Annuals


Annuals are plants that complete their entire growth cycle in one season. For that reason they are floriferous for a long period, especially when prevented from setting seed. When plants of the annual type return each year, due to having hardy or half-hardy seeds, we say they are “self-seeding”. Many of my favorites are in that category. I love Shirley poppies and Love in a Mists, larkspurs and calendulas, and all of them will self seed in the garden, popping up in sometimes unpredictable places!

General Articles on Annuals

salpiglossis

My container with Salpiglossis


Introducing Annuals, Why Grow Them?
Color Scheme Ideas for Annuals
Diminuative Annuals: a list of my favorites
Container Planting
Best Web Articles on Starting from Seed
Learn more about color in the garden
What You Need To Know To Create A Garden

Favorite Annuals


2010 AARS Winner Zinnias


Garden Projects Using Annuals:


You may read descriptions of many of the annuals listed here on my Annual Plants page.

A List of Annuals for Sun

[Sun -Part Sun] from the list of what I’ve grown

  • Antirrhinum [Snapdragon]
  • Arctotis
  • Bachelor button (Centaurea)
  • Brachycome
  • Candytuft
  • Celosias
  • Convolvulous
  • Cosmos
  • Dahlberg Daisies
  • Eustoma [Lisianthus]
  • Four-O-Clocks
  • Godetia
  • Gypsophilia elegans [Baby's Breath]
  • Laurentia
  • Linaria [toadflax]
  • Leptosiphon
  • Marigolds
  • Nasturtiums
  • Nemesia
  • Nemophila
  • Nierembergia
  • Nigella
  • Osteospermum
  • Petunia x hybrida
  • Petunia x hybrida
  • Portulaca
  • Salpiglossis
  • Salvias
  • Schizanthus
  • Shirley Poppies,Iceland Poppies
  • Sunflower [Helianthus annuus]
  • Verbena x hybrida
  • Zinnias

A List of Annuals for Shade

[Shade/Part Sun] from the list of what I’ve grown

  • Browallia speciosa
  • Impatiens
  • Lobelia
  • Nicotiana
  • Torenia fournieri [Wishbone flower]
  • Vinca
  • Viola [Pansies]

Perennials grown as Annuals

Some tender perennials are grown for one season

  • Begonia x semperflorens -shady to part sun. Some call these annual and some call them perennial. They are grown as annuals here.
  • Begonia x tuberhybrida [tuberous begonias] -shady
  • Four-O-Clocks -sunny
  • Geraniums [Pelargoniums] -sunny
  • Heliotrope -sunny


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