Home grown gardening best perennials for sun and shade : easy plants for more beautiful gardens.

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Home grown gardening best perennials for sun and shade : easy plants for more beautiful gardens.

Alternate title:

Best perennials for sun and shade

Author:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, issuing body.

Summary:

"Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow and best-performing perennials for both sunny and shady locations. Each plant is shown in a beautiful color photo for easy identification. The photo is accompanied by information on where and how to grow the featured plant, along with horticultural tips to assist in making the perennials-gardening adventure an enjoyable endeavor. From controlling pesky bugs and deadheading to staking tall plants and taking root cuttings, everything a beginning gardener or new homeowner needs to start a garden is here. This colorful, photo-filled book takes the guesswork out of gardening. No trial and error--get it right the first time!"-- Back cover.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Best perennials for sun -- Best perennials for shade.

Physical Description:

245 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject Term:

Flowers

Perennials.

Added Corporate Author:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company,

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9781328620088

Publication Information:

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Call Number:

635.9 HOME

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A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time

Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow Columbine Aster To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow and best-performing perennials for both sunny and shady locations. Each plant is shown in a beautiful color photo for easy identification. The photo is accompanied by information on where and how to grow the featured plant, along with horticultural tips to assist in making the perennial-gardening adventure an enjoyable endeavor. From controlling pesky bugs and deadheading to staking tall plants and taking root cuttings, everything a beginning gardener or new homeowner needs to start a garden is here. This colorful, photo-filled book takes the guesswork out of gardening. No trial and error--get it right the first time!

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Publisher's Weekly Review

This simplified guide, derived from Taylor's 50 Best Perennials for Sun and Taylor's 50 Best Perennial for Shade, highlights a selection of easy-to-grow and "best performing" perennials, "plants that persist year after year in a garden." After briefly touching on gardening basics, the book divides into two sections, making recommendations for plants that do well when exposed to at least eight hours of sun daily, and varieties that thrive in full or part shade. Each promoted specimen is awarded a two-page spread with a color photograph of the plant accompanied by a brief description, instructions for how and where to grow, and points of interest, such as the long blooming season of yarrow or dusty miller's unusual foliage-"feltlike silvery gray hairs... very soft to the touch." These tidbits are reminiscent of the information typically found on the growing labels stuck in plants at nurseries and gardening centers. The book includes the essentials, but reads like a series of PowerPoint slides. This slickly produced repackage is not likely to impress veteran gardeners, but those with less dirt on their knees may be pleased by the colorful illustrations. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.