Caring for Perennials: What to Do and When to Do it

by Janet Macunovich

Enjoy a spectacular perennial garden without spending endless hours toiling in the dirt. Janet Macunovich shares her time-saving gardening techniques that will have you growing thriving perennials while averaging just one hour of maintenance work per month for every 100 square feet of garden. Stressing the importance of prioritizing, planning ahead, and keeping accurate records, Macunovich provides a month-by-month schedule of the most essential garden tasks. With less time spent working in your garden, you’ll have more time to spend admiring its beauty. 

Genres: Gardening

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 1997

Reviews

[Terie Norelli]

This is a great book for Gardener’s like us - we “inherited” an amazing garden when we downsized 2 years ago and knew very little about how not to ruin it! This book takes you through a season as the author tends to a garden. In this way we were able to essentially read along - and garden along - with her. This is not really a reference book, I think it’s meant to become read cover to cover. I found it very helpful, particularly because I read each section during the corresponding time in the season.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author walks you through a calendar year of tending one of the perennial gardens at a Botanical Garden in Zone 6. I don't think I could ever get my weeding down to the amount of time she allows but there are tips throughout