Help Choosing Perennials

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Guide To Perennial Flowers

If you are like me, then you'll realize that after growing a herb garden for a while, that it's quite unpleasing to look at. Rather dull, don't you think? I mean there aren't that many colors etc. Recently a friend of mine told me he used perennial flowers to liven up his garden without any extra work. This got me interested and I got to work researching them.

What Exactly Are Perennial Flowers?

Well, perennials are strong and local flowers. They come back every year without any re-planting or any work for that matter. When they are out of their seasons, these perennial flowers and stems just die back, and it becomes difficult to tell wether or not there actually is a plant. When their seasons arrive again. They bloom entirely new flowers where the old perennial flowers used to be.

Firstly though you need to check if your soil has proper damage, you can test this by digging a hole, filling it with water. Then after a day you'll fill it once again and after 10 hours all traces of water should be gone. If not you can solve this by building a raised bed. That will make sure the water will be able to leave the area more smoothly.
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Help Choosing Perennials

Make a timeline of the flower's bloomperiods. What I mean by that is that you can choose different types of perennials and mix the seeds in such a way that you can have plants blooming at every time of the year. That will have your garden blooming constantly and give you a wonderful and colorful garden. Constantly changing colors.

Sometimes local florist or nurseries have something like custom seed mixtures that is just right for your area. That would take the entire timeline making and researching part out of the equation. Those xustom seed blends are mostly customized forthe climate and if they're not available you can always ask the florist or one of his employees for help. They'll be glad to help you out.

Definitely use mulch when planting your perennials, because this will reduce the amount of weeds and increasing the water retention and the work you have to do. You can use the bark of trees or pine needles would work just fine as well. You probably have some mulch lying around for free, buy it at the shop or you could even create your mulch for free.

When the seeding phase comes around the bend you should plant them in small clumps, as the directions would normally tell you to. These seeds have a tendency to spread out and if you would plant them all very close together they will end up chocking each other out.

Also when planting you should add a little bit of very weak fertilizer, to get your perennial flowers blooming in no time.