The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The

“This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice.” —Real Simple

Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for specific species and cultivars, on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and details on native plants and gardening for wildlife. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden will be your ally in the quest for a beautiful, well-maintained garden.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust has worked in the horticulture industry for over forty years earning international acclaim as one of America’s best-known and most knowledgeable garden writers, speakers, and designers. She has spoken internationally at venues like England’s Royal Horticultural Society Garden, The Royal Botanic Gardens, The English Gardening School, and the University of Oxford Botanical Gardens. DiSabato-Aust has been featured in Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Garden Design, Real Simple, The New York Times, Telegraph, and the National Post. Her website is tracylive.com.

Table of Contents

Basic Perennial Garden Planting & Maintenance

Design and Its Relationship to Maintenance

Bed Preparation: Insurance for Success

Planting and Renovation

Pests and Diseases

Staking

Division

Pruning Perennials

Introduction to Pruning

Deadheading

Cutting Back

Pinching, Disbudding, Thinning, and Deadlea?ng

Pruning to Prepare for Winter and Pruning to Prepare for Spring

Encyclopedia of Perennials

Guide to Using the Encyclopedia

A–Z Encyclopedia of Perennials

Perennials by Maintenance Needs

Perennial Garden Planting and Maintenance Schedule

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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

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