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 ...

Perennials, which return for many years, have a valuable place in the garden, providing years of reliable performance and pollinator support. But most perennials bloom for only a few weeks and take ...

When you crave color and beauty on your patio or in your garden all summer long, it's important to choose carefully which flowers you'll use. Summer-blooming annuals are a great option if you want to ...

Some of the warm-season bedding plants -- such as impatiens, periwinkles, blue daze, pentas and begonias -- are tender perennials rather than true annuals. They can bloom here for more than one year ...

Already, the snapdragons have lost their snap, the sweet peas have petered out, and the pansies are turning in to sure enough pansies. By the end of June, all those wonderful flowers you enjoyed ...

This shade-loving plant blooms in winter and has a somewhat strange name, but it's perfect for shady areas in your garden and ...

The world’s first self-climbing sweet potato vine, a new foliage annual with big silvery leaves, and a slew of new striped and bicolor petunias are among the interesting new annual flowers debuting in ...

I'm changing up one of the landscape design concepts that I've used and recommended to others. I used to advise homeowners to avoid sprinkling annual color all over the place and instead use masses of ...

The blossoms of few plants – if any – are as alluring to butterflies and hummingbirds as those of pentas (P. lanceolata), a bushy, evergreen perennial. Indeed, even diehard native plant enthusiasts ...