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Summary: Dirty Pages Indeed!
Review: Of my 400+ garden reference books, this is the very best written on it's subject. It always goes with me out to the garden, now with all it's dirt smudged pages. I simply can't recommend it high enough!
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Summary: Great book for the beginning gardener!
Review: The book is composed of three main sections. The first section has 104 pages of garden advice and technique: 26 pages are on soil discussions, bed preparations, and maintenance factors. 12 pages on planting techniques, mulching, and fertilizing. 10 pages on pests and disease. 56 pages on pruning, deadheading, thinning, staking, division and seeding.The second section is an encyclopedia of 179 perennials (about 100 pages). Each perennial is described by growing zone, common name, scientific name, size, and flowering season. Each plant contains a paragraph or two about pruning, maintenance, and related plants. The majority of the plants listed grow in zones 4-8. The third section of 50 pages contains the appendix, glossary, and index. Information covers 4 pages on ornamental grasses, 8 pages on monthly maintenance planning (broken down by what to do each month), 36 lists of recommended perennials for specific growing conditions, USDA zone map, 5 page glossary, 2 page bibliography, and a 13 page index by plant name. The book also includes informative photographs. 64 full color pages of garden designs, techniques, and planting ideas. Each picture is captioned by a descriptive comment identifying what technique or characteristic is being shown in the photograph. This is a great book for the beginning gardener, and even the garden expert might learn a thing or two. It contains clearly described gardening techniques, maintenance advice, planting recommendations, an encyclopedia of common perennials, photographs and a glossary. The book is filled with solid information and comments gained from garden experience. No fluff here. An excellent garden technique book. Especially useful for the beginning perennial gardener. A great buy!
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Summary: Belongs on Your Garden Bookshelf!
Review: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is an exceptionally good book. It is packed with useful information, full of great advice and comes with lots of top quality photos. Perennials are fun to grow and add a great deal to any garden, but many of them have different and varied cultural requirements. In The Well-Tended Perennial Garden all these particulars are thoroughly covered.
The writing of Tracy Disabato-Aust is fun and lively and adds greatly to this fine book. It certainly deserves a spot on the bookshelf of any gardener. This is one you'll use over and over.
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Summary: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is essential.......
Review: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is as essential for the truly compleat perennial garden as us his/her spade and pitch fork! I have found this ground-breaking guide to perennial pruning both refreshing and enlightening. I have grown various perennials for more than 25 years and have never pruned and/or deadheaded them, for fear of ruining the summer floral display.... Finally, we all have a unique guide to pruning techniques that will favorably alter & enhance our perennial beds!
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Summary: Most Helpful
Review: this book gives you great "how-to" for perennial flowers. When to cut back...how far and what the results will most likely be. A great addition and well used book in caring for perennials.
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Summary: Love this book.
Review: This book has helped me more than any other on the subject. I appreciate the way that it is organized. It and jflex-5 (for my pain and flexibility) have made my gardening experience more enjoyable. I also like the low price that Amazon has on this book. So, it works for me.
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Summary: Love this book.
Review: This book has helped me more than any other on the subject. I appreciate the way that it is organized. It and jflex-5 (for my pain and flexibility) have made my gardening experience more enjoyable. I also like the low price that Amazon has on this book. So, it works for me.
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Summary: The Well Tended Perennial Garden
Review: This book is a great resource and has much needed information on how to maintain and prune for extended bloom and bushier perennial plants. I would like to see more plants evaluated in a future edition.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is full of information and advice by someone who obviously knows her stuff. It's by far the best gardening book I have ever purchased.
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Summary: Most Excellent Prennial Book Written
Review: This book is one of the best written on how to handle prennials. I meet Tracy at a seminar on here book and practices at Longwood Gardens in 1998. I have spent more then 10 years in the feild of Landscaping and we go by her book as reference. We have even used her book with customers. Last year for Christmas I bought the book for every member of my staff. I most truely recommend this book even for the beginner starting out. Keeping the world bright and beautiful Michael S. Haldy Landscape Owner
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