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Create your own personal paradise with a garden full of easy-to-care-for, long-lasting perennial blooms! This comprehensive guide to growing your dream garden will teach you how to pick the best perennial plants for your soil, sunlight, and climate conditions. Keep your garden blooming with Powerful Perennials so you can enjoy your yard for years to come. Master gardener Nedra Secrist has been growing perennials for over fifty years. She and her husband, Donrey, own and operate Secrist Gardens, a nursery specializing in perennial flowers. Nedra lectures regularly to horticultural and community groups about how to garden successfully, even in soil and climate conditions are not ideal. She's condensed fifty years of green gardening methods and hands-on training into this beautiful book. Perennial gardeners, particularly those in Western regions, have unique challenges related to dry rocky soils, intense sunlight, high elevations, and lack of water. This book discusses why gardening is different in these climates and tackles every aspect of growing perennial flowers successfully, despite an inhospitable climate, short growing season, or problems with wildlife. The book's methods and insights are applicable to any perennial gardener. The book is broken into four sections, focusing on common gardening issues: How to garden if you live in a cold climate, how to address drought issues, how to deal with wildlife in the garden, and how to overcome the issue of poor soils. Each section includes information about dozens of perennial species that thrive even when gardening conditions aren't optimal. Additional information comes from Nedra's vast experience with the details of gardening, and you'll find tutorials on everything from organic gardening and proper fertilization to how to properly stake flowers and design your landscape with color in mind.
About the Author
A flower's native roots are where it originated. My native roots are Northern Utah and my native naturalized roots are in Idaho around Bear Lake. In other words, I garden in challenging areas of the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains and feel gardeners need a place they can ask questions to help understand and solve the environmental dilemmas that western gardeners face.As a teacher and gardener, my life has centered on kids and flowers, God's greatest, most perfect triumphs. I feel blessed that both have been the focus of my life.Along with my two books, My blog, www.powerfulperennials.com is a great resource for gardeners in Western states who have unique climate, soil, and light conditions.
