If you don’t want your garden to die after blooming, consider perennial plants that do not require any specific maintenance nor deadheading. The deadheading, in fact, is the process of removing spent flowers from the plants.
List of the garden perennial flowers and plants that do not require deadheading and remain attractive during the entire season
- Fairy Wings, Barrenwort. Barrenwort actually grows very slow, usually in the dry shade. When the flowers are gone, the foliage still looks pretty attractive.
- Acanthus spinosus. One of the perennial flowers that is also known as Bear’s Britches and they are very recognizable in the world and are often associated with Greek architecture, as well as art. This plant is very friendly with sun and can easily handle the drought.
- Blue Star. Despite the name of this perennial plant, a big number of the gardeners grow it in the flower garden due to its beautiful golden yellow hue of the leaves the plant gets in the autumn.
- False Indigo. This plant does not require lots of special maintenance, in case you make a decision to leave the flowers to seed, as the times passes by, you will notice small pods that will dry afterward.
- Joe Pye Weed. You can often notice these flowers on the roadside but it is still possible to have them in your garden as they are very beautiful. The head of the flowers are believed to appear at the beginning of the autumn and remain throughout the season, so there is no need to deadhead them.
- Leopard Plant. The shape of Leopard Plant’s leaves is very unique and when it comes to the color, there are lots of varieties of purple hue. Consider that this perennial flower always need lots of moisture but once you take a good and necessary care of this flower, it will give you astonishing and breathtaking natural beauty.
- This plant usually blooms in the late spring and you need to get rid of the seed pods only when you notice that they may lead to certain damages by weighing the plant down. Even when you do that, the perennial flower will still be very attractive during the entire season without giving your beautiful garden an unpleasant look.
When it comes to such perennial plant as Stonecrop, individuals can enjoy the beauty of this flower all year round. However, this plant, also known as Tall Sedum, are actually later bloomers with green flowers that afterward end up being a pale purple color, therefore, there is no need to cut them down. Instead, you can enjoy the beauty of such purple or pink flowers in your garden.
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