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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...