Most Popular Annual Flowers

It is a hardy in zones 9 and 10, but can function as a potted outdoor plant if it is not overwatered and is brought inside for winter. It needs full sun though it will tolerate some shade and will grow up to 4 feet tall.

You can get a head start on spring planting by sowing seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before the last expected frost. Not surprisingly, given its lucky-charm color and Irish name, bells-of-Ireland represents good luck in the language of flowers.Bells-of-Ireland...

Smallish (for Zinnias) green, detailed blooms that open and stay pale green. There are many beautiful spurges to grow, including Wood Spurge, ‘Redwing,' Cushion Spurge, Waldstein's Spurge, and Irish Spurge.If you're sick of pale chartreuse, here's some...

This long-cupped type is a mid-spring bloomer., a late season bloomer, is a short-cupped charmer with white petals surrounding a cup of deep green edged with orange-red. All viridifloras bloom later in the spring than most other tulips.For more photos...

Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has been an integral part of human cultures for millennia. Hemp usage discussed here is for industrial hemp only.Industrial hemp has a myriad of modern uses.

Any time I saw them, I had to pick a few - and sometimes more than a few! - to bring home to my mom. Next to dandelions, they may be the flower most often picked "for Mommy."I can remember my delight one afternoon in finding a whole field of daisies in...

I was eyeing the yardage in the blindingly yellow billows of her taffeta skirt that bounced from one pew to the other as she swayed her way down the aisle toward me. And I never forgot the twinkle in Ninna's blue eyes when she spoke.Originally native...

Roses are a beloved garden plant and can be found around the world in cottage, native, and formal gardens alike.Larkspur is a lesser known flower that represents July. Daffodils are grown from bulbs and emerge in spring as a welcome harbinger of warmer...

Looking for something to spice up that romantic dinner for that special someone? Edible flowers have been used for hundreds of years as flavoring and garnishes. Just looking for something a little different to dine on?

Both roots and flowers were used to treat maladies such as earaches, worms, indigestion, burns and snake bites. Rudbeckia laciniata was among the native wildflowers transplanted to Europe by early visitors to American shores, and the British became the...

Reblooming daylilies come in lots of colors, and now you can have a whole yard full of sporadically reblooming daylilies in a rainbow of colors. Suddenly the world looks like a display ofThe "hardy" chrysanthemums will live through frost, certainly, but...

These antique flowers can be found in many gardens and in countless settings. Arrange the flowers in waves of texture and color to appeal to the eye of the admirer. Keep in mind that the formal bed requires more effort to design and maintain.Seeing that...

If I followed my every plant purchasing impulse, I would have to get a real job. Buying tropicals or landscape material from a nursery clearance rack can be a cheap yet successful way to fulfill your need for a variety of green things to nurture, learn...

As long as it has the same tone it will look absolutely divine!There truly is no other color as decadent and delicious as red. It will help add depth to an already deep area!For an added splash, try setting up a small container pond in the same area you...

They are wonderful and so easy to grow from cuttings that they are easy for the beginner to learn to start taking cuttings from other plants.Can you ask for a better plant for the garden?

What is it that inspires the love of a particular flower or plant? My window wall of greenery would not have been complete without it and to me, it was worth the trouble.It would be years later, after many apartment plants, apartment trees, bottle gardens,...

Peak performer with trailing stems is impressive in the front of the border, gilding a hanging basket or two, and mingling in a container. Flowering and flowering from July right into October, easy-growing 12 inch variety's mass of glowing, golden blooms...

In mild climates once the flowers bloom they will self seed and be there year in and year out. Thank you Sheila_FW for the image.This wonderful plant is the single best grower in my early summer garden and comes in many varieties.

I really like this color and the delicate appearance of the flowers.I just want to mention--as this article goes to press, the two front runners (I'm not telling) are only a hundred votes apart.

Propogation is easy by seeds or by cuttings. Torenia fournieri, hailing from Southeast Asia, is one such plant that is always present in my summer garden. Weak trailing stems make them ideal for hanging baskets and other containers as the stems will cascade...

They will burst in color early in the spring and keep color into early summer. Perfect companion of spring flowering bulbs. The best plant to have in the landscape bed around the house in fall and during the winter months.

Seed packets include basic planting instructions. The bare spot left can be improved with compost or fertilizer, covered with mulch, and left to rest until the next planting season.Armed with just this basic information, you can confidently now face that...

These crosses are marketed as having flowers as big as petunias but being as easy-care as calibrachoas. They are usually propagated from cuttings, which accounts for the slightly higher-than-average prices.

Some notes about rosy periwinkle and how and where to grow Madagascar periwinkles can be found in this article.Starry flowers, glossy leaves and persistent fruits characterize the rosy periwinkle plant.

Shake the bag every day or two until the pods are completely dry. Place the seeds in a paper envelope and store them in a cool, dry, well-ventilated location until planting time. Freshly harvested seeds usually don't do well because germinating vinca...

Annual, may overwinter above zone 8, sun to part sun. Blooms open a few at a time per stem, plant several plants close together and pinch to encourge branchingEasy to start from seed, no special treatment needed, transplants not commonly sold.

Tagetes Petula. Clemson Extension Home and Garden Information Center.Clare Hagen Dole. 'French Vanilla'. "Just beautiful, 2007."Kniphofia. Tagetes erecta 'Antiqua mix'. Senator Dirksen's speech to nominate the marigold as the national flower became one...