The well-tended perennial garden : planting & pruning techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust.
- Expanded ed.
- Portland, Ore. : Timber Press, 2006.
- 383 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374) and index.
Basic perennial garden planting & maintenance -- Design and its relationship to maintenance -- Bed preparation: insurance for success -- Planting and establishment -- Pests and diseases of perennials -- Staking -- Division -- Renovation of the established perennial garden -- Pruning perennials -- Introduction to pruning -- Deadheading -- Cutting back -- Pinching, disbudding, thinning, and deadleafing -- Pruning to prepare for winter and pruning to prepare for spring -- Encyclopedia of perennials.