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This is your gateway and complete guide to 74 of the most popular annual flowering plants to grow outdoors in home landscapes, in yards and gardens, in decorative containers, or indoors as living floral arrangements.
The guide includes both true annual flowers and tender perennials commonly planted for seasonal color.
Annuals are flowering plants that complete their entire lifecycle in one growing season, growing from a seed and developing flowers that produce new seeds to grow the following year.
Numerous species, hybrids, and cultivars of tender biennial and perennial flowering plants are also planted by many gardeners to add colorful flowers and foliage to many home landscape flower gardens’ beds, borders, and edgings.
Annuals may be grown from seed either started indoors and transplanted to the garden when spring weather warms and hazard of frost is over, or sown directly in garden soil to germinate and grow.
Some annuals are deep rooted and transplant poorly; plant those species directly in your garden.
You’ll quickly find the topics you want and answers to your questions. All the information uses a repeating, and easy-to-find pattern. Just find these icons.
Use the visual sort below or the Main-Menu’s Annuals pulldown tabs to find, choose, plant, and care for common annuals.
In one page, you’ll find every important detail needed to choose, grow and care for each of these popular flowering annual plants.
Surveys show that the top six easiest and most-popular flowering annuals planted in the United States are:
When gardeners choose annuals to plant in their landscape gardens or containers, they usually start with one of these favorites.
Of course, here you’ll find a far larger number of flowers from which to choose: this is your gateway to a virtual flower garden full of colorful choices.
This guide includes 74 species and many thousands of varieties, hybrids, and cultivars of annuals and tender perennials commonly planted as seasonal color flowers. It simplifies your choice when you must pick from thousands of options for flowers you want to grow.
Because the guide helps you find plants by their common names, you’ll also find cross-references to other annuals with the same or similar common names. If you’re looking for plants by their scientific names, use the search box atop each page to find every page that mentions a plant.
Colorful pictures and short videos in the guide provide a visual reference when help you pick annual flowers to plant.
Each plant is classified as requiring full sun, partial sun, partial shade, or full shade.
You’ll quickly find the season of bloom, color choices for flowers, soil type, and U.S.D.A. plant hardiness zone information for every plant. This information will help you pick the proper annuals for your region and condition.
There’s a wealth of other descriptive information given for each plant, including its planting and bloom season; habit; complete spacing, depth of planting, and care instructions. The Features tab provides interesting facts about each flower that makes it unique or interesting.
Check that seeds, seedlings, and transplants are well adapted your site’s conditions, including its soil, sun and wind exposure, and other climate factors. Also note any special needs they may have for light, watering, fertilizing, post-bloom care, and best storage conditions.
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