Garden art, like other areas of life, is subject to changes due to fashion. They apply not only to the styles of garden assumptions, but also to the species we plant in flower beds.It is worth planning to plant some of the perennials proposed by designers and nurserymen, because these are plants that have been checked for their requirements and decorative qualities.
The more that we miss something new and original all the time.These "new" species are not only species that have not been cultivated in the garden so far.Sometimes these are forgotten plants, now returning to favor, often in a new form.An example of such plants is Echinacea purpurea - a long-known ornamental and medicinal plant, valued especially for attracting bees and butterflies and for new, extremely original varieties.
Our native Zygmata Greater Astrantia major has also returned to favor, also cultivated in many varieties with different colors of flowers and leaves. Many new plants appear in gardens only in specific varieties.Their nominative species are known from meadows, steppes or forests, while in nurseries we can only find their more attractive varieties.
Such plants, very recently fashionable, include the meadow thistle Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum' with crimson-violet flowers, the maroon variety of the chervil Anthriscus sylvestris' Ravenswing 'or the oyster mushroom Lysimachia ciliata'’Firecracker ’
Among the novelties, which have not been seen in gardens so far, some of the most fashionable are the recently blooming bloodstalks (in various species and varieties), the tall, burgundy-blooming knotweed Bistorta amplexicaulis or the field-flowering Patagonian verbena Verbena bonariensis.
