All presenting beautiful movement, colours, and silhouettes, planting a mix of Perennials is a wonderful way to enhance limited outdoor space. Returning every year with pretty floral displays, perennials can soften harsh walls and fences, and bring dimension to a basic garden design.  Requiring little effort, read on for some affordable ideas on how to decorate smaller spaces with perennials. 

Hanging Baskets

A hanging basket filled with pretty, trailing blooms is perfect for ornamenting the outside of your home. Delicate flowers and trailing foliage can soften harsh walls, and create a charmingly rustic feel. Versatile, and able to complement any  backdrop, plants with white flowers are a great choice if you are unsure on which colour scheme to adopt.

Featuring luminous white petals, and sepals that are adorned by a delicate streak of blush-pink, Fuchsia ‘Hawkshead’ will make a welcome addition to your outdoor space. 

Another useful tip is to incorporate blue within your outdoor scheme. Blue will brighten shaded corners, and will prove a particularly good accompaniment to grey. As such, if your patio or driveway includes grey, the use of blue-flowered varieties will create enviable harmony of cooler tones. 

A hardy campanula, ‘Blue Sky’ will form a generous blanket of stellate-shaped, blue flowers come summer. This perennial’s neat, compact habit makes it a manageable choice, where it will happily grow in both full sun or partial shade.

Pots

Aside from giving you more freedom over a plant’s location, soil type, and surrounding scheme, pots enable you to grow almost any perennial, irrespective of how limited your outdoor space may be.

Containers are also a great opportunity to experiment with unique colour combinations, so we therefore recommend Dianthus ‘Cherry daiquiri’.

Sporting white, feather-like petals with fun, cherry-coloured centres, Cherry daiquri will add a playful pop of colour to your garden. This variety will additionally flower all summer long, even through the driest of weeks. 

For an innovative, modern touch, why not try planting a taller perennial. Long stems paired with sumptuous flowers will establish beautiful structure, and can help deflect from an unsightly fence or wall. Why not make a statement with an Allium, Agapanthus, or a Salvia? Each of these perennials boast pretty foliage and a tall silhouette, embellished by intricate, purple flowers.

Raised Beds

Just like containers, raised beds allow you to retain greater control over a perennial’s environment. They can also create differing structural effects. For example, they can separate your garden from the street, and bring an architectural edge to a basic garden design.

Embrace a multitude of colours by planting a variation of perennials, such as Lavender and Alchemilla. Alchemilla will blend beautifully amongst other plants, and aside from being loved by pollinators, Lavender offers a delightful fragrance that will be relished by guests.  

Planting in Drifts

To soften the difference in height between your garden’s ground and fence,  why not plant your favorite perennials in small drifts? Planting in drifts can create an accomplished look comparable to a wild garden. Nevertheless, be mindful that some perennials may grow quickly, infringing on your garden’s space.

The smaller the border, the less perennials you need; try Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’, Salvia ‘Ostriesland’, and Allium ‘christophii’. When individually planted in little drifts, they will create long-flowering border filled with romantic colour.  Being patient, observe your border over time, and fill any sparser areas with new, compatible additions. 

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