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ENCYLOPEDIA OF PERENNIALS

Indulge your Passion for Perennials!

Herbaceous perennials are the most popular single group of garden plants. The book is the most comprehensive single volume on perennials ever published, featuring more than 5,000 different plants spread across almost 100 plant families, 450 genera and 2,000 species and accompanied by hundreds of colour pictures. But it's more than just an illustrated A-Z of plant descriptions. Included in many of the plant entries is information about planting associations, propagation ideas, historical insights as well as specific pest or disease problems, which all add value to the coverage.

Buy this book from the RHS bookshop.

These websites contain more information about perennials:

RHS Plant Finder
This is the recognised authority on cultivated plant names and provides details of nurseries specialising and selling specific perennials.

RHS Plant Selector

RHS Plant Trials

Other websites

Botanical Society of the British Isles
This organisation is a useful resource covering the flora of Britain and Ireland.

United States Department of Agriculture plants database

Efloras
Catalogue of Flora of North America, China, Nepal, and more.

Hardy Plant Society
Specialising in stimulating interest in hardy herbaceous plants.

The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG) Lists the holders of national plant collections.