The well-tended perennial garden the essential guide to planting and pruning techniques

Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has helped home gardeners successfully plan, plant, and tend their gardens. Now Tracy Di-Sabato-Aust's trusty advice and reassuring tone are back and better than ever in this completely revised new edition. Novi...

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Main Author: DiSabato-Aust, Tracy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Inc., 2017.
Edition:Third edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Basic perennial garden planting & maintenance
  • Design and its relationship to maintenance
  • Bed preparation : Insurance for success
  • Planting and renovation
  • Pests and diseases
  • Staking
  • Division
  • Pruning perennials
  • Introduction to pruning
  • Deadheading
  • Cutting back
  • Pinching, disbudding, thinning, and deadleafing
  • Pruning to prepare for winter and pruning to prepare for spring
  • Encyclopedia of perennials
  • Guide to using the encyclopedia
  • A-Z encyclopedia of perennials
  • Perennials by maintenance needs
  • Perennial garden planting and maintenance schedule.