Annuals Flower & Perennials Primer

 


Flowers in the Landscape

Planning your Flowerbeds
Flowers & Color Combinations
Foliage

Garden Care

Perennial Profiles

Artemisia
Canna
Aster
Astilbe
Begonia

Annuals Profiles

Coleus
Cosmos
 
  
  •  Perennial & Annuals Garden Design
The secret is out. Paint a landscape for all seasons by planting varied combinations of annuals and perennials. Brightening your landscape is easy as adding a few spots with color and flowers:

Annuals - is a plant that:

  • sprouts.
  • blooms.
  • makes seeds.
  • dies within the year.
The majority of annuals are planted in the spring, bloom through the summer and fall, and killed by frost.
 

...brightening your landscape is as easy as adding a few spots of color with flowers.  You can plant flowers in great sweeps of vivid color of place those delicate hue in single pots.  You'll find hundreds of flowers available; their blooms range from whites to subtle pastels to bold, vibrant colors, and their foliage includes every shade of green.  You just need to know a few basics about about annuals and perennials in order to select the right plants for your particular site and climate.  Traditionally, annuals and perennials have been assigned specific and separate roles in the garden.  This legacy stems from the grand gardens of Victorian and Edwardian times.

Even during the time of the grand gardens, annuals and perennials were combined in charming ways in English cottage gardens, as well as in many other nations.  There are advantages to this kind of planting.  Many annuals have a long flowering period that perennials lack, yet many perennials have interesting leaves or shapes in addition to beautiful blossoms.

Perennial Profiles

Basics of Care for your Perennial

Maintaining your garden in easy when you follow a few basic but essential steps.  Learn how much and how often you need to water, mulch, fertilize, and groom your plants.  Find out if your perennials in your garden need to be divided.  Once you understand your plants needs, you can keep your flowerbeds beautiful with little effort....
» Perennial Care

Annual Profiles

Starting with the ageratum: comes in an assortment of hues, blue ageratum is prized for its unusual color.  Ageratum is also one of the garden's longest lasting blues.  Additionally, annuals can provide your garden with color more quickly than any other plants.  By selecting long blooming annuals and perennials and choosing those that bloom in succession, you can have color for nearly the entire blooming season
» Annual profiles