{"id":828,"date":"2009-04-21T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/04\/perennial-kits-or-do-it-yourself.html"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:18:03","slug":"perennial-kits-or-do-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/04\/perennial-kits-or-do-it-yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"Perennial Kits or Do It Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should you buy perennial kits or buy the plants yourself? I started with perennial kits and it&#8217;s worth it if you are a beginner.<\/p>\n<h1>Perennial Kits &#8211; Planting by the Numbers<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never gardened much with perennials before moving to Virginia. Frankly, we didn&#8217;t have enough room in my last two gardens. My parents&#8217; house in Floral Park, Long Island, had a garden the size of a postage stamp, mostly filled with my dad&#8217;s chrysanthemums and vegetables. My in-laws garden in Huntington, Long Island, where I lived after I married, had clay soil, dense shade, and lots of lawn. Gee, why wouldn&#8217;t they dig it up to put in more flower beds? Guess not, huh? I had to make do with what I had. Every bit of sun in that garden bed had a vegetable tucked in.<\/p>\n<p>The only perennials I&#8217;d bought before moving to Virginia were 1) daylilies 2) platycodon (Balloon Flower &#8211; Komanchi) and 3) heuchera (Coral Bells).<\/p>\n<h2>Perennial Plant Kits<\/h2>\n<p>When we moved, we had this awful bit of land on the side of the driveway. It sloped away very steeply and was bare dirt. The dirt was hard packed clay with lots of rocks thanks to the digging that had to be done to create our water well. The slope faced south, with the thick pine woods at its back.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n<h3>Plant Perennials<\/h3>\n<p>Plant perennials. Lots of them.<\/p>\n<p>That slope needed to be covered. The dirt eroded at a surprisingly fast and scary rate. So we rushed out and bought two perennial sun garden kits from Spring Hill Nurseries. Last March, I laid out the paths and got my long-held wish: a rose garden.<\/p>\n<p>The perennial kits are great. We had good luck with most of them, except the hollyhocks. The hollyhocks either didn&#8217;t grow or the Japanese beetles ate them faster than they could grow.<\/p>\n<p>But the other plants&#8230;well, read on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-942 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June.jpg 800w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/perennial-garden-June-600x429.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>My First Perennial Kit<\/h3>\n<p>The kit contained purple yarrow, purple and blue scabiosa (which always sounds like a Harry Pottery spell to me), orange gaillardia, and white and yellow daisies, along with purple mini hollyhocks and big hollyhocks. We originally bought two kits. I called Spring Hill to ask for replacement hollyhocks since so many didn&#8217;t grow. They sent me two more full kits at no charge! So I now have four sets of plants growing on the slope.<\/p>\n<h2>Perennial Kits &#8211; Plants for Virginia<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what thrived in southern Virginia:<\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yarrow<\/span>: I love this plant. It loves my hot, sunny slope. It has spread out in pools of green fronds and it is only its second year. I can&#8217;t wait to see how it blooms!<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gaillardia<\/span>: Not only did the plants thrive last year, with almost constant hot orange blossoms of <a href=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2012\/09\/how-to-grow-gaillardia-or-blanket-flower.html\">gaillardia<\/a> from June through November, but it reseeded. I saved seeds and have a flat of seedlings waiting to go into another garden. My plants decided to seed themselves and I&#8217;m excited to see about a dozen tiny gaillardia springing up among the other perennials. They already have flower buds.<\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Scabiosa<\/span>: Not everyone&#8217;s cup of tea, but the butterflies love the tiny pompom flowers. I think this one also reseeded. It loves the garden and seems very hardy.<\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Daisies:<\/span> I wish I could find the original packing slip so I can stop calling them both daisies, since I know one is probably rudbeckia, and I feel dumb for not using the Latin names. No matter. Thriving, thick clumps of plants already came back, and I&#8217;m excited to see seedlings for these guys too. I&#8217;ve also got some plants started from seeds I collected last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"y\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8980\" src=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain.jpg\" alt=\"picture of a daisy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daisy-in-the-rain-600x414.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There you have it &#8211; what worked and what didn&#8217;t. What didn&#8217;t are hollyhocks. The picture today is the one lone hollyhock that bloomed last year. It&#8217;s a mini. Everyone asked me if it is a weed and my husband kept asking me if he could dig out the weed, pointing to the poor hollyhock. Sad, sad plant. We&#8217;ll see what it does this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you buy perennial kits or buy the plants yourself? I started with perennial kits and it&#8217;s worth it if you are a beginner. Perennial Kits &#8211; Planting by the Numbers I&#8217;ve never gardened much with perennials before moving to Virginia. Frankly, we didn&#8217;t have enough room in my last two gardens. 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