What Is Heirloom Gardening?

Heirloom gardening means different things to gardeners. It is related to vegetables and the use of the tried and true, noncommercial earlier varieties, rather than modern commercial seed strains. Home gardener's interests has turn to far or the older varieties for their good flavor, long period of productivity and special characteristics such as looks, color, and history.

Heirloom gardening begins with time-tested choices, that have been handed down for multiple generations. The garden plants including fruits, vegetables, bulbs, trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. These plants were not available commercially for several years, with two different places that you could collected from gardens and historic sites. Some people would go back to their grandma's place and collect cuttings of myrtles, Althea's, quince, crape myrtles, and roses.

Fragrance is a very good reminder of the olden times. Winter honeysuckle, gardenia, and other plants bloom, the smell will make you think of the earlier time.

Heirloom gardening is also how we placed plants in our landscapes.

This is two different designs that you will find in heirloom gardening. They are  parterre and cottage garden. Parterre relates to application of patterns for walks and plant arrangement. Parterres can also appear in bigger settings which is also called a cottage garden. The pattern may be hedges of dwarf myrtles, boxwood, and other low-growing evergreens.

Heirloom favorites for Southern gardens 
include bulbs. Old gardens, cemeteries, and country home sites have gladiolas, snowflakes, marcissus, amaryllis, and many more plants that have been there for many years.

SUMMARY

There are really no rules pertaining to heirloom gardening. The best thing to do is to have plants that you know that they will reflect the charm, history, and sense of place. ">