Let's consider which perennial flowers can be used in the garden: easy-to-care-for, long-blooming, beautiful, and eye-catching, so that once planted, a flowerbed can be planted for years without replanting. Of course, you can add some vibrant annuals to a perennial flowerbed each year, as you please, and this will add a touch of novelty to a flowerbed that has become familiar over the years.
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Perennials can be categorized into groups: tall, medium, and short; shade-loving and sun-only; soil-indifferent and fertile; drought-tolerant and moisture-loving; long-blooming and profuse, all summer long, late summer, or just early in the season. We'll try to categorize the flowers for you, making it easier to choose the perfect fit for your garden.
You can create flowerbeds from a variety of species—start with low-growing ones, then plant medium-sized ones. Plant taller beauties closer to the fence. You can choose varieties so that some begin blooming early, in May, others pick up the baton in midsummer, and still others continue to delight the eye from midsummer until the frosts. With this selection, your flowerbeds will grace your property from May to October, delighting the eye and making your neighbors envious—how luxurious your flowerbeds are!
Shade-loving perennials
If your plot is located in a shaded area, don't worry. You can plant the shaded area with beautiful perennials, and they will delight you with their beauty and fragrance. These include:
- Astilbe, beautiful and magnificent. It's ready to adorn any shady spot in your garden with its magnificent blooms. You can choose from varieties ranging from low-growing to meter-tall, with flowers ranging from white to red. This beauty delights the eye with its blooms from June to mid-August.
- Hosta is a wonderful companion to astilbe, with beautiful, decorative, dense leaves that are a true gem in their own right. Hosta blooms with small, white bell-shaped flowers. Hosta is not very tall, growing up to 60 cm.
Perennials that bloom all summer
- Hybrid helenium is a beauty that blooms the longest. The abundance of varieties allows you to create a beautiful picture, choosing them so that they will bloom merrily from early summer and delight the eye until autumn. They love sun and abundant watering, and can be planted in any soil and anywhere in the garden. Heights range from 70 cm to 1 meter.
- Yarrow is truly a flowering champion! Once it begins blooming in June, it won't stop until the end of September.
- Sage is another record-holder for long-lasting blooms, and it smells so good you'll close your eyes in delight when you step into the garden! Plus, these two plants are beneficial, so they're definitely among the top long-blooming perennials!
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Autumn-flowering perennials
- The Japanese autumn anemone (partial shade) will simply enliven your fall garden with stunning blooms of white, pink, red, and every shade imaginable. Starting in August, the anemone will delight your already desolate garden for a long time, truly delighting you. However, it requires rich soil and partial shade.
- Magnificent geranium (partial shade) – it doesn’t delight with flowers for very long, only in June, but then its leaves become so beautiful that instead of flowers they decorate the area, and all summer long, turning muted red tones.
The most unpretentious perennials
- Catnip—it can easily be classified as such—is perfect for even the laziest and busiest housewife. Similar to lavender, it can replace it in harsh climates. It thrives on light and soil quality, is completely unpretentious, and is disease-resistant. It reproduces beautifully by division. After flowering, you can prune the plant and it will bloom again.
- Alchemilla is another completely unpretentious perennial. Like catnip, it thrives in sun, shade, rich soil, or dead wood. Just prune it immediately after flowering, otherwise it will crowd out all your flowers.
- Sedum is a beautiful flowering shrub. It adds a beautiful touch to your garden in the fall and winter; take a closer look at this easy-to-grow beauty. It loves sun and sandy soil.
To all of the above, let's finally add: the beautiful hollyhock, the bright and easy-to-grow hemp plant, the willow-leaved sunflower, the thalictrum, the rudbeckia, the daylily and peony, the phlox, the monarda and the cornflower, the pansy, the phlox and the gentian, the flax and the gypsophila, the carnation and the delicate cinquefoil. All of them will undoubtedly be a highlight of your garden!

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