The power of perennials v.2

I have been totally enamoured by the perennial patch this year - it's finally coming together. Echinacea provides the pop of colour in an area filled with salvia, ammi, dara and the early forms of echinops and eryngium. Spikes of crocosmia are spearing the air too. In other areas perennial scabiosa, pink pokers, sea lavender, loosestrife, roses, verbena bonariensis are all flourishing.

All the textures and colours that make for a splendiferous feast for the eyes.

Perennials are the jewel in the garden, the gifts the keep giving year after year. Split them occasionally and they'll come back more vigorously, and a chop down after their first flush will most certainly yield a second later in the season, although perhaps not as fulsome. Because perennials stay in the ground year after year they offer additional benefits to the environment, sequestering carbon month after month, providing valuable nutrition to the soil biology and underground ecosystem, give life to pollinators up top, and many will self-seed to provide more valuable perennial babies for the following season.

The garden here is becoming more perennial orientated for all the reasons above along with offering a greater sense of efficiency that nature figured out long ago.

I'm learning from the best!