The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

About this book

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 theres 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.