Astrantia major, 172 , 347, 353,
356, 359, 361, 362, 367,
371, 372, 373, 37 5
‘Hadspen Blood’, 173
‘Moulin Rouge’, 173
‘Sunningdale Variegated’,
173
‘Vanilla Gorilla’, 173
Athyrium filix-femina, 212
Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’,
212
August maintenance, 388
autumn fern, 212
autumn moor grass, 229
autumn sage, 305
‘Axminster Gold’ comfrey,
324
bacterial soft rot, 69
balance and depth in design,
126
balloon flower, 88, 98, 116,
291
bamboo stakes, 76–77
Baptisia australis, 173 , 344,
34 7, 351, 355, 359, 363,
365, 366, 372, 373, 37 5
shaping while pruning,
111, 113
Baptisia australis var. minor
‘Melissa Blue’, 174
baptisia / Baptisia, 25, 27,
104, 174, 241, 350, 387
‘Carolina Moonlight’, 174
‘Cherries Jubilee’, 174
‘Dutch Chocolate’, 174
‘Purple Smoke’, 174
Baptisia sphaerocarpa, 174
Baptisia × variicolor ‘Twilite’
Prairieblues, 174
bare root plants, 45, 46, 49,
381
bark compost, 37
barrenwort, 206
basal foliage
cutting back to, 92, 109,
110 , 111–112, 367
deadheading to, 99, 360
in plant structure, 96
beach wormwood ‘Silver
Brocade’, 64, 162
bearded iris, 68–69, 80, 132,
24 9, 251, 388, 389
beardtongue, 280
bed preparation
amending the soil, 34–39
importance of, 29–30, 31,
46
techniques of, 40–43testing the soil, 30–33
See also renovating
established gardens
beds
island, 21, 72
naturalized settings, 21, 54
planting new, 45–49
raised, 38
small vs. large, 21–22
beebalm, 26, 66, 89, 113, 271,
272
Begoniaceae, 175
Begonia grandis, 175 , 348,
354, 356, 359, 361, 362,
369, 371, 375, 377
as late-emerging, 382
Belamcanda chinensis, 176,
249
belladonna delphinium, 196
bellflower ‘Sarastro’, 180
Berberidaceae, 206, 292
Bergenia, 127, 134, 350
Bergenia cordifolia
‘Winterglut’ Winter Glow,
176
Bergenia crassifolia, 176, 347,
353, 357, 358, 360, 371,
372, 373, 37 5
Bethlehem sage, 126
biennials
cutting down after
flowering, 87, 119
deadheading, 95, 384
as self-sowing, 100, 389
weeds, 57
big betony, 319
bigleaf ligularia, 259
bigroot geranium, 220, 344
birds
feeding, 129–130, 382, 384,
391
seedheads that attract,
105, 364
blackberry lily, 249
black blister beetles, 70–71,
387
black cohosh, 148
black-eyed Susan, 386
‘Goldsturm’, 301
black pepper, 73
bleeding heart, 65, 200, 201,
386
bloody cranesbill, 224
bloom time
extending, 87, 95, 356, 387,
388
staggering, 88, 89, 112–113,
122, 384
blue anise sage, 305blue cap, 208
blue-eyed grass, 316
blue fescue, 226
‘Blue Fortune’ anise hyssop,
149
blue grama grass, 228
blue sage, 305
bog sage, 306
Boltonia asteroides ‘Pink
Beauty’, 177
Boltonia asteroides
‘Snowbank’, 176 , 344, 347,
351, 353, 363, 368, 369,
372, 373, 37 5
pruning, 19, 114, 123
staking, 19
boltonia / Boltonia, 70, 76,
104, 176, 350
boneset, 118
Boraginaceae, 155, 177, 298,
324
border phlox, 81
borders, 19–20, 22, 48
borers, 66, 68–69, 132
botrytis / Botrytis, 66, 132
bottlebrush grass, 228
bottle gentian, 218, 219
Bouteloua gracilis, 228
boxwood, 129
Brassicaceae, 194, 239, 246
Brunnera macrophylla, 177 ,
34 7, 354, 357, 360, 361,
362, 366, 371, 373, 375,
377
‘Jack Frost’, 177, 178
‘Looking Glass’, 178
buds
apical, 9 1
deadheading to lateral,
95, 96–98, 111, 113, 119,
359–360, 367
disbudding, 89–90, 116,
126–127
in plant structure, 96
removing terminal, 369
bugleweed, 126, 150
bull thistle, 57
Buphthalmum salicifolium,
327
Buphthalmum speciosum, 326
burnet, 306
butterflies, 64, 129
‘Butterfly Blue’ pincushion
flower, 309
butterfly host plants, 64
butterfly iris, 252
butterfly larvae, 64
butterfly weed, 168