Annual Bedding Plants-For Garden or Container

This board is to display those plants we tend to use as annuals. This would include true annuals (Seed to flower to seed in one year) Also tender plants that will only survive winter in warm climates and are used primarily as annual plants.

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Add some beautiful long lasting, low maintenance petchoa to your garden this summer. Here is how to do it!

Petchoa

A perfect plant for beginners. You can plant both annual and perennial versions. There are endless choices of these plants in many colors and sizes. They are easy to manage and grow in the beds, borders, or anywhere.

A tropical perennial plant, most people value the wax begonia as a dependable annual to fill a pretty container or make a summer bed of color. Dependable and easy to grow they add a lush cushion of color wherever you need one.

This time of year we want the gardens to look well, but we are contending with heat. Pick some plants that like heat-and go for a swim!

Begonia

This pretty flower with the sweet scent has a hidden benefit in the garden. It attracts the beneficial insect, hoverfly. The hoverfly looks like a tiny bumble bee and it loves the alyssum flower but even better its offspring love to eat the aphids that damage your garden. Think of the benefits of just adding a pretty blossok.

These are little insects that pretend to be bees. They produce offspring who eat damaging insects, Encouraging them improves agriculture and our backyard gardens. Here is how it works.

To us gardeners "beneficial insects' are predators of damaging gardeno pests. Hoverflies are beneficial insects and work with the flowering Sweet Alyssum removing damaging Aphids from our gardens.

Sweet Alyssum

Salvia is the plant for everyone. It is easy to grow. You can use it in very many places. It will grow in places where you have failed in the past. Here is how to use it.

Salvia is a nector filled plant with many blossoms and attracts pollinators. They will attract pollinators including butterflies and a good variety of bees.

I found several good uses for Salvia. It is a steady blooming plant, tall and with vertical lines of blooms. This makes them an excellent choice for cut flowers.

Salvia

Here are some of the most useful cultivars (varieties) of Zinnia with features.

A simple flower to grow and with far greater variety than you might believe. Here is how to have some.

Easy to grow, pretty and perfect for a family garden with children.

Zinnia

Cosmos will grow on poor soil with simple care. They are also easy to dry and use in dried arrangements.

Cosmos will grow with benign neglect and will live in fields where many other flowers will not. They range in size from one to six feet.

Which one? Well both of them, the celestial bodies and the humble field flower.

Cosmos

We love the petunia, I'll never stop using them in containers and hanging baskets. But they have limitations, in late summer, rainy days and hot climates. Here are some long them alternatives

Petunias are popular, prolific and more than pleasant. (You wondered how I would get there!) They do have problems with heat, rain and humidity. Here is some information about how to work around those problems.

We found the Petunia in South America in the 1700's. It became an immediate success and it is still true today. It's popularity ensures that many new varieties, sizes, colors, patterns and features are constantly available. Try them in the garden, in containers and hanging baskets.

Petunias

Available ininfinite variety the geranium is a mainstay of the summer garden. Use them in containers on the patio or in your garden for something beautiful every day.

Geraniums are a mainstay of the summer color garden offering blooms all season. They come in a wide range of varieties each with different features. Here are how to identify and use them all.

There are lots of choices, each for a specific purpose. Here are the features you may need and the varieties to look for. Also growing and care help too.

Geraniums

We call the Angelonia, the hot weather snapdragon for two reasons. First it gives us that snap dragon charm and second it thrives in the dog days of summer. Try some!

Angelonia is a warm climate perennial in zones 9-11 and an excellent annual in colder zones. It produces a spire-like flower shape to accent the garden and also adds a sweet scent. You can choose from a variety of colors and size from 12" to a few reaching 3'. A successful choice for hot, sunny places in the garden or containers. Try them out. Here is how.

It is a little like a snapdragon, with the same spire of color. It has become popular since entering the US and many new colors have been added. Use it as you would the early blooming snapdragon but for late summer color when you need it.

Angelonia

Snapdragons have a long history with us humans. Greek classics include descriptions, we think they were native to Russia, Northern Africa and prehaps North America too, We can't get enough of them.

Plant these when it gets warm enough. Snapdragon will bloom in your garden or containers in spring, early summer and again in autumn. In our warm climate we grow them all winter. Here is what you know to grow them this year.

Here are 10 uses for this pretty flower.They brighten up beds and borders, and some are perfect sizes for window boxes. Deer seem to dislike them, plant them on the outside of plants that deer like b

Snapdragon

Bacopa

Use the list to create your own garden space to suit your needs. If you would like some inspiration also there are some amazing bedding gardens to explore here.

We like to make a pretty bed of plants, perhaps in a pattern of colors and shapes. Well, we are not the first ones to do it. William Shakespeare entertained in this garden. Here is a list of annual bedding plants with photos to make your own shopping list.

This is a listing of annual plantings for your garden. You can start soon, with your family and enjoy the results all summer.

Annual Plantings

Pentas are perfect pollinator plants. Buterflies, bees and even hummingbirds love them. Easy to grow and available in many colors. Try them,

Butterflies and other pollinators all love the tiny, nectar filled, blossoms of the penta plant. It grows easily as a summer annual and in warm climates lasts for years. You will do some good for everybody.

Always in color, every day. Easy to grow. Annual in temperate climates, lasting years in ours, they attract pollinators in droves.

Pentas

Vibrant color, easy to grow and available in a wide variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Here is how to grow them.

Make this eyecatcher to hang on your porch or patio. Here are the 4 steps to take for the best plants, best pots, then water and fertilizer to keep them beautiful all season.

This is a Hoverfly, he acts as a beneficial insect in the garden. Plant some simple Sweet Alyssum and you will get him! Now here is what he can do for you.

Annual Ideas

A Truly Spring like color-lavender/blue. Combine it with colors you want in garden beds or pots. Next fall you can make it into a house plant.

Mona Lavender is a herbacious perennial with unusual showy flowers in a brilliant blue lavender color. The foliage is flashy too, being shiny dark green on top and purple on the bottom. It is altogether at treat to have in the garden or in the house.

Types Of Lavender Plants | Today's bloom is Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' (Plectranthus )

Mona Lavender

Vinca delivers all day, every day blooms, and does so in the most humid and hot weather of late summer. They will bloom for you until frost arrives. Here is how to do it.

This disease resistant summer flower offers bright blooms, many colors and even patterns! We will plant these soon in our early spring in zone 10a. Plant some for all summer color in your garden. Here is how to grow them and the growing conditions as well as varieties.

Try this pretty flower for your summer color garden. Easy to grow, constantly in bloom and happy in the worst of summer humidity and heat. Here is all about how to grow it..

Vinca

Coleus is a source of both color and pattern in the garden. It's a tender tropical perennial which lots of us use as annuals.

Do you want some beautiful color? Do you know you can have pattern also. Go find some Coleus for yourself. The color and the pattern comes from the foliage. This means you can see it every day and all season long.

A beautiful source of color and pattern in your garden. Now is the time for all of us to grow these beauties in beds, borders and containers of all kinds. In temperate climates plant them for summer. Take some cuttings indoors for the winter. For us in hot, hot, hot, south Florida they add beauty in winter and summer. How can we go wrong!

Coleus

Colorful, looks like you decorated with crayon. You can add long blooming, very vivid color and unusual shapes. Might be just what you need!

Use this colorful annual plant for color and interest in various ways and wherever you garden. There are many colors, sizes and interesting shapes. There are some for gardens and window boxes. We are using them all winter inl Florida and in the north you can use them all summer.

This is Celosia Spicata, it consists of spikes! All colors, all sizes, all spikes. The varieties are called things like "Pink Candle, and "Ruby Parfait."

Celosia

Grow these easy and beautiful flowers but do not overdoo the water! See, Mark Twain was right.

Here are some lush colors for the spring planters. Hang them in baskets, decorate the windows. Use these easy beauties everywhere.

If you love to be in the garden, and you like to know where your plants came from you may find this useful.

Calibrachoa

This new plant is petchoa and it is a cross between our favorite petunia and the calibrachoa plant. It has the best features of both and is tolerant of heat, rain an cooler weather.

There are lots of ways to use these in your garden as the season warms up. Fill in openings in perennial beds or to carry your eye from one place to another in the garden by using their bright colors.

We found the impantiens flowers we love in summer because the explorer David Livingstone believed that if he could find the source of the Nile, we could end the slave trade. The impatiens were a delightful side product, I always remember that.

Impatiens

Plants in Containers

Celosia Plumosa flowers in the garden

Companion plants

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