The garden, as the current season in our region to be expected, with snow and frozen. Therefore, I use the hopefully only a few weeks to themes and images to address in recent years.
The title question of the durability of perennial beds is of course rhetorical, at least from my view. So far I managed that is never to create a perennial borders and to achieve a result that for several years as similar as possible would have looked like. Why this does not work, has many reasons: Perennials grow faster than expected, they do not feel well and disappear, they are planted too close (oh yes, I confess) displace and each other, they care or they overgrow their neighbors.
However, the different weather conditions depending on the year to change the look of perennial beds - some combinations work, sometimes miss the fact mutually covered plants. That happened in a perennial border, I have created in April 2009. The south-west side, which can be seen in the pictures in this blog entry was, with shrubs planted, which bloom from late June until frost: Galega x hartlandii 'Alba', Phlox paniculata, Agastache 'Black Adder' Agastache 'Linda', Boltonia 'Snowbank', Oenothera speciosa 'Alba', Orlaya grandiflora, Deschampsia caespitosa 'Goldtau', Sedum 'Iceberg', Calamintha nepeta ssp. Nepeta, Solidago caesia, Aster laevis 'Arcturus', Monarda 'Ou Charm', Aster ericoides, Coreopsis tripteris, Gaura lindheimerii, Nepeta 'Pool Bank' and others.
In July 2009, the white Galegas had their grand entrance. Together with the white Oenothera, Gaura, without my help aufgetauchtem red fox tail (Amaranth) and the red Achilleas was found that a fascinating red, white and green picture. Pink and purple came only a few weeks later with phlox, Agastache, and Nepeta.
From September took over in the bed of asters and more Agastache 'Linda', which I had set, each with two plants at two locations (the lower left image shows the planting of 5 months after system so powerful can grow beets!). Impression was made by the white Boltonia 'Snowbank', which had in the previous months result in a calm and steady background for other perennials.
The above pictures of the bed are all from the year 2009. Of course I did not think the beds would look like in the 2010 season very well, but I did think that it would at least similar. Far from it. Agastache 'Linda' was badly over the winter and their remains were growing going so slowly that they were taken from other perennials, the light, so then when I tried to look up once, had simply disappeared. But instead there were holes in the bed still excessive fullness, where the pink Mona gestures after a year of settling suddenly gets going. Then did not continue, that the pink button no longer stayed in bed. Too bad that Orlaya grandiflora had sown, but self-sown flowers was much sooner than if you get paid to plants. In the heyday of Galegas it was therefore long withered.
Unfortunately, the Achilleas disappeared and fox tails I had just come up into the Nachbarbeet. So my great-white-red issue in July was removed completely. But now the Deschampsia bloomed in profusion, and began - as you can in the left image to see well - morning dew and light in his delicate flower clusters. This changed color until golden into September, so I, along with Coreopsis could umtönen tripteris and Solidago caesia in late summer, the bed of shades of purple to yellow / blue / gold (well, good luck too).
Now I've fallen in love with the Phlox, Monarda-Galega-Deschampsia-Agastache combo, but I fear they could this year look quite different, lacking perhaps this time the blue Agastache, the Mona Earths spinning or Phlox is too large / too high / too wide and displaces the Galegas - it could happen to many things. When you consider how much the bed was 2009 of Agastache 'Linda' coined the 2010 totally lacked, it is impossible to predict how the border will look like 2011 - so I just wait and see you then, what about my Garden has been solved in a particularly beautiful or extremely terrible ;-).
(the image with phlox in the morning light I submit the photo contest in gardening-gone-wild-Blog on 'genus loci' a, because this bed last year certainly was one of the most beautiful spots in the garden)
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