A great many people now totally appreciate that a gorgeous well kept garden can add a large amount of extra monetary value to their home. Further to this, a well designed backyard can greatly increase the amount of useable space for yourself and your family. For these reasons, and a few more besides, landscape gardening has, over time, increased to become an amazingly popular pastime. Top of the list for most landscapers is a wonderful yearly display of colorful and varied flowers.

While a large number of garden designers choose to create color by using annual flowers, others conclude that using  perennial garden fowers is the better method.  Annuals are those plants which {grow, flower and die|germinate, develop, bloom and die} in only the one year whereas perennial garden fowers will continue to bloom year upon year. Of course there are plus points and minus points for both annuals and perennials and gardening is all about deciding which is the most suitable blend of the two.

Many folk experience heart warming memories of long gone days spent in a grandmother’s garden enjoying the gorgeous fragrances of many old fashioned popular perennial plants. Sadly it can be rather problematic for even the most keen gardener (including some experienced professionals) to emulate old fashioned gardens because a large number of the specific types/cultivars are no longer available. You will be happy to hear that many of the older varieties have been replaced by strains which are much more resistant to disease, so you can often find suitable replacement plants which show hardly any (other) difference to the older plant.

Traditional Perennial Garden Plants

One of the most popular garden perennials used in landscape gardening today is the Yarrow which was first used in American gardens in colonial days when it was introduced from Europe. Achillea is an ancient plant used since the times of the Greek hero Achilles (from whom the plant gains it’s name) who used it to help heal his soldiers. Achillea is able to stop bleeding and works amazingly well at healing wounds.

Yarrow

Achillea has really pretty flat clusters of small flowers that are rather daisy like. Achillea  come with flower heads in a selection of colors ranging from various shades of pinks, yellows and whites. Achillea are considered by most landscape gardeners to be considerably easy perennial garden fowers to cultivate. They are so easy to propagate because they are rather invasive plants which can be spotted growing on the poorest of soil. If you want to see success with Achillea ptarmica you only need to avoid cultivating in extremely wet or poorly drained soil. The plants are fantastic at tolerating drought conditions. Achillea ptarmica and Achillea millefolium are two of the most often chosen varieties but there are various other types available.

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