Format: Hardcover 

ISBN: 978-0881928037

Pages: 384

Copyright Year: 2006

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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.

In her work as a garden designer, Tracy DiSabato-Aust has spend years studying how to care for perennials so that a garden can be a showplace with a minimum of maintenance. Here, she reveals the tricks of the trade so you can put into practice techniques she has gleaned from her far-ranging experience.

This is the first, and still the most thorough book to detail and illustrate essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, debudding, and deadleafing. Of equal value is the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species, which clearly discusses the pruning and maintenance needs of each plant.

Highly useful appendices offer a month-by-month planting and maintenance schedule for the typical perennial garden, as well as invaluable lists of plants that are adapted to specific conditions or have special pruning or maintenance requirements.

More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this expanded edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the encyclopedia. In addition, there is a generous new journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your garden.

About the Author: Tracy DiSabato-Aust has earned international acclaim as one of America's most entertaining and knowledgeable garden writers and speakers. Her experience includes stints at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Kalmthout Arboretum, in Belgium, and Knightshayes Court in England. She is the author of The Well-designed Mixed Garden.