50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants: Tough-but-Beautiful Plants That Anyone Can Grow
Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book -- The Well-Tended Perennial Garden -- is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy's own gardening experience. It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener. Tracy has identified 50 show-stopping plants that anyone can...
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Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book—The Well-Tended Perennial Garden—is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy's own gardening experience. It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener. Tracy has identified 50 show-stopping plants that anyone can grow. Each selection is a dynamic choice for nearly every garden. Even better? All 50 plants have passed Tracy's test for toughness, beauty, and durability. These are Tracy's personal favorites, chosen after years of studying how to make beautiful outdoor spaces with a minimum of maintenance. Caledonian Record "This is a must-have because it will tell you when and how to prune your perennials for better vigor—and how to get them to bloom more than once a season where possible."
\ Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas"This is a great book for novice gardeners or homeowners who wish to beautify their home with care-free plants."\ — Elaine Diaz\ \ \ \ \ \ Seattle Post-Intelligencer“This colorful guide gets right to the point, promoting the stars of the garden with a full-page close-up, a few smaller images, plus a fact and bio sheet highlighting why each deserves center stage in your garden.”\ \ \ \ Akron Beacon Journal“Gardeners who want the wow without the work will find plenty of ideas in Tracy DiSabato-Aust’s new book, 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants.”\ \ \ \ \ \ American Gardener"For those gardeners who love plants but lack the time to spend hours in the garden, this is an excellent book."\ \ \ \ \ Oregonlive.com"DiSabato-Aust’s experience with and passion for plants infuses every aspect of the book, from its engaging style to her discipline in keeping it short but thorough."\ \ \ \ \ \ Marion Star"It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener."\ \ \ \ \ Caledonian Record"This is a must-have because it will tell you when and how to prune your perennials for better vigor—and how to get them to bloom more than once a season where possible."\ \ \ \ \ Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly"DiSabato-Aust is an approachable garden writer. She knows we all love to garden but that we have lots of demands on our time and need astute guidance, which she provides in this fantastic book."\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalThe 50 plants chosen here for their appealing characteristics and visual allure, especially to the harried gardener, variously promise heat, cold, and drought tolerance; resistance to insects, deer, and diseases; freedom from deadheading, fertilizing, staking, pruning, and frequent division; and, most of all, carefree enjoyment over multiple seasons. Getting the biggest bang for your buck in terms of ease of care and visual impact can be a hit-and-miss affair with the average garden plant, so DiSabato-Aust, a well-known garden speaker and author of The Well-Designed Mixed Garden and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, puts her extensive knowledge to work in this nicely illustrated volume. The photographs capture the essence of each plant's foliage, arch, and color in close-ups and broader shots of border plantings. Sidebars highlight the most notable characteristics of each plant and point out hardiness zone, height and spread, sun and shade needs, and compatible plant neighbors. Recommended for all public library gardening collections.\ —Donna L. Davey\ \ \
