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A surprising number of people now totally understand that a beautifully well kept garden can add a great deal of extra monetary value to their home. Further to this, a cleverly designed yard can greatly enhance the amount of useful space for your family and you. For these factors, and a few more besides, landscape gardening has, over time, grown to become an extremely popular way of passing the time. Top of the list for nearly all gardeners is a gorgeous annual display of colorful and varied blooms.

While a large number of landscape gardeners opt to add color by using annual flowers, others decide that using  perennials is the better method.  Annuals are those plants which {grow, flower and die|germinate, develop, bloom and die} in only the one year whereas perennials will continue to flower year upon year. Of course there are advantages and minus points for both annual flowers and perennial flowers and garden landscaping is all about deciding which is the most suitable blend of the two.

A large number of people experience emotional memories of distant days spent in a grandfather’s garden enjoying the wonderous aromas of many old fashioned popular garden perennials. Sadly it can be rather difficult for even the most keen gardener (including some experienced professionals) to emulate old fashioned gardens because many of the specific types/cultivars can no longer be purchased. You will be happy to hear that many of the older cultivars have been replaced by strains which are much more able to withstand disease, so you can often find suitable replacement plants which show hardly any (other) difference to the older plant.

Traditional Perennials

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 brought over from Europe. Achillea is a very old fashioned plant used since the days 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.

Achillea ptarmica

Achillea millefolium has beautiful flattish clusters of small flowers that look rather like daisies. Achillea  come with flower heads in a selection of colors ranging from different shades of yellows, whites and pinks. Achillea are considered by most gardeners to be relatively easy perennial plants to cultivate. They are so simple to propagate because they are rather invasive plants which can be seen growing on the poorest of ground. If you wish to witness success with Achillea millefolium the only thing is 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 others available.

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