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Perennials

Do you spend your winter months dreaming about how your Perennial Garden will grow this year?   To help you bring your dreams to life, here are our recommendations for books and magazines to peruse during the winter months, keeping your garden spirits up and ideas germinating. 

 

May we suggest?

 

Fine Gardening Magazine

Horticulture Magazine

The Well Tended Perennial Garden, by Tracy D. Sabato-Aust

Dream Plants for the Natural Garden, by Piet Oudolf

Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, by Nigel Dunnett & Noel Kingsbury

Hellebores by Burrell & Tyler

Premium Plants by David S. Mackenzie

When Perennials Bloom by Tomasz Anisko  

 

Also, enjoy the following websites for additional information on Perennial Gardening, with links to many more websites and blogs of interest to gardeners.

www.chicagobotanic.org  - The Chicago Botanical Garden website

www.ahs.org– The American Horticultural Society website

www.mobot.org– The Missouri Botanical Garden website 

www.wemoss.org– The Official Website of William Moss, who specializes in Urban Gardening

www.perennialresource.com  - An informative perennial site by large perennial growers

www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/lurie_garden.html- All about Chicago’s Lurie Garden

www.newfs.org   - The New England Wildflower Society website

www.gardenrant.com- “Gardenrant is The Huffington Post of garden news.”

www.oudolf.com  -   Piet Oudolf’s site, known as the father of the influential new perennial movement.

 

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