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Perennial Designs


Perennial designs - or more appropriately designing perennial gardens - are easily learned. To be sure, there is an art to designing a great garden but there are also a few simple rules that, if followed, will give you an instantly better looking garden.

The one thing you need to do is start dreaming about the garden you want to create.

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Free Ebook to Help You Pick Plants


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Here is a free ebook I wrote about the Perennial Plants of the Year.


Cottage Garden



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Here are some great cottage garden plants,
The great thing about cottage garden plants is that they're inexpensive, hardy and easy to grow.

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Cottage garden design - note that this isn't what designers want you to think about.  





Other Design Tips

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How to Design a Perennial Bed   Five Major tips that will save you a lot of time and headache.



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How To Design/Build Bog Gardens



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Annual and Perennial Flower comparison to help you decide whether to grow annual or perennial flowers or a combination of both.

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There's some other garden design information here.

Other Design Articles

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Niche gardens - here's my politically incorrect definitions of a few garden styles along with my summary of what's really important.

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Hummingbird gardens plant list for attracting those wonderful garden-hummers.



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Butterfly gardening. plant lists and suggestions can be found here.



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Meadow gardens and is there a "faster" way to establish them?



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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.

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Fragrant perennials in your garden, click here



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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.

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And for a few more flower garden design tips, you might want to click here

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I'm now taking some semi-retirement time, so questions about perennials are now only being answered here. (Click Here)


You may find yours already answered so do check out the lists below



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 ...

DRIFTS..  You said to plant in drifts...with the baby's breath should you plant several drifts throughout the whole garden? Like 3 in one spot and 3 to 5 in another ...

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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