Essential Perennials for Every Garden: Selection, Care, and Profiles to over 110 Easy Care Plants

by Sally Roth, Jane Courtier

Overview

Bursting with vivid color—like the midsummer garden of your dreams—Essential Perennials for Every Garden will inspire and inform gardeners from coast to coast. This expertly written, eye-catching guide to choosing and maintaining perennials covers a vast array of plants from dainty ground huggers and wafting soft grasses to dramatic skyscrapers with unearthly blooms. Selected by authors and master gardeners Sally Roth and Jane Courtier, over 110 of the very best perennials are beautifully photographed and described, giving readers recommendations about the most reliable performers and exciting new varieties and hybrids. Whether readers are beginning a new perennial garden or perfecting an existing one, Essential Perennials for Every Garden can assist them in creating that dream garden that will add color and joy to their lives for years to come.

-A fully-illustrated alphabetically arranged directory of the hardiest and most colorful perennials

-Description, growing conditions, and propagation for over 110 superb perennials

-Advice on inexpensive, easy methods to develop a new garden or expand an existing one

-Time-saving tips on maintaining perennials, feeding plants, and warding off pests

-Sidebars offer “green-thumb” tips and plant-partnering recommendations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620081686
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	668,435
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sally Roth is an award-winning author of more than 20 popular books about gardening, nature, and birds, including the best-selling Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible. Roth is also a contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine. She and her husband share their home in the high Rockies with a variety of animals. You can visit her website at sallyroth.com.

Jane Courtier has a degree in horticulture and has written may gardening books on such topics as perennials, indoor plants, vegetables, and container gardening. She contributes articles regularly to a variety of consumer magazines, writing on a wide range of gardening topics.