 Perennials are the backbone of any garden.
Like reliable friends they reappear each year filling the gardens with unique foliage and
beautiful flowers. With some fore-thought and careful garden design your landscape can be
transformed from generic to gorgeous. Perennials not only add color to your gardens,
they provide structure and textures as well. The overwhelming number of perennial
verities available allow you to design any garden style you desire. To achieve the results
you dream about you will need to consider a few basic elements perennial garden design:
Design your garden beds and borders to be at least 4 - 6 feet deep and
plant perennials so that they taper in heights. If you are planting in an island use
taller perennials in the center and have the shorter ones gradually stair step to the edge
Plan for a succession of blooms. Combine perennials that have
different bloom times so that the garden has color in it all season.
Select a color scheme for your garden design. Find color
combinations that appeal to you and plan your garden around those colors.
Repeat colors through out the design to tie the whole garden or
landscape together.
Decide on a style, formal or informal. This is usually determined by
your own taste and by the style of house you have.
Plant in groups of 3 and 5. One lonely plant usually looks like a
mistake except if it was meant to be a specimen and most designers don't use perennials as
specimens.
Introduce shape and texture to the garden with a variety of low growing
mat type plants, large round mounded type plants and spiked sword like foliage. The
combination of different type textures really makes a garden stand out.
Don't be afraid to move plants around - it may have looked good on paper
but after seeing the results if you think something would look better in another location
- dig it up and move it.
Great garden designs are usually the efforts of many years of work.
The perennial gardener is never "finished" with any bed or border in their
garden. It is an ongoing process and of course a labor of love.
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