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Essential guide to perennial gardening : techniques and know-how for planning, planting, and tending low-maintenance perennial plantings / American Horticultural Society.

American Horticultural Society, (issuing body.).

Summary:

"American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening is a comprehensive and modern guide to cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many perennials native to North America. Whether you grow in full sun or a shady corner, in a small space or a large landscape, the insight and guidance offered by the experts at AHS ensure you’ll have a thriving, bloom-filled garden. This complete and contemporary manual contains all the information you need to grow perennials successfully in the face of today’s many gardening challenges, including weather extremes, invasive pests, water-use restrictions, and other such trials. Its modern approach to perennial gardening focuses on treating the garden as an ecosystem that depends less on human interference and more on natural resiliency." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780760392836
Physical Description: 272 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Beverly, Massachusetts : Cool Springs Press, [2025]
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 1. Your piece of the planet -- Chapter 2. Your garden is an ecosystem -- Chapter 3. Finding your garden style -- Chapter 4. Populating your garden -- Chapter 5. Putting plants in the ground -- Chapter 6. Keeping things going -- Chapter 7. Plant profiles.