Gardeners of Nostr, I need your advice!

In our first few years on our land I focused my planting energy on trees and shrubs, but now I finally have some perennial flowers going (yay!! very happy about that 😊). The purple agastaches in the foreground have been blooming all summer and are always full of butterflies and bees.

Here's the question: how do I handle winter for the perennial flowers? With trees and shrubs, I obviously know where they are even in winter and can mulch around the trunk and keep weeds at bay in early spring -but since these flowers will die back to the ground in the winter, I'm not quite sure how folks keep track of where they are and handle winter prep. Should I mulch around where they are now? or mark the spots with flags? or just cover everything and hope that they poke through the mulch in the spring?

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