- 256 pages
- English
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Best Perennials For Sun And Shade
About This Book
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 errorâget it right the first time!
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Best Perennials for Sun
- Yarrow
- Agastache
- Blue Star
- Columbine
- Perennial Dusty Miller
- Butterfly Weed
- Frikartâs Aster
- False Indigo
- Boltonia
- Feather Reed Grass
- Calamint
- Carpathian Bellflower
- Blue-Mist Shrub
- Perennial Cornflower
- Red Valerian
- Thread-Leaved Coreopsis
- Delphinium
- Garden Pink
- Perennial Foxglove
- Coneflower
- Globe Thistle
- Sea Holly
- Spurge
- Sweet Joe-Pye Weed
- Blanket Flower
- Perennial Geranium
- Sneezeweed
- Perennial Sunflower
- False Sunflower
- Daylily
- Japanese Iris
- Bearded Iris
- Siberian Iris
- English Lavender
- Shasta Daisy
- Gay-Feather
- Bee Balm
- Catmint
- Peony
- Oriental Poppy
- Beardtongue
- Russian Sage
- Garden Phlox
- Moss Phlox
- Obedient Plant
- Balloon Flower
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Purple Sage
- Pincushion Flower
- Sedum
- Lambâs Ears
- Speedwell
- Best Tips for Growing Perennials
- Best Perennials for Shade
- Ladybells
- Upright Bugle
- Ladyâs Mantle
- Japanese Anemone
- Snowdrop Anemone
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit
- Goatâs Beard
- European Wild Ginger
- Hybrid Astilbe
- Dwarf Astilbe
- Japanese Painted Fern
- Hardy begonia
- Heartleaf Bergenia
- Siberian Bugloss
- Turtlehead
- Fairy Candles
- Lily-of-the-Valley
- Yellow Corydalis
- Umbrella Plant
- Bleeding Heart
- Foxglove
- Leopardâs Bane
- Longspur Epimedium
- Sweet Woodruff
- Bloody Cranesbill
- Hakone Grass
- Lenten Rose
- Alumroot
- Plantain Lily
- Crested Iris
- Spotted Dead Nettle
- Bigleaf Goldenray
- Lilyturf
- Virginia Bluebells
- Allegheny Pachysandra
- Wild Blue Phlox
- Mayapple
- Jacobâs Ladder
- Variegated Solomonâs Seal
- Japanese Primrose
- Polyantha Primrose
- Spotted Lungwort
- Featherleaf Rodgersia
- Bloodroot
- False Solomonâs Seal
- Celandine Poppy
- Meadow Rue
- Foamflower
- Spiderwort
- Toad Lily
- Hybrid Globeflower
- Merrybells
- Tufted Violet
- Appalachian Barren Strawberry
- Glossary
- Hardiness Zone Map
- Photography Credits
- Index