The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition
120 Basic Perennial Garden PlantinG & Maintenance ...
PinchinG, disBuddinG, thinninG, and deadleafinG 121 Pinching, Disbudding, Thinning, and Deadleafing PINCHING Pinching is one of ...
122 PruninG Perennials producers who grow their thumbnails longer just for this purpose. Cutting back, on the other hand, involv ...
half when 8 in. tall or it can be pinched. I know several gardeners who prefer pinching ‘Autumn Joy’ sedum because they claim th ...
and passed along from every mum-growing mum to mum-growing daughter, hopefully a speck of something new will be provided in this ...
except for the lower-growing cushion types, which require only 2 pinchings. The number of times and how late in the year you pin ...
stems fairly evenly spaced. Be sure to remove any weak or particularly thin stems as well. If in doubt as to how many stems to r ...
Flower buds may be removed from perennials for different reasons, including distraction from the ornamental foliage of the plant ...
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PruninG to PrePare for Winter and PruninG to PrePare for sPrinG 129 Pruning to Prepare for Winter and Pruning to Prepare for Spr ...
130 PruninG Perennials them also frequent the gardens. These visitors include finches (gold and house), red-breasted woodpeckers ...
mulch, was exceptionally green, looking as though it would send forth a flower bud at any moment. Following a month of sporadic ...
contribute aesthetically to the garden in winter. In other situations, certain tender perennials can be left up for the winter t ...
Pruning to prepare for winter is a matter of personal choice. What some find attractive, others may find distracting. With certa ...
EARLY SPRING PRUNING Generally speaking, plants that are not pruned in the autumn need to be cut back, or possibly deadleafed, i ...
shears do the trick on small quantities. A weed whacker with a rigid plastic blade can also be used. I’ve even heard of people u ...
136 Basic Perennial Garden PlantinG & Maintenance Encyclopedia of Perennials <084_PLACEHOLDER><DESIGNER TO CHOOSE&g ...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERENNIALS ...
Guide to Using the Encyclopedia T he pruning and maintenance information in this encyclopedia is based primarily on my personal ...
as a guide, with necessary adjustments according to individual needs and condi- tions, it is my hope that the information includ ...
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