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Perennials Recommendations

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  • 28-03-2017 11:46am
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    briancarr82
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭


    Hi all, any recommendations for some small perennials, Have a bed of rose bushes and looking to fill gaps with some nice colour.


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    pwurple
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    What colour, and what season do you want the colour?
    Herbaceous geraniums are great, easy to look after, low maintenance. I like the pink ones better than the blue, less vigorous.
    Asters for later summer. 
    Sedums like "Autum joy" are lots of colour in august / september.


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    briancarr82
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭briancarr82


    Any colours at all, looking for flowering in June-September, can be a nice mixture


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    Skrynesaver
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    Day Lilies (Hemerocallis) give a great splash of colour in the summer Iris Sibierica is a favourite of mine and of course Agapanthus follow on with a similar colour & shape. The simplicity of the hardy Geranium flower mentioned above is a good contrast to the "fussiness" of Roses.


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    looksee
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    Yes I would agree with the geranium suggestion - good ground cover and sufficiently unobtrusive not to take away from the roses. Easy, spreading, a nice haze of colour at ground level. Prune/deadhead/savage with shears and enthusiasm after flowering and they will give you another flush before the end of the summer.


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