For the past few months I’ve been thinking of creating a large perennial patch for flowers and plants that will come back every year and so shouldn’t need replaced. I picked a sunny spot for an oval shaped bed around 15 ft long by 7 ft wide. Most of the plants I settled on I’d never seen in person before and while I managed to grow some from seed others I picked up others as bare roots over the past month in sales (April/ early May is a great time to get bare roots and bulbs at bargain prices). I was also given some perennial bulbs, but more on the plants later.
If you want to create a perennial bed the first thing to do is to work out where, and what type of soil you have. The soil in my garden is pretty rubbish for growing anything other than grass. It’s heavy, compacted clay that feels like a sponge when wet and turns into a hard mass when dry so I knew it would need some heavy amending with top soil and compost.
