Easy hardy perennials

EVERY flower garden depends on its perennial flowers for beautiful blooms and fantastic foliage for three, and sometimes even four, seasons of the year. Perennial flowers come back year after year and are good value for money. But planting a whole flower garden can be expensive unless, instead of buying plants, you grow your own hardy perennial plants from seeds.

Think about it. You can buy a packet of 25 black-eyed Susan seeds for about one-fifth of the price of buying just one plant of the same variety. The most economical way to raise perennials is not to buy plants, but to buy seeds, and many familiar perennial favorites such as lupins and delphiniums and echinacea can be grown in this way.

Grow a bargain

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