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Designing A Perennial Garden


Secrets for designing a perennial garden

A perennial shade garden is a real beauty. There are so many varieties of perennial shade flowers, each of them unique and beautiful.

Designing A Perennial GardenPerennials bloom from the beginning of spring until the end of autumn. That's why these gardens are always colorful and mesmerizing: when one type of flower withers, another one blooms. Having a perennial garden is easy and rewarding.

Perennial flowers need to be planted in the spring. Most of them are sold as small plants, which you just have to plant carefully, while others are sold as roots.

When you plant the flowers, make sure that you leave enough space between them. Also remember that some perennials like living in the shade, while others need more sunlight.

When you decide which flowers to pick, think about the height and color of the plants. The height is especially important, because you don't want to end up with a garden that has very tall flowers in front, hiding all the smaller ones at the back. It is good to include some variations in height and colour in your garden plan.

Another thing you should take in consideration is that some flowers bloom in the spring while others later. It's good to choose different types of flowers that bloom over different periods so that your garden is always colorful.

Since there are so many beautifully colored flowers among perennials, you should group them in some way. It doesn't look quite so nice if you have all kinds of colors scattered around the garden, try making groups of flowers of repetitive color instead. If you want to plant yellow flowers in one end of the garden, make sure you will plant another group of yellow flowers in the middle of the garden and maybe also in the end.

When designing a perennial garden, pick those flowers that have contrasting colors. You can choose some yellow ones and purple or violet ones for example. If you plant these near each other, they will have a very nice contrasting effect, always a pleasing thing to look at.

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