Teeny Tiny Gardening : : 35 Step-By-Step Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Gardening in Tiny Spaces

Locations
Call Number: 635.986 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Home & Garden / General / Hardy, Emma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	635.986 Ha	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	635.986 Ha	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Home & Garden / General / Hardy, Emma	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

useful submitted by michael007 on July 2, 2013, 10:58am The book "Teeny tiny gardening" is useful!

Lots of unique ideas! submitted by goreygirl on June 13, 2014, 9:59pm This is the perfect book for someone who enjoys small worlds or lives in a small space and wants to do something pretty and unique to decorate their space. The ideas presented here are lovely and some are simple enough for the novice gardener to try. It's also a gorgeous book!

Cute submitted by zmclaugh on July 29, 2018, 9:44pm Cute ideas for growing plants in containers. Mostly for outside growing.

Potted plants submitted by laurenmccarthya2 on July 7, 2021, 12:41pm These are beautiful setups, but seemed to me to be more organized plant pots. I was looking more for themed in-ground gardens for small spaces. But for what it is, it accomplishes its goal.

Alas, not what I was looking for! submitted by valeriemates on July 16, 2021, 8:53pm I chose this book because I have some tiny ceramic flowerpots and I was looking for ideas for tiny houseplants to grow in them, and it sounds like fun to grow tiny plants. The front cover of the book shows tiny plants growing in eggshells, so it seemed promising.

But the book is organized as projects, such as a child's fairy garden, an herb garden in a cart, a single succulent growing in a little glass, or a briefcase full of plants, and it felt like the choice of *which* plants to use was not the point. Each project used about five plants, and the author lists the names of those plants -- but with no clues to the reader about which of the plants is which. So if you wanted to grow a particular plant that you saw there, you would have to do a web search for each of the five names, to try to match each name to the plant that you liked. And there is almost nothing about how to care for each plant -- though I suppose when you did a web search to find out its name, that might well also tell you that. But I would have liked it if the book had told me. Also, some of the projects are meant to be grown for the long term, while others are intended to briefly look cute and then be thrown away. I tend to get attached to my plants and want to take care of them forever, so it was really hard to see living plants treated as disposable decor. I had a lot of moments of thinking in shock, "You did *what* to that nice hellebore?!?"

Anyway, if you are looking for project ideas to make pretty containers with plants growing in them, this book is for you. On the other hand, if you are looking to learn about varieties of tiny plants to make friends with and grow, this is not the book that you are looking for.