Native to eastern Africa and the Arabian peninsula, pentas are hardy in zones 10 to 11, though they're grown as annuals in cooler climates. You can start the seeds indoors over the winter, within ...

Summer heat won't stop these annuals! Plant these 16 tough bloomers for nonstop color in beds, pots, and borders even during ...

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 ...

Pentas can be planted in containers to add a splash of summer color. The easy-to-grow annuals are available in many colors and sizes, and they bloom all summer long.(Howard Garrett / Special ...

Pentas (photo by Lorraine Kiefer) have hairy green leaves and clusters of flowers in shades of red, white, pink, or purple. Pentas are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds (picture courtesy ...

Another strategy is to use perennials instead where there are many varieties of beautiful, pollinator-friendly plants like Coreopsis, Gaillardia, Salvias, and Pentas that can come back year after ...

The pentas and impatiens, while still very much alive, had started to get leggy and tired. It was time for something new. Are your flower beds or containers in need of a fall facelift?

Add some annuals to your garden for a splash of color 02:41. NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Try to dominate your flowerbed with perennial flowering plants, native or adapted to North Texas. I ...