Perennial flowers once tall can now be found in shorter varieties fitting a petite garden.
These small plants will bloom spring through summer in a sunny border garden.
This perennial idea will fit in a petite garden because it uses shorter more compact plants.
Planted together in full sun, this bloom sequence runs spring through summer.
The plant combination includes a climber to make use of vertical space along a small border.
Fencing or an obelisk, in scale with a petite flower garden, is two ideas.
The plant uses less space than traditional poppies because P. Little Candyfloss grows to 14 tall and 16 wide.
The shiny ruffled petals have a soft pink color with blackish purple flares at the center.
Oriental poppies are infamous for their foliage dying to the ground after blooming.
Consider a flowering plant that will fill in the open space and keeps blooming through summer.
The lambs ear,Stachys officinalisDensiflorus is a petite perennial flower with bold lavender-pink flower spikes.
TheMonarda bradburianaspecies is known for its mildew resistant foliage and earlier bloom times.
MonardaxbradburianaPrairie Gypsy grows in a space 12 to 15 wide, up to 24 tall.
The plant is hardy in zones 3 8.
Short Climbing Clematis Vines
Clematisis a flowering climber, some varieties growing 6 12 tall.
Both are early to midsummer bloomers.
Gardeners who like roses and clematis allow them to climb the same trellis or arbor structure.
In small gardens low growing roses with short climbing clematis will work in a similar fashion.
In addition, Phlox have a tendency towards mildew, further requiring gardeners to space the plants farther apart.
Gardeners can create small sunny borders with shorter plant varieties, dwarf cultivars of long-time favorite perennials.
