Contents: Basic perennial garden planting and maintenance -- Design and its relationship to maintenance -- Bed preparation: insurance for success -- Planting and establishment -- Pests and diseases of perennials -- Staking -- Division -- Renovation of the established perennial garden -- Pruning perennials -- Introduction to pruning -- Deadheading -- Cutting back -- Pinching, disbudding, thinning, and deadleafing -- Pruning to prepare for winter and pruning to prepare for spring -- Encyclopedia of perennials., Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374) and index.