Well-Tended Perennial Garden

Timber Press's all-time bestseller! Tracy DiSabato-Aust has devoted years of study to creating showplace gardens with minimal maintenance. Her methods of pruning and shaping perennials, thoroughly explained and illustrated here, produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. Readers have given us rave reviews of this book since publication.

Foreword

9

(2)

Preface

11

(2)

Acknowledgments

13

(2)

SECTION ONE: Basic Perennial Garden Planting & Maintenance

15

(60)

Chapter 1 Design and Its Relationship to Maintenance

15

(10)

Chapter 2 Bed Preparation: Insurance for Success

25

(16)

Chapter 3 Planting and Establishment

41

(12)

Chapter 4 Pests and Diseases of Perennials

53

(10)

Chapter 5 Staking

63

(4)

Chapter 6 Division

67

(5)

Chapter 7 Renovation of the Established Perennial Garden

72

(3)

SECTION TWO: Pruning Perennials

75

(44)

Chapter 8 Introduction to Pruning

75

(8)

Chapter 9 Deadheading

83

(8)

Chapter 10 Cutting Back

91

(13)

Chapter 11 Pinching, Disbudding, Thinning, and Deadleafing

104

(8)

Chapter 12 Pruning to Prepare for Winter and Pruning to Prepare for Spring

112

(7)

SECTION THREE: Encyclopedia of Perennials

119

(102)

Guide to Using the Encyclopedia

119

(2)

A-Z Encyclopedia of Perennials

121

(100)

Appendix A Ornamental Grasses

221

(4)

Appendix B Perennial Garden Planting and Maintenance Schedule

225

(8)

Appendix C Lists of Perennials for Specific Pruning and Maintenance Requirements

233

(15)

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

248

(1)

Metric Conversion Chart

249

(1)

Glossary

250

(5)

Bibliography

255

(2)

Index of Plant Names

257

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Well-Tended Perennial Garden

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