Handmade Garden Projects by Forkner Lorene Edwards

Handmade Garden Projects by Forkner Lorene Edwards

You can transform your garden into a handmade, personality-infused oasis. Author Lorene Edwards Forkner--part eco-friendly non-traditionalist, part crafty creative with more ideas than money--will show you how.

Projects run the gamut from eye-catching structures, like a pergola made from plumbing pipes, to imaginative details, like a tree-hung chandelier for nighttime ambiance. You'll also find helpful plant guides to accompany projects: delectable herbs to fill a stacking container tower, stellar succulents for a vertical gutter garden, glorious flowering vines to climb a bamboo obelisk, and so much more. Ready to get started? All you need are refreshingly simple materials--hardware store basics, salvaged goods, repurposed castoffs from cluttered basements--along with a little do-it-yourself spirit.

With clear instructions and inspiring variations on every theme, this book is easy to follow and easy to love. Your journey to a made-from-scratch outdoor space starts here.

Lorene Edwards Forkner is a Seattle-based artist who lives, works, and gardens. She is the author of The Handmade Garden and The Timber Press Handbook to Vegetable Growing in the Pacific Northwest, as well as the former editor of Pacific Horticulture.