This manual demonstrates that whether you have a city window ledge or a large well-stocked garden, you can use containers to enhance your outdoor space. It includes recipes and plans for over 30 container planting schemes. Step-by-step photographs show how to plant every kind of container, with tips on fixing and supporting heavy baskets and window boxes, decorating containers, training standards and topiary. A catalogue of more than 1000 plants is provided to enable the reader to choose successful colour combinations in every season.