Perennial Classics – Planting & Growing Great Perennial Gardens

Perennials are the backbone of the garden -- a low-maintenance, long-growing mainstay that the garden revolves around. I've worked with perennials for 20 years, as a manager in the perennials section at the local nursery, and then as a municipal horticulturist in charge of over 20 gardens around the city. I've grown perennials from seed, potted them bare-rooted, divided them, deadheaded them, treated them for diseases and pests. Everything I've learned over the years I share here in this book -- Perennial Classics.

Melinda R. Cordell

About Melinda R. Cordell (St. Joseph, Missouri Author)

Melinda R. Cordell

My book, Courageous Women of the Civil War, has just been published by Chicago Review Press. I earned my Master’s in Writing for Children from Hamline University, where I worked with Gary Schmidt, Mary Logue, and Marsha Chall. My fiction and articles have appeared in Cicada, Cricket, Highlights, Read, and The Horn Book, and I’ve written for many gardening magazines.