Tag: Perennial
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What blooms with what? That’s one of the big questions gardeners struggle with. This list of the best perennial plant combinations will help you create the most eye-catching pairings and fill your garden with color throughout the seasons. Pair Perennials and Roses Credit: Deb Wiley Add structure and beauty to your perennial plant combinations by…
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Maintaining Your Perennial Garden The beauty of a perennial garden is that once it’s planted, you’ll enjoy flowers that come back every year. Your work goes from planting to maintaining, deadheading, fertilizing, and making sure the garden is ready for the next year. Assuming that you’ve planted a garden filled with primarily native plants or…
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1 Campanula Birch Hybrid Feifei Cui-Paoluzzo//Getty Images Blooming from late spring to early summer, this hybrid bloom is a mix between the Serbian and Adriatic bellflower varieties. Growing wide, but short (under a foot), this plant is traditionally used as a floral filler or groundcover throughout garden beds. Be sure to provide plenty of water,…
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Many gardeners love perennial flowers. Plant them once, and the blooms return year after year. The 20 perennials you see here are ideal for beginners—low-maintenance, no-fuss, vigorous, and high-performing! What are Perennials? Perennials are those flowers that return reliably year after year—whereas annuals are those one-season wonders that add color and need to be replaced every spring.…
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With hundreds of species and varieties, picking the most low-maintenance perennial flowers that can thrive without needing much from you can be challenging, especially if you’re a new gardener. To simplify matters, this list of easy-to-grow perennials will point you in the right direction. Coneflower Credit: Bob Stefko Hot, sunny weather won’t stop coneflower (Echinacea…