Essential Perennials

Essential Perennials
Author: Ruth Rogers Clausen
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604693169

Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.

Essential Perennials for Every Garden

Essential Perennials for Every Garden
Author: Sally Roth
Publisher: i5 Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1620081687

Bursting with vivid color—like the midsummer garden of your dreams—Essential Perennials for Every Garden will inspire and inform gardeners from coast to coast. This expertly written, eye-catching guide to choosing and maintaining perennials covers a vast array of plants from dainty ground huggers and wafting soft grasses to dramatic skyscrapers with unearthly blooms. Selected by authors and master gardeners Sally Roth and Jane Courtier, over 110 of the very best perennials are beautifully photographed and described, giving readers recommendations about the most reliable performers and exciting new varieties and hybrids. Whether readers are beginning a new perennial garden or perfecting an existing one, Essential Perennials for Every Garden can assist them in creating that dream garden that will add color and joy to their lives for years to come. -A fully-illustrated alphabetically arranged directory of the hardiest and most colorful perennials -Description, growing conditions, and propagation for over 110 superb perennials -Advice on inexpensive, easy methods to develop a new garden or expand an existing one -Time-saving tips on maintaining perennials, feeding plants, and warding off pests -Sidebars offer “green-thumb” tips and plant-partnering recommendations

Essential Perennials

Essential Perennials
Author: Ruth Rogers Clausen
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604696729

Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.

Best Perennials for Sun and Shade

Best Perennials for Sun and Shade
Author: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher: Collins Reference
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328620085

A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow and best-performing perennials for both sunny and shady locations. Each plant is shown in a beautiful color photo for easy identification. The photo is accompanied by information on where and how to grow the featured plant, along with horticultural tips to assist in making the perennial-gardening adventure an enjoyable endeavor. From controlling pesky bugs and deadheading to staking tall plants and taking root cuttings, everything a beginning gardener or new homeowner needs to start a garden is here. This colorful, photo-filled book takes the guesswork out of gardening. No trial and error--get it right the first time

Perennials for Every Purpose

Perennials for Every Purpose
Author: Larry Hodgson
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

From the "Galloping Gourmet" of the garden world comes a guide to perennials to fit every gardener's needs. 300 color photos. 7 color garden layouts.

Perennial All-Stars

Perennial All-Stars
Author: Jeff Cox
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002-10-25
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780875968896

Showcases one hundred fifty perennials of proven performance sure to live up to their catalog descriptions and offers advice on selection and cultivation

Perennials

Perennials
Author: Susan Carter
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2007
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881928208

An alphabetical listing of more than 2,700 individual perennial plants representing 250 genera furnishes authoritative information on each plant's scientific and common names, origins, growing conditions, light requirements, cultivation, propagation, foliage and flower characteristics, companion plants, pest control, and other essentials.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Author: Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2017-02-22
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604697873

“This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice.” —Real Simple Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for specific species and cultivars, on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and details on native plants and gardening for wildlife. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden will be your ally in the quest for a beautiful, well-maintained garden.

Caring for Perennials

Caring for Perennials
Author: Janet Macunovich
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1996
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780882669571

Macunovich teaches her month-by-month schedule for perennial gardening. Includes care charts for more than 130 perennials.

When Perennials Bloom

When Perennials Bloom
Author: Tomasz Ani_ko
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881928879

A complete guide to perennial plants for the garden furnishes an A-to-Z listing of more than 460 plants and their blooming cycles and explains how to design a perennial garden that makes maximum use of color over the course of the seasons, taking into consideration bloom times, flower groupings, seasonal development, and more.