Hardy Perennials: A Beginner's Guide by Eric Sawford
Shows how to achieve colour and interest right through the seasons with easy-to-grow hardy perennials. A fully illustrated directory lists popular perennials from 70 families.
Hardy Perennials
Summary
Everything you need to know to achieve dazzling displays, including colour and life right through the seasons, year after year with hardy perennials. This illustrated plant directory lists popular perennials from 70 families.
Hardy Perennials Summary
Hardy Perennials Reviews
Hardy perennials are the stalwarts of herbaceous borders. Most require little maintenance once planted other than an annual tidy-up and dead-heading during the growing season. They are easy to propagate and come in all shapes, sizes, forms and colours. There are hardy perennials to flower from winter through autumn, ensuring a splash of colour every month of the year. Eric Sawford is a regular contributor to the gardening press and writes with years of experience having worked in the gardening industry since the age of 16. He also has an interest in photography and the book is attractively illustrated with his own photographs. He explains techniques of buying, planting, cultivating, tidying up and propagation in depth, his written advice being accompanied by the colour drawings of Katy Sleight. The A-Z list of perennials is informative, giving a brief description accompanied by a photograph together with details of species and varieties for each genus, preferred soil types and general cultivation details. The selection ranges from the floriferous to those grown primarily for their foliage such as hostas, artemesias and euphorbias. Both slightly tender plants such as agapanthus and tough-as-nail diehards such as alchemilla are included making it easy for the novice gardener to make an informed choice of plant for their particular situation. So cut out all that time-consuming gardening with annuals and high maintenance plants and use hardy perennials instead, ensuring a colourful border free from labour and giving you the opportunity to sit back and admire your handiwork.
Table of Contents
Perennials through the seasons; preparing the border; propagation; maintenance through the year; pests and diseases; the plant directory; gardener's guide; naming of plants.
Additional information
GOR003971683
9781861081506
1861081502
Hardy Perennials: A Beginner's Guide by Eric Sawford
Used - Very Good
Paperback
GMC Publications
20000727
160
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