American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening : Techniques and Know-How for Planning, Planting, and Tending Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings (American Horticultural Society Guides)

Cool Springs Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780760392836
• DDC分類 635.932

Full Description

Learn how to build an enduring, resilient, and biodiverse landscape prized by pollinators and people alike from the foremost authority on gardening in North America.

The second book in the American Horticultural Society's series of growing guides, AHS Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening is a comprehensive and modern guide to cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many perennials native to North America. Whether you grow in full sun or a shady corner, in a small space or a large landscape, the insight and guidance offered by the experts at AHS ensure you'll have a thriving, bloom-filled garden. Included inside: 

Strategies for designing the perennial garden of your dreams or incorporating perennials into an existing garden 
Advice on selecting the best perennials for your climate and design style
Techniques for fostering a robust and adaptable garden that requires lower maintenance 
Eco-friendly approaches to managing pests and diseases 
Information on routine perennial plant-care tasks such as dividing, pruning, pinching, staking, and fertilizing
Insight on garden maintenance methods that do not negatively impact pollinators and other wildlife
Over 150 perennial plant profiles with photographs and specific care advice 

This complete and contemporary manual contains all the information you need to grow perennials successfully in the face of today's many gardening challenges, including weather extremes, invasive pests, water-use restrictions, and other such trials. Its modern approach to perennial gardening focuses on treating the garden as an ecosystem that depends less on human interference and more on natural resiliency.

Also included in this series is AHS Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening and AHS Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening.

Contents

Meet the American Horticultural Society
INTRODUCTION
What perennials are and why you'll love them
CHAPTER 1 YOUR PIECE OF THE PLANET
Understanding the climate, soil, and conditions that make your garden unique
CHAPTER 2 YOUR GARDEN IS AN ECOSYSTEM
Making space for living things, big and small, to thrive
CHAPTER 3
FINDING YOUR GARDEN STYLE
Tools and tips for making a beautifully designed garden
CHAPTER 4 POPULATING YOUR GARDEN
How to shop for and propagate beautiful plants
CHAPTER 5 PUTTING PLANTS IN THE GROUND
How to prepare and plant your garden
CHAPTER 6 KEEPING THINGS GOING
Maintaining and troubleshooting your garden
CHAPTER 7 PLANT PROFILES
Resources 
Join the AHS 
Acknowledgments 
Photo Credits 
Index