Perennials Short and Tall

Designed for accessibility, this book offers tried-and-true advice on how to keep a Midwestern garden in bloom. Presented in the sequence in which they bloom, with a chapter devoted to each of the three major growing seasons, 25 varieties of flowers are profiled with accompanying colour illustrations. Additionally, Moya L. Andrews provides information about such basic topics as bed preparation, plating locations, weed control, and landscape principles. Andrews also offers practical tips on propagating, transplanting, and dividing perennials, as well as aesthetic considerations such as the use of color outdoors and flower arranging with cut blossoms. Suggestions for flower arrangement and producing indoor blooms in the winter months are also included.