Complete Guide To Perennials

• The most comprehensive guide covering all aspects of growing perennials, from planning a garden space to planting, watering, and fertilizing. • An unmatched source for all care techniques associated with perennials such as staking, deadheading and overwintering. • A special pictorial troubleshooting section to help gardeners diagnose the most common ailments their plants might suffer. • Shows gardeners how to care for perennials in even the most diverse regions.

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

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

Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size, and light and temperature requirements. Each profile is supported by stunning color photography that showcases the flower and foliage that make each plant unique.

Perennials are every gardener's favorite plants. They provide colorful flowers and leafy foliage, and, best of all, their beauty returns year after year. In this fully illustrated guide, you’ll find - The best new cultivars of the beloved old-fashioned plants of grandmother’s garden - Exciting new introductions from all over the world - Today’s popular ornamental grasses, perfect for combining with other perennials in low-maintenance gardens - Ferns to grow among the flowers And for every plant pictured, you’ll find complete growing information as well as notes on how to propagate your own plants to fill your garden with "free" flowers.

An alphabetical listing of more than 2,700 individual perennial plants representing 250 genera furnishes authoritative information on each plant's scientific and common names, origins, growing conditions, light requirements, cultivation, propagation, foliage and flower characteristics, companion plants, pest control, and other essentials.

From the "Galloping Gourmet" of the garden world comes a guide to perennials to fit every gardener's needs. 300 color photos. 7 color garden layouts.