Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcasts, the Geppinus spirit

through here.

I've got Chris, a horticulturist, a garden consultant in the founder of Fluent Garden.

She's back on the show.

We are talking about perennials, but today we're adding another facet to it

and saying, hey, you know, it's not just edible value that is coming out of these

perennial plants.

So Chris, what are some other reasons or benefits that you can get out of a perennial plant?

Yeah.

So with perennials, as we talked about before, like they're here for longer than one or

two seasons, like depending on what kind of plant you choose for your climate,

they could be here to stay for many, many years.

So being able to watch a plant develop and grow through the seasons, go through different

cycles and really mature.

I mean, as a gardener, that's really cool to witness because I'm obsessed with watching

plants grow.

And I learn a lot by just watching plants grow and also just watching pests and diseases interact

with the plants.

That's just the reality of it as well.

Sometimes if you grow an annual crop, like you'll see it do its thing.

Maybe tomatoes get hit with blight and it's like, okay, that's it.

And a story, I'm not going to plant my tomatoes there next year.

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