If you are starting a garden program, don't forget the flowers. The plants from our first perennial exchange and ones we have added since then continue to reproduce by seed and spreading.  They produce masses of flowers from spring to frost that are put to use in many ways. 

Since that first year, we have given away hundreds of perennial plants and starts to other school garden programs.  In addition to other garden programs we have donated plants to the Loveland Arts Council, Chamber of Commerce, a Habitat for Humanity home and many others.  We have also harvested hundreds to sell at our spring plant sale.  

Many perennials are easy to start from seeds and cuttings (rooting cuttings in water and rooting cuttings in soil).