• Perennial Gardening: Easy to Follow Guide: Plant Once and Enjoy Your Plants, Flowers, Shrubbery and Vegetables Forever

  • By: Susan Hollister
  • Narrated by: Gail L. Chaffee
  • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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Perennial Gardening: Easy to Follow Guide: Plant Once and Enjoy Your Plants, Flowers, Shrubbery and Vegetables Forever

By: Susan Hollister
Narrated by: Gail L. Chaffee
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Enhance your home and yard with beautiful perennial plants and flowers that come back year after year!

Whether you want to have beautiful plants that are easy to maintain, grow delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers, or create your own plant paradise inside and outside of your home, this audiobook will guide you through everything you need to know.

Perennials are a great investment in your future.

These long-lived plants are almost ridiculously easy to grow! Follow plant-specific instructions that include choosing the best site, preparing the soil, proper planting depth and spacing, optimal feeding, pruning, and training, as well as long-term maintenance. With an hour or two of work plus minimal follow-up care, you can create a landscape you can enjoy for many years to come.

Is your yard dull and nondescript? Wish you could grow something great in those shady areas?

Perennials can open up a world of possibilities. From soil-hugging ground cover, to lofty swaying grasses, you are sure to find the right plant to meet your needs for landscape management, dramatic color, and privacy. Regardless of your climate or the makeup of your soil, you will find perennials that will grow in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes.

No need to copy the neighbors, plant something unique.

Express yourself by adopting plants that accurately reflect your personality. Imagine stepping outside in the morning and being greeted by your favorite colors, smiling up at you from amidst richly textured foliage. Now that's the way to start your day!

Create your own low-maintenance plant paradise: Get this audiobook now!

©2017 Susan Hollister (P)2017 Susan Hollister

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Very Informative

I learnt so much from this book! It is so detailed and extremely informative. It teaches you how to plant and maintain a variety of shrubs and the benefits of each one.
I really enjoyed the section about therapeutic gardens and planting shrubs with soothing properties. I also loves learning about how to make your garden wildlife friendly. It opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibilities and creative ideas to maximize my garden space. I'm very excited to get started!

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An Amazing Gardening Guide To Perennials

I would have never imagined I would gain so much information from this book! Highlighting almost every detail you need to successfully grown perennials, this book is a good roadmap to certain plants, understanding their purpose and how to care for them. This book was written with a lot of care. I never would have known there were so many perennials! Something I love about Susan’s work is how she never forgets to mention a single detail. She even includes how different flowers are therapeutic. This book expanded my knowledge on gardening and I will keep it around for reference and later use!

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horrible

felt like my mother was talking to me and I was 2 years old no good information at all in the book

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Perennial Gardening Just Got Better!

Perennial gardening book has helped me discover a whole world of perennials I can introduce into my yard to enhance its beauty. I have learnt that I can use perennial for therapeutic purposes such as improving my overall mood,sharpening my attentiveness and healing some illnesses. An example is Lavender which help relax and refresh the mind. The best part about this book is that it contains proven steps and strategies on how to properly design a perennial garden and to sustain thriving perennial displays on my property. This book has also assisted me in discovering the benefits of planting perennials and the planning instructions which are easy to follow. This was indeed a nice read and an eye opener. I would recommend this book to everyone out there. Kudos Susan!

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Dreaming of Perennials

Where I'm living, it's winter now, the perfect time to plan next year's perennial garden. I loved listening to this book, with its down-to-earth assessment of the different types of beds and clear descriptions of the conditions under which each plant will thrive. I'm now well prepared to prevent damage from pests and ward off blight. I thoroughly enjoyed learning the names and characteristics of each plant. I like how the book is grouped by type of plant; it makes is so much easier to get to know how to take care of them! Well read!

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Very Informative

The author gives details knowledge of many
perennials, fruits and vegetables.
more informative if you are starting a garden , flower bed etc.

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Plant Once and Enjoy Your Invasives

I was initially confused by the content of the book. Most garden definitions of perennials focus on flowers, so with the book starting on vegetables I knew that much of the information wasn't relevant. But I listened to the entire book, and am really concerned. It seems focused on beginning gardeners so most readers wouldn't know the majority of plants mentioned should never be planted in a garden. These are the plants that will literally stay with you forever, and invade your neighbor's yards, and any nearby natural areas. She even admits when talking about some of them they can be invasive, and flowers should be removed. This is not easy care, having to control plants to avoid them taking over. And one of the plants she includes, she says check your state laws on the legality of growing it. The red currant can transfer disease to native plants, and is still banned in some parts of the country. There are so many wonderful plants that thrive without taking over, so it is a mystery to me why she seems focused on growing invasive species. With so much focus lately on growing native plants, or at least those that don't threaten natural ecosystems, I can't recommend a book that seems to ignore decades of research.

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Garden was easy to understand and useful.

Learned a lot. Very helpful to my garden. Next year and years to come

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the diffrents between perennials and annuals and b

this book gives good suggestions ideas when to plant when not to plant and the difference between annuals perennials biennials and the purpose of certain plants

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Imprve your green thumb

This book has a bunch of ways to improve your gardening, more specifically perennial plants. Before you know it, you will have flower beds full of color if you listen to some of the tips on perennial flowers. Try the book today and boost your curb appeal.

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