perennial expertise

I recently gave myself a present:  The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, by
Aust-Sabato;

there's lots of good advice in there, especially about cutting back plants
when they first bloom, so that one gets a lower height in the long run, but
a fuller and stronger plant; this applies to hollyhocks, and lots of others;

I learned something very valuable last season, when a cosmo was bent over in
a windstorm, but didn't break, and then all along the horizontal stem grew
more vertical plants (and flowers eventually);

so next year I intend to try to get this to happen with all tall stalked plants.

Isabelle Hayes 


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