Maybe you have been to a botanical garden and wonder how they are designed so that every plant appears to be in the right spot.
Gorgeous plants that line a peaceful winding walk to a garden pond. Hummingbirds and butterflies are everywhere. Birds singing in the surrounding trees.
Have you thought about creating a micro habitat in your backyard using wildflowers?
Our site will help you through the process of planning including plant selection, layout, and design.
Authored by Bob Richardson, a Plant Restoration Biologist, and Larry Kay, a Consulting Horticulturist, Perennial Garden Plants is a very useful guide and reference for practitioners of all abilities.
We explain in a no-nonsense approach the essential practices that will help you be a successful and happy gardener.
We break down each category into sub topics to help guide you through important aspects of flower gardens.
Larry has put together lists of plants throughout the site which should help in regards to plant selection.
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You can buy perennials online from our store that features the highest quality perennial plants, seeds, soil amendments, and specialty items available anywhere.
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Garden Blog
The Garden Blog is a great way to discover What's New regarding perennial gardening.
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Your Virtual Table of Contents
Your virtual table of contents for Perennial Garden Plants
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Perennial Gardening
Perennial gardening involves using hardy plants that return each year to reward us for our efforts.
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Perennial Garden Plans
Perennial garden plans can be a simple or complex design of a project as you care to create.
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Gardening Advice
Decent gardening advice with emphasis on getting straight to the point with as little nonsense as possible.
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Full Sun Perennials
See our recommendations for the best ornamental full sun perennials.
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Shade Garden
The perennial shade garden can be one of the most intriguing and satisfying garden styles
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Ornamental Grass
During the past decade ornamental grass has reached a high level of popularity and rightly so.
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Perennial Vines
Best known of all vines probably is one of two or three choices.
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Perennial Flower Bulbs
Perennial flower bulbs describes a rather large selection of both hardy and non-hardy plant materials
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Ground Covers
All too often excellent ground covers are not used because landscape designers and home gardeners feel that taller varieties do not capture the role of an effective ground cover.
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Container Gardening Adds Beauty To A Garden
Container gardening can become the heart and soul of your perennial garden.
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Garden Ponds
For the last decade garden ponds have been the fastest growing area in the horticulture industry.
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Annual Flowers For Your Garden
Annual flowers provide an incredible variety of color and interest for your garden.
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Wildflowers
Native wildflowers can be an attractive and useful addition to almost any landscape.
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Rock Garden
The rock garden can be more appealing if the plants and rocks together form a well planned theme.
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Landscaping
Landscaping forms vary drastically from stuffy formal to calm and casual.
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Types of Flowers
When discussing the various types of flowers in the entire plant kingdom it becomes a project of enormous proportions and perhaps would take even a very long lifetime of diligent wor
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Flower Guide
Perennials have become enormously popular with the gardening public and we will touch the surface with comments and instructions as found in our flower guide for perennials.
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Perennial Plant Care
Perennial plant care is a guide that hopefully will be of assistance to you in your gardening with perennials.
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Planting Zones
For planting zones we advise you to use both the cold and heat hardiness maps as a guide and a guide only.
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Herb Plants
Herb plants make up a rather large list of both annual and perennial varieties in the plant kingdom and gardening with them can be both enjoyable and financially rewarding.
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Desert Plants
Desert plants make up some of the most unusual plant forms on the planet and cacti, depending on variety, can sport blossoms that are quite intense in color.
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Garden Railroad
The concept of the garden railroad has been around for a long time and probably was conceived when hobbyists wanted more space to enjoy their models so moved outdoors for expansion.
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Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledgement the following individuals for their contributions of valuable information as posted on Perennial-Garden-Plants.com
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