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Perennials is broad category that encompasses plants that come up year after year. Their duration of bloom tends to range from 2 - 4 weeks with a few exceptions on either extreme. Perennials can be chosen for colors, height and size and time of yearly bloom per the designations early, mid and late. |
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Some perennials have a neat habit, i.e., they tend to be the same size year after year. Others such as monarda will spread from a few inches to a foot or more each growing season. To keep space competition among garden plants in balance, one has to occasionally remove the unwanted portions of perennials for possible transplanting elsewhere, or discarding. Other perennials such as day lilies require plant division every few years. Otherwise the root tubers become so congested that all the plant's energy goes into finding more root space and there is little left over for producing flowers.
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It is a rare perennial that doesn't require almost constant sun each day. Otherwise the plant becomes taller (leggier) and thinner than it should. Primula and hostas (which I consider more of a ground cover than a perennial), and some of the tender bulbs such as caladiums and tuberous rooted begonias are able to tolerate a lot of shade. |
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