Last year was my push towards perennials. I have a young family, and I had just welcomed my second daughter the gardening season before. Before she was born I worked hard to get my garden planted with annuals and biennials, but after she was born I didn't really get to work in the garden much. My husband and our oldest daughter watered the garden, but I was breastfeeding and healing after birth and we were starting a nursery school simultaneously. Big fish to fry. So the following year I knew that if I wanted to garden more, with a tiny one to parent, then I needed to plan more perennials in my garden.
I went for:
Red currants
Elderberry
Summer bearing raspberries
Everbearing raspberries
Lilac
Asparagus
Just a reminder that gardens flow with your phases of life. You tend to them when you can. But perennials will keep producing for you each year without worrying about the sowing and planting. So it's less work at the beginning of each season, and each year they will produce a larger yield.
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