Create a Perennial Garden – a garden that lasts forever
With so many perennial flowers to choose from, a perennial garden is not a bad idea – especially when you know that you can carry on enjoying blooms through out the year, without having to go through the hassle of planting your blooms through out the year. This is the reason, why many gardening enthusiasts are turning towards the option of having a perennial garden – a garden that lasts forever.
There are many ways you can start your own perennial garden. For instance, you could buy seeds and plant them; or buy potted plants where they have already been seeded; or buy bulbs for planting. You could choose any one of the alternative to start your own perennial garden with an assurance that you will get colorful blooms through out the year. It is entirely up to you, to choose the method from any of these, depending on which method suits you best.
Then you have to decide what kind of blooms you would like for your perennial garden. The choice is yours – be it a yard long stretch of tulips; pansies, peonies or California poppies could be your preferred flowers – with a border of baby’s breath. There is an amazing variety of colors and types of flowers you could choose from. Innumerable hues, countless shapes and sizes of flowers are all available to you to adorn your dream garden. Take a trip down to your local nursery if this is the place you normally buy bulbs from. Or any other shop which sells bulbs and located near your home and choose as many as you like and have room for in your garden. Just make sure that the bulbs that you buy have been taken good care of. In case you find that the bulbs have been stored in a greenhouse, know before hand that they are most probably damaged and not likely to bloom the next year. Look out for bulbs which have been stored under cold storage facility. When planting your newly-acquired bulbs for your perennial garden, make sure that the soil has adequate drainage. When you plant the bulbs, plant them at least 6 to 8 inches deep. Leave adequate space between two bulbs, so that when they grow up, there is enough room for both to survive and there is no overcrowding. This not only spoils the look of the garden but makes it difficult fort the plants to survive.
Another important decision you have to take is whether to have the patches of flowers in the garden should be made up of a single type of flower or you want the patch to be made up of a number of types of flowers but of similar color. It could be that you want many colors from the same flower or you wish to mix the bulbs of various types of flowers in one single patch. Some people also prefer a really mixed group. In any case, when the flowers bloom, they really add a lot of color and joy to the entire garden. The most redeeming part of a perennial garden is that you could enjoy this colorful scenario through out the year, though you have taken the trouble of planting them only once.
Darren Williger is a tea drinking, guitar playing, meditating, wine making sales maker who writes for MiniGarden.com, RoseMaven.com, and HomemadeWine.com.
