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Perennials

Perennial Ground Covers by David S. MacKenzie click to enlarge

Perennial Ground Covers

David S. MacKenzie
An important book for anyone wondering what to use in place of a lawn of in a site that nothing tried has survived. With handsome photos of hundreds of ground cover and their cultivation requirements this book will fill an enormous demand.

341 pgs, 8.5 x 11, over 150 color plates, pbK
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$29.95

On sale perennials books

book cover unavailable Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia  NEW!

Allan M. Armitage   This color encyclopedia is a wonderful comprehensive single-volume photographic resource on perennial plants. Based on his own extensive experience - he has... [read more]

$49.95
Sale! $32.97
book cover unavailable Caring for Perennials: What to Do and When to Do it

Janet MacUnovich,Steven Nikkila   Macunovich offers readers her exclusive month-by-month schedule for perennial gardening. Includes care charts for more than 130 perennials.... [read more]

$19.95
Sale! $14.96
book cover unavailable Daylilies: The Perfect Perennial

Lewis Hill,Nancy Hill,Robin D. Brickman  

$18.95
Sale! $14.21
book cover unavailable Gardening with Clematis: Design and Cultivation

Linda Beutler  

$34.95
Sale! $23.07
book cover unavailable Gardening with Hardy Geraniums

Birgitte Husted Bendtsen  

$29.95
Sale! $23.96
book cover unavailable Gardening with Perennials Month by Month

Joseph Hudak   This is the most practical perennial guide for North America, giving the monthly blooming schedules and growing requirements of more than 700... [read more]

$34.95
Sale! $30.78
book cover unavailable Hippeastrum: The Gardener's Amaryllis (Royal Horticultural Society/Timber Press Plant Collectors Guides Series)

Veronica M. Read   The hybrids of Hippeastrum, also known by gardeners as amaryllis, have long been popular indoor plants, their flamboyant blooms bringing cheer during... [read more]

$34.95
Sale! $23.07
book cover unavailable Lois Hole's Perennial Favorites

Lois Hole  

$19.95
Sale! $15.56
book cover unavailable Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start

C. Colston Burrell   Perennial combinations are the building blocks of beautiful, successful gardens. Choosing perennials that look great and grow well together is a skill... [read more]

$29.95
Sale! $22.95
book cover unavailable Perennial Garden Plants: Or the Modern Florilegium

Graham Stuart Thomas  

$49.95
Sale! $38.43
book cover unavailable Perennial Gardening in Texas

Alan Dean Franz  

$39.95
Sale! $27.93
book cover unavailable Perennials for Every Purpose: Choose the Right Plants for Your Conditions, Your Garden, and Your Taste (Rodale Organic Gardening Books)

Larry Hodgson   Encyclopedic in its range of information, this single volume contains everything you need to know to create a breathtaking perennial garden. Hodgson... [read more]

$24.99
Sale! $16.49
book cover unavailable Perennials for Minnesota and Wisconsin

Don Engebretson,Don Williamson   Full color photographs featuring more than 500 perennials and accompanied by common-sense advice and useful information. You'll find planting tips, blooming periods... [read more]

$19.95
Sale! $18.22
book cover unavailable Taylor's Guide to Perennials

Barbara Ellis   Perennials are every gardener's favorite plants. They provide colorful flowers and leafy foliage, and, best of all, their beauty returns year after... [read more]

$23.00
Sale! $17.94
book cover unavailable The Impatient Gardener

Jerry Baker   Questions like these haunt every amateur gardener. But the expert answers in this classic guide are designed to make the grass greener... [read more]

$14.95
Sale! $13.52

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book cover unavailable A Book of Salvias: Sages for Every Garden  NEW!

Betsy Clebsch,Carol D. Barner  

$29.95
book cover unavailable Azaleas, Rhododendrons and Camellias  NEW!

John R. Dunmire,Jim McCausland,Sunset Books,Sunset  

$12.95
book cover unavailable Begonias  NEW!

Mike Stevens  

$22.95
book cover unavailable Choosing Your Clematis  NEW!

John Howells,Wim Snoeijer  

$25.00
book cover unavailable Gardening with Perennials: Creating Beautiful Flower Gardens for Every Part of Your Yard  NEW!

Sally Jean Cunningham,Barbara W. Ellis,Barbara Kaczorowski,Terry Krautwurst,Jean M. A. Nick,Nancy J. Ondra,Lynne Schwartz-Barker,Fern Marshall Bradley  

$27.95
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Graham Rice  

$9.95
book cover unavailable Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on Their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes  NEW!

Allan M. Armitage  

$69.80
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Claire Austin,Clay Perry  

$19.95
book cover unavailable Irises  NEW!

Pamela McGeorge,Alison Nicoll,Russell McGeorge  

$16.95
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Richard A. Jaynes  

$34.95
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Ortho Books  

$11.95
book cover unavailable Perennials for American Gardens: The definitive A-to-Z reference guide to over 3,000 species, cultivars and hybrids for gardeners across the country  NEW!

RUTH ROGERS CLAUSEN  

$50.00
book cover unavailable Perennials: A Growing Guide for Easy Colorful Gardens (Burpee Basics)  NEW!

Emma Sweeney  

$15.95
book cover unavailable Rhododendron Hybrids (Includes Selected, Named Forms of Rhododendron Species)  NEW!

Homer E. Salley,Harold E. Greer  

$59.95
book cover unavailable Rhododendrons (A Care Manual)  NEW!

Kenneth N. E. Cox,Laurel Glen  

$12.99
book cover unavailable Temperate Bamboos (Gardener's Guide to Growing Series)  NEW!

Michael Bell  

$19.95
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David Way,Peter James  

$29.95
book cover unavailable The Lavender Garden: Beautiful Varieties to Grow and Gather  NEW!

Robert Kourik,Deborah Jones   The Lavender Garden profiles a master gardener's sixteen favorite varieties, including the secrets to cultivating vigorous and healthy lavender shrubs, as well... [read more]

$18.95
book cover unavailable Agapanthus: A Revision of the Genus

Wim Snoeijer   Known as "lilies of the Nile" (though they're native to South Africa), the showy perennials in the genus Agapanthus have been avidly... [read more]

$39.95
book cover unavailable Begonias

Mike Stevens   Mike Stevens presents a complete and readable guide to one of the most popular flowering plant choices: begonias. The Begoniaceae has as... [read more]

$16.95
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Andrew Steens,Yvonne Cave   Bromeliads include several thousand species and a bewildering number of hybrids and cultivars. Remarkable for the diversity of their striking foliage and... [read more]

$29.95
book cover unavailable Clematis and Climbers (Collins Practical Gardener)

John Feltwell  

$14.45
book cover unavailable Clematis for all Seasons

John Feltwell  

$19.95
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Keith Fair,Carol Fair  

$20.00
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CHARLES CHESSHIRE  

$35.00
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Andrew Mikolajski,Peter Anderson  

$7.99
book cover unavailable Companions to Clematis: Growing Clematis with Other Plants

Marigold Badcock   The lovely clematis, growing in profusion and brightly flowered, can turn your garden into a picture of color, enhancing the beauty of... [read more]

$17.95
book cover unavailable Creating a Perennial Garden in the Midwest

Joan Severa,Stan Stoga   Create beautiful gardens and grow healthy perennials ideally suited for zones 3, 4, and 5. Emphasizing basic techniques, Joan demystifies and simplifies... [read more]

$24.95
book cover unavailable Designing with Perennials

Pamela J. Harper  

$19.95
book cover unavailable Easy-Care Perennial Gardens: Techniques and Plans for Beds and Borders You Can Grow and Enjoy : Plus : 10 Beautiful Garden Designs (Rodale Garden Book)

Susan McClure  

$27.95
book cover unavailable Encyclopedia of Perennials: A Gardener's Guide

Christopher Woods  

$50.00
book cover unavailable Galleries of Garden Plants (The Best of Fine Gardening)

Fine Gardening Editors   This book is the tenth in a series that collects articles from Fine Gardening into individual volumes by subject. Here are galleries... [read more]

$14.95
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Raymond J. Evison   A fresh look at the genus focusing on not just the popular large-flowered cultivars but also on the less well known species... [read more]

$19.95
book cover unavailable Gardening with Perennials

Horticulture Magazine  

$24.99
book cover unavailable Gardening with Perennials Month by Month

Joseph Hudak  

$59.95
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Susan Berry,Steve Wooster  

$21.95
book cover unavailable Ground Cover Plants (Concord Gardening)

Janet Browne  

$9.95
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Daniel J. Foley   Former editor of Horticulture magazine offers the home gardner full, sound and practical advice on a wide range of plants. For each... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Growing Bromeliads

Bromeliad Society of Australia  

$16.00
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William L., Ph.D. Ackerman,William L. Ackerman   A must-have reference for camellia lovers everywhere. Filled with over 100 color photos and illustrations. After 40 years of personal research, breeding,... [read more]

$34.95
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Beryl Stockton,Geoff Stockton,John Mason  

$15.95
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Mike Heger,John Whitman   Beginning with the 50 best perennial groups to grow in cold climates, the book details both the good and the bad news... [read more]

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William Warren,Luca Invernizzi Tettoni  

$6.95
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T. M. E. Branney  

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Wilhelm Schacht,Alfred Fessler,Michael E. Epp  

$124.95
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Graham Rice,Timber Pr  

$13.97
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Graham Rice,Elizabeth Strangman  

$19.95
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Jerry Baker,Nancy J. Ondra,Kim Adam Gasior   Revealing more than 1,000 surprising gardening secrets, this innovative book shows how to grow big, bright, blooming beauties using common household products.... [read more]

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Michael Jefferson-Brown,Andrew Lawson   Lilies are among the most glamorous and exotic of plants, yet they are surprisingly easy to cultivate in a wide range of... [read more]

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Peter Loewer  

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Ann Lovejoy,Ortho,Jan Riggenbach,Ortho Books  

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Douglas Green   It is every gardener's dream to create an ever-blooming display of color and fragrance from the first spring flush through the last... [read more]

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Organic Gardening Magazine,Rodale Books  

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book cover unavailable Perennials: The Definitive Reference With Over 2,500 Photographs

Roger Phillips,Martyn Rix  

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Christopher Grey-Wilson   This new edition of a volume first published in 1993 as the first book devoted exclusively to poppies, and reprinted in 1995,... [read more]

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Elisabeth Sheldon  

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Patricia Taylor,Better Homes and Gardens  

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Carl L. Withner  

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Graham Rice  

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book cover unavailable The Complete Perennials Book

Ortho Books,Marilyn Rogers  

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Noel Kingsbury,Gary Rogers   An exploration of planting schemes designed to suit the existing condition of your garden. It recommends an informal planting style that echoes... [read more]

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Jack Elliott  

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C. Colston Burrell,C. Burrell  

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