The Potted Garden: A Quiz Deck on Growing Indoor and Container Plants

Whether your garden is large or small or limited to a patio, deck, or windowsill, indoor and container plants can add special beauty to your surroundings and allow you to grow many plants that don’t take kindly to life outside the tropics. But which plants will work indoors? Which outside? Will a weeping willow be happy in a pot? Does potting soil go bad? Can a close cousin to shrimp really be living under that potted geranium on your deck? Forty-eight informative and useful cards will answer these and many others and delight and enlighten you, regardless of the color of your thumb.

From the book 1000 Gardening Questions & Answers (based on the New York Times column “Garden Q. & A.”). Published with The New York Times Company.