Annuals Profiles

 


Flowers in the Landscape

Planning your Flowerbeds
Flowers & Color Combinations
Foliage

Garden Care

Perennial Profiles

Artemisia
Canna
Aster
Astilbe
Begonia
Bleeding Heart
Bluebell
Blue Star
Boltonia

Annuals Profiles

Ageratum
Black-eyed Susan
Cabbage & Kale
Caladium
Calliopsis
Celosia
Coleus
Cosmos
Dahlia Merckii
 
  
  •  Annuals Profiles
The following will acquaint you with proven popular annuals as well as a number of fine plants deserving wider appreciation.  To introduce each plant we give its botanical name and common name, then it hardiness to low winter temperature and any other climate restriction.  A profile of the plant follows the introduction.  It includes a description of foliage flowers, and plant habit; mention of the plant's strong or weak points; and cultural advice, such as soil and exposure preference, water needs.  From these plant's potential usefulness in your own garden.
 

Flowering cabbage (brassica oleracea)

Amethyst flower (browallia)

Swan River Daisy (Brachycome iberidifolia)

China Aster (Callistephus chinensis)

 

Cockscomb (celosia argentea)

Cosmos

Spider Flower (cleome spinosa)

Clarkia

Coleus

Coreopsis

Carnation, Pink, Sweet William (Dianthus)

Blanket Flower (Gaillardia)

Strawflower (Helichrysum Bracteatum)

Sunflower (Helianthus)

Candytuft (Iberis)

Morning Glory (Ipomoea)

Balsam (Impatiens)

Sweet Alyssum (Annual)