Planting with Perennials
Top Tip
The Chelsea Chop gets its name owing to you chopping around
the same time as the flower show. Simply prune your perennials down by half in sections. This encourages it to flower later, meaning a longer flowering period across one plant.
Perennials are the backbone of nearly every flower garden. Unlike annual plants, which need to be re-planted each spring,
herbaceous perennials die down to the ground at the end of the season and then
regrow from the same roots the following year.
Perennial flowers are easy- care, dependable plants, offering enormous variety of colour and texture, and many are also fantastic for pollinating insects.
Herbaceous Perennial Planting Styles
Herbaceous perennials can be used in many popular planting styles, from a modern and contemporary feel to a traditional cottage garden look, or to a shady woodland theme. Or if you’re limited for space, perennials can simply make great container plants.
Planting with shrubs, roses and trees can create a beautiful backdrop for perennials, or can fill and give additional structure to beds and borders. Many gardeners also include annuals or biennials in their perennial gardens to provide splashes of colour throughout the season.
Bulbs can also be underplanted amongst tall perennials to add those extra dimensions to your planting style, and of course for that glorious early spring colour.
Perennials can be planted with ornamental grasses for their interesting textures and contrast to those that grow alongside them. Coastal style gardens are often created using grasses and perennials.
What’s your style?
Create a relaxed, natural and informal prairie-style border. Plant a mixture of grasses and flowering perennials en masse in blocks of colour like garden designer Piet Oudolf, who designed the prairie beds by the glass houses at RHS Wisley.
Or you might prefer a more formal and traditional planting style, with roses and Buxus to create your very own country house feel.
How about creating your own stunning container displays? Choose much-loved perennials like foxgloves, heucheras and penstemons for an informal look and feel.
If you are looking to fill a shady spot with more than just perennials, then we recommend choosing Ferns, Brunnera, wild Geraniums or Hostas as the perfect partners.
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