The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Adding conifers, small trees, and shrubs to a perennial garden can help reduce the burden of maintenance. The garden planting an ...

SPRING There is usually so much to be done in the spring, it’s not even funny. Fortu- nately, we’ve had the winter to regroup a ...

such as pulmonaria and epimedium, which should be cut back before new growth has a chance to mature. w Check evergreen plants fo ...

This beautiful sculpture by Thomas Yano reminds me to take time to look up, reach up, and stretch my neck and lower back during ...

w Continue placement of pea stakes; hoops are needed on peonies. w Mulch. w Be on the lookout for the fourlined plant bug nymphs ...

SUMMER Pruning, staking, and general maintenance are in order during the summer months. If you go away for an extended period in ...

PlantinG w Try to finish all planting by mid-June, if possible. w Transplanting and dividing can continue, but plants will need ...

extend flowering of plant groups or to create staggered or delayed flowering. w Deadhead, deadhead, deadhead—to extend bloom of ...

w Deadleaf plants that bloom in early summer, as needed. w Deadhead more and more—perennials such as ‘Moonbeam’ coreopsis (Coreo ...

AUTUMN & WINTER Planting starts again in autumn as the cooler weather approaches. Pruning is the major maintenance that cont ...

General Maintenance w Continue weeding. w Keep new autumn plantings moist. w Apply touch-up mulch if needed. w Generally, no mor ...

w Clean and oil tools after all cleanup is complete. w Keep your pruners and a basket handy for work on a mild day. w Recycle or ...

Metric Conversions INCHES CENTIMETERS FEET METERS 1/4 0.6 1 0.3 1/3 0.8 2 0.6 1/2 1.3 3 0.9 3/4 1.9 4 1.2 1 2.5 5 1.5 2 5.1 6 1. ...

Bibliography Aniśko, Tomasz. 2008. When Perennials Bloom: An Almanac for Planning and Planting. Portland, OR: Timber Press. Armi ...

Gleason, Mark L., Margery L. Daughtrey, Ann R. Chase, Gary W. Moorman, and Daren S. Mueller. Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials. ...

All photographs by the author with the exception of the following: Boerner Botanical Gardens, courtesy of Milwaukie County Parks ...

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Acanthaceae, 141 Acanthus, 68 Acanthus spinosus, 141, 347, 353, 357, 360, 366, 369, 37 0, 371, 372, 373, 375 ‘Spinossisimus’, 14 ...

Allium, 350 Allium schubertii, 29 allwood pink, 197 ‘Alpha’ phlox, 95, 114 alpine columbine, 100, 159 Althaea zebrina, 271 Ameri ...

Astrantia major, 172 , 347, 353, 356, 359, 361, 362, 367, 371, 372, 373, 37 5 ‘Hadspen Blood’, 173 ‘Moulin Rouge’, 173 ‘Sunningd ...