Plant Profiles - Info on Growing and Using Popular Garden Annuals
Plant profiles provides descriptions of popular annual garden plants as well as providing cultural and maintenance requirements, design tips and suggested varieties.
A Trailing Flower that Blooms All Season - Diascia
Diascia, or Twinspur, is a delicate trailing plant that repeat blooms throughout the summer. Diascia is a favorite in containers and hanging baskets. Growing Diascia is easy. A couple of Diascia plants will keep you in flower all season.
Diascia, or Twinspur, is a delicate trailing plant that repeat blooms throughout the summer. Diascia is a favorite in containers and hanging baskets. Growing Diascia is easy. A couple of Diascia plants will keep you in flower all season.
Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis x acutiflora) - Choosing and Growin…
Feather reed grasses (Calamagrostis x acutiflora) and upright, clump forming ornamental grasses. Feather reed ornamental grasses are easy to grow and care fore and it's quite easy to work a few Calamagrostis into your garden design.
Feather reed grasses (Calamagrostis x acutiflora) and upright, clump forming ornamental grasses. Feather reed ornamental grasses are easy to grow and care fore and it's quite easy to work a few Calamagrostis into your garden design.
Nigella damascena - Growing Love-in-a-Mist in Your Garden
Nigella earns its common name of Love-in-a-Mist with a tangle of ferny, fennel like foliage that form a mist around the flowers. I'm not sure why anyone would call Nigella Devil in the Bush. Nigella flowers start off as interesting puffs, open into rich toned, straw-flower like blossoms and change into equally attractive seed pods. Here are some tips for growing Nigella in your garden.
Nigella earns its common name of Love-in-a-Mist with a tangle of ferny, fennel like foliage that form a mist around the flowers. I'm not sure why anyone would call Nigella Devil in the Bush. Nigella flowers start off as interesting puffs, open into rich toned, straw-flower like blossoms and change into equally attractive seed pods. Here are some tips for growing Nigella in your garden.
Coleus Plants - Undemanding Color in the Garden
Coleus plants have become a must have in the garden. The colorful foliage instantly brightens a garden design and lasts all season long. Here's where to find out what coleus are available and identify your favorites.
Coleus plants have become a must have in the garden. The colorful foliage instantly brightens a garden design and lasts all season long. Here's where to find out what coleus are available and identify your favorites.
Growing Violas
Violas and pansies are such stalwarts that gardeners take them for granted . These cool season bloomers are great for spring and fall gardens and for bridging the seasons in warmer areas, where they’ll bloom right through the winter. Newer violas have bolder colors and larger flowers that bloom longer. Even better, the new violas and pansies exhibit better heat and cold tolerance than the remarkably hardy varieties where familiar with. Read how to grow the best violas for your garden.
Violas and pansies are such stalwarts that gardeners take them for granted . These cool season bloomers are great for spring and fall gardens and for bridging the seasons in warmer areas, where they’ll bloom right through the winter. Newer violas have bolder colors and larger flowers that bloom longer. Even better, the new violas and pansies exhibit better heat and cold tolerance than the remarkably hardy varieties where familiar with. Read how to grow the best violas for your garden.
Impatiens - New Introductions: Simply Beautiful Fusion & Fanfare
Impatiens are the most reliable flowers for shady areas of the garden. Now there are more choices than ever in varieties of Impatiens. Simply Beautiful flowers has come out with the tropical looking Fusion Impatiens series, including a yellow Impatiens, as well as the trailing and cascading Fanfare Impatiens series.
Impatiens are the most reliable flowers for shady areas of the garden. Now there are more choices than ever in varieties of Impatiens. Simply Beautiful flowers has come out with the tropical looking Fusion Impatiens series, including a yellow Impatiens, as well as the trailing and cascading Fanfare Impatiens series.
Marigolds - A Classic Bedding Plant
Marigolds are a favorite formal bedding plant of garden designers. Marigolds are cheerful, compact yellow, orange and burgundy annuals with flower shapes that can resemble daisies, coreopsis and carnations.
Marigolds are a favorite formal bedding plant of garden designers. Marigolds are cheerful, compact yellow, orange and burgundy annuals with flower shapes that can resemble daisies, coreopsis and carnations.
Nasturtiums - Cool Season Flowers with Hot Season Flair
Nasturtiums are cool season annual flowers in rich, jewel tone colors. Nasturtiums are extremely easy to grow, practically growing themselves. There are bushy, trailing and climbing nasturtiums to fill every gardening need. They are even edible. You won’t usually find seedlings of nasturtiums, but the large seeds germinate quickly and the plants bloom all season. Here are some more nasturtium growing tips.
Nasturtiums are cool season annual flowers in rich, jewel tone colors. Nasturtiums are extremely easy to grow, practically growing themselves. There are bushy, trailing and climbing nasturtiums to fill every gardening need. They are even edible. You won’t usually find seedlings of nasturtiums, but the large seeds germinate quickly and the plants bloom all season. Here are some more nasturtium growing tips.
Pansies - Growing a Cool Weather Favorite
Pansies are probably the most popularly grown and most recognizable cool season plant. The variety of colors and the cheerfulness of the pansy’s ‘face’ have made them a long standing favorite. And they’re easy and undemanding to grow. Here are some tips to keep your pansies growing and blooming longer.
Pansies are probably the most popularly grown and most recognizable cool season plant. The variety of colors and the cheerfulness of the pansy’s ‘face’ have made them a long standing favorite. And they’re easy and undemanding to grow. Here are some tips to keep your pansies growing and blooming longer.
Petunias - How to Choose the Right Type of Petunia
Petunias have done a 180 in recent years. They are much more tolerant of rain and many don't need any deadheading at all. They mound, they trail and they bloom their hearts out. How do you know what type of petunia to buy? Here's a petunia 101 on which types of petunias are best for your garden, hanging baskets and groundcovers.
Petunias have done a 180 in recent years. They are much more tolerant of rain and many don't need any deadheading at all. They mound, they trail and they bloom their hearts out. How do you know what type of petunia to buy? Here's a petunia 101 on which types of petunias are best for your garden, hanging baskets and groundcovers.
Petunias - The Classic Annual Flower, Petunia, Gets a Makeover
Petunias are one of the most popular bedding flowers and new types of petunias are constantly being introduced. Here are some petunia basics to guide you through grandifloras, waves, supertunias and more, as well as how to grow and care for your petunias and keep them blooming all summer.
Petunias are one of the most popular bedding flowers and new types of petunias are constantly being introduced. Here are some petunia basics to guide you through grandifloras, waves, supertunias and more, as well as how to grow and care for your petunias and keep them blooming all summer.
Sunflowers - Growing a Banner of Summer, the Sunflower
Sunflowers make any day feel like a summer's day. They make look exotic, but sunflowers are extremely easy to grow. You can choose traditional yellow sunflowers or maybe try growing sunflowers in rich rusts and burgundies. Here are some tips for growing your own sunflowers.
Sunflowers make any day feel like a summer's day. They make look exotic, but sunflowers are extremely easy to grow. You can choose traditional yellow sunflowers or maybe try growing sunflowers in rich rusts and burgundies. Here are some tips for growing your own sunflowers.
Sweet Peas - Adding Fragrance to the Garden with Sweet Peas
Sweet peas evoke old fashioned cottage gardens, with their fluttering blossoms and intense fragrance. Growing sweet pea vines in the garden is both simple and rewarding, with a long season of bloom and an abundance of cutting flowers.
Sweet peas evoke old fashioned cottage gardens, with their fluttering blossoms and intense fragrance. Growing sweet pea vines in the garden is both simple and rewarding, with a long season of bloom and an abundance of cutting flowers.
Zinnias - A Burst of Hot Flower Colors from Zinnias
Bright colored zinnias can light up a border or container all summer long.
Bright colored zinnias can light up a border or container all summer long.
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2007 All America Selections - Winning Annual Flowers & Vegetables
2007 All America Selections - Winning Annual Flowers & Vegetables