Who says that you cannot have a colourful garden for a number of years? There are perennial flowers that you can plant in your backyard and enjoy them for several years before you have to reseed them.
Blanket Flower – Also known as Gaillardia, this flower is heat and drought tolerant and is classified as a wildflower. It has red, gold and brown colours and is about the size of a daisy. Although it is a flower with a very short life span (between 12 and 24 months) it is easy to grow and can bloom even in poor soil.
Veronica – This spike-shaped flower is about 7 inches tall and blooms atop a 12 to 24 inches tall stem. It can be found in both blue and red and thrive in sun, but it requires a bit of shade as well. Although it is a capricious flower, the Veronica has a long life span and once seeded you will be able to enjoy for the years to come.
Phlox Paniculata – It grows 3 to 4 feet tall and produces large flowers with a sweet fragrance and unique colour that is a blend between pink, red and white. The flower is an all time favorite and is often used by gardeners and landscape designers to add a more vintage and natural mood.
Russian Sage – This plant is suited for large gardens, as it is 3 feet wide and 5 feet tall and created clusters of small blue flowers. It likes the sun, but is extremely tolerant to drought and heat, which means that it doesn’t require much maintenance. In fact that only thing that they require absolutely is room to grow.
Asters – This flowers can be described as a multi-hued plant as it blooms in pink, purple, blue, and red. It can reach to a height of 5 feet, depending of its specie and can be used as outdoor or indoor plants. They have a long lifespan and are relatively easy to maintain.
Purple Coneflower – Classified as a prairie wildflower, is highly tolerates towards drought and heat. It has a unique appearance as it tends to push its petals backwards and ovary outwards. The flower can reach a height of 30 inch and just like the Phlox Paniculata is often used by landscaping experts.
Yarrow – Yarrows are extremely easy to seed and grow as they require very little gardening skills. The plant is tolerant towards cold, heat and drought and can thrive in both poor and rich soil. It produces cluster of minuscule pink, white, yellow and red flowers and has dark green foliage that contracts with the flowers.
Once you are planting these flowers in your garden, call a company that provides rubbish removal services to collect and dispose of the gardening waste for you. By using the services of a rubbish removal company you will speed-up and ease the waste clearance process and you will be able to call it a day much more quickly.
Honourable mentions: Peonies, Siberian Iris, Penstemon, Daffodils, and Black Eyes Susan.
