The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate

by Ferris Cook

The Garden Trellis is an exquisitely illustrated, yet very practical garden gift book. Within its covers, gardeners will be inspired to incorporate small trellises in their gardens and will learn how to build nine simple but elegant designs. A section of thirty fully-illustrated plant profiles will help them choose vines--honeysuckle or roses, porcelain berries or moon flowers--that are appropriate for their gardens and for particular trellis designs. Written and illustrated by Ferris Cook, The Garden Trellis is suffused with personal experience as well as horticultural detail and lore. Cook--editor of Garden Dreams (1991) and Invitation to the Garden (1992)--draws upon her own gardening observations to explain how she first approached trellises and vines and what she has learned about them. Filled with anecdotes, this charming book also contains an abundance of practical information. Clear and concise instructions for building the trellises, and a list of materials needed, make The Garden Trellis tremendously useful. It will convince gardeners that trellises can be easy to build and that they can transform their gardens with simple vertical accents. A list of sources for ready-made trellises, plants, and seeds will help even the novice trellis gardener get started.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 1996

About the author

Ferris Cook is an artist and book illustrator based in upstate New York, known for her work on numerous collections of poetry and essays since 1990. She has illustrated and edited various well-regarded works, including Odes to Common Things and Odes to Opposites by Pablo Neruda, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, A Murmur in the Trees by Emily Dickinson, The Rose Window by Rainer Maria Rilke, and several thematic poetry collections such as Bark (about dogs) and Yowl (about cats). Additionally, she has contributed to Garden Dreams and Remembered Gardens, collections of essays on gardening, and Gifts of Love, a compilation of love poems. Ferris Cook also wrote and illustrated The Garden Trellis. Her latest project is an illustrated Arabic edition of Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. Her work is known for its blend of artistic sensitivity and literary exploration.

Reviews

[P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

lovely illustrations adorn this brief book about designing and building trellises and the vining plants that can grow up them.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful book for illustrations and ideas

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