The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

Timber Press, Jul 24, 2006 - Gardening - 384 pages

With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy.

This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden.

Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.

Contents

• Foreword to the First Edition: 8
• Preface to the Expanded Edition: 10
• Preface to the First Edition: 12
• Acknowledgments: 13
• Basic Perennial Garden Planting Maintenance: 15
• Pruning Perennials: 97
• Encyclopedia of Perennials: 157
• Perennial Maintenance Journal: 313
• Appendices: 343
• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map: 367
• Metric Conversion Chart: 368
• Glossary: 369
• Bibliography: 373
• Index of Plant Names: 375

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques
• Author: Tracy DiSabato-Aust
• Publisher: Timber Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1604692995, 9781604692990
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Gardening / Flowers / Perennials; Gardening / Techniques; Reference / Encyclopedias