Benefits of perennials

  • Low Maintenance: Perennials come back year after year, so you don’t have to replant them each spring.
  • Seasonal Interest: Many perennials offer visual interest throughout the growing season, with foliage, flowers, or fruit that provide color and texture.
  • Cost Effective: Although perennials may be more expensive than annuals, they will return year after year, making them cost-effective in the long run.

Use cases of perennials

  1. Borders and foundation plantings
  2. Mass plantings and ground covers
  3. Rock gardens and wildflower gardens
  4. Cut flowers and arrangements
  5. In combination with other plants in a food forest

Perennial at Beyond Buckthorns

At Beyond Buckthorns we have a lot of different perennials in our permaculture design. I use some of them in my indoor food forest, but also outside we have in different locations perennials planted. As a brewmaster my personal favourite is hops.   

 

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Food forest in Zone 1 at Beyond Buckthorns

Designing a food forest for Zone 1

by Nick
on
at Zone 1

This design is for a small multi layer garden (forest garden). It shows how easy it is to transform ~ 100 m² with permaculture design into a productive area.

Herbs on the windowsill

Overwintering Herbs - Trial and Error

by Lumia
on
at gardening

Last summer I sowed and planted all kinds of biennial and perennial herbs in my garden.

From seed I had

  • thyme
  • marjoram
  • parsley and
  • chives

and as young plants from the garden store I… more