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Making a Garden of Perennials: Practical Gardening
Contributor(s): Egan, W. C. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1495490629     ISBN-13: 9781495490620
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $11.66  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Gardening | Flowers - Perennials
Physical Information: 0.07" H x 7.01" W x 10" L (0.17 lbs) 34 pages
 
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Making a Garden of Perennials - Practical Gardening - By W. C. Egan. A perennial plant or simply perennial, from Latin per, meaning 'through', and annus, meaning 'year', is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also widely used to distinguish plants with little or no woody growth from trees and shrubs, which are also technically perennials. Perennials, especially small flowering plants, that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn and winter, and then return in the spring from their root-stock, are known as herbaceous perennials. However, depending on the rigors of local climate, a plant that is a perennial in its native habitat, or in a milder garden, may be treated by a gardener as an annual and planted out every year, from seed, from cuttings or from divisions. Tomato vines, for example, live several years in their natural tropical/subtropical habitat but are grown as annuals in temperate regions because they don't survive the winter. There is also a class of evergreen, or non-herbaceous, perennials, including plants like Bergenia which retain a mantle of leaves throughout the year. An intermediate class of plants is known as subshrubs, which retain a vestigial woody structure in winter, e.g. Penstemon. The local climate may dictate whether plants are treated as shrubs or perennials. For instance, in colder temperate climates, many shrubby varieties of Fuchsia are cut to the ground to protect them from winter frosts.
 
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