Using Perennial Garden Flowers in Landscape Gardening

A surprising number of folk now completely appreciate that a beautifully well kept garden can add a surprisingly large amount of extra monetary value to their house. Further to this, a well designed backyard can seriously add to the amount of useful space for your family and you. Because of these factors, and a few more besides, landscape gardening has, over the years, grown to become an amazingly popular way of passing the time. Top of the agenda for most landscapers is a gorgeous yearly display of colorful and diverse flowers.

While many landscape gardeners choose to add color by using annuals, others conclude that using  perennial garden plants is the best method.  Annual flowers are those flowers which {grow, flower and die|germinate, develop, bloom and die} in only the single year whereas garden perennials will continue to bloom year upon year. Of course there are advantages and disadvantages for both annual flowers and perennial garden fowers and garden landscaping is all about deciding which is the most suitable mix of the two.

A large number of people experience heart warming memories of long gone days spent in a grandmother’s garden enjoying the gorgeous fragrances of many old fashioned popular perennial garden fowers. Sadly it can be rather difficult for even the most avid gardener (including some seasoned professionals) to replicate old fashioned gardens because a large number of the specific types/cultivars are no longer available. Happily many of the older varieties have been replaced by strains which are much more able to withstand disease, therefore you can often find suitable replacements which have little or no (other) differences to the old fashioned plant.

Old Fashioned Garden Perennials

One of the most popular perennials used in landscape gardening today is the Achillea which first appeared in American gardens during colonial times when it was introduced from Europe. Achillea is a very old fashioned plant used since the times of the Greek hero Achilles (from whom the plant gains it’s name) who used it to treat his soldiers. Achillea is able to halt bleeding and works amazingly well at healing wounds.

Achillea

Achillea millefolium has really pretty flattish groups of small blooms that are rather like daisies. Achillea  are available with flower heads in a variety of colors ranging from different shades of yellows, whites and pinks. Achillea ptarmica are considered by most landscape gardeners to be relatively easy perennials to cultivate. They are so simple to propagate because they are rather invasive plants which can be seen growing on the poorest of ground. If you wish to see success with Yarrow you only need to avoid cultivating in extremely wet or poorly drained soil. The plants are well able withstanding drought conditions. Achillea ptarmica and Achillea millefolium are two of the most often chosen varieties but there are various other types available.

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