Perennials
People often ask how you can have a colourful and interesting garden without putting in new plants every season, and the answer is to grow perennials. A perennial is a term that is used to describe soft plants like Lambs Ears (Stachys byzantina) ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Digging Deeper - Perennials: Means work!
When I started to plan a cottage garden for my wife Annie, I needed to rely on lots of colour and flowers early in the life of the garden so I had to rely on using annuals in great drifts. However as the garden has matured the perennials have ... [... more]
Green Fingers AU |
Garden Gurus Online Shop
The garden gurus new online shop is one of Australia's largest. There are some great plants you will just have to add to your new garden like Gymea Lily. You will find bulbs, perennials, shrubs, trees, nifty garden ornaments and tools. Garden ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne - Perennial Borders
The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne has some great alternate cottage plant examples such as those in the perennial border garden. Commonly used in English garden style designs, perennials work tremendously well in Australian gardens as we have a ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Instant Garden
Michael McCoy has created an amazing garden which has maximum impact in minimum time. A year ago the 0.1ha (0.2acre) backyard lawn was sprayed to kill it off and the whole area was planted out with herbaceous perennials. Within 12 months the ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Cloudehill Nursery and Gardens
Late spring and summer is an outstanding time to get out and explore gardens because it is the height of perennial colour and if you are after an inspirational garden to visit then Cloudehill Nursery and Gardens in the Dandenong's is one of the best. [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Tiger Grass
This striking plant from Thailand looks like bamboo but it's actually a perennial grass. In Asia the large leaves are used to wrap food for steaming, and the flower heads are tied together and used as brooms. Perennial grass with stout culms to 3 ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Salvia - Sage
Salvia consists of as many as 900 species of annuals, perennials and soft- wooded shrubs, distributed through most parts of the world except very cold regions and tropical rainforests. The flowers come in a wide range of colors, including some of ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Solanum
This genus has over 1,400 species including trees, shrubs, annuals, biennials, perennials and climbers from a range of habitats worldwide. Some evergreen, some semi-evergreen or deciduous. The genus includes important food plants like the potato ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Roldana (Roldana petasitis)
A dense bushy perennial but not very woody shrub 1.5 to 2m high with softly hairy stems. Leaves are alternate, very large (to 20 x 20cm) and almost circular, softly hairy, with bluntly lobed margins and a long leaf stalk. Flowers are daisies with ... [... more]
Eurobodalla Shire Council |
Beautiful Borders
Many gardens in Australia flower for only two months a year and then retire until spring. But at Lambley Nursery near Ballarat in Victoria, David Glenn has a wide variety of perennials that will keep gardens in flower right through summer and ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
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Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) is a hardy perennial vegetable, best suited to cooler climates. It tolerates frost well. The succulent shoots emerge in early spring from the underground crown. Packed with vitamins and minerals, high in fibre, ... [... more]
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