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Review: Best Perennials For Sun & Shade

Title: Best Perennials For Sun And Shade, Easy Plants For More Beautiful Gardens
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 Buy on Amazon: Best Perennials for Sun and Shade (Home Grown Gardening) 

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has introduced a new series of quick-read, colorful books for gardeners who are just starting out or intermediate gardeners who might be looking for new planting ideas for their garden.

Also in the Home Grown Gardening series are Best Roses, Herbs, and Edible Flowers, and Attracting Birds and Butterflies.

This edition of the Home Grown Gardening series is devoted to choices of perennials for shady areas and sunny areas. (For those who may be new to gardening, perennials are plants that come back year after year, as opposed to annuals, which last only one season.) The beginning of the book devotes a few paragraphs each to the basics of soil preparation, fertilizing, mulching, compost, drainage, planting, and watering. The meat of the book is the 2-page spread for each suggested plant, with a beautiful full-page image of the plant on one side and a description of the plant on the facing page.

Each description page lists the mature height of the plant, the time of year it blooms, and what makes the sun or shade plant interesting. The page also contains “where to grow” and “how to grow” sections which describe how much shade or sun the plant likes, if it looks better in a border or in the distance, and a few growing tips. This should be helpful for new gardeners in deciding what plant will work best in their garden space and gives them a better chance for success with that plant.

Best Perennials For Sun and Shade is full of colorful photos and easy to read. The publisher has chosen to include not only the most common plants but some more interesting plants as well. It’s a great resource for those who wish to take the guesswork out of gardening with an easiest-to-grow and best-performing guide to plants which come back year after year.

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