Garden annuals bring fun, excitement, and dynamism to the planting display. Add new colors and textures to the garden and change its look for seasonal variation. With long-blooming annuals, you’ll get nonstop color and multi-season appeal. Choosing which annuals to grow together may be the most fun part of the process. For annual flower bed combinations that look great together, follow garden professional Katherine Rowe in exploring colors and textures that pop.
Garden annuals bring fun, excitement, and dynamism to the planting display. Add new colors and textures to the garden and change its look for seasonal variation. With long-blooming annuals, you’ll get nonstop color and multi-season appeal. Choosing which annuals to grow together may be the most fun part of the process. For annual flower bed combinations that look great together, follow garden professional Katherine Rowe in exploring colors and textures that pop.
Fragrant, fringed, pale lilac flowers with distinct darker lavender eyes create a show of color for either containers or flower beds. The blooms are extra large at 2 - 2.5” on an 8-10” mound-forming plant. Plants prefer full sun in well-drained soil. Blooms from mid-summer with an early spring indoor sowing of seeds. Annual flowering. Seed sowing instructions: Best if sown directly in the garden after all danger of frost. Seed can also be sown indoors in early spring. Sow on the surface of a good seeding mix, in warm temperatures, 70-75 degrees F. Provide light. They can then be transplanted out when large enough to handle and temperatures stay above freezing. We only ship to the 50 states in the U.S.A. If ordered outside the United States the order will be canceled.
Plant these annuals in your yard if you want blooms in your garden all Summer long! These annuals bloom from June to early frost!
Need summer flowers that are easy to grow & manage in the full sun? We have the list of gorgeous full sun annuals, all with images here.
Learn how to fill your yard with continuous color by planting long blooming annuals such as marigolds, dahlias, snapdragons, petunias, and pansies.
Plant these annuals in your yard if you want blooms in your garden all Summer long! These annuals bloom from June to early frost!
Learn 3 simple tips to keep your impatiens blooming like crazy - from spring and summer, right into late fall! See how easy it can be!
Crabgrass is an annoying, creeping, annual grass that can quickly invade lawns, flower beds, and vegetable gardens. It is such a prolific nuisance that there are multiple sprays and chemical ...
Shade can be the bane of every flower gardener's existence. You'd like something to brighten up that dark corner in your yard... but what can you plant? I've compiled a list of 26 shade-loving annuals
Ready to add to your shade garden? These are 16 of the best shade annuals that will add colorful flowers and foliage to your yard!
Pentas plant, a sun loving annual and perennial ideal for flower borders and pots when a splash of color is needed. We share HOW TO care for Pentas. [ MORE]
I am excited to share that The National Garden Bureau has chosen the allium as the bulb of the year! They pick one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one…
Learn how to grow ageratum. With its whimsical pompom-shaped flowers, this heat-loving annual is perfect for containers, baskets, and edging flower beds.
Pentas plant, a sun loving annual and perennial ideal for flower borders and pots when a splash of color is needed. We share HOW TO care for Pentas. [ MORE]
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Looking to add some colorful and vibrant flowers to your garden quickly? Check out our guide on Flowers that Grow Quickly from Seeds.
By Jennifer Poindexter Do you live in a climate that doesn’t get a lot of rainfall? Are you someone who struggles to remember to water your plants? Don’t assume that growing plants are out of the question for you. You need to look at your situation a little differently. Instead of looking at all flowers, […]
Want to grow a backyard cut flower garden? Thinking of turning your love of growing flowers into a business? Here are 10 easy to grow annual cut flowers from seed.
Pentas plant, a sun loving annual and perennial ideal for flower borders and pots when a splash of color is needed. We share HOW TO care for Pentas. [ MORE]
Discover unique stone edging ideas to transform your garden into a stunning outdoor oasis. Click to explore creative designs!
Tall flowers add height, visual impact, and structure to a border garden. Here is a selection of fast-growing annuals and perennials to consider.
These are heat-tolerant flowers that can fill your garden with delicate and vibrant blooms through those sweltering summer months. Ideas for your summer garden.
I have a picket fence garden. I love my picket fence garden. It's quaint. It's cute. It screams cottage, and I love pretty much anything that screams cottage. It also happens to be home to my Princess Diana clematis entwined birdhouse, and I love my Princess Diana clematis entwined birdhouse more than a person should love anything that's made out of a chunk of wood. I also have a greenhouse garden. I love my greenhouse garden. It's my newest garden, and this year it really came into its own. Right next to my greenhouse garden you can see part of my vegetable garden. I actually don't love my vegetable garden at the moment because a good portion of the plants are smack in the middle of a strike. Apparently they are protesting a hostile work environment, ( a massive grass invasion and fertilizer neglect), and while we've attempted several sit down negotiations, so far neither of us is willing to budge and do what is required of us to get our relationship back on the road to productivity. And by neither of us, I mean me. But enough about my sad squash and pumpkins. I really want to talk to you about my very favorite garden of all. The raised bed herb garden. I love my raised bed herb garden beyond all reason. Raised bed gardens are easy to take care of. They are easy to irrigate. They are also extremely easy to weed, not that I have any recent, first hand experience on that front. Things have gone a bit downhill since the wedding a month ago. Very far down a very big hill. It all still looks pretty good from a distance....but up close it would definitely not pass the garden club smell test. The herb garden has a few herbs....rosemary, parsley, several mints, thyme, dill and sage, as well as some onions and jalapenos, but the vast majority of the plants are annuals, and the vast majority of the annuals are zinnias. Did I ever tell you the final zinnia count? Out of the eleven hundred and ten zinnia seeds I planted, eight hundred and sixty eight made it into the garden. Yes, I counted. Several times. Not all of them germinated in the greenhouse, and then quite a few more just shriveled up and died for no apparent reason before they made it in the ground, which actually didn't hurt my feelings even a little bit because it was all I could do to find eight hundred and sixty eight spots to plant my zinnias let alone eleven hundred and ten. Oh, and then there are a few of these poor little fellas out there, too. I still count them among the living, but I'm beginning to think a mercy killing just might be in order. Our low tonight is supposed to be thirty five, so I'm all of a sudden feeling a bit sentimental about my zinnias and all their garden friends. It won't be long before I wake up one morning to find they've gone to the great zinnia farm in the sky and that will just be sad. Most of the perennials I've planted in the raised beds have not been able to survive our harsh winters above ground, but a few have not only survived...they've gone completely over the edge of sanity. The Monarda. Is. Out. Of. Control. I originally planted four different colors, but the only survivors were the fuchsia/magenta-ish fellas you see here. Over the years, they've gone from a four inch pot to reach out and grab you size, and every year they expand by leaps and bounds. They truly need to be dealt with sometime soon, as they have blocked off all the paths that surround them, but I have a hard time messing with a plant that has that much vim and vigor. You can see them off to the right in the photo below. They now take up almost all of their 4x8 foot beds. All this to say, raised gardens are the cat's meow, and if you have ever tossed around the idea of a raised garden bed or two, or ten, I say take the plunge. You won't be sorry. So, speaking of gardens, Country Living just announced the finalists in its Blue Ribbon Blogger Awards, and it just so happens that a blog y'all might be familiar with is a finalist in the garden category. Rumor has it that the author of this particular blog is pretty darn excited and honored and humbled at this turn of events, and has been seen walking around in a bit of a daze since this information came into her possession. Country Living just happens to be the one and only magazine she subscribes to, and she currently has the most recent three issues sitting on her coffee table. There's also a slight possibility that during the short period of time that she let her subscription lapse several years ago, she may or may not have stolen borrowed two issues from the waiting area of her local Department of Motor Vehicles. A panel of judges will be picking the winner in each category, but in the meantime, Country Living is holding a Reader's Choice contest on their website. The Reader's Choice voting is already underway, and will continue until September 15th. Readers can vote once a day. The problem is, the author of the aforementioned blog is a bit uncomfortable asking her readers to pay a visit to the Country Living page to vote for her blog. She's not totally sure just exactly what her problem is, but for whatever reason, it is just a bit awkward for her. After talking it over with her BFF, who very sweetly (or not) said, "Oh, get over yourself. This is cool!", she decided to post the link to the voting page in case any of her readers feel like popping on over and placing a vote. She has also decided to refer to herself in the third person for this portion of her blog post, because she feels that it somehow eases the awkwardness she is feeling just a teensy little bit, but she hopes that by doing so, she does not cause any form of confusion for her readers. She herself is very easily confused, so she is always a bit sensitive to others who occasionally find themselves in that same boat. In addition, she has visited the voting page several times during the writing of this post, just to make sure that her blog is indeed one of the finalists. She is a bit worried that she might discover that she dreamed the finalist part and that would take the awkward thing to a whole new level once she hit the publish button on her blogger dashboard. She would also like to thank the readers who nominated her blog for the Blue Ribbon Awards. She knows of two readers who did so, and thinks that it's just about the nicest thing ever. Have a truly delightful Labor Day weekend!
Ageratum is a fast-growing annual in most regions, which makes it a charming fill in for flower beds and borders. It is a great annual for container gardens, too. And in U.S. Department of Agriculture zones 10 and 11, you can enjoy this flower as a perennial.
Ammi varieties have similar lacy blooms but with different characteristics. Learn how to grow Ammi to enjoy them in your cut flower garden.
Today was another sunny and cool day with lots of action at the Horticulture Center and out in the gardens. Pat M. went out for more serious pruning which involved … Continue reading "Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)"
Verbenas are long blooming annual or perennial flowers that possess the virtues of heat tolerance and an extremely long bloom season. Many perennial...
If you are looking for a plant that can take the heat, then consider growing vinca! This flowering annual is both drought & heat resistant!
Growing zinnia flowers in your backyard has plenty of benefits: These simple, low-maintenance plants provide colorful, wow-worthy, oversized blooms—with sturdy stalks that make them a prime choice for cutting gardens and indoor arrangements.
Climbing nasturtium plants are easy to grow, long-flowering, and attract bees and hummingbirds. Learn how to grow this popular annual vine.
If you long for your flower garden to bloom year after year with minimal effort, try planting a few low-maintenance perennials! Not only are they stunning and easy to care for, but they're also cost-effective
Growing annual flowers from seed is easy to do and saves money. These are my top ten easy to grow annual flowers from seed
Perhaps you have a tree that you would like to landscape around or maybe an open spot in...
