Product Description

With more than 130,000 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161903 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

About the Author
Tracy DiSabato-Aust, aka "the Queen of Deadheading," has earned international acclaim as one of America's most entertaining and knowledgeable garden writers and professional speakers. She has extensive experience in the United States and abroad, working for over 30 years in the industry, speaking for over 25 years and designing for over 20 years.

Customer Reviews

Would be better if you lived in the US (but not much)
I have just revamped my garden and being a novice wanted a book on perennials. The book has an A-Z of perennials (while the photographs are pretty, I'm not sure that they are going to be very helpful in identifying plants) and a very wordy guide on planting and pruning techniques. There is some good stuff in the guide, but it is just buried in too much flannel.

The worst thing about the book is that it is based on a US garden, so a lot of the information about growing seasons and climate is not easy to apply to the UK.

So overall, too wordy, badly laid out, US-centric. There must be better books for the UK.