Caring For Perennials

Macunovich teaches her month-by-month schedule for perennial gardening. Includes care charts for more than 130 perennials.

Keep your perennial beds looking their best, season after season. From planning and planting to pruning and propagating, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to maintain a stunning perennial garden. Nancy J. Ondra provides an in-depth, plant-by-plant guide that profiles 125 popular perennials, with helpful information on each plant’s soil, light, and water needs. Ondra’s expertise and passion for gardening, along with Rob Cardillo’s breathtaking photography, will inspire you to create a garden of your dreams that will last a lifetime.

“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk We’ve all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10x14 foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs, unlocking rich perennial landscape designs for individualization and creativity.

Keep your perennial beds looking their best, season after season. From planning and planting to pruning and propagating, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to maintain a stunning perennial garden. Nancy J. Ondra provides an in-depth, plant-by-plant guide that profiles 125 popular perennials, with helpful information on each plant’s soil, light, and water needs. Ondra’s expertise and passion for gardening, along with Rob Cardillo’s breathtaking photography, will inspire you to create a garden of your dreams that will last a lifetime.

Originally published: Lincolnwood, Ill.: Contemporary Books, c1998.

Discusses the various ways of using perennials and offers advice on the care of more than 250 perennial plants

Perennials are defined as plants that exhibit a lifespan exceeding two years, frequently reviving on an annual basis. Perennials, as opposed to annuals, which mature during a single growing season, maintain their existence for an extended period of time, often reestablishing themselves from the same root system. Perennials comprise an extensive array of plant varieties, including grasses, flowers, shrubbery, and trees. Frequently, they undergo cycles of development, reproduction, and dormancy in response to seasonal variations in temperature and light. Perennials are widely favored in landscapes and gardens due to their enduring nature and capacity to offer uniform aesthetic appeal throughout the year.