with Claus’s descriptive and personal text, features:

  • Early season container plantings of tulips, primroses, narcissus, and other spring-flowering beauties
  • Lush summer pots, overflowing with dahlias, roses, hydrangea, and foxgloves
  • Colorful and textural foliage-only containers to add structure and interest to the collection
  • Unusual container plants such as spikemosses, wintergreen, oxalises, and even edible plants
  • Tropical beauties bring a summer explosion, including cannas, Brugmansia, and hibiscus
  • Autumnal fireworks of bronze, gold, and rust round out the seasonal display
Step inside Claus Dalby’s Danish garden, and find ideas and inspiration for bringing a bit of lykke and hygge to your home with Containers in the Garden. - (HARPERCOLL)

Author Biography

Claus Dalby has been called “the Scandinavian Martha Stewart.” He is a designer, florist, and Danish gardener who has amassed a huge fan base in Scandinavia, the US, and around the world. He is also a successful publisher, television personality, and designer of glass vases for Holmegaard. His signature style of gardening uses densely packed plants and changing seasonal displays, often in monochromatic color palettes. Claus also runs an online garden club with monthly subscribers from around the world. - (Grand Central Pub)

Claus Dalby has been called “the Scandinavian Martha Stewart.” He is a designer, florist, and Danish gardener who has amassed a huge fan base in Scandinavia, the US, and around the world. He is also a successful publisher, television personality, and designer of glass vases for Holmegaard. His signature style of container gardening uses densely packed plants and changing seasonal displays, often in monochromatic color palettes. Claus also runs an online garden club with monthly subscribers from around the world.

- (HARPERCOLL)

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Table of Contents

Foreword 4(2)
My Containers
6(2)
The Good Soil
8(2)
Plants from Seeds
10(4)
Bulbs in Pots
14(3)
Dahlias in Pots
17(1)
Planting
18(2)
Water and Fertilizer
20(2)
Perennials in Pots
22(2)
Change of Scene
24(4)
Color Joy
28(5)
Glowing Spring
33(1)
Citrus and Daffodils
34(3)
Tulips in Focus
37(2)
Inspiration
39(1)
It Looks Black
40(3)
Bellis and Primroses
43(1)
Tulips in Good Company
44(3)
The White Garden
47(9)
The Sunken Garden
56(2)
The Grays
58(2)
Play with Foliage
60(6)
Late Season Touches
66(3)
Creme de la Creme
69(6)
Made for Each Other
75(2)
More Possibilities
77(1)
Clear Favorites
78(1)
A Classic
79(1)
Blue is Good
80(7)
Delicious Lime
87(3)
Dahlias in Good Company
90(5)
The Lovely Dahlias
95(1)
Shocking Pink
96(2)
Pink and Gray
98(3)
Pure Romance
101(4)
A New Display
105(1)
Welcome
106(4)
Rust or Apricot?
110(6)
Free Choice
116(3)
Quite Exotic
119(1)
Glowing Tones
120(5)
Brown and Burnt
125(2)
A Trilogy
127(4)
It's About Nuances
131(2)
New and Old
133(3)
A Fireworks Display
136(2)
To Paint with Flowers
138(5)
Seeing Red
143(5)
Red Dahlias
148(2)
Change Day
150(4)
September Flower
154(2)
Big Moving Day
156(2)
Nearing the Finale
158(4)
All Saints' Day or Halloween?
162(4)
November Flowering
166(4)
Goodbye and Thanks
170(4)
Index 174

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