7 REASONS YOU DON'T WANT TO PLANT A PERENNIAL FLOWER ANYMORE 4K

There are 7 reasons why you won't want to plant a perennial flower anymore. Also the UNEXPECTED reason I no longer want to plant this perennial.
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[guynorth]

I absolutely LOVE my perennial garden, I spent a lifetime working on it.

[fugueine]

My mother used to dig up and relocate or re-home perennials that no longer thrived in their location

[MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

"You may not want to plant this anymore..."
Yeah, that's the point. ;) Plant it once, not every year.
Essential message : don't plant perennials because things might change?
I expect that. Still less time & effort to do some occasional rearranging than to not plant them altogether.

[TryItWithRanch]

These are all problems that are easily delt with unless you really don't want to take the time. But really, perennials are easier to take care of. Once they're established there's less work than getting annuals every year

[karinlarsen]

I disagree. As we get older we need to have a maintenance free Garden as nearly as possible. Pruning back and separating tubers gives an incredible return on the investment of our effort. Also beautiful landscaping increases the curb appeal / value

[Highvibes]

I won't quit planting perennials. I move them if needed and save $$$ not buying new ones.

[liza-marie]

They come back up! I love flowies! Back at my moms place (before the elderly care place) everything came up without being re-planted. Let's hope I can do the same here at my in laws place.

[joehisel]

I love my perennials. I always have something to give away and I don't have to spend money on a plant I have!

[robinz]

Thank you so very much. I really enjoy how well you explain to us why you do what you do. It made me laugh when you talked about the comfrey. I love comfrey. Mine was doing tremendously well. And then one of my trees started growing over it. It's not doing quite as well as it was. So because I like it. I will be pruning it back a little. It has so many medicinal properties to it that's why I grew it. I like the fact that you stretch our brains. You help us think about why we have what we have in the yard. I'm just a homeowner. We have 10 acres. In a very dry part of our state. Who loves to grow things. Who loves a challenge of trying to see what will work and what doesn't work. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for stretching my brain. I'm going to need to reevaluate some things I have going on in my yard. Because of what I just saw. Keep up the good work. You are very helpful.

[nilkolllu]

Making so much sense! Why spend energy fighting for the final failure?! Thank you for telling us this mother nature message!🙏💗🙏

[lindadow]

I have these yellow flowers also. Yes they take over, I pull them up by the roots and throw them root down in the outside borders of my yard. They take by themselves and they are around 3 acres of woods. It is one plant you need to keep up on tho. Have to move some now. Enjoy your videos.

[Skashoon]

Great considerations for decisions about perennials. I never miss one of your videos because I don’t want to miss any of these ‘pearls’. Often times I just like the flower, foliage appearance or some other aspect when considering a plant without taking these things into account. My knowledge has been greatly improved by your experiences. Thanks for passing them along to those of us who enjoy gardening but lack much real understanding. You are a trusted and very valuable resource to many.

[nathanboyd]

Ive been pitting in my own underground irrigation using standard garden hose and pvc pipe. I dig a trench and place the pvc in first. I use self tapping screws to keep it all together that way if I have to dig it up or I want to change something I just unscrew it. The pipes lead to splitters which lead to soaker hoses above ground and drip emitters. I use the 2inch pvc caps with a hole just big enough for the hose to fit through so water/debris doesn't get inside. Just use a standard air compressor to garden hose adapter to blow out the lines in the fall. I constantly battle with controlling Canadian Thistle and Poplar trees with runner roots.

[flowergal]

Perennials reseed also and are very important ecologically as nectar sources and larval hosts etc. who cares if they don’t thrive after many years? You can always divide them for new parent material or reseed in a new location. NEVER stop planting a mixture of perennials and annuals. Nature intended diversity. Also on the comfrey comment.... I live on glacial sand and I have huge beautiful comfrey everywhere. You CAN grow in sand as long as you create a solid top layer of organic matter rich in microbial life. I think this video should be redone as “what to do when your perennials stop thriving.” So many excellent techniques that may be useful in other areas of horticulture as well.

[dogslobbergardens]

I don't keep planting anything that struggles, whether it's perennial or a specific sort of annual. I'm more interested in finding low-maintenance plants that do well with the conditions I've got. Trying to constantly fight local diseases and/or "improve" an acre or more of soil to suit something that doesn't really want to be there could drive me flat broke, or half-crazy. (or all the way crazy, I guess... )
At least in theory, the correct plants for the conditions will improve the soil on their own. I've noticed for absolute certain that the soil near old stumps on my property is *much* fluffier and richer than the clay soil in general... so yeah sometimes it takes five or ten years for those roots and microbes to do all their work, but I'm OK with that.

[mylesfalconer]

I'm on beach like sand plain, but my comfrey, bocking 4, does really well. Full sun and poor soil. Cup plant is great for chop and drop too. It will flower later in the summer if you cut in early june. I also feed it to rabbits...

[wingabouts]

I divide and move around my perennials for the exercise! 😂Lol ... I call this playing Musical Plants, a fun gardening version of Musical Chairs. 👍

[deborahgarry]

Somebody once said this phrase by which I have lived my life and it can apply ton your plants as well. "Adapt of die" Charles Darwin: It's actually, 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change'.

[kmsvensson]

Brilliant video! Great reasons, and incredibly helpful to refer to when doing an annual inventory of plants. I will definitely keep your list in mind when I evaluate which plants to invest and reinvest in. Especially since my yard space is limited and water is so precious.

I can also see this list overlapping onto reasons a plant once planted in an environment can become invasive.

Love your channel. As always, thanks for sharing!!

[katherinespencer]

It all depends, I have several really large lawns, 3 wide deep ditches with level wide strips of grass along it before the edge of the woods. I had dig all the dandelions. They attract piss ants & slugs & even in my ditches, which get mowed, I don't want them. Took me years to get those ditches free of wild rose, scrub bushes, weeds. So now I want some of my perennials from hedges & 7 large gardens I've established in a dozen years here. I have the room. Infact I put down 65 bales of hay on their sides, pushed my hand in put in a cup of soil & tucked baby perennials every foot or less. That is now a gorgeous wide border along 1 of the roads into my forest property. I have been thinning & potting up 'free' plants for other properties. Saves me a few thousand in landscaping every time. And almost instantly make me feel connected to new homes, which are projects in my case. I have even used P. like Jerusalem Artichoke & Tansy to mark my various property lines thru the forest. So it is a very personal thing.