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VERSATILE ANNUALS

Home Gardener’s Annuals provides the information you need to include these remarkable plants in your landscape design. Annuals usually last one growing season, but they offer season-long color and texture to your garden. You can start them from seeds inside and then move the seedlings outdoors when the weather permits, or you can purchase seedlings and even started plants from home and garden centers. Use annuals in gardens and borders just as you would perennials and bulbs, and annuals are natural choices for window boxes. Also, containers of annuals allow you to change the look of your patio or deck as the season progresses.

Annuals come in a variety of colors, leaf and bloom shapes, and sizes. For these reasons, annuals are indispensable when combined with perennials and bulbs. Use perennials to form the backbone of your landscape; enlist annuals to provide swaths of color in your garden and to fill in bare spots. And you can experiment by choosing different annuals from year to year for your garden.

Home Gardener’s Annuals will show you how to pick the best plants and provide the conditions to make your annuals thrive. There is also a section on drying flowers.