7 MUST HAVE perennials for every GARDEN - perfect for beginners and busy gardeners 

Hello Marta, we are senior sisters in Texas USA that love your channel. We look forward to every episode and we are very picky about what we watch consistently. Thank you for all of your effort to speak our language so that we can learn from you and your beautiful gardens. We love to have tea and pastry while watching. We also love your opening music and perhaps someday see and hear the full instrumental paired with your best videos of your plants. The lazy bumble bee is adorable. Good job with your photography. You have a nice, unhurried pace with your garden and we want you to know that we recognize that. Looking forward to your future postings.

Thank you! I love your beautiful garden. My only recommendation would be to put the name of the plants on the screen so those of us who can’t hear very well can pause and take time to write it down.

Hi Martha, Try a hosta called 'Stained Glass'. She has huge light lavender flowers, but unlike other hostas, this one has an amazing scent. Camellias, helleborus, roses, lillies, dahlias and lilacs are also some of my favorites!

Rozanne is my all time favorite, too. 4 feet by 4 feet. Huge❤️ I have 15 plants.

I love your plants. Beautiful

I would add Astrantias to the list. Perfect for shade and semi shade places. Looks great with ferns, hostas and Heucheras

Rosanne Geraniums are my favorite plants!!!

WELL DONE VIDEO! You chose 10 great plants. I would add “butterfly weed” ( this is different from “ butterfly bush.” Butterfly weed is a milkweed that doesn’t spread. Its orange flowers bloom over an extended period of time (mid July ~ mid August). Its about 3’ tall. It’s hardy and it’s famous for attracting the endangered monarch butterfly. 🌸🌸🌸

Such a beautiful garden

Brunera has such delicate, tiny flowers and the hummingbirds love them!😊

I agree with all your choices especially geranium Roseanne. Thanks for the tip about the Chelsea chop I will try that next year. Love your garden it is beautiful 🌺

Love your top 10! Here is mine (not in specific order) : serendipity aliums, baptisias, penstemon, amsonias, brunneras, pulmonarias, hostas, coneflowers, catmint, peonies.

I have great success with salvias. They are easy to take cuttings too. I’m in Adelaide Australia which has a climate similar to the Mediterranean.

It’s very helpful to know the temperature ranges & water requirement that each plant can handle.

Greetings from Ireland, your garden is lovely and easy plant's that I would recommend are orvala, daylilies, companula, brook's thistle, astrantia, any cranesbill hardy geranium's and theres lots more.

Catmint (Nepeta Faassenii) - fabulous plant, but in some climates have problems with spider mites and rot on very wet climate (need a very good drainage).

Hello Marta, what a great list of perennials. I've book marked this episode and got the list from your description. That helps so much. I'm going to try to find all of these for spring. I used to have a lot of hostas. My favorite was a blue hosta. But this year my favorite has been my different Salvias. They are still so beautiful and giving me a second blooming. They've been so easy to care for. I've also taken the pieces I've cut off and rooted them in pots. Thank you for another great episode.

Love them all have them all

Love sedum autumn joy...always get good result with Chelsea chop...thank you for your video

I love your garden. Gorgeous plants and flowers.

I love all these choices! They grow well for me, too. Rozanne is probably at the top of my list.

I am so excited to find your channel. You have outstanding and elevated taste. It's like you're a professional floriculturist! Watched all your videos and will probably watch them again. I just spent my afternoon adjusting my climbing roses to go more horizontal.

Sedum for me, so easy to grow. Thank you for your informative video, always a pleasure to watch. 👏😍👏. Hello from Austria.

Marta, I appreciate the emphasis on garden plants, soil preparation and care, design and problem solving. You’re inspiring me for gardening here, in zone 6b, Connecticut, USA.

Great list, I agree they are easy.

Coming from Australia, in an elevated area 1000 above sea level that gets strong sun, cold winters to minus 5 or 6 C. sometimes, and hot summer, I need tough things. Like you I love salvias and nepeta because they cope with extremes and am now interested in Heucheras from watching this. Also, a plant that I learned to love is a native called Westringia. The foliage is grey and stiff, so not pretty as such, but if lightly clipped twice per year to a shape it makes a great sculptural element in a border. I am currently training mine to round ball shapes. One should reach 1 m high though some are half that.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful Gardens. I didn’t see any hellebore. Hellebore is my favorite carefree perennial in my zone seven Garden in New Jersey.

I have my Sedum plants and Rosanne perennials which you mentioned that I like. 😀

I appreciate you listing the plants in your description box 🙏

Lady’s Mantle. Columbine. Bleeding Hearts. Ruby Coneflower.

Great choices Marta thank you from Australia

Also variegated liriope, dusty miller, Veronica and stonecrop sedum and salvia grow great for me in Zone 7. Your gardens are beautiful!

Your garden is stunning! I have Hostas and Brunnera, love them! Looking forward to finding a few that you shared to add to my landscaping!

Happy to have found your channel, I'm sure I'll learn so much from you! Thanks for sharing your passion with us, I'm new to this beautiful hobby and look forward to your videos!

I agree eith you. From your list I have only hostas, but I am just starting my garden.

Thank you Marta for the informative video. I will also add lavender as an easy care perennial.🌷🌼🌸

This is helpful I love all this perennial plants

Loved this video. I enjoyed your flower selections ❤

I enjoy your videos so much, Martha! Your garden is always so stunning, no matter the season. Some of my favourite perennials are geums, foxgloves and the simple oxeyed daisy, which for me is the most beautiful of all the daises. I also love penstemon, but sadly, I have none in this garden, which we’ve started from scratch since moving houses two years ago.

Very interesting and love your place

I really like the gaura perennial and yellow yarrow, butterfly weed and blazing star.

Hi Marta! I love your garden ❤

I agree with all your choices! The only plant you mentioned that I don't have yet are the brunnera. I'm hoping to add brunnera to my garden next spring when I rework some of the garden beds. My garden is fairly new but I finally have enough semi shade to plant some brunnera. Take care!

I have all those except the aster and geranium, added it to my wishlist!

I like ladies mantle for the leaves & the chartreuse whispy flower spikes are nice in a vase either by themselves or other flowers 👒

Hi from the desert of Utah. I agree sedums are amazing especially here. More from my climate that do well: Iris, yarrow, lambs ear, lilies, some roses, valerian, daylilies, asters, coreopsis, coneflowers, rudbeckia etc are no fuss perennials but they do need care when the foliage looks bad. Cleanup or Chelsea chop works great. Thanks enjoying your videos.

Love this video! Your garden is beautiful. Thank you.

Thank you for a very informative video.

Another great video, here in the uk, we suffer from vine weevil damage on heuchera when planted in pots, it doesn't do very well at all, I still have lots of these plants in my borders though as they do well here. I love all your choices and have experience with most. I will however be buying geranium rosanne to add to my garden. Thank you

Fleablane is a wonderful little plant

sooooo nice 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Will try the Chelsea chop on the Asters ..mine were tall and flopped over with the rain this year 😊

I love your cool color scheme! In addition to your list I would add pincushion flower, scabiosa. Oh my! Mine just kept blooming all summer long. I have two, but next year I hope to add five more to create a small hedge effect. Ajuga is another easy plant to grow. I have Black Oyster and Feather Friends Fancy Finch. They are a great groundcover to keep the weeds away. Lastly, coneflowers. They come in so many colors now. Daisies aren't reliable for me in zone 4b so these are a great substitute. I revamped a long-neglected garden this summer and was able to "shop" for plants among my inventory. They are flourishing with good soil amendments and no weed competition. Coneflowers, nepeta, Siberian iris, allium bulbs. I also bought many other plants and shrubs. I look forward to completing this renovation next year. Can you tell, I like cool colors? 😊

Used to have Roseanne. Nice

The slugs and snails loooove my catmint

Hi, I enjoy your video so much! I love iris germanica and Zantedeschia aethiopica, they are trouble free! i live in tuscany, it's like zone 8b

Hi Marta, Heucera in the UK is very prone to vine weevel in pots but does better in the ground rather than in the pots, and yes hostas are very attracted to the many slugs and snails in the uk. However I do have both but plant where I can keep them happy.

My favorite plant is purple salvia! I don’t like to smell it but it is beautiful.

I live in S Carolina and hostas are deer candy!

Wyglada pani bosko w tej zielonej sukience 😍 tez chce taką 😃

Hello Marta, i'm glad to find your channel. This video was so interested and helpfuul!! What's your garden's zone?

Easiest perennials for me are Salvias. Also agapanthus are super low maintenance and of course Dietes like african or japanese irises

I would add Yarrow on the list. They just bloom from May to Oct non stop. No pests or diseases

Thanks, I am in zone 9 b

Bee balm ❣️

thank you for your video. Possible to have the name of each plant on the screen so we know and able to learn more. Mahalo !

I’ve heard wonderful things about catnip

Ladies mantle, hosta, primrose, geranium, From NZ

4:43 What is the other purple flower mixed with the catmint? Its a gorgeous combination.

I love my asters too, but sadly the bunnies love them more! 😔

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Martha , do you grow up you plants - from seeds or you buy plants

We gardeners need to be sure to educate people on weather zones! Zone 9 in California is very diff than in Florida, so let's mention this for less frustration.

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Deer mow my hostas all the time

Im having trouble growing astrantias from seed. Does anyone have any tips?

Hi Marta thank you. Yes, all great choices! I have new England asters and this year they're opening very late ...also, something ate at my Brunnera leaves all summer! I could not find any bugs on it and have no idea what keeps eating but leaving everything around it. Any ideas?

Hello Marta, Where are you located ? Can you list the plant names for us? I didn't understand the names when you said them.

Which Salvia Is it May Night. Can't understand some of your words. Beautiful garden

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What zone are you growing in ?

What is the name of that catmint?

I’m not able to grow heuchera. The critters eat them up!

What is Chelsea drop?

What variety of Catmint do you recommend?

Crizanteme în autumn no need pest

I wish that people would also use the proper names for plants, because so very many have different names in different places. For example the are 170 species of aster.

catmint could be problematic if you or neighbors have cats. i had 5 plants and i think i'm down to 2 or 3

Rabbits would eat all my asters the first night I put them to the ground

Hosta. Moles eat them.

Could you add a list With your accent I can’t get the names of all these plants

Dress slit 😳I worried for you

Your hosta are turning yellow from too much sun…..they prefer shade and not five hours of sun

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