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“[Diblik] appropriately starts the book off with chapters on understanding your garden (soil, light, shade), understanding plants (growth habits, flowers, foliage, stems, crowns), preparing and maintaining the site, and some likely plants to consider. Then comes the true treasure—chapter 6 has 62 planting plans, broken down into sun and shade, and then further into themes inspired by successful public plantings (the High Line, “Essence of Piet Oudolf”) or even paintings (van Gogh’s Poet’s Garden).” —Landscape Architecture “Diblik has codified a naturalistic, yet artistic, approach to building garden beds in the northern tier of North America. Soil composition and amount of sunlight form the starting point to finding a palette of plants sympathetic with a site. Diblik stresses intimate contact with your plants as it allows you to “know” them, the most important aspect of gardening in his opinion. Many inspiring photographs depict the colorful and textural results. Ornamental grasses figure prominently as a foil for the colorful blossoming plants. Themed templates, many titled after Impressionist paintings, will help readers knowingly plan their garden.” —Country Gardens “A stunning guide to creating nature inspired gardens. . . . Diblik, who supplied many of the plants for the award-winning Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago, offers up detailed information about 74 sturdy and appealing perennials in a photo-rich reference.” —Chicago Tribune “Perennial gardeners will appreciate The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden, a book based on the premise that knowing your plants helps you care for them more effectively, with less work.” —Akron Beacon Journal “Diblik explains the concepts behind self-sustaining plant communities—plants that naturally grow well in harmony and require little maintenance, once established. With Diblik’s method, you can throw out the mulch, abandon staking, deadheading, the fertilizers and herbicides, the end-of-the-season cleanups. Instead, you’ll learn to understand how plants grow—their soil, water, and light requirements—and the easy ways to get what you want. . . . A wonderful book for homeowners and designers alike—it definitely belongs on your bookshelf.” —Garden Design Online “A straightforward, easy-to-follow guidebook for planting design success, suitable for the homeowner and professional alike.” —The Designer “A book for thinking gardeners who really want to take the time to know their plants and understand how their plants live and work together as a sustainable community. Armed with this knowledge, gardeners will be free to actually spend time enjoying their gardens.” —A Garden of Possibilities “If you’re dreaming of a low-maintenance, lush, perennial garden this spring, then Roy Diblik’s new book should be your planting bible. It provides dozens of fresh, detailed plans and gorgeous color photographs of easy-care yet stunningly artistic gardens.” —Garden Variety News “The first half of the book covers site preparation, planting, care, maintenance, and of course, key plants for the author’s ‘know maintenance’ system. Diblik shows you how to reduce garden chores to only minutes a week. You will learn when to plant and water, and how to weed strategically.” —Michigan Gardener “Diblik gives plant combination advice to make his lower maintenance, sustainable, and environmentally friendly technique work well and provide beauty year round.” —Journal Times “The nuts and bolts of success with perennial flowers along with 62 sample garden designs and 74 high-performing, low-care perennial plants.” —Patriot-New
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Looking for a lush, gorgeous, low-maintenance perennial garden? Roy Diblik’s Know Maintenance system shows you the way. Choose from 62 plans, each designed to fill a 10- by 14-foot space. Every plan tells you which plants you need and shows you where to place them. There are plans for sun and shade, and for an array of different moods and color schemes. The plans are like building blocks to arrange any way you want. Have limited space? Select a single plan or use part of one. For large spaces, simply repeat a plan or combine it with others. Best of all, the Know Maintenance system will show you how to reduce garden chores to only minutes a week. You’ll learn when to plant and water, how to weed strategically, and how to relax and enjoy the garden of your dreams. Noted plantsman and designer Roy Diblik has spent more than 30 years studying, growing, and enjoying plants. He is the owner of Northwind Perennial Farm, a nursery in Burlington, Wisconsin, and is best known as the plantsman behind the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Product details
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Timber Press (March 11, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604693347
ISBN-13: 978-1604693348
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 0.6 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
52 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#94,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Elsewhere, you'll need to translate his plant palette and redesign each plan. Plans are depicted as planting grids, in overhead view only. The absence of a ground-level view showing height and form makes visualization difficult, especially if you are not familiar with the plants. No photographs of executed plans (although for me that's not a showstopper). As an amateur, I was unable to browse through the plans to quickly narrow down which I might have further interest in. Instead I will need to work through each to get an idea of the ground-level view.On the Kindle, the font size for some of the plan legends is too small to read. Fortunately because the symbol used for each plant is consistent across all plans, it should eventually be possible to figure them all out. (There doesn't appear to be a key showing all the symbols in one place, and even if there were, on the Kindle it would be a pain to flip back and forth. I'll need to create my own key.)The most valuable contribution of this book to my admittedly novice-level knowledge was an insight into how a designer thinks about plants (as a living, multi-dimensional palette) and the patterns that can be developed in a design. The author's advocacy of developing an intimate knowledge of each variety of plant you work with covering all seasons through the years of its development is both inspiring and daunting. There is much to be gained from a study of this book, but it won't come easily.
Rarely has a garden book inspired me to actually make grand changes to my gardens. This book inspired me and gave me the tools needed to make the changes.There are already many excellent reviews here. I think most of the reviews for positive and negative aspects of this book are very fair, and true. This is not a "gardening 101 for idiots" book. You do have to read the book, and study the plans and the pictures. Sometimes you have to go back and forth in the book to find an answer to your immediate question. However, I find Diblik to be a true teacher and if you do "work" with his book, you will come away with the ability to make your own plan that fits into your own garden. One of the reasons that I give this book 5 starts is because it IS a new way of creating a bed, it IS ground-breaking and different than the million garden books we have on our shelves already from the last 50 years. If you think of this as WORKbook for helping you design a bed, I think you'll be very satisfied with this book.You don't have to cookie-cut his plans. I was able to use his ideas and meld them into my existing beds that are not open fields a la Diblik and a la Oudolf. Much of my yard is already established with shrubs/trees/perennials that I do not want to move. If you study his many garden plans (that have no pics), you start to see patterns in how he does his plantings. There are MANY photos in this book, plenty of them will give you the knowledge you need to imagine how these plans might look. He's showing you HOW makes the plans. It would be impractical and impossible to have pics of all of them. (One of the criticisms). Instead, he's sharing his process...how you can take a community of well-chosen plants and use them in endless flexibility to create a special garden, all your own.And, let me say that here in Wisconsin I was able to find many of his recommended plants on clearance in the fall. Fall is a perfect time to plant a garden in most areas of the country. You can save A LOT of money on grasses, etc, by buying them on clearance when everyone else is ignoring the garden centers. The types of plants Diblik recommends are often on steep clearance in autumn: grasses, salvias, nepetas, etc.
As a long-time gardening "putter-er" with an interest in native plants and naturalistic plantings, but with little skill in garden design and plant relationships to each other I found the overall concepts introduced in this book helpful. I am familiar with Roy Diblik's name from the Lurie Garden in Chicago and his work with Piet Oudolf. I read Oudolf's book "Planting: A New Perspective" before reading Know Maintenance. I appreciate Diblik's simple approach in helping me understand the concepts.Where the Know Maintenance book falls short, for me anyway, are in the accompanying visuals to the text in Chapter 5 ("Key Plants") and Chapter 6 ("The Garden Designs"). The written profile of each of the key plants and the role of sedges and bulbs is helpful. Also helpful is Diblik's "First Date" plant combinations (e.g. Allium "Summer Beauty" 40%; Sesleria autumnalis, 60%). Unfortunately each picture of the plant profile shows it combined with a different plant than mentioned in the "First Date" combinations. In the prior example, the photo of Summer Beauty is shown paired with an Echininea cultivar not with Sesleria autumnalis. This is very frustrating and not helpful to the novice who needs to be able to have a visual of how the plant combinations look together. Some of the photo captions are incorrect (i.e. Monarda bradenburiana photos/captions). Similarly, in Chapter 6 ("The Garden Plans"), Diblik provides a 2 dimensional matrix layout of plants. It would be nice to see how these plants look in the design through a photograph. For the spatially and visually challenged, visuals are necessary! Timber Press did a poor editing job. It should insist that their gardening books are not simply full of glossy picture to sell books but edit it from the perspective of a reader. Meh.That said, I'm glad I bought the book. Over the months I continue to reach for it time and time again as I try to use the knowledge in my own evolving garden. I did get a long-handled diamond hoe to help with routine weeding.
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