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A incredible number of people now totally appreciate that a gorgeous well manicured garden can add a large amount of extra cash worth to their home. It is also true to say that, a well designed backyard can greatly enhance the amount of useful space for yourself and your family. For these factors, and some others besides, gardening has, over the years, grown to become an incredibly popular pastime. High on the list for nearly all gardeners is a gorgeous annual display of colorful and varied blooms.

While many garden designers opt to create color by using annuals, others conclude that using  perennial garden plants is the better method.  Annuals are those plants which {grow, flower and die|germinate, develop, bloom and die} all in the one year whereas perennial garden fowers will continue to flower year after year. Obviously there are plus points and minus points for both annual flowers and perennial garden fowers and landscape gardening is all about choosing the the best mix of the two.

A large number of folk have heart warming memories of distant days spent in a grandmother’s garden enjoying the gorgeous fragrances of many old fashioned favorite perennial garden plants. Unfortunately it can be rather difficult for even the most avid gardener (including some experienced professionals) to emulate old fashioned gardens because a large number of the varieties (of species) are no longer available. Happily many of the old fashioned cultivars have been superseded by strains which are more able to withstand disease, therefore you can often find suitable replacement plants which have little or no (other) differences to the old fashioned plant.

Traditional Perennial Garden Plants

One of the most popular perennial flowers used in garden landscaping today is the Yarrow which was first used in American gardens during colonial days when it was introduced 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 treat his soldiers. Achillea can stop bleeding and works incredibly well at healing wounds.

Achillea millefolium

Achillea ptarmica has beautiful flattish groups of small blooms that look rather like daisies. Achillea  come with flower heads in a variety of colors ranging from different shades of pinks, yellows and whites. Achillea ptarmica are thought by most gardeners to be relatively easy garden perennials to grow. They are so easy to propagate because they are rather invasive plants which can be seen growing on the poorest of ground. If you want to see success with Achillea ptarmica the only thing is to avoid growing in extremely wet or poorly drained soil. The plants are well able withstanding drought conditions. Achillea ptarmica and Achillea millefolium are two of the most often chosen varieties but there are various other types available.

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