Category Archives for Annuals
Annuals, Biennials and Perennials for Your Garden Beds and Borders
Perennials Perennials are plants which die to ground level every winter, and shoot again in the spring. Each year they grow wider and produce a greater and greater quantity of bloom. Their main uses are in herbaceous and mixed borders. … Continue reading
Successional Planting for Constant Garden Colour
BLOOM AND BLOOM AGAIN If you only have a small space to cultivate, you can make the ground work extra hard. It can be made to produce more than one crop of flowers each year either by successional planting, which … Continue reading
Colours of Summer: Growing Annuals and Biennials
Colours of Summer: Growing Annuals and Biennials Annuals are plants that complete their life cycle within one year and then die, leaving seed behind to germinate the following spring and continue the cycle. That is the strict definition but gardeners … Continue reading
How to Grow Annual Flowers
How to Grow Annual Flowers Growing annual flowers from seed is a cheap and easy way of making a greenhouse attractive — not only to humans, but also to pollen- and nectar-seeking insects. When the plants outgrow their welcome you can … Continue reading
Garden Planting Guide
Garden Planting – Biennials It is essential for biennials to be planted out in their flowering positions by mid autumn — whether from a nursery bed, greenhouse or cold frame — otherwise they may not have a chance to establish … Continue reading
Annual Flowers and Annual Plants
Annual Flowers for Planting in Beds and Borders Annual flowers and herbaceous perennials give the best performance of colour if planted with minimum root disturbance in well-prepared beds and borders. A garden can be filled quickly with colour from annual … Continue reading
Annual Flowers and Plants to Grow in Your Flower Garden
Annual Flowers and Plants By their very nature, annual flowers and plants, and biennials have to be prolific flowerers, for it is upon the production of adequate seed each year that their future depends, and many of them are gay, … Continue reading
Hardy Annuals – Flowers for the Garden
A Selection of Hardy Annuals Flowers for the garden can be a real picture yet easy to grow as well. There is a selection of hardy annuals that may be sown direct where they are to flower and, to … Continue reading