While I'm all in on native plant gardening, there are certain ornamental flowers that are long-lived and spectacular. I've got roses planted in four places in my yard. On my fence along the walk up to my house, a single climbing plant is enormous and amazing. Peonies are well known for lasting fifty years or more. there were a couple already here when I bought the place, and a few years back I added a bunch more. In contrast to the elegant roses, peonies are overblown and, in the phrase of a friend, "always seem like they belong in a French whorehouse". But they certainly buff up a place!
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