PLANTS WITH PURPOSE

I love perennial plants. I love the way they develop through the seasons, making garden life exciting at every twist and turn – every day new pictures unfold as shoots lengthen, buds swell and flowers open. They offer beautiful foliage, seedheads and often autumn colour too. It’s the way they change with the seasons that is so endearing and although the great majority are herbaceous, disappearing over winter, when they reappear they make up for lost time, filling our gardens with colour and perfume.

Of all the plants we can grow, perennials are the ones you can have most fun with. They are plants that collaborate, that mix and mingle, that complement each other, sometimes by contrast, sometimes in harmony. They give us a real opportunity to be creative and express ourselves.

Few garden perennials are fusspots – most are accommodating, easy-going and trouble-free. More importantly, they’re richly diverse, infinitely interesting and eminently beautiful.

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