A great many people now fully appreciate that a beautifully well kept garden can add a great deal of extra cash worth to their home. Not only that, a well designed garden can greatly increase the amount of useable space for yourself and your family. For these reasons, and some others besides, Garden Landscaping has, over time, grown to become an extremely popular hobby. High on the list for nearly all gardeners is a gorgeous yearly display of colorful and varied blooms.
While a large number of landscape gardeners choose to add color by using annual flowers, others conclude that using Perennial Garden Plants is the best method. Annuals are those plants which germinate, develop, bloom and die in only the one year whereas Perennial Garden Plants will continue to bloom year upon year. Obviously there are advantages and minus points for both annual flowers and Perennial Garden Plants and Garden Landscaping is all about deciding which is the most suitable blend of the two.
Many people have heart warming memories of distant days spent in a grandmother’s garden enjoying the gorgeous fragrances of many old fashioned favorite Perennial Garden Plants. Unfortunately it can be rather difficult for even the most keen gardener (including some seasoned professionals) to replicate old fashioned gardens because a large number of the specific types/cultivars are no longer available. You will be happy to hear that many of the old fashioned cultivars have been replaced by strains which are much more resistant to disease, so you can often discover suitable replacement plants which show hardly any (other) difference to the old fashioned plant.
Old Fashioned Perennials
One of the most popular Perennial Garden Plants used in Landscape Gardening today is the Yarrow which was first used in American gardens in colonial days when it was brought over from Europe. Achillea is a very old fashioned plant used since the days of the Greek hero Achilles (from whom the plant gains it’s name) who used it to treat his soldiers. Achillea can stop bleeding and works amazingly well at healing wounds.
Yarrow has beautiful flattish groups of small blooms that look rather daisy like. Achillea are available with flower heads in a variety of colors ranging from different shades of pinks, yellows and whites. Achillea are thought by most landscape gardeners to be relatively easy Perennial Garden Plants to grow. They are so simple to propagate because they are rather invasive plants which can be seen growing on the poorest of soil. If you wish to witness success with Yarrow you only need to avoid growing in boggy or poorly drained soil. The plants are fantastic at tolerating drought conditions. Achillea ptarmica and Achillea millefolium are two of the more popular varieties but there are various others available.
