Perennial Blog

It’s wonderful that Botanic Garden and Research Center Mt. Cuba in Delaware runs their trial gardens. One of many reasons, why this place was voted the Best BotanicGarden in 2020.Quite recently Mt. Cuba started to observe attractiveness for pollinators on the trialed plants. This is a difficult, maybe debatable task...Do the plants only attract or truly support the pollinators? There is still a lot of unknown, especially about the quality of n… Read more

Growing up in the Czech Republic, Radovan “Rad” Hajek loved to watch his grandmother work in her colorful flower garden. “Since I can remember, being about 4, she always had a beautiful front garden full of flowers, perennials and annuals,” he says.“One of my very early memories with flowers was drawing pictures on the concrete with the flower buds of spiderwort, Californian poppies and moss rose,” he adds.Rad also would trail along aft… Read more

Published on September 9, 2017 on www.czechgardener.comHallo everyone,although I have some ideas of the design of the whole 2 acre land, it’s still in my head only. But I already started on several partial projects – in the most needed areas. Finally some creative work, although general maintenance is creative too.The internal organization of the whole garden also depends on creating potential rain gardens (areas for soaking extra rain wa… Read more

Here are just some pictures of individual plants, perennial combinations and bulbs, that were planted in flowering vineyard flower bed. Pictures were taken since early spring 2018 till August 2018. Flower bed was designed for non-stop flowering since early spring (bulbs) till late fall (fall asters, grasses) and should be supported by very long flowering annuals like Zinnia, Verbena bonariensis or others."Empty" areas for annuals were filled with… Read more