Recommendations for container gardening books. Not too, ahem, difficult, please, if possible.

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Hellooooo. It's me again from earlier threads. Sorry for being a pest

Well, I'm not doing too bad in the growing veg in containers dept, things are growing as they should, and I find my confidence is soaring.

I'm expanding my horizons now to grow plants in containers. Me + flower plants = certain death. Killed off so many previously. So you see I have a problem...

There are so many books on the market and my eyes are becoming square on Amazon with all the reviews. So many to choose from.

I need novice upwards, maybe with a few projects that I can follow easily enough.

Can anybody recommend, please? Hopefully, a few more reviews of some I've seen will make my mind up for me

Many thanks in advance

The RHS do a huge series of small, inexpensive guide books on every aspect of plants and gardening. I think they also have on-line advice articles, and so will the BBC Gardeners World pages.

There's a range of books called The X Expert which are good, including The Container Expert. (The Flower Expert is also good)

Have you tried the library? Most gardening books will have a section on containers, which would be good to get ideas.

I'd also have a think about how much watering you will be able to do. Containers are quite labour intensive in the summer in that respect.

I would use my local library to borrow rather than buy.
Watering is the key, can you set up a mini irrigation system to water the pots automatically? If pots aren't watered then plants will die quite quickly.
Pelargoniums are ok with limited watering, but not much else.

Thanks for your replies :)

I've bought a 2nd hand book, the Gardeners World 101 container ideas, which is supposed to be handy for taking round garden centres, but the library is a good idea, thanks. That's next on my list.

I live in the North West, so no problems with watering as far as rain is concerned :D. Lots of it at the moment.

I have invested in some water retaining gel to help in the warmer weather, so hopefully that should cut the amount of watering down.