Essential Perennials

Essential Perennials

Author: Ruth Rogers Clausen

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1604693169

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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.


Claire Austin's Book of Perennials

Claire Austin's Book of Perennials

Author: Claire Austin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780993164705

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A personal selection of reliable hardy perennials for every gardener - the expert as well as the beginner. Descriptions of over 800 reliable perennials with close-up photographs and full cultivation information.


Perennial All-Stars

Perennial All-Stars

Author: Jeff Cox

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2002-10-25

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780875968896

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Showcases one hundred fifty perennials of proven performance sure to live up to their catalog descriptions and offers advice on selection and cultivation


Understanding Perennials

Understanding Perennials

Author: William Cullina

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780618883462

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One of today's best gardening writers presents a visually beautiful guide to working with perennials and helping them flourish.


When Perennials Bloom

When Perennials Bloom

Author: Tomasz Ani_ko

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0881928879

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A complete guide to perennial plants for the garden furnishes an A-to-Z listing of more than 460 plants and their blooming cycles and explains how to design a perennial garden that makes maximum use of color over the course of the seasons, taking into consideration bloom times, flower groupings, seasonal development, and more.


Tall Perennials

Tall Perennials

Author: Roger Turner

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0881928895

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Grow up instead of out with tall perennials. These towering giants spice up borders, create drama, and can stop passers-by in their tracks, leaving them to wonder, What on earth is that? Tall Perennials features Roger Turner's hand-picked selection of high-performing perennials that all check in at over five feet. Spiky and ferocious, statuesque and architectural, bold and brilliantly colored, these are larger-than-life, hardy, and easy-to-grow plants that help create scale and proportion in gardens of any size. Split into two parts, Tall Perennials includes introductory chapters on the plant characteristics and combination ideas. The second part is a plant directory of more than 600 perennials.Whether you are an urban gardener looking to create the illusion of space or just looking for a new and unusual plant, Tall Perennials will help you create impact, surprise, and excitement in your garden.


Essential Perennials for Every Garden

Essential Perennials for Every Garden

Author: Sally Roth

Publisher: i5 Publishing

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1620081687

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Bursting with vivid color—like the midsummer garden of your dreams—Essential Perennials for Every Garden will inspire and inform gardeners from coast to coast. This expertly written, eye-catching guide to choosing and maintaining perennials covers a vast array of plants from dainty ground huggers and wafting soft grasses to dramatic skyscrapers with unearthly blooms. Selected by authors and master gardeners Sally Roth and Jane Courtier, over 110 of the very best perennials are beautifully photographed and described, giving readers recommendations about the most reliable performers and exciting new varieties and hybrids. Whether readers are beginning a new perennial garden or perfecting an existing one, Essential Perennials for Every Garden can assist them in creating that dream garden that will add color and joy to their lives for years to come. -A fully-illustrated alphabetically arranged directory of the hardiest and most colorful perennials -Description, growing conditions, and propagation for over 110 superb perennials -Advice on inexpensive, easy methods to develop a new garden or expand an existing one -Time-saving tips on maintaining perennials, feeding plants, and warding off pests -Sidebars offer “green-thumb” tips and plant-partnering recommendations


Perennials

Perennials

Author: Susan Carter

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 0881928208

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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.