This guide contains ideas and practical advice, including recipes and planting plans for over 30 container planting schemes. Step-by-step photographs show how to plant up every kind of container, with tips on fixing and supporting heavy baskets and window boxes, decorating containers, and training standards and topiary included. A substantial catalogue of plants enables readers to choose colour combinations for every season. David Joyce is the author of Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes and Containers and Pruning and Training Plants.