If all the varieties in your garden begin blooming in early June, there won’t likely be much colour left by September.Ĭheck the blooming information under each plant listing, or check plant tags at your garden centre. Although certain varieties will bloom for many weeks on end, most perennials bloom for three to four weeks at the most.
The hardest part about designing with perennials is planning for colour over an extended season. If you re-work a few areas each year, it won’t take very long at all to see a remarkable difference in your whole garden. Rather than look at your entire yard, try to focus in on just a few spots that could use some improvement. A basic book on landscaping will come in very handy at this point (I highly recommend any of the books written by British garden designer John Brookes). Changing the line of a sidewalk or the shape of a planting might be all that is required. Removing any diseased trees or shrubs might be a good place to start. Look at the basic landscape that you already have, and try to determine what the good and bad elements are. For myself, it is a nearly constant exercise to keep up on the newest and latest introductions. This is good in one sense, bringing diversity and greater possibilities into our lives, but it also makes the job of selecting the right plant ever more difficult.
The selection is now overwhelming, to say the least. Modern gardeners are very fortunate to live in a time when the passion for perennial plants has reached a frenzy like never before.
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