The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition
80 Basic Perennial Garden PlantinG & Maintenance division only with suffi cient moisture. In the Midwest, September is a goo ...
division 81 what you are doing. To divide large, thick clumps— especially of Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum×super- bum), hosta, dayl ...
82 Basic Perennial Garden PlantinG & Maintenance Silene dioica ‘Firefly’ is best cut back to its basal foliage after floweri ...
PRUNING PERENNIALS ...
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introduction to PruninG 85 Introduction to Pruning P runing is a term not normally associated with herbaceous plants, but when w ...
86 PruninG Perennials MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE When I was first asked to write about pruning herbaceous plants for the Brooklyn B ...
introduction to PruninG 87 individual perennial often can be pruned many different ways for similar results. There are also diff ...
Some perennials can flower themselves to exhaustion and are then unable to form buds for the following year. To prevent this fro ...
with a high variety of plants often require this kind of policing. Mass plantings of only a couple of different species are far ...
(growing at the tip of a branch or stem) bud is removed, side shoots will produce many small flowers. Disbudding is most often p ...
Prevention or control of pests Thinning stems on mildew-prone perennials can increase the air circulation around the plant and d ...
Remove unsightly or insignificant flowers Some perennials are worth keeping more for their foliage than for their flowers. The p ...
summer and into autumn, when plants are showing wear from the hot and dry weather. Pruning to prepare for winter and, more so, i ...
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deadheadinG 95 Deadheading “D on’t Be a Deadhead” is the title of one of my more popular lectures about pruning perennials and p ...
96 PruninG Perennials BASIC DEADHEADING METHODS How to deadhead depends on the particular growth habit of the plant. The most co ...
deadheadinG 97 Deadhead to a lateral fl ower, bud, or leaf The majority of perennials require deadheading to a lateral flower, b ...
98 PruninG Perennials Plants like balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) and peachleaf bellflower (Campanula persicifolia) req ...
deadheadinG 99 taking care not to damage any of the new buds. When no more new buds are visible in the bud cluster, the entire f ...
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