Gardening with Perennials Month by Month

By Joseph Hudak

Book Overview

One of the most practical perennial guides for North America, this text provides the monthly blooming schedules and growing requirements of more than 700 species, plus hundreds of their cultivars. Each chapter presents a month of blooming perennials, March through September, with an extensive list of plants arranged by blossom color.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881926345
• ISBN13: 9780881926347
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Timber Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.6" x 1.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Essential reference, comprehensive

The instant I saw this book I knew I had to have it. It is an essential guide for any gardener growing perennials. With its index & extensive lists it allows anyone to easily find plants to suit their landscape. Flowers are listed for each month from March through September. Conveniently, at the start of each chapter, there is a list of flowers by color. Plants are then listed alphabetically by scientific name.For each plant there is information on its common name, flowering span, physical description, zone & culture. Other data may include native habitat, cultivation, bothersome diseases or pests & small color photos. A great reference section in the back lists plants by characteristics, including those that bloom all season long, 6 weeks or more & in the winter. Fruit bearing, drought resistant, moisture loving & shade tolerant varieties are also listed.