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, petunias, and ...

Ever wondered why some of your plants die after one season while others come back year after year? If you’ve pondered that, you’ve likely noticed the difference between two categories of plants: ...

The winter annuals should continue to bloom well this month, but we usually plant the summer annuals sometime in April. There is a long list of choices, including zinnias, begonias, pentas, moss roses ...

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 ...

When spring/early summer bloomers stop flowering, fill those blank garden spots with heat-hardy annuals. Nurseries are full of them now. The terms annual (one-year bloomers) and perennials (bloom year ...

When Floridians say "perennials," they mean herbaceous (non-woody) plants that live for a minimum of several years. And while all herbaceous plants in Northern states die to the ground each winter and ...