Learn how to build an enduring, resilient, and biodiverse landscape prized by pollinators and people alike 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 a comprehensive and modern guide to cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many perennials native to North America. 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 and AHS Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening.
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"A process that was presented especially well was the section on growing new plants from stem or root cuttings." -- Christine Thomson * Triangle Gardener * "This complete, authoritative guide with its step-by-step instructions by a trusted organization is an essential addition to libraries' and perennial gardeners' collections." -- Sue O'Brien * Library Journal * "There is a wealth of information...provides all you need to know about beautiful perennial gardens for you and pollinators..." -- Jean Schanen * Ozaukee Press *
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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978-0-7603-9284-3 (9780760392843)
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Founded in 1922, the non-profit American Horticultural Society (AHS) is one of the most respected and longstanding member-based national gardening organizations in North America. The Society's membership includes aspiring, new, and experienced gardeners, plant enthusiasts, and horticultural professionals, as well as numerous regional and national partner organizations. Through its educational programs, awards, and publications, the AHS inspires a culture of gardening and horticultural practices that creates and sustains healthy, beautiful communities and a livable planet. AHS is headquartered at River Farm, a 25-acre site overlooking the Potomac River that is part of George Washington's original farmlands in Alexandria, Virginia. ahsgardening.org
