American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening

<B>Learn how to build an enduring, resilient, and biodiverse landscape prized by pollinators and people alike from the foremost authority on gardening in North America.<br><br></B>The second book in the American Horticultural Society’s series of growing guides, <I>Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening</I> is a comprehensive and modern guide to cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many <B>perennials native to North America</B>. Whether you grow in full sun or a shady corner, in a small space or a large landscape, the insight and guidance offered by the experts at AHS ensure you’ll have a <B>thriving, bloom-filled garden</B>. Included inside: <br><br><ul><li>Strategies for designing the perennial garden of your dreams or incorporating perennials into an existing garden </li><li>Advice on selecting the best perennials for your climate and design style</li><li>Techniques for fostering a robust and adaptable garden that requires lower maintenance </li><li>Eco-friendly approaches to managing pests and diseases </li><li>Information on routine perennial plant-care tasks such as dividing, pruning, pinching, staking, and fertilizing</li><li>Insight on garden maintenance methods that do not negatively impact pollinators and other wildlife</li><li>Over 150 perennial plant profiles with photographs and specific care advice </li></ul><br>This complete and contemporary manual contains all the information you need to grow perennials successfully in the face of today’s many gardening challenges, including weather extremes, invasive pests, water-use restrictions, and other such trials. Its modern approach to perennial gardening <B>focuses on treating the garden as an ecosystem</B> that depends less on human interference and more on natural resiliency.<br><br>Also included in this series are <I>Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening</I> and <I>Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening</I>.