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.

Gardening with Perennials

Gardening with Perennials
Author: Fern Marshall Bradley
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1996
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Discover hundreds of easy, practical, & exciting ways to solve landscape problems & beautify your yard with perennials.

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.

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

Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs

Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs
Author: Editors of Creative Homeowner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781580118156

"Practical tips for growing annuals, perennials, and bulbs in your own garden. Also includes garden design techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Perennial Companions

Perennial Companions
Author: Thomas Fischer
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881929395

There is an abundance of inspiration in the 100 combinations featured in this book. Each grouping is an actual garden scene that combines two, three, or more perennials in colorful tableaux that span the gardening year, from earliest spring to the onset of winter. All 100 entries identify each of the main plants by both common and botanical names, specify the care and conditions they require, and indicate when the combination reaches its peak of beauty.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Author: Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-07-24
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604692995

With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

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.

Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens

Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens
Author: Scott Ogden
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604691697

“I can't imagine a designer or avid gardener who wouldn't want this on their bookshelf.” —Garden Design Online Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens is a practical guide to the best 200 plants guaranteed to thrive in low-water gardens. Plant entries provide the common and botanical name, the regions where the plant is best adapted, growth and care information, and notes on pests and disease. This practical and inspiring guide includes a variety of plants, from trees to succulents, perennials to bulbs, all selected for their wide adaptability and ornamental value. Companion plants, creative design ideas, and full color photography make this guide a must-have resource for any sustainable gardener.

American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Perennials

American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Perennials
Author: Graham Rice
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2006
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Describes the physical characteristics and hardiness of more than five thousand alphabetized perennials, provides guidance on their cultivation and propagation, and includes over a thousand color photos, sidebars on pests and other topics, and an index of common names.