The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden

“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk

We’ve all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they?

The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10x14 foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs, unlocking rich perennial landscape designs for individualization and creativity. 

• Planting: A New Perspective
• Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
• Dream Plants for the Natural Garden
• Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
• The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
• Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes
• Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design
• Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed
• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
• The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition