American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening : Techniques and Know-How for Planning, Planting, and Tending Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings

American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening

Techniques and Know-How for Planning, Planting, and Tending Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings

Paperback | 4 February 2025

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A comprehensive and modern guide to the art and science of perennial gardening from the foremost authority on gardening in North America.

The second book in the American Horticultural Society's series of growing guides, AHS Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening is all about cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many perennials native to North America. Learn how to build a resilient and biodiverse landscape prized by pollinators and people alike by including a broad range of perennial plants that return to the garden year after year. Whether you grow in full sun or a shady corner, in a small space or a large landscape, the insight and guidance offered by the experts at AHS ensure you'll have a thriving, bloom-filled garden.

Included inside:

  • Strategies for designing the perennial garden of your dreams or incorporating perennials into an existing garden
  • Advice on selecting the best perennials for your climate and design style
  • Techniques for fostering a robust and adaptable garden that requires lower maintenance
  • Eco-friendly approaches to managing pests and diseases
  • Information on routine perennial plant-care tasks such as dividing, pruning, pinching, staking, and fertilizing
  • Insight on garden maintenance methods that do not negatively impact pollinators and other wildlife
  • Over 150 perennial plant profiles with photographs and specific care advice

This complete and contemporary manual contains all the information you need to grow perennials successfully in the face of today's many gardening challenges, including weather extremes, invasive pests, water-use restrictions, and other such trials. Its modern approach to perennial gardening focuses on treating the garden as an ecosystem that depends less on human interference and more on natural resiliency.

Also included in this series is AHS Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening.

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