Perennial Designs
The one thing you need to do is start dreaming about the garden you want to create. Here's a slide show with some great pictures of gardens built for dreaming. Click to move forward and close the window when finished.
Free Ebook to Help You Pick Plants
Here's a free ebook I wrote about the Perennial Plants of the Year.
Cottage Garden
How to design and cottage garden plants,
Cottage garden design - note that this isn't what designers want you to think about.
Other Design Tips
How to Design a Perennial Bed Five Major tips that will save you a lot of time and headache.Annual and Perennial Flower comparison to help you decide whether to grow annual or perennial flowers or a combination of both.
There are a lot of perennial designs tips in the articles listed below. I'm also working at including some perennial garden plans on this site.
There's some other garden design information here.
Other Design Articles
Niche gardens - here's my politically incorrect definitions of a few garden styles along with my summary of what's really important.Hummingbird gardens plant list for attracting those wonderful garden-hummers.
Butterfly gardening. plant lists and suggestions can be found here.
Three season gardens are gardens that are in bloom through spring, summer and fall. Here's the basics of how to do this; note that I also wrote a book on this subject you can check out here.
Fragrant perennials in your garden, click here
Green roofs will shortly be in a neighborhood near you Check out the differences between the three systems here.
Flower garden design tips, you may want to click on the link.
And for a few more flower garden design tips, you might want to click here
Questions and Answers
Meadow gardens and is there a "faster" way to establish them?
Ask a Perennial Design Gardening Question
If you have a question about perennial design, then feel free to ask it using this form.
Please note that the advice is by nature a general one - I can't design your garden for you but I may be able to point you to resources that will help you.
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What Other Visitors Have Asked about Perennial Design
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need help around a pool area We just put in an inground pool and have a 3 foot decking around. On one long side and one short side (L shape)we have a 3 foot area to plant. Behind ...
planting perrenials near maple tree i have a maple tree in the middle of my front lawn and it has a shallow root system that has spread across the WHOLE yard !!!! can i plant in there? should ...
Raised garden beds We want to make a large perennial shrub bed on existing lawn...our question: can we leave the lawn in and apply topsoil to a dept of a foot? If we leave ...
Perenial spring, summer and fall blooming plants for sunny garden
How many plants should be put in a 9X15 garden with a front and side views? This garden will be viewed by passengers on the trains and rail fans.
Doug ...
Very colorful Perrenial cut flowers for a beginner to grow
I know what I want--beautiful perrenial cutting flowers--but I need some STRONG directive guidance about where to start.
Doug says - go to this page ...
placing sun-loving perennials in shade A friend bought these wonderful flowers for me. I have no idea where best to put them. The 3 areas where I have flower-beds are mostly shaded with a ...
Gardening landscape help for beginner I have a 4x6 foot, with a little here and there spot that I want to put FULL SUN Perennials. I don't know were to begin. I don't know what plants to choose ...
More on Designing I have purchased your book - but I am looking now for more of your advice strictly on design, with pictures and diagrams. ( pointing out names of plants ...
Flowering Spikes: Perennials versus Annuals Hi. I live in Queens, New York. So that's the Eastern part of the nation. I'm thinking about ordering Lupines Russell Hybrid Mix to use in two containers ...
Black eye susans and daffodils The house we bought has an area on the side of the house that has daffodils and black eye susans. What can I plant that blooms between those? Seems there ...
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