What to grow: annual vs. perennial. Annuals are the top choice when you’re looking for instant gratification. They grow quickly from seeds or transplants to fill up containers or beds with color.

Most annuals should be planted outdoors in the soil after the last frost, like morning glory and larkspur. Others, such as coleus and impatiens, should be planted indoors from seeds six to eight ...

Annual comes from the Latin meaning “pertaining to a year”. These plants live their whole lives within a year, and often just a season. Our traditional garden flowers, such as pansies ...

Summer annuals such as peppers, basil, and zinnia, are killed by cold in the fall; winter annuals such as kale, pansies, and lettuce tolerate cold temperatures but die or are severely damaged by ...

Pansies are the most planted fall and winter annual (or tender perennial) and it is for a good reason. They have either large or small blooms, come in an array of colors and bloom their heads off ...

Pansies are technically hardy biennial plants, but we treat them as annuals in this part of the country. Advertisement Pansies ( Viola x wittrockiana ) are among the most popular garden flowers today.

Q. I am tired of replanting all my containers every year with new annuals. Couldn't I plant perennials instead? A. Maybe. Remember, though, the soil in containers will be much colder than the ...

A little-known fact is that most pansy varieties can be perennial and come back every year. Pansies like cool weather, so plants you install this spring will bloom again in fall and again next ...

Gardening: Colorful, chill-resistant pansies earn annual of year Diana Lockwood For The Columbus Dispatch If any flower truly deserves the description “cute,” it’s pansies.

If they echo the annuals from the beds, the result will be a “tied together” composition. In addition to mixed containers, consider displaying a mono container dedicated only to an annual prevalent in ...