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200 Tips for Growing Beautiful Perennials

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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.

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.