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Timber Presss all-time bestseller! Tracy DiSabato-Aust has devoted years of study to creating showplace gardens with minimal maintenance. Her methods of pruning and shaping perennials, thoroughly explained and illustrated here, produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. Readers have given us rave reviews of this book since publication.
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The Well-tended Perennial Garden : Planting & Pruning Techniques
author
:
DiSabato-Aust, Tracy.
publisher
:
Timber Press, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
0881924148
print isbn13
:
9780881924145
ebook isbn13
:
9780585314440
language
:
English
subject
Perennials.
publication date
:
1998
lcc
:
SB434.D37 1998eb
ddc
:
635.9/32
subject
:
Perennials.
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Planting & Pruning Techniques
by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
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All photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted. Black-and-white illustrations are by Beth Ann Daye.
Copyright 1998 by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. All rights reserved.
Published in 1998 by
Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Eleventh printing 2000
Printed in Hong Kong
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
DiSabato-Aust, Tracy. The well-tended perennial garden : planting and pruning techniques / by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-414-8 1. Perennials. I. Title. SB434.D37 1998 635.9'32dc21 97-29768 CIP
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To Jim and Zachary For their love and support and for the magic they give to my life
Chapter 1 Design and Its Relationship to Maintenance
15
Chapter 2 Bed Preparation: Insurance for Success
25
Chapter 3 Planting and Establishment
41
Chapter 4 Pests and Diseases of Perennials
53
Chapter 5 Staking
63
Chapter 6 Division
67
Chapter 7 Renovation of the Established Perennial Garden
72
Section Two: Pruning Perennials
Chapter 8 Introduction to Pruning
75
Chapter 9 Deadheading
83
Chapter 10 Cutting Back
91
Chapter 11 Pinching, Disbudding, Thinning, and Deadleafing
104
Chapter 12 Pruning to Prepare for Winter and Pruning to Prepare for Spring
112
Section Three: Encyclopedia of Perennials
Guide to Using the Encyclopedia
119
AZ Encyclopedia of Perennials
121
Appendix A Ornamental Grasses
221
Appendix B Perennial Garden Planting and Maintenance Schedule
225
Appendix C Lists of Perennials for Specific Pruning and Maintenance Requirements
233
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
248
Metric Conversion Chart
249
Glossary
250
Bibliography
255
Index of Plant Names
257
Color plates follow page 256
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FOREWORD
The popularity of herbaceous perennial plants has fluctuated greatly over the last century in North America. Catalogs from the early 1900s illustrate the many perennials that were available during the period, but following the first quarter of the twentieth century the interest in perennials lessened. Until the early 1980s the use of perennials in North America was limited largely to estate gardens and to the highly interested home gardener. Woody plant materials and annuals or bedding plants were the talk of the trade, with a few perennials dotting the landscape.
In the early 1980s a reawakening occurred with a new awareness of herbaceous perennials by the gardening public. The Perennial Plant Association was formed in 1983, other area and regional associations concerned with perennials were formed, and symposium after symposium was offered on this "new found" palette of plant materials. In 1980 one could count the number of books about perennials on one hand. What a difference a few years can make! There are now dozens of books available on nearly any aspect of perennials. We can find books on individual species, design, color combinations, edible perennials, perennials in the fall, encyclopedic treatments of genera, and many others. Garden writers have recently asked: "Is there any perennial topic that has not been covered?" I can answer with a resounding ''Yes." One area where a complete coverage has not been made is that of maintenance and long-term care of perennials.
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