The well-tended perennial garden : planting & pruning techniques
Edition
Expanded ed.
Publication Information
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2006.
Physical Description
383 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 28 cm.
Contents
- Basic perennial garden planting & maintenance
- Design and its relationship to maintenance
- Bed preparation: insurance for success
- Planting and establishment
- Pests and diseases of perennials
- Staking
- Division
- Renovation of the established perennial garden
- Pruning perennials
- Introduction to pruning
- Deadheading
- Cutting back
- Pinching, disbudding, thinning, and deadleafing
- Pruning to prepare for winter and pruning to prepare for spring
- Encyclopedia of perennials.