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Annual Plants

Annual plants add sizzle to the garden design with their brilliant colors and season-long blooms. I'm a big fan (even though I grow many more perennials). You see, there's little point in being a garden snob and only growing one kind of plant or other. If you like it - grow it. And who's to tell you differently given that it's your garden?

I like annuals. Always have. I mean, what's not to like when something blooms all summer with no work, no fuss or muss and gives you tons of seed to do it all over again the following year?

This is the main linking page to the annuals we grow in our gardens and this page will link to how-to-grow articles about them all.

Anual Plants on Trial

Here's a video of some of my picks from a major plant trial in the summer of 2008.  All of these plants will do equally well in containers as well as in the garden.

Annuals for Your Garden

Morning Glory vine is a fantastic annual climber with many different shades (and here's why you have trouble with the blue ones).

Sweet Pea flowers are among the sweetest in the garden (make sure you get the fragrant varieties!)

Got an Annual Growing Problem?

If you have an Annual flower growing question (that isn't about containers - ask those container gardening questions here then feel free to ask it using this form.

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