Ok, so if you love plants that is why you are here.

I simply love plants, but am choosy about which ones, as a garden designer, I always try for the impact of something everlasting, and fruitful. But a lot of customers/clients love the quick impact and thrust of immediate color. Its there, its in your face and mostly it is colorful.

I have purchased plants  and seeds from  a lot of ebay sellers to stock our nursery, and last year and this purchased many plug plants to satisfy the lust of the bedding/container/basket gardener. The summer bedding plants are the things that attract the consumer to the nursery, and once there, they are smitten with impulse to purchase some of the longer lasting perennial plants that they understand will thrill their senses with long lasting and eventful color and interest.

Yes Perennial plants take longer to give you the bonus of color and impact, but in the long run, it is these plants that will be there for good, and they will return your money/investment wth delightful statements of color and interest throughout the year.

I love the xeriscape gardening aspect now, with grasses that are self sustainable, Global warming is here to stay, like it or not, and there are thousand of grasses, sedges, and bamboos that are easily combined ith the color of perennials, and a bonus is that during the winter months some of the grasses are as interesting then as they are in their full growth period. They also sustain a lot of our wild life with their seed heads, and materials for nesting.

A garden designed with grasses and sedges will certainly fill lots of empty spaces, and most are easily grown from seed (if you wish to try that) I personally love bamboo's of all varieties, even the invasive ones.

Lynn