Perennials are an excellent way to add year round color to your landscape gardens without the stress of needing to switch annuals out for seasonal color or tending to high maintenance plants. Most perennials can be planted in either spring planting season, or fall planting season with little effort of maintenance until it's time to do the final cutback for the year! While you will want to water regularly in the first season unless we receive continuous rainfall, please don't be alarmed if you do not see blooms the first year - in the first season, perennials focus on establishing a solid root system and sometimes need extra focus on that, which will prevent the plant from fully blooming.
Like all gardens, regular weed control and supplementing with occasional water during dry months are required; perennial gardens are easy to maintain and provide beautiful arrays of color, which gives you more time to enjoy your landscape and less time tending to the duties that annuals, or other high maintenance plants would cause if planted.
Unlike annuals, perennials are a one time purchase that will provide you with years of enjoyment! Depending on the perennial of your choosing it could spread and provide you with additional plants if divided, or the ability to fill in a large space overtime. You can always choose perennials that provide you with long lasting blooms, or rebloom periods throughout the seasons to provide you with an even stronger investment!
The long term statement that a perennial garden or meadow offers is one that cannot be matched. You can plan and design your perennial garden to ship with the change of each season to provide you with continuous color and foliage year round. As an example, in the spring you could focus on shades of pink and blue, then transition to yellow and red for the summer before finishing up with strong bold oranges for the fall. Adding perennials to your garden only means that you can give it your own personal touch!
There is an abundance selection of perennials that range in varieties of size, color, and bloom periods throughout the season! While there are a lot to choose from - do not let that scare you as you will be able to hand select what is perfect for your own garden and potential challenges that you could face as a gardener. For example, do you have deer around your property, or are you planting a garden that would not be easy to water if we go through a period of drought? No worries at all as there are deer - resistant perennials and even options that can tolerate drought - like conditions! As you begin to focus on what you yourself wants as a gardener, then we can begin to narrow down the large select to a few of the best options available!