COLOURFUL TROUGH PLANTERS

If your garden is a balcony, you can still capture the breezy romance of a cottage flower bed with easycare plants in containers. Garden blogger Isabelle Palmer outlines the steps for these troughs in her book, Modern Container Gardening:

How to Create a Stylish Small-space Garden Anywhere.

Hardie Grant Books, 2020, $33.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED • Two trough planters, at least 18 inches deep • Drainage stones • Potting mix