The Know Maintenance perennial garden
By: Roy Diblik
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781604693348; 9781604694949
Subjects: Perennials
Description: We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10x14 foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. In fact, the entire garden is mowed down at the end of the season! The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs; size can be altered by treating the grid-like design as a modular building block that can be halved, doubled, or tripled as needed. This complete garden system makes a gorgeous perennial garden available to everyone, no matter their skill or the size of their space.
Notes: "Knowing your plants means less work. A fresh and innovative approach to an easy-care garden. 62 plans., 74 plants, and garden-tested techniques"--Cover.

"Portions of this book are based on Roy Diblik's Small perennial gardens: the know maintenance approach, published in 2008 by American Nurseryman."--verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding your garden; title: Understanding plants; title: Site preparation and planting; title: Care and maintenance; title: Key plants for Know Maintenance gardens; title: The garden plans; title: Creating your own plant communities; title: Been there, done that : portraits of outstanding gardeners.