Next spring and every spring
Amateur Gardening|June 26, 2021
There’s a lot of value in short-lived perennials, says Peter
Peter Seabrook
Next spring and every spring

A POUND or two spent on a packets of seed at this time can fill your garden with colour and, in some cases, sweet perfumes next spring/early summer, and many springs to come. If you want fragrance then sweet William, sweet rocket (Hesperis), wallflowers, and East Lothian and Brompton stocks should be on your shopping list.

Usually listed under the biennial heading, being sown now to flower next year, quite a number are short-lived perennials, and if prevented from setting seeds will often grow on to flower on larger plants in their second season of blooming. Foxgloves, sweet William, the stocks and even wallflowers come into this short-lived perennial category.

This story is from the June 26, 2021 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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