Making a Garden of Perennials

by William Constantine Egan

Excerpt from Making a Garden of Perennials
The successful garden has a permanent basis. There must be some flowers that appear year after year, whose position is fixed and whose appearance can be counted on. The group classed as perennials occupies this position and about flowers of this class is arranged all the various array of annuals and bulbs. These last act as reinforcements in rounding out the garden scheme.
Perennials are plants that live on year after year if the conditions surrounding them are congenial.
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86 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2011

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting read, I certainly learned a thing or two. Loved the descriptions of the flowers, and I definitely agree with the author’s judgement of rudbeckia flowers as: “…when in full bloom, with its myriad of black-eyed flowers, it can dispel the worst case of melancholia a dyspeptic ever enjoyed.”

[Aimee DiBrienza]

How old IS this?

I actually got quite a kick out of the old fashioned language, but found this text unhelpful because it made no mention of hardiness zones. Also, it suggested using fresh manure in the bottom of beds, which conflicts with what I know about effective composting.