Guides: Annuals
Hardiness
Chrysanthemum: Learn How To Plant, Care and Grow Magnificent Flowers
Beloved for their late summer and fall flowers, Chrysanthemums or mums are terrific plants for adding color in borders and containers. Usually easy to grow, these fall garden favorites make wonderful, long-lasting cut flowers too.
Marigold: Plant Care and Growing Guide
Learn how to plant, grow and care for Marigolds and add a bright pop of color all summer long.
Calendula: Plant Care and Growing Guide (Pot Marigold)
Learn how to plant, grow and care for Calendula and add a bright pop of color all summer long.
Nasturtium: Plant Care and Growing Guide
Learn how to plant, grow and care for Nasturtium and add a bright pop of color all summer long.
Basil: Planting, Growing, and Harvesting
Learn how to plant, grow and harvest basil and add flavor to your favorite recipes
18 Types of Poppies to Discover
Cherished by gardeners, poppies are lovely at providing cheerful spring and summer color in gardens, containers, and bouquets.
Edible Flowers for Your Garden
Here is a list of wonderful edible flowers you should grow in your garden
Best Annual Flowers For Your Vegetable Garden
Vegetables love flowers. Aside from adding a splash of color, annual flowers planted in and near vegetable gardens and fruit plantings help bring pollinators and other beneficial insects into the garden that will protect and increase your crops.
13 Types of Chrysanthemum for a splash of fall color in gardens and containers
Chrysanthemum blooms are composed of many tiny flowers called florets. Some have both disk and ray florets in the bloom heads, but others lack ray or disk florets. The National Chrysanthemum Society divides bloom forms into 13 classes ranging from single daisies to multi-petalled pompons, petite to giant blooms.
Most Fragrant Sweet Peas
From a fragrance standpoint, not all sweet peas are equal. Some exude a faint scent, others are well-scented, and some are intensely fragrant. According to researchers, the fragrance of sweet peas is determined by six major components and 12 minor ones. This is the combination of these major ingredients with the minor ones, which grants sweet peas their delightful perfume.
Rudbeckia hirta (Black-Eyed Susans)
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly known as Black-Eyed Susan, Gloriosa Daisy or Yellow Oxeye Daisy is a cheerful, widespread prairie plant that belongs to the Asteraceae family. It is renowned for its showy golden, orange or bicolor flowers, adorned with up to 8-20 rays and dark chocolate, dome-shaped cones. Blanketing the landscape with its dazzling bright blossoms for months, it is ridiculously easy to grow and largely trouble free.
Coreopsis (Tickseed)
Coreopsis, commonly known as "Tickseed", are prized by many gardeners for the bright colors of their flowers and their ability to put up with most garden soils. There are over 100 species available and countless hybrids, including both annuals and perennials. Most of them are low maintenance, drought tolerant and enjoy a long blooming season, generally from early summer to fall, or even longer if deadheaded.
Lathyrus odoratus (Sweet Pea)
Native to the Mediterranean region, Lathyrus odoratus (Sweet Pea) is a bushy or climbing annual noted for the delicious scent of its lovely flowers. Blooming in a wide array of enchanting colors, Sweet Peas deserve a spot in sunny borders, containers, on arches and trellises where they will happily twine and release their fabulous scent.
Cosmos Flowers
With finely cut leaves, slender stems, and showy daisy-like flowers, Cosmos is a long-blooming annual which belongs in every garden. Ridiculously easy to grow, fairly pest-free, and low maintenance, add this charming and graceful plant to the landscape, and you will be rewarded with plentiful blossoms and happy butterflies!
Papaver somniferum (Opium Poppy)
Papaver somniferum (Opium Poppy) is a tall, upright annual from which both opium and poppy seeds are derived. It is also a valuable ornamental plant bearing large flowers, up to 5 in. across (12 cm), in various color shades including white, mauve, red, pink, purple and almost jet black. Flowers are semi-double, double or adorned with fringed petals.
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