Flowering plants are attractive to look at, and are also a part of your home habitat. As a Landscape Designer, I plan for height, spacing, texture, color, seasonal interest, and water saving qualities.As a Permaculturist, I know that each element, such as flowers, should serve multiple functions. Therefore, I plan for other potentials such as attracts beneficial insects, deters the unwanteds, edible, herbal, shades, enables inert nutrients in soil, loosens soil, etc.
A plan is the key to a good garden design. And the goal of every Permie is to observe nature, design for Mother Nature to be the gardener, and put you into the hammock (so you can relax under the shade of your fruit tree and you don't have to get up to get a snack).
Nemesia is a great drought tolerant and tough little flower. It has delicate papery lavender flowers. Great for Xeriscape.
Sunflower: Makes me Happy! Top 3 favorite flowers. Produces edible seeds, attracts all sorts of bugs, many varieties of color and small to really large flowers.
Perennial Dianthus: Edible flowers, tough little plant with nice blooms 7 months of the year.
Marigolds: Top 3! Beautiful flowers and many varieties, edible flowers, deters pests in your garden, especially for your tomatoes, and drought tolerant.
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