Alternatives To Grass For Light-Challenged Locations
Most shade-tolerant flowering perennials are best suited for light, rather than heavy shade. And they’re rarely as flamboyant as sun-loving flowers. Make up for this lack of color by planting interesting combinations ... [... more]
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Flowering Perennials (Australia's Best Garden Guides)
 Color guide to flowering perennials. -- Book Description [... more]
$12.95
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The Low Water Flower Gardener
How to grow more than 270 colorful, unthirsty flowering perennials, shrubs, and ornamental grasses adapted to dry-climate regions. [... more]
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Clematis: Inspiration, Selection, and Practical Gudance
Clematis are among the most showy of flowering perennials. They are surprisingly easy to cultivate in a wide range of temperate climates-there is a clematis perfect for almost every region in North America, and they come in spring and autumn blooming ... [... more]
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Perennial Gardens for Texas
A perennial garden is an ever-changing source of delight. Each season brings new colors and textures in flowers and foliage. As the years go by, perennial plantings mature and interweave into forms more beautiful and surprising than a season's growth of ... [... more]
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Garden Design Kit: Flowering Perennials
With this kit, you can visualize your flower garden, in full color and texture, before you lift a shovel. Includes a 1/2 scale grid board, moveable stick-on symbols of plants, a plant selection guide and elements of design. [... more]
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Foundation Garden
A colorful alternative to the standard all-green landscape, this foundation planting mixes broad-leafed evergreen shrubs and a sculptural tree with flowering perennials and groundcovers. Lay a path of stepping stones around the front of the ... [... more]
Better Homes and Gardens USA |
The Hardy Yucca
Yuccas also make great accent or specimen plants. They also look very nice in mixed borders where they can be interplanted with flowering perennials and shrubs. When the plants aren’t in bloom, you can rely on the attractive foliage to provide ... [... more]
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Dry-Land Gardening: A Xeriscaping Guide for Dry-Summer, ...
Garden writer Jennifer Bennett's home is atop an exposed limestone hill, where the soil dries quickly after a rain and rains seldom come. Gardening where the summers are hot and prone to periods of drought, where the winters are snowy one week and ... [... more]
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Garden Design Kit: Flowering Perennials
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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife ...
The pressures on wildlife populations today are greater than they have ever been and many gardeners assume they can remedy this situation by simply planting a variety of flowering perennials, trees, and shrubs. As Douglas Tallamy points out in this ... [... more]
$27.95
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The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of ...
North America's eastern half, roughly from the Midwest to the Atlantic, was once a great deciduous forest. Although centuries of human intervention have cleared much of the land, the timeless forest remains in the spirit of the place. Today, even the ... [... more]
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