Essential Perennials: The Complete Reference to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden

A must have for any garden enthusiast.

Unbelievable! Beautiful book in what I would call Excellent condition. You have a new customer for life! Thank you so much! I can’t wait to read it.

We all need reference books on perennials and we now have a new volume which brings us up to date with the name changes, especially North American asters to symphyotrichum and the split of the dicentras to lamprocapnos, It is also nice to see aconogonon in its own section and not lumped with persicaria. American perennials are well represented as essential perennials. A few of our favourites here in New Zealand are missing like Symphyotrichum 'Little Carlow', Anthemis 'Sauce Hollandaise', Helenium 'Waltraut', Crocosmia 'Star of the East', Farfugium japonicum 'Giganteum', Aconitum x cammarum 'Grandiflorum Album'. No mention of stemmacantha.I still find the best perennial reference book to be the RHS Perennials book edited by Graham Rice 2006.The large number of photos helps one to identify the plants referred to in this new book. The authors give their thoughts on the plants which I find extremely helpful. Nice to delve into.

I live in zone 5 rocky mountain west. This guide doesn't specifically consider this area and as such, this is a good overview of perennials but doesn't really offer any special information for this climate and similar readers would be better off with a regional guide.

This was a great really for flowers for a garden.

Great book

Good information, not just a coffee table book

Do not care for the book. Not as user friendly as other books I have - wouldn’t recommend for an average gardener - need a better way to find plants for your specific zone

Good reference book but I would have liked it more if there were pictures of all the perennials.

Great book and a must for every gardener.

very comprehensive and easy to read