Perennial Garden Plans
While I'm getting some plans up here, here’s a few thoughts and a few suggestions for putting your own plan together together.
Perennial Garden Plans...the Beginning
To begin withgood perennial garden plans depend on blocks of plants rather than single plants scattered through your garden. Do plan on planting at least three of every variety rather than one.
Those gorgeous photographs we all drool over in magazines are of large blocks of plants (even if they look like a single plant) called “drifts”.
Colour Selection
Secondly, choose colours for your perennial garden plans based on a mix of colours or from a colour wheel selection (it is in my book). Understanding and using the colour wheel and colour chords is a great way for beginners (or even advanced gardeners) to make decisions about getting great colour combinations that will wow the neighbours.
Pick the Right Plants
Thirdly, you have to pick the plants that you can grow for your garden. Is your garden shady? Or very hot and dry? There is little sense in copying a garden plan that suggests you grow plants that are hardy in Georgia if you live in Alaska. :-)
One suggestion to avoid this is to find perennial garden plans that focus on colour combinations and then substitute your own plant choices in those colours. That way, you get a good colour combination but you also get plants that will survive in your garden.
And yet another way is to browse some of these pages looking for ideas. For example, you can create a butterfly garden using perennial plants.
Here's a page on Hummingbird Gardens
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