With perennials, you can make every company garden bloom. Working in a green, thriving environment comes with many advantages: for employees and visitors, but also for bees, birds and butterflies!
Lunch surrounded by butterflies
A green outdoor area with flowers in abundance encourages you to go outside, for example, to have lunch or relax between meetings. Having a break surrounded by greenery reduces stress, but also increases job satisfaction! What’s more, flowering perennials also attract butterflies, birds and bees to the company garden – great for biodiversity. Their lively presence makes spending time in the garden even more fun!
Adventures for every season
With a carefully considered mix of perennials, you can ensure that the company garden looks attractive throughout all the seasons. Choose perennials with consecutive flowering times, for example, so there will be something new to see every time. The garden will look interesting even in winter, when it is the turn of plants with beautiful winter silhouettes to steal the show. Ornamental grasses and umbelliferous plants look particularly stunning in winter.
Maintenance-friendly
A company garden with lots of perennials does not need a lot of maintenance. Strong, low-maintenance plants that quickly provide ground cover are a popular choice. Strong ground-covering plants include Phlox subulata, cranesbill (Geranium macrorrhizum/cantabrigiense), barrenwort (Epimedium), Japanese forest grass (Hakaonechloa), mountain fleeceflower (Persicaria affinis) and periwinkle (Vinca). Many exuberantly flowering plants are also strong and low-maintenance, for example black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), mountain fleeceflower (Persicaria), foamflower (Tiarella) and Phlomis.
Tips & ideas
- Get employees involved in a new company garden. You could let them contribute ideas for the design, for example, or get them to help with planting.
- Create a ‘tiny forest’ with trees, shrubs and perennials, such as Allium, purple coneflower (Echinacea), yarrow (Achillea), avens (Geum), burnet (Sanguisorba) and sage (Salvia).
- You can also turn a small outdoor area into a green space. Think a façade garden, a planter at the entrance and/or green spaces around the car park.
- Once the new company garden is ready, it’s time for a festive opening!
