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What are Perennial Plants?

Perennial plants are flowering or foliage plants with roots that live from year to year and tops that may or may not die back in the winter, depending on the particular plant. Santa Rosa Gardens carries a wide assortment of perennials to order, each chosen for its unique characteristics and beauty in the garden.

Perennial plants can be grown in a garden bed by themselves, in front of shrubs, under trees, or mixed with annuals. (Annuals are those flowering and foliage plants that live and bloom for only one season, are killed by frost, and must be replanted the following year.) Although perennial plants don't bloom for as long a period as some annuals, perennials offer something different that will reward the gardener?s efforts year after year. The home gardener can have blooms all summer by carefully choosing a combination of perennials.

A perennial garden requires some thought and planning. Perenial plants should be chosen for attractive color, period of bloom and height. A large planting usually has low growing perennial plants in the front with several sections of taller perennials behind them. A small planting may have room for only low growing perennial plants if the planting is to seem appropriate for the site.

Perennial plants don't have to be kept to themselves. They revel in company and do quite well surrounded by annuals and shrubs. They also work wonderfully as container plants in mixed plantings. Look through our site and explore some of the combinations of perennial plants possible in your own garden landscape.