Making a Garden of Perennials
By W. C. Egan
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Making a Garden of Perennials - W. C. Egan
W. C. Egan
Making a Garden of Perennials
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066224691
Table of Contents
MAKING A GARDEN OF PERENNIALS
INTRODUCTION
PREPARING THE BEDS
WINTER MULCHING
SUMMER MULCHING
PLANT COMBINATIONS
WEEDING
LISTS OF DEPENDABLE PERENNIALS
SOME OF THE BEST PLANTS FOR SHADY POSITIONS
FOR DRY SOILS
FOR WET SOILS
ALPINES, OR ROCK PLANTS
MAKING A GARDEN OF PERENNIALS
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
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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.
Trees and shrubs are perennials, of course; in these the stems are woody, but we are considering only those known as herbaceous perennials, having stems of a more or less soft texture that, with the exception of a few evergreen species, die back each fall, new ones appearing the following spring.
Quite a number of them are too tender to be generally grown as hardy perennials, but those that bloom freely the first year—like the snapdragon—are treated as annuals, discarding them when the season is ended.
Some biennials—those that do not bloom until the second year, and then die—may be placed among the perennials and considered of their class, because they seed so freely at the base of the parent plant and bloom the following year, that their presence in the border is nearly always assured. The only thing necessary to do is to transplant those not in the situation you desire them to bloom in. Rudbeckia triloba, one of the Black-eyed Susan type, is not only a good example of this class, but a charming plant that all should grow, and, moreover, it is a very accommodating one, doing splendidly in semi-shady places, such as north of buildings or under weeping trees like the rose-flowered