This guide contains 200 useful tips for selecting, combining and nurturing a dazzling array of perennials in the garden. Among the topics discussed are: choices for fragrance, flowers for cutting and containers, dried flowers, selecting tools, preparing the soil, coping with clay soil and other difficult areas, planning beds and combating pests. Also included is advice on extending the gardening season into autumn and late spring. The book gives ideas for combinations of texture, colour and height for single-season and multi-season borders, and for island beds and screening without fences.
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This review is from: 200 Tips for Growing Beautiful Perennials (Paperback)
This is a good book for those gardeners with lots of experience under their green thumbs. However, being a novice, first time gardener I did not find much useful `growing' tips here. Of the 200 tips I found only 1-2 dozen tips that actually pertain to the beginning and raising of plants. The book is loaded with suggestions for designing garden layouts (aesthetic), plant combinations for color, contrast, texture and form. The author gives numerous suggestions for different species of perennials, and some of their characteristics. If you are like me, a first time gardener, looking for tips on growing in general, I would not recommend this book. I just want to grow a few Ipomoea (wink) violacea in my back yard and this book is not very helpful. If however you are experienced and have a yard full of perennials already, if you are looking for new color schemes, garden layouts or yard presentation, then this book is more geared toward you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading Title,
This review is from: 200 Tips for Growing Beautiful Perennials (Paperback)
This is a good book for those gardeners with lots of experience under their green thumbs. However, being a novice, first time gardener I did not find much useful `growing' tips here. Of the 200 tips I found only 1-2 dozen tips that actually pertain to the beginning and raising of plants. The book is loaded with suggestions for designing garden layouts (aesthetic), plant combinations for color, contrast, texture and form. The author gives numerous suggestions for different species of perennials, and some of their characteristics. If you are like me, a first time gardener, looking for tips on growing in general, I would not recommend this book. I just want to grow a few Ipomoea (wink) violacea in my back yard and this book is not very helpful. If however you are experienced and have a yard full of perennials already, if you are looking for new color schemes, garden layouts or yard presentation, then this book is more geared toward you.
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1 Invest your time to build a well-drained soil before planting, and you will earn long-term dividends-healthy, robust perennials. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
island beds, summer phlox, obedient plant, cottage pinks, plant plenty, hand pruners, dry shade, evergreen perennials, meadow rue, bloom time, coral bells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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1 Invest your time to build a well-drained soil before planting, and you will earn long-term dividends-healthy, robust perennials. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
island beds, summer phlox, obedient plant, cottage pinks, plant plenty, hand pruners, dry shade, evergreen perennials, meadow rue, bloom time, coral bells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Barbara New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Green Tapestry by Beth Chatto in Back Matter
- Gardening By Mail: A Source Book, Fifth Edition by Barbara J. Barton in Back Matter
- Sarah Bernhardt by Arthur Gold on page 70
- Ornamental Grasses, Bamboos, Rushes and Sedges (Foliage Plants in Garden Design) by Nigel J. Taylor in Back Matter
- Gardening with Perennials by Storey in Back Matter
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