I live on Vancouver Island and am looking for a good reference book on the care and maintenance of perennials/shrubs/trees,etc. once they have been planted. I can find lots of reference material on how to plant but cannot seem to find a good source on how to actually care for plants once established, particularly when they suddenly stop doing well and need to find out what has gone wrong. Would appreciate some suggestions on a book I can cozy up with on the couch on a rainy, cold, blustry day when I can't get into the garden. Thanks!
http://www.amazon.ca/Passionate-Gar...=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272729694&sr=1-7 This Amazon.ca listing of this book sounds interesting, read the reviews at the amazon site -- would be worthwhile trying to get it or any other recommended book at first from the library or on Interlibrary Loan -- your public library will do that, will pull in for you [if you have the title or author -- they will help you pinpoint the right one] a book from just about anywhere, and give you usually more than 3 weeks to read it... From a former librarian!
This book also, from Timber Press, Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook. See the note over on the right side as well, regarding another garden maintenance book, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Amazon.ca might have these as well, who knows how the pricing might vary -- plus the library as mentioned above. http://www.timberpress.com/books/essential_garden_maintenance_workbook/alexander/9780881927832
