Scripps Howard News Service
Climbing Gardens, By Joan Clifton. Firefly, $19.95.
- What goes up is just as important as what spreads out in any garden, writes Clifton, whose London company Avant Garden sells wrought-iron and wirework frames for topiaries. Especially in small, urban gardens, where up is literally the only way to expand.
- Clifton's inspirational book is a helpful guide to the myriad forms that can be used to support climbing plants, from the traditional trellis and pergola structures to colorful make-it-yourself obelisks and shimmering screens of recycled CD's.
- The books provides colorful photographs illustrating garden settings that incorporate climbing structures, and it also provides step-by-step photos to build various structures and screens. At the end of the book is a thorough guide to climbing plants, detailing which planting zones they thrive in as well as which structure will best accommodate them.
(Review by Jennifer Sergent/ Scripps Howard News Service)
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