“An annual is a plant that produces colorful blooms all season long and lasts for just one year,” explains Dan Stuppiello, divisional merchandise manager of Live Goods at Home Depot. “If you want to ...

The transition from summer to fall means the colorful annual flowers are fading. Once the annuals are frost-damaged and removed, it’s time to plant bulbs. They announce the much-awaited spring season ...

Growing colorful annuals could not be easier with these fuss-free beauties. Filling your yard with beauty from early summer to fall, they are the perfect go-to plants for novice and time-poor ...

Spring is here, and it’s time to get into the garden. Annuals, perennials, vines, groundcovers, shrubs, trees, fruits and veggies — oh my! With so many plants to choose from, where do we start? Well, ...

Annuals like zinnias, cosmos and black-eyed Susans are exploding. By removing the spent flowers, you can keep the show going. Summer is now in high gear and many gardens are, too. Summer annual ...

Annual flowers provide a playful pop of summer color in our container plantings, home gardens and landscape beds across the metro. Annuals are grown for their colorful accent flowers and a wide ...

We had our monthly garden clean up at Snyder Park Gardens & Arboretum this past Wednesday and I was pleasantly surprised at how great the annuals still look! Our Cultivar Trial Gardens were beautiful ...

As the melodies of Keith Urban’s “Long Hot Summer” fill the air, it’s time to ask ourselves: are we, and more importantly, our gardens ready for the heat? Summer is upon us and as temperatures rise, ...

My garden is spectacular right now—people stop in the street and marvel at it. This time next month, it’ll look like total crap. Once the zinnias die, and the trellises come down, and there are no ...

Two kinds of marigolds, the red dwarf French marigolds and a taller one in yellow, show how well these colors combine. Handout TNS Everyone’s a gardener in April. That is the time when cars almost ...

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