Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening (eBook)

Techniques and Know-How for Planning, Planting, and Tending Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
272 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
9780760392843 (ISBN)

Infos

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,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 gardenAdvice on selecting the best perennials for your climate and design styleTechniques for fostering a robust and adaptable garden that requires lower maintenanceEco-friendly approaches to managing pests and diseasesInformation on routine perennial plant-care tasks such as dividing, pruning, pinching, staking, and fertilizingInsight on garden maintenance methods that do not negatively impact pollinators and other wildlifeOver 150 perennial plant profiles with photographs and specific care adviceThis 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 areEssential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardeningand Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: American Horticultural Society
• Reihe/Serie: American Horticultural Society Guides
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • AHS • America • Asclepias • Bee Balm • Beginner • beginner guide • biodiversity • black eyed susans • Blooms • caring for • combinations • Coneflower • Coreopsis • Daisy • Daylily • Design • dividing plants • Earth Day • Echinacea • eco-friendly • ecological gardening • Evergreen • Ferns • flower gardening • Flowering Plants • formal • full sun • groundcovers • growing flowers • Guide • Handbook • hardiness zone 3 • Hardy • Hemerocallis • herbaceous plants • Heuchera • Hosta • Iris • landscape care • Landscaping • Lavender • Low-Maintenance • Maintenance • Manual • matrix planting • MEADOW • milkweed • Monarda • Mother's Day Gift • national gardening day • native plants • NATURAL • Naturalism • North America • organic • Partial • perennial garden design • perennial gardening book • perennial plants • perennials • Phlox • pinching perennials • plant care • Planting • pollinator gardening • present for mom • Primer • pruning • Reference • Resilient • shade • spring planting • techniques • the well-tended perennial garden • wildscaping • winter hardy flowers
• ISBN-13: 9780760392843 / 9780760392843