If you want plenty of dazzling colour for very little money and effort, annuals are the plants for you. Here are three essential tips for making the most of your annual flowers.
June 30, 2015
If you want plenty of dazzling colour for very little money and effort, annuals are the plants for you. Here are three essential tips for making the most of your annual flowers.
Rollicking beds filled with marigolds, nasturtiums, and zinnias can be yours for the price of a packet of seeds, or you can buy transplants in six-packs and pop them into a bed—or perhaps create a beautiful container bouquet for your deck or patio.
Like most vegetables, annual flowers grow for only one season, so they give you plenty of versatility from one year to the next.
Annuals come in a huge range of shapes and sizes, too, from vigorous vines for covering a chain-link fence to compact dwarfs perfect for edging a walkway. Wherever you want a spot of colour, there is an annual flower perfect for the job.
Here are a few tips on getting the most from these rewarding plants.
Young nursery plants are often grown in sultry greenhouses and may not be hardened off properly.
Sow half-hardy annuals indoors to give them a head start.
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