Choosing Perennial Flowers for Your Garden

Choosing Perennial Flowers for Your Garden

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  1. If you enjoy having the same flowers return year after year on your property, then a perennial garden may be for you! When planting a perennial flower garden, it is important to know when each of the plants will flower and the size and height of each plant.

    • Hostas are a great plant to put either around the edges and borders or to place as a centerpiece. They grow large oval, pointed tip leaves, some streaked with white or yellow. In the summer months a tall spike will grow straight up and out of the leaves and it will produce small clusters of lavender colored, trumpet shaped flowers. Many other perennial flowers look great when placed along side the hostas.
    • Salvia grows almost a foot tall, so it makes a good plant to place in the back of the garden. It’s tall, red groups of flowers make a wonderful backdrop to your display, and they will bloom all summer and into fall for extra long enjoyment.
    • The adorably named, hens and chicks are a very nice succulent perennial plant that will grow in clumps and multiply over the years with many new chicks every spring. They do not produce a flower, but instead they have a flower shape all year long! Hens and chicks like to go in a planter and overflow out of the sides for a unique decorative look.
    • Canna plants are very hardy and will grow more full and lovely every year they come back in your garden. There are many varieties that all make a different color flower, but most have the same long, tall green spike leaves that are the first to appear in late spring. Cannas grow very tall and full so they are best placed in the very back of your garden or along garden edges for a majestic and colorful display of flowers in the late summer.
    • Cheddar Pink plants are low lying ground clumps of pretty green tiny leaves and pink fancy flowers in the spring. They make a nice patch for bare areas in your garden.
    • An amazing perennial bush style plant that makes strange and unusual flowers in the spring is the bleeding heart bush. It produces white heart shaped flowers topped with a blood red petal top and a red center that makes the flower seem to appear to be dripping blood out of the bottom.

    If you know which plants bloom at their selected times, you will have a flashy, head turning perennial garden that will grow and return year after year, for your gardening enjoyment.

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