Originally published: Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Pub. Co., c1989.

This useful book instructs gardeners in all aspects of designing with perennials, from color schemes to matching different styles of gardens. Full color.

“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk 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. The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs, unlocking rich perennial landscape designs for individualization and creativity.

Using full-color photos, the author shows you 272 perennials -- arranged according to month of bloom -- to grow in your garden so you can have wonderful color and texture from March through November -- and even winter interest throughout the coldest months of the year.

A visual sourcebook offers ways to use perennials in any setting for creative gardens year round.

Provides a photographic guide to more than 1,200 interesting and beautiful garden plants, with each entry including full-color photos, hardiness-zone information, growing tips and more, in a book that also has lists of plants for certain situations.

This guide tells how to choose plants depending on your soil, site location, and what climate zone you live in. The care needed and even how to arrange your flowers is included.

Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden

A comprehensive and authoritative guide written especially for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas. Includes chapters on the history of gardening, arranging perennials in the garden, and buying, planting and caring for perennials together with special sections on old garden roses and companion plants for the perennial garden.

A hands-on guide to growing perennials with an easy-to-use chart of details on culture, bloom color, and use for over 300 plants. Includes keys for successful perennial gardening, creating a garden that blooms in all seasons, turning any property into a living work of art, and more.