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Best Easy Perennials for Beginners | Low Maintenance Plants That Come Back Every Year
Nov 20, 2025
This video explains which perennial plants are easy to grow and return every year with minimal maintenance.
It covers reliable flowering plants, how they behave over time and why perennials are useful for creating a long-lasting garden. Choosing the right perennials reduces work and provides consistent colour and structure.
Suitable for gardens, borders, containers and small spaces.
Suitable for UK and international gardeners in temperate climates.
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What are great perennials to grow in
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your a lotment? We're talking vegetables
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and through what are great perennials to
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have down your a lotment. Now, first up
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is rhubarb. One plant can feed you for
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10 plus years. However, I've had mine in
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16 years and it's still feeding me. Rhub
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crumbles every single year and it's
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producing fantastic. And they have
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virtually no maintenance once they're
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established. Obviously, don't pick them
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in the first year. They need to get
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established and then pick them in the
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second years for years after. And
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they're perfect in your crumbles, jams,
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and even gin. People are making rhubarb
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gin now, and it comes back bigger and
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better every springtime.
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Asparagus, it's a long-term investment,
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but it's worth it. It produces every
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single year for 20 plus years. And
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asparagus is so expensive to buy in the
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supermarkets, and it's absolutely
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delicious. And fresh homegrown asparagus
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tastes nothing like the shop bought one
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itself. You need a dedicated bed to have
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it in, but it's a tiny yearly effort
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that you need to put into maintaining
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it.
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Perennial kale. Yes, you can get
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perennial kale. It doesn't bolt like
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annual kale and you can pick leaves all
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year round on it. It's hardy and it's
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very productive and it's great for small
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gardens as well.
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Globe artich choke. Now I've never grown
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any myself, so I might give it a try one
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year. It's beautiful and it's edible and
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it's a striking article
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plant. I can't say it. I'm not very good
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at saying my words, but yeah, it's got a
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great appearance to it. It gives edible
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buds every single summer. The bees love
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the flowers if you let some of them open
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as well. So, it's great for the wildlife
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as well. Sorrel. Now, another great one
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for the bees as well. It's lemon
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flavored leaves that regrow constantly.
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It's brilliant in salads, in soups. It's
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very hardy and it survives neglect as
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well. So, if you're not a good gardener,
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just leave it and it'll grow. It's a
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must-have perennial for any veggie
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patch. Mint, but keep it contained. Have
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it in a pot or it will spread
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everywhere. And when I say spread, it
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will spread. It's perfect for teas,
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drinks, desserts or in your mjito
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comebacks every single year. Plant it in
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pots or otherwise it will spread
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everywhere. There's so many varieties of
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mint as well. Now there's not just your
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common mint. You've got apple, you've
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got chocolate, you've got strawberry.
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Even if you've got it just to rub on
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your fingers and to smell it and
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appreciate the plant itself. Chives that
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are mild onion flavor. beautiful edible
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flowers and it grows after each cut.
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It's ideal for borders, pots or raised
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beds as well. A great addition to any
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garden.
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Lovage. It tastes extremely like celery.
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So, I probably won't have it cuz I
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absolutely disgusted celery. It grows
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huge with very little care. It's perfect
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for soups, stocks, and it's an all
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traditional a lotment plant that comes
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back year after year. So, those are the
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perennial plants that you can grow in
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your a lotment. Some of those I'm going
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to make a list myself and try growing
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myself, especially the asparagus and the
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artichoke. They're two things I haven't
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got on my a lotment. So, I might give
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them a try next year down at plot. So,
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give them a try. Let me know how you get
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on. Let me know if you grow any of them
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