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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
Planting and Pruning Techniques
Timber Press's 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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Media reviews of this book:
"An excellent guide to pruning and deadheading perennials."
—Marty Hair, Detroit Free Press, June 11, 2004
"An excellent guide."
—Marty Hair, Detroit Free Press, June 11, 2004
"This excellent reference discusses not only deadheading but also the particulars of cutting back, pinching, disbudding, thinning, and deadleafing."
—Bob Polomski, Horticulture, April 2003
"Serious gardeners and plant lovers will be enthralled."
—Library Journal, December 4, 2000
"This excellent resource offers extensive in-depth instructions on pruning, dividing, deadheading, pinching, and other maintenance techniques for specific perennials."
—Library Journal, December 4, 2000
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
338 pp.
Book dimensions:
7.38 x 10.38 in
(260 x 185 mm)
Illustrations:
131 color photos, 20 line drawings
ISBN-13:
9780881924145
ISBN-10:
0881924148
About Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Tracy DiSabato-Aust, aka "the Queen of Deadheading," has earned international acclaim as one of America's most entertaining and knowledgeable garden writers and professional speakers. She has extensive experience in the United States and abroad, working for over 30 years in the industry, speaking for over 25 years and designing for over 20 years ...
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Other books by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
- 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants (paperback)
- The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques (Expanded Edition, hardcover)
- The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs (hardcover)
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