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

9 Preface

11 Basic Perennial Garden Planting & Maintenance

12 Design and Its Relationship to Maintenance

29 Bed Preparation: Insurance for Success

45 Planting and Renovation

63 Pests and Diseases

75 Staking

79 Division

83 Pruning Perennials

85 Introduction to Pruning

95 Deadheading

107 Cutting Back

121 Pinching, Disbudding, Thinning, and Deadleafing

129 Pruning to Prepare for Winter and Pruning to Prepare for Spring

137 Encyclopedia of Perennials

138 Guide to Using the Encyclopedia

141 A–Z Encyclopedia of Perennials

343 Perennials by Maintenance Needs

379 Perennial Garden Planting and Maintenance Schedule

392 Metric Conversion Chart

393 Bibliography

395 Photography, Illustration, and Garden Credits

396 Acknowledgments

397 Index

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