Perennials Short and Tall: A Seasonal Progression of Flowers for Your Garden

by Moya L. Andrews (Editor), Gillian Harris (Editor)

Designed for accessibility, this book offers tried-and-true advice on how to keep a yard in bloom. Presented in the sequence in which they bloom, with a chapter devoted to each of the three major growing seasons, 25 varieties of flowers are profiled with accompanying color illustrations. Additionally, Moya L. Andrews provides information about such basic topics as bed preparation, planting locations, weed control, and landscape principles. Andrews also offers practical tips on propagating, transplanting, and dividing perennials, as well as aesthetic considerations such as the use of color outdoors and flower arranging with cut blossoms. Suggestions for flower arrangement and producing indoor blooms in the winter months are also included.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

Reviews

[David Ward]

Perennials Short and Tall: A Seasonal Progression of Flowers for Your Garden by Moya L. Andrews (Indiana University Press 2008)(635.932) is one of the best gardening books I've ever read. Moya L. Andrews has stuffed this book chock-full of useful gardening tips that I've read nowhere else. Her plant descriptions and recommendations are as knowledgeable as any I've ever found. My congratulations to this author on a fine work! My rating: 7.5/10, finished 5/4/12.