With flowers in every color of the rainbow and even more, a breathtaking range of shapes and textures and often fine scent, perennials truly deserve their popularity. Their diversity make them suitable for every garden. They fit everywhere, they can be interplanted with shrubs, annuals, bulbs and even vegetables or grown in containers or as a ground cover. They have leaves and flowers to suit every taste, from delicate to sumptuous. Against a more static background of woody plants, perennials provide an almost unlimited, changing planting palette.

Perennials are plants that have a live span of more than just one year, coming back to live after a period of dormancy, which is usually but not always during winter. Many perennials die back to ground level during their dormant period while others are evergreen. In most of the gardens, perennials often provide the main floral element and endless variation and anticipation by their long flowering.

More than any other group of plants, perennial have an immense variety of shape, form, color, texture and scent. Except from their flowers some of them are also valued for their attractive foliage like ribbed, unfurling leaves of hostas, or sword-like straps of irises, or even like transparent tracery of fennel.

Perennials range in height from only 5 cm tall to 2.5 m or even more, and by this they can fit any garden and can be used for borders or as background. Some are worth growing for their flagrance, like pinks, carnations or lily-of-the-valley, that are highly perfumed. Perennials can even be grown in containers, specially grasses or the ones with an attractive structures.