About Perennial Flowers

Series Summary

Starting a garden involves much more than just sticking a few plants in the ground. Think of it more in terms of running a business. Each of the plants must have their special skills and needs to best produce the look you are trying to achieve. Your job is to find the most effective positions and relationships in your garden office to make the company work most efficiently. One plant may mope unless it gets the office with the most sunlight. Another one may prefer shade and tries to steal all the water and attention from everyone else. Still another may only work well with its own office. Your job as a gardener is to determine the ideal business relationship among your workers. Once that has been accomplished, all the neighbors/investors will start to take notice.

In this free video series, learn how to plant perennial flowers in your garden. Perennials live up to two years. So, while it may seem like a lot of work at first, winter will not destroy your gardening efforts. Our expert, Travis Steglich, shows you how to plant perennials. Get tips for picking good flower bulbs, and learn the best location to plant your flowers. Travis also shows you how to water and care for perennial flowers. So, what are you waiting for? Get your green thumb out, and start planting perennials today!

Video Transcript

"Today we're talking about perennial bulbs. Why they're worth planting, and how you go about getting some good ones. Perennial bulbs are generally flowering bulbs that you can plant one year, and if you take care of them and keep the grub worms out of them and things like that, they'll come back year after year, sometimes even naturalizing and increasing in number so that they can be divided and planted in different locations. A perennial bulb is one that can be left in the ground. It doesn't have to be dug up and brought inside like so many of them do in order to make it to the next year. Plant it in a decent location where the ground doesn't freeze just solid, and they'll make it from one year to the next and like I said, possibly even increase in number. Perennial bulbs are a source of some of the most beautiful flowers that we have, like day lilies and peonies and dahlias, which are some of the bulbs that we're going to be talking about today."