Perennials; The Time Life Complete Gardener

Explains techniques for designing, planting, and maintaining a garden of perennials, provides a plant selection guide, and offers an encyclopedia of popular perennials that includes growing information for each plant

In this volume of Time-Life's Complete Gardener series, inexperienced gardeners will become acquainted with fundamentals that must be taken into account when planning the design of a perennial landscape or border. Included is information on how to prepare the soil, measure and lay out the garden, and propagate plants. Perennials are noted according to color and seasonal characteristics, with lists focusing on such specific points as which plants can be counted on to pull through for extended periods of time without water. Numerous color photographs illustrate detailed planting plans, garden styles, general plant care and cultivation, and lovely examples of mature gardens. A good basic resource that concludes with an encyclopedic listing of popular flowering perennials. Alice Joyce