60-Perennial Container Gardening
A gardener has to think about how to make his garden look beautiful and how he can successfully do a good job of the landscaping. Many prefer to have annual plants while others like perennials only. It is always better to have a combination of both in your garden. Perennial plants will bloom several times during the year if the blooms that have come up and then dried are clipped properly and regularly. You can have the same plants giving you beautiful flowers right through the year, and this is why they are much more perfect when you have a garden for perennial containers.
Perennial plants are hardy by nature
Perennial plants are resilient to many plant hazards and can survive in any kind of conditions where even trees and scrubs do not grow much. These are very hardy plants and as they have such beautiful flowers too, are very advantageous to have in your garden. You can have some very nice and exotic displays with these perennial plants that will add to the beauty of your garden. Because the kind of roots that they have it is always better to pot them in containers that are deep and wide. These plants protect themselves by developing deeper underground.
What you need for perennial plants
For your perennial plants you need a proper container that has good drainage, you should also have a selection of different perennial to plant in the containers and to make an exotic and colorful composition. You could plant several different blooms together and for those plants that do not have blooms, they provide the foliage as a back drop.
Re plant the perennials often as these plants grow very rapidly and multiply they get too large for the container. You will have to remove them from the container and separate the excess plants and put them in different plant holders regularly to avoid them getting cluttered. The young plants that come up could be replanted in the soil or in different containers or you could gift them away to friends and other gardening enthusiasts. These plants are not too expensive and you can get a number of plants from just one of them especially if they are well cared for.
Perennials are an easy way to have constant blooms
You can have blooms in your landscaping and containers constantly with perennial plants. You could pick out all your favorite kinds and make beautiful arrangements in the containers which will last you for years.