The selection of wild perennials for the garden is of particular importance. The garden perennials known today were created through further breeding. In most cases they outperform their wild relatives in terms of stability, robustness, longevity and flowering potential. Often one finds the expression 'perennial perennials'. That is a flawed term. Because there are no annual perennials. Annuals are summer flowers or annual plants. Perennials are generally perennial.
A perfectly beautiful garden lives from a balanced combination of perennials, annual summer flowers, shrubs and trees. If the combination is successful, beneficial insects such as bumblebees, beetles, butterflies, bees, birds and many other species will soon populate the garden. The garden perennials provide food for many species. This is also good for plant health, because many useful insects are used to combat pests. Healthy nature protects itself, the use of the chemical club can be omitted. And if hardy perennials are placed in the right location, they will delight the gardener for many years with their flowering pleasure and beauty.
Optimal planting time
Although perennials can now be bought in specialist shops all year round, the best time to plant them is still autumn. The plants are now growing. However, the soil is still warm so the roots can still grow. Now the plant can prepare for a good, healthy start to spring. Exceptions to this rule are some types of lily that are sensitive to frost. These are only planted from March to May.
Prepare the soil
A soil loosened before planting mixed with some compost provides the right basis. Perennials feel good in loose, humus-rich soil. All weeds should be carefully removed with the roots. Once they grow in the rootstocks of the perennials, they can hardly be removed. In order not to give weeds a chance, mulching between the perennials has proven its worth
Tip: The planting distance between the perennials should be half the perennial height. With a final height of 40 cm, the optimal distance is 20 cm.
care
The time to care for our perennials begins in autumn. The perennials are cut off just above the ground. That creates space for the new one
Budding in the coming spring. It deprives putrefactive fungi of the breeding ground. And this measure prevents the uncontrolled seeding of the plant. If the weeds are now carefully removed and a thin layer of compost is spread around the perennials, the perennials will get through the winter vigorously and healthily.Autumn is also the best time to regulate the size of the plants. This becomes necessary after five to seven years and serves to rejuvenate and maintain health. To do this, dig up the root ball and cut it into fist-sized pieces with your hands or a spade. At the new location, the small root balls are placed in loosened soil enriched with compost. Press on well and pour on.
Rustic cottage garden
Perennials are the most important component in an expressive cottage garden with a natural look. They give the cottage garden its special charm and make the mind of the beholder receptive to tranquility and beauty. Popular perennials for the cottage garden are:
- Columbine
- Bed vine rose
- Burning Love
- Bush mallow
- Christmas rose
- Three-masted flower
- Monkshood
- Monkshood, blue and white
- Verbena
- thimble
- Thimble, white
- Cinquefoil
- Spring primrose
- Imperial Crown
- Cat paws
- Cockade flower
- Pasque flower, red
- Chinese lantern plant
- lavender
- Lupins
- Daisies
-
Musk mallow - Peonies
- phlox
- delphinium
- Cowslip
- Sun hat
- Perennial sunflower
- Cranesbill
- Hollyhock, double
- Daylily
- Turkish poppy
- Wasserdost
- Dwarf heart flower
This is what summer smells like
What would a warm summer evening in the garden be without the intoxicating scent of the wonderful scented perennials. They exude their scent lavishly and enchant the senses. The scent of lilies of the valley and fragrant violets is already enchanting in spring. But especially the summer belongs to the hardy scented perennials:
- Fragrant violets
- Peony
- Feather carnation
- Hosta
- Garden kabiosa
- Gold lacquer
- Catnip
- lavender
- lily of the valley
- Mexico kettle
- Musk alve
- Peony violets
- Peony violets, speckled
- Peony
- Purple silver candle
- sage
- Steinquendel
- Pigeon scabies
- Woodruff
Cut perennials for the vase
When the flowering perennials bloom profusely in the garden, it is a great pleasure to cut flowers for the vase. There are many different types of cut perennial:
- Columbine
- Bed bellflower
- Umbelliferous bellflower
- Peony
- Edelweiss Margerite
- Verbena
- Torch lily
- thimble
- Flame flower (phlox)
- Knapweed, pink
- Lady's mantle
- Spring marguerite
- Garden funkie
- Garden marguerite
- Autumn anemone
- Imperial Crown
- Cluster of bellflower
- Cockade flower
- Pasque flower, white
- Ox eye
- Pechnelke
- Pipe grass
- Splendid spar
- Prachtspiere, early
- Giant knapweed
- delphinium
- Red pasque flower
- yarrow
- Gypsophila
- Iris
- Summer marguerite
- Sun bride
- Coneflower 'Echinacea'
- Hollyhock, double
- Star umbels, big ones
- Marsh sheaf
- Turkish poppy
- Forest bellflower
- Wasserdost
The rock garden
An imaginative and natural rock garden is particularly popular in our gardens. It expressively embodies nature, is extremely easy to care for and a real feast for the eyes in every season. Rock garden perennials include:
- Alpine Columbine
- Bearskin grass
- Blue pillows
- Blue fescue
- Blood cranesbill
- Broken herb
- Leadwort, more Chinese
- Edelweiss
- Honorary award
- Feather carnation
- Sedum plant
- Thimble, white
- Cinquefoil
- Lilac cushion
- Rockcress
- Garden Alps
- Garden fat sheet
- Bellflower
- Gold flax
- Carnation
- Garden cranesbill, grayer
- Houseleek
- Heather carnation
- Heidegünsel
- Autumn cyclamen
- Autumn gentian
- Autumn magic
- Hunger flower, yellow one
- Hornwort
- Iceland poppy
- Johannis herbs
- Carthusian carnation
- Catnip, high ones
- Cat paws
- Pillow aster
- Knotweed
- Spherical primrose
- Ball thyme
- lavender
- Pasque Flower, purple
- Ice plant
- Clove root
- Ox eye
- Pechnelke
- Pearl buttons
- Peony
- Cushion bellflower
- Upholstery saxifrage
- Upholstery phlox
- Porcelain flowers
- Heron beak
- Rosette saxifrage
- Red spatula leaf
- sage
- Shamberry
- Gypsophila
- Candytuft
- Iris
- Soapwort
- Silver arum
- Summer gentian
- Summer rose
- Prickly pots
- Perennial midday flower
- Steinquendel
- Stone seeds
- Cranesbill
- Carpet sedum, red
- Carpet sedum
- Black catnip
- thyme
- Forest anemone
- Milkweed
- Ornaments
- Dwarf bellflower
- Dwarf heart flower
- Dwarf upholstered phlox
- Gypsophila
- Dwarf tortoiseshell
frequently asked Questions
- If I cut flowers from 'cut perennials' for the vase, will the perennials not die? - No, cut perennials keep sprouting new flowers and don't mind cutting off the flower stalks. On the contrary, the perennial is stimulated to sprout a second flower, which can then last until the end of the growing season.
- Why do perennials have to be cut back after flowering? - Pruning promotes the health of the perennial. It is also stimulated to flower a second time and self-sowing through seed formation is prevented.
- When is the right time to divide perennials? - If the perennial has grown too big after five to seven years or only blooms in parts, it should be divided. The best time is autumn. The rhizome is taken out and cut into fist-sized pieces with the spade. These will be used at a new stand with a little humus. Press the pieces on well, pour them on and the cycle can start all over again.
Worth knowing about bedding plants in brief
A wide variety of plants can be found on beds. There are vegetable beds, fruit beds or flower beds. While flower beds are usually designed for a beautiful view of the garden, the yields from vegetable and fruit beds can be used for consumption and thus valuable things for your own Bless you contribute. Depending on which type of bed you prefer, you should make a selection of suitable bedding plants:
- The location of the bed and the nature of the soil play an important role. Is it shady or sunny there?
- Is the earth nutrient-rich or is it lacking in certain nutrients?
- Should they only give joy for a year or should they grow in one and the same place for several years and maybe even multiply and enlarge?
These are all important questions that decide in advance whether the bedding plants will thrive.
- Flowers as bedding plants are often only chosen as annual varieties. It is the same with many types of vegetables and fruits.
- Stand as bedding plants for the flowerbed Petunias and Geraniums first of all. In the case of fruit, it is strawberries and in the case of vegetables, tomatoes.
Since the climate is getting milder here too, bedding plants are increasingly pushing in from warmer regions. Zucchini or aubergines can be found in beds just as much as our popular bean bushes and kohlrabi plants.
- The most popular perennial bedding plant is undisputedly the rose in their various shapes and colors.
- Lately it has often been combined with lavender, which fills the environment with a pleasant scent and at the same time creates splashes of color in the bed.
- The wide range of bedding plants ensures that you can find the right bedding plant for every corner of the garden.
- Since bedding plants for the flowerbed come in all possible shapes and colors, you can let your creativity run free.
- Because most bedding plants are annual, is one Redesign of the garden given every year.
- Beginners and advanced learners can also try their hand at bedding plants. Many varieties are hardy and do not require a lot of maintenance.
- The only thing you have to bring with you is the fun of it Gardening when planting and removing bedding plants.
