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title: "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques"
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# The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

**Brand:** tracy disabato-aust
**Price:** € 48.43
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- **What is this?** The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques by tracy disabato-aust
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## Customer Reviews

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    Perennial Favorite about Perennials
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2008*

I work as a perennial salesperson in a large, family-owned garden center in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago.  Any time a customer asks for a book on perennials or gardening in general, I always recommend this one.It provides a wealth of general gardening information on soil preparation, watering, diseases, pruning techniques and more.  The plant encyclopedia section is the most valuable part of the book.  In it, Ms. Aust discusses the most widely available and popular perennials individually and in detail.  For each plant, there is a picture next to which she lists the latin name, the common name, the light, water and soil requirements, the height, width and bloom-time.  After those details are presented, she discusses when to prune, cut back, dead-head, divide and fertilize that plant.  She has gathered this information over a lifetime of gardening experience.The appendix of the book contains many valuable lists of plants under headings such as "Plants to Pinch for Height Control" or "Clay Busters".  I can't imagine selling perennials to others or tending to my own garden without this bible.One complaint that customers have mentioned to me about this book (after I have recommended it)is that Ms. Aust uses the Latin nomenclature for everything.  This was intimidating to me at first, too.  I had to learn the Latin for my job as a perennial salesperson so I was forced to "embrace" it.  I am glad that I did because it makes reading a book like this easier.  My advice to anyone interested in gardening:  learn the Latin!  It's intellectually challenging and fun.  It will open up a wide world of plants to you. Carpe diem!

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    Housewarming gift
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020*

Outstanding guidance.Hundreds of color photos, design ideas, photo sequences that show a garden progressing through the seasons, photo examples of pests and diseases, and written in a way that inspires gardening confidence: I can’t believe I’ve been gardening 25 years without this book.Step-by-step directions and a plant-by-plant guide to soil preparation, watering needs, pruning, and dividing.This book is a great housewarming present – that’s how I got it!

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    A Great Perennial Gardening Book
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2008*

I was looking for a book to give me some practical insight into setting up and managing a perennial garden and I think I found the book. Seven chapters are devoted to designing, bed preparation, planting, pests, diseases, staking and division issues. I wish I had this book before starting my garden; the bed preparation chapter would have saved me a lot of effort in planting. Five more chapters are devoted to pruning, deadheading, cutting back, pinching, thinning, dead-leafing, and winter/spring preparation. The book contains many pictures and diagrams to accompany the instruction provided.I found the encyclopedia section to be very helpful in giving specifics for individual plants, and it contained pictures of the plants discussed. The listing of plants is in alphabetical order by genus/species with the common name listed beneath. This is good; however, for someone accustomed to using common names, it would have been helpful to have an appendix with a cross reference to common names. I generally don't memorize genus or species names for most plants.The book also contains three helpful appendixes on grasses, maintenance and pruning requirements. I found the glossary helpful to me (not being a plant expert) when it was necessary to look up terminology used in the text.Overall, I found this book to be very helpful on the subject of perennial gardening.

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