Here are all the edible perennial plants I recommend adding to your yard.
In some places with harsh winters, artichokes are treated as annuals, for instance.
Talk to someone at your local garden center to learn what perennial plants will thrive in your zone.)
Berries
Most berry plants are perennials, including strawberries (in most ones).
Elderberries grow on shrubs that can reach 30 feet tall within a few years.
The same is true of stone fruits like apricot, peach, cherry, and nectarine.
The same is true for nut treesincluding almonds, walnuts, pecans, filberts, and other nuts.
Rhubarb is harvestable from spring through early fall, and is slow to spread.
Every spring it will shoot up tall green leaves which can also be eaten.
At any time, you’re free to dig up one of the roots to harvest it.
Like rhubarb, horseradish is a great plant for an understory.
Shoots then appear, and at the end of each shoot, an artichoke.
Each plant will produce a large artichoke, and then each successive one will be a bit smaller.
Artichokes you dont pick will open and flower into magnificent purple bee havens.
They make a spectacular border plant when clustered together.
Fennel
You cant kill fennel.
And it cant be grown with anything else, as it will keep other plants from flourishing.
Even worse, it grows via a taproot and spreads easily.
So why do you grow it?
Bees also adore fennel.
Saffron
The red stamens used to delicately flavor and color rice are actually from crocuses.
Herbs
Perennial herbs are the ultimate edible perennial staple.
Ramps need dappled light and a lot of moisture, so grow them alongside mushrooms.
Mushrooms require dappled light, which means you have to make them an understory plant.
I’ve had less luck with broccoli species that are claimed to return each year.
