Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds for Beginners: 30+ Easy, Unique, and Useful Projects You Can Make with Common Tools and Materials

by Editors of Cool Springs Press

A step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home. Featured projects are created using a host of easily found materials, including wood, metal, hypertufa, upcycled barrels, clay pots, sticks, latticework, copper tubing, re-rod, wire, landscape timbers, retaining wall block, and natural stone. Each plan includes photographs, a scaled plan drawing, cutting and shopping lists, and thorough step-by-step instructions.

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Tamara]

I'm more interested in using found items as trellises, but this was a fun flip-through.

[l]

quite good, husband will be busy

[Autumn Kearney]

With spring a few days away I am longing for a good gardening book. The cover of this one drew me to it.

This book contains numerous color photographs and detailed descriptions of different projects that aren't too unreasonable for most people to do.

I'll admit that the obelisk is a little over my head and that I have never heard of waxed lashing twine. Others are of medium and easier difficulty.

Even if you don't follow the instructions in this book, it will spark some other ideas.

[Mary Lynn]

The title would be more accurate if they took for beginners off the end and replaced it with “in a weekend”. They’re not complicated but maybe a bit too difficult for me. Lots of good, useful and simple projects.

[Onceinabluemoon]

As an avid gardener I found this lacked in design skills, too rudimentary for my tastes. It was nice the step by step instructions, but there was not a single design I cared for 😟

[Linda Stein]

Several good projects in this book that I could do myself!

[Snickerdoodle]

This is really geared more toward someone who is handy with building things. It gives specific, pretty simple instructions but it's not something I can do myself.

[Nora]

Step by step instructions with (some seriously gorgeous!) photos & illustrations to help beginners. Nice.

[Lori Heitman]

Wonderful book full of projects for the Crafty gardener! Can't wait to make a hypertufa planter!

[Jan]

Great ideas. Instructions seem clear. Want to try the copper coil trellis.

[Trish]

If you are looking for some great yard projects this is a great book to look at.