How To Divide Perennials
Most gardeners are clear on the notion of dividing perennials to get more, but in actual fact, it is necessary to the health of many types. Perennials such as chrysanthemums can become overcrowded if left to grow without division, and eventually, ... [... more]
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Hardy Perennials
I find myself drawn to horticulture books that do more than give a brief paragraph and a colored picture of the plant described. Rice's book, Hardy Perennials, is written in the style that I love. Here you will find several pages about a plant. ... [... more]
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Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden
 Bold and beautiful plants This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city ... [... more]
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An Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials
made for the shade This includes all of the classics, a bunch of new herbaceous shade perennials, many, many wildflowers, and hundreds of ferns, both old and new for the shady garden. It covers herbaceous perennials only, as the title implies, but there ... [... more]
CDN$56.95
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Perennials For Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants ...
Features plants with handy at-a-glance plant profiles There are perennials for virtually any purpose in the garden, and Larry Hodgson's Perennials For Every Purpose features plants with handy at-a-glance plant profiles to help choose the right ones for ... [... more]
CDN$25.50
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Growing Perennials in Cold Climates
A incomplete book with a lot of filler While perhaps suitable for a beginning gardener, this book omits many useful and common species while including obscure cultivars that are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Important cultural facts are ... [... more]
CDN$69.95
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Perennials All Season
Helpful Information for Aspiring Gardening Artists Upon receiving this book, I glanced through it to see what it had to offer. I was very pleasantly surprised. What most excited me, as an experienced gardener who is ALWAYS looking to expand my knowledge, ... [... more]
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Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make ...
One of the BEST! As a serious new garderner I have been buying tons of gardening books to help me get started and to educate myself. I had no idea, when I purchased this book, that it would become my favorite! I took it on vacation and read it cover to ... [... more]
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Easy Perennials From Seed
There are some limitations, however. Not all perennials come true from seed - particularly if they are a cultivar rather than a species. (A cultivar is a version of a plant selected by man, which can usually only be propagated vegetatively - ie ... [... more]
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Perennials For Moist Soil - Petasites To Z
PETASITES These hardy perennials are found wild near streams in the woods of China, Japan and Korea. They are very invasive plants, but make good ground cover by streambanks in large wild gardens. P. japonicus (Giant Butterburr) has coarse, ... [... more]
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Top 6 Long-Blooming Perennials
2) Phlox subulata or Phlox stolonifera (Creeping phlox) – If you like low-growing, mounding perennials that will provide non-stop colour through spring and early summer, creeping phlox is for you. Phlox stolonifera ... [... more]
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Perennial Tips For Summer
Speaking of feeding your plants, the above will help to keep perennials well-fed over the summer but your plants will most likely benefit from an auxilliary fertilizer as well. I top-dress with compost and ammend with seaweed at the start of the ... [... more]
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