annuals

Many annuals need to be deadheaded to keep blooming all season. While snipping off the spent blossoms can hardly be described as hard work, it is easier not to have to remember to do this chore. For that reason, many of us try to buy annuals that do not need deadheading in order to re-bloom all season long and right into fall.

Quite a number of flowering annuals can be started by sowing their seeds directly into the garden.

Most gardeners I know find it convenient to buy this easy-care annual for their pots and shade beds each spring, and delight in growing such undemanding annuals.

Cutting back plants, even small ones, helps to stimulate growth. But don't cut off all of the leaves!

If you want something in bloom all through the growing seasons in your garden, check that you have these plants.

Early on, I longed for all the more pretentious perennials, but now I prefer the tried and true.

A mix of annuals, biennials, perennials, and shrubs ensures that your cutting garden always has something in bloom.

There is magic associated with flowers. How can it be, I wonder, that there are so many different shapes, colors, and sizes to delight the senses?

Many people want a low-maintenance garden, yet no garden is truly low maintenance, but one possibility is an informal garden of easy-care flowering annuals.

Fall is the time to bring indoors all of those houseplants that have been spending the summer outside. I usually also dig up a few annual geraniums that I have had in my beds all summer.