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PERENNIAL PLANT sa PERENNIAL PLANT PROPAGATION sa PLANT xx FLOWER xx PLANT Tips on earth-wise gardening using native wildflowers and hardy, drought-resistant perennials. Brightened by leaves. Plan for a cozy garden rich in purple, silver and gold. Long-blooming perennials. Part 1. A survey of some favorites and a garden plan that uses only sun-loving, long-blooming perennials. Long-blooming perennials. Part 2. The mainstays of flower gardens. Two garden plans, one for a sunny border and one for a shady border. A crowd of perennials. Tightly packed plants provide eight months of show. Tips on cultivating a crowded perennial garden. Shopping for the best perennials. A comparison of field-grown and container-growns plants. Tip on overwintering perennials raised in containers from seed. Designing a hillside perennial garden. Describes building terraces, plant selection and care. The last and the first. Perennials for early spring and late fall in USDA Zones 5, 6 and 7. Continuous flower color from March through mid-October. A guide to plant choices and arrangement. A wealth of rarities. A survey of choice perennials to shape a collector's garden. Long-blooming perennials. A guide to 19 plants that bloom at least 14 weeks. Beds and borders. How self-contained plantings shape a perennial garden. Record-keeping techniques for timing changes in a perennial border. More long-blooming perennials. Choice plants that flower for six to ten weeks. Annual charmers that produce a wealth of color to refresh the perennial garden. Tip on a tool that makes dividing perennials easier. Perennials for fall. A sampler of flowers that extend the gardening season. Tip on purchasing and planting perennials to help guarantee their successful adjustment to winter temperatures. Successful perennial border design relies on attractive foliage. Basic principles. Spring ephemerals. Flowering perennials announce the season with a burst of color. Tips on raising (1) white dog-tooth violet, (2) European wood anemone, (3) leopard's bane, (4) shooting-star, (5) Dutchman's-breeches, and (6) Virginia bluebells. Renovating a perennial garden. How to give an old border a new lease on life. Advice on emptying the bed, preparing the soil, dividing and planting, mulching and watering, etc. More garden silver. Gray-leaved plants add light and warmth to the garden. Tips on incorporating several perennials into your garden, including yarrows, pussy-toes, artemisia, etc. A perennial border for all seasons. Selecting plants with a blooming cycle to cover early spring, late spring, and summer. Includes tips on how to maintain color between flowering peaks. Perennials for a brilliant fall finale. Selecting and raising sedums, monkshoods, patrinias, boltonia, Japanese aster and chrysnthemums for their brilliant fall colors. Multiply your perennials by division. Instructions for dividing a perennial with a fibrous root system, a fleshy root system, or that grows from a bulb. Long-lived perennials. Undemanding plants that thrive for decades. Selecting and raising Lancaster geranium, Siberian iris, European pasque flower, "Alexander's White", boltonia, hosta "Krossa Regal", and rock cress. Snip, shape and shear. How to deadhead perennials for a second flush of blooms. Slug resistant perennials that do well in the sun are listed. Harmony with purple. A look at plants with purple foliage and how to use them in a perennial garden to create a good composition. Using cold-tolerant annuals to fill the flower garden between spring bulbs and summer perennials. Discusses pansies, snapdragons, larkspurs, monkey flowers and painted tongues. Bulbs, the ideal companions. Creating a combination bed that includes both bulbs and perennials. Chart lists bulbs by their bloom times and perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees that flower at the same time and are appropriate companion plantings. Surefire annuals for flashes of color in the summer perennial beds. Tips on growning stocks, bachelor's buttons, Chinese forget-me-nots, agrostemma and love-in-a-mist. Tip shows how to make a flower bloom chart in graph form to show when shrubs and perennials bloom. Suggestions for shrubs and perennials that would thrive under wet, sunny conditions. Lacing the perennial border with beauty. A guide to delicate flowers and frilly foliage that add elegance and lightness to a garden. Good looks begin at the edge. Design and plant selection advice on perennial borders. Advice on planting for spring-to-fall perennial color in a shady spot. Order in the border. How to use shrubs for structure, masses of perennials for color and annuals to complete the picture. A great garden in just one year. Plants with presence give a year-old garden an established look. Perennials for wet places. Advice on when to remove ragged stalks and foliage of summer blooming perennials. A guide to perennials, bulbs and shrubs that bloom in winter gardens in a USDA Zone 8 garden. A guide to little bulbs and flowering shrubs that bring winter show. Pruning perennials in midseason. How and when to do it to create shapelier plants and prolong bloom times. Tip suggests heeling in late-fall potted perennial bargains. Advice on perennials that grow well in a bed planted with tulips and daffodils. Advice on growing perennials in pots and on caring for them over the winter. Perennials that add color to a fall woodland garden. Suggested list of 5 low-maintenance perennials. Native American perennials. Part 1. Spring woodland perennials. Lists of those that bloom in early and late spring. Native American perennials. Part 2. Summer prairie plants. Native American perennials. Part 3. Autumn-blooming wildflowers. Five mini meadows to grow using perennial wildflowers. Flowering perennials as groundcovers. Ajuga, astilbe, asparagus fern, bergenia, basket-of-gold- crown vetch, daylily, epimedium, foam flower, goldenstar, hosta, lamiastrum, lilyturf, mazus, moss pink, mountain phlox, strawberries, sweet woodruff, vinca and yarrow. Redoing perennial flower borders. Twelve dependable perennial flowers to grow. A guide to summer-blooming perennials and tips on growing them. Describes balloon flowers, veronica, shasta dasies, purple coneflowers, yellow coneflowers (rudbeckia), lythrum, phlox, bee balm (monarda) and daylilies. Quick growing perennials that grow 3 to 6 feet tall (or more) in a single season. Describes wild senna (Cassia marilandica), false blue indigo (Baptisia australis), Carolina thermopsis, goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus), hardy hibiscus and pineapple sage (Salvaia elegans). Staking perennials. How to do it unobtrusively so plants retain their natural grace. Beyond blooms. A guide to perennials to plant for their continuing summer foliage. Front-of-the-border perennials. Advice on selecting and designing with low-growing perennials suitable for use in the front of the bed. Suggestion on using colorful electrical wire to color-code a perennial garden. Tip for marking perennials so new spring growth can be distinguished from weeds. Blue-and-silver garden. A guide to plant selection to create a perennial garden with a blue-and-silver palette. Design suggestions for a perennial garden that is sunny on one end and shady on the other. Advice on how to overcome the problem of 24-hour-a-day light caused by a security light that keeps perennials from getting nighttime "sleep". Cool flowers. How to add tranquility to the garden with soft-colored flowers and foliage. Design advice on making a cool-garden palette, selecting complementary flowers and how to use harmonious flowers and foliage. A bouquet garden. Advice on selecting flowers and a garden site. Plans, preparation instructions and plant lists are furnished for a traditional L-shaped perennial bed and two raised beds, one for the front yard and one for the back. Also includes information on conditioning and arranging cut flowers. Plan for a "midsummer delight" perennial garden. Colorful perennials that will withstand splashing water and chemicals around a pool noted. Design by numbers. A grid system for garden design. Plans for a 21x12-ft. garden that will provide blooms from spring through autumn. Advice on how to prepare a perennial bed for winter. A garden plan which incorporates plants that look good against a brick wall. Long bloomers. A guide to eight long-blooming perennials and their culture. Includes plan and plant list for a 12x5-ft. perennial bed for a sunny area. Summer's last dance. A guide to a dozen late-blooming perennials. Includes plan and plant list for a 6x12-ft. late-summer garden bed. Eight great perennials recommended by Garden Gate staff. Includes plan and plant list for a 5x12-ft. garden that incorporates them. How to resuscitate a pot-grown perennial that is showing stress. Turtlehead (Chelone lyonii), its characteristics and culture. Joys of a summer garden. One grower's guide to creating a serenely beautiful northern sanctuary that can be enjoyed 24 hours a day. A lemon perennial garden. Use of lemon-scented plants and flowers in shades of yellow. Includes a recipe for a lemon balm wine cooler. Perennial presence in the mixed borders. How to put them to the best use. A guide to plants with bold structure that provide elegance in the perennial border. Perennials for cuttings. Guide to a dozen of the best flowers to grow and harvest. Good company for bulbs. Suggestions of perennials to dress up the spring border. Encore to autumn. A guide to perennials with foliage that supplies fall color. A guide to thirteen summer perennials that are productive and problem-free. The rules of placement for plants in a perennial garden and tips on how to break the rules. Design solutions. Adapting a perennial border to your overall garden scheme. Expanding your color palette in the perennial garden. A discussion of effective color groupings. A plan for a "hot" border by Gertrude Jekyll included. Some sample plantings based on complementary contrasts suggested. Restoring a sunken garden. Includes a plan of key plants that provide structure, texture and color. Tropical imports. Tender, long-season perennials and their contribution to the flower garden. Fall's grand finale. Perennials that go out with a bang. Reclaiming the curbside. A look at how one northern Colorado gardener turned her "hellstrip" of adobe-like soil into a perennial border that requires no supplemental water. Includes plant lists and maps. A thoroughly modern border. A 300-foot long creation by Edith Eddleman that incorporates many plants native to the United States. Blending of hot colors and the use of grasses of all sizes described. A guide to perennials with handsome winter foliage for the southeast United States. A guide to long-blooming perennials. Lesser celandines (Ranunculus ficaria), their characteristics and culture. How to incorporate plants with relaxed shapes into the perennial border. Suggestions of plants for front, middle and border, and for containers. Ithuriel's spear (Triteleia laxa), its characteristics and culture. Autumn-flowering plants that keep the garden from going flat. Beyond the bloom. A look at some perennials that have ornamental fruit. Compact borders. Trios of low-growing perennials that fit in small spaces. Sunny borders, shady options, and background accents. Includes tips on growing your own perennial transplants from seed. Advice on handling new bulbs, bare-root perennials and nursery stock when planting must be delayed. A guide to 21 long-blooming perennials. An improved variation on heeling-in to hold woody perennials for a couple of weeks in a temporary site. How to start perennial flowers from seed. (1) Chrysanthemums. (2) Columbine. (3) Coreopsis. (4) Dianthus. (5) Foxglove. (6) Gaillardia. (7) Huechera. (8) Lupines. (9) Purple coneflowers. (10) Rudbeckia. Plan for a no-work perennial flower garden. Explains how to turn a weedy or barren site into a garden over a three-year period. The best perennials for shade. Top choices arranged by region. Four planting designs furnished. Plant a beautiful perennial border. A classic design that gives carefree blooms season after season. Perennial creativity. Seven ways to put perennials to work in your landscape. Building a new perennial bed. Sensible groundwork that will save time later. How to get the most from your perennials. Twelve tips for deadheading and midsummer maintenance. Fast-flowering perennials. Advice on selecting and planting first-season-blooming perennials which can be started from seed and will flower the same year. Tips on selecting and raising kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos), an evergreen perennial from Australia that make splended container or garden plants. Some flowers do all the work for you. Selecting and promoting self-sowing annuals and perennials. Autumn tune-up for potted perennials. How to divide overgrown plantings and freshen younger ones. How to be a really smart nursery shopper for both annuals and perennials. A 6x9ft perennial garden that can cost as little as $17. Contains 14 plants, a mix of penstemon, Shasta daisy, coreopsis, brachycome and catmint. Sidewalk surprise. Planting the ribbon of earth between sidewalk and street. Advice on grasses and perennials to plant. Keeping perennials in shape. How and when to prune, pinch and deadhead for long bloom and lush growth. Perennials to grow in deer country. A guide to plants that deer find unpalatable. The ultimate cutting garden. Principles of successful growing and a chart of perennials, with color bars that show their period of bloom. Ten painless perennials. How to grow colorful flowers with minimum effort. | |||||||||
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