Everyone else is waltzing around saying, "Whoopee, look at my perfect perennial bed."
Happiness here has little to do with the perfect perennial bed.
The challenges are greater in the perennial bed.
There was an old stone wall, perfect for framing a perennial bed.
The land's productivity is part of its powerful beauty, and perennial beds would not do here.
If you haven't yet done so, mulch vegetable, annual and perennial beds.
Undulating perennial beds six to eight feet wide were planted on either side.
I put them in my perennial bed - boing - they were dead before the year was out.
The desire for instant results spills over into the perennial bed.
If the ground is frozen where you are, get out there and mulch those perennial beds - now.