★Katrin Lugerbauer has received numerous industry awards and honors for her works, including:
*"Best Guide Award" of the German Horticultural Book Award;
*"Top Five Gardening Books of the Year" by the German Horticultural Association;
*Bestseller on the Spiegel bestseller list for several consecutive months.
★ This book has won the "Special Award of the Perennial Plant Lovers Association" in 2025!
★Katrin Lugerbauer has condensed over 20 years of first-hand consulting experience into a "first aid manual for problem corners". The core idea is: first diagnose "why it doesn't grow well", and then provide low-maintenance solutions for "planting the right plant in the right place", so that typical "greening blind spots" such as damp ditches, tree root compression zones, and dry and hot wall roots can also be attractive all year round.

You must have also encountered this situation: no matter how you plant, there's always a corner in the garden that just won't grow anything, which is simply maddening! Horticultural expert Katrin Lugauer explains for you: Why do some areas just not grow plants? How to improve the soil? What does it mean to plant "in accordance with local conditions"?

The book uses vivid cases to help you accurately identify the "problematic" areas in your own garden and provides practical and feasible optimization solutions. Whether it's sandy soil, shady areas, or a "green hell" overgrown with weeds, there are corresponding robust perennial plants that can handle them. With the author's personally tested variety recommendations and combination schemes, you can also bring new life to the dull corners and have flowers blooming continuously.

Katrin Lugerbauer

For over 20 years, Katrin Lugauer has been engaged in gardening practices at multiple locations, always passionate about creating landscapes with perennial plants, whether in sun or shade.

Her planting style is close to nature, lush and unrestrained, always referring to the original habitats of plants and adhering to the concept that "gardens should not only be beautiful but also have ecological value."
- Her writing also revolves around these core issues:
- How to create long-lasting and low-maintenance flower beds with perennial plants?
- Which plants complement each other visually and in terms of growth habits?
- How to make the garden a paradise for wild animals at the same time?