Could you share with us some of your favorite perennial flowers and where you would suggest planting them?
Perennials are the flowers you don’t have to replant every year. Most perennial flowers have shorter bloom periods than annuals. Three- to six-week bloom periods are common. A typical perennial flower border contains varieties with overlapping bloom periods to give continuous bloom. The most appealing borders usually have three or more plants of each variety arranged according to height. However, my plantings frequently contain single plants of new varieties that I am evaluating.
I use fall-planted bulbs to produce the earliest flowers in my perennial flower beds. Clusters of bulbs can be planted wherever there is space between perennial plants after they have been trimmed back in the fall. There is space for the bulbs to grow where later blooming perennials are just beginning to grow in the spring.
Bulbs will come right through ground covers. I either plant the bulbs first and the ground covers right over the top or I make holes for individual bulbs between ground-cover plants.
