Gardening Tips For Beginners – Annuals – 6 Ways to Use Annual Flowers
Annuals are plants and flowers that complete their entire life cycle, from seed to seed, over the duration of the summer or their particular growing season. Popular annuals include impatiens, petunias, marigolds, and geraniums – just to name a few.
Many gardeners love annuals because for the short time they are around, they are reliable and delivery beautiful results. They’re hard to kill, even for the beginning gardener, and your local garden shop will offer a great selection to choose from. You can choose from flowers that love the sun, the shade, or a variety of other cool and unusual flowers.
Here are 6 great ways use can use Annuals around your yard and home:
1. Dedicate an entire flowerbed to annuals and fill it with a variety of annuals that catch your eye. Downsides to this are that you’ll have to repurchase and replant the flowers every year.
2. Use annuals to fill hanging baskets. Hanging baskets are easy to maintain and can really dress up your front porch.
3. Line a walkway or edge a driveway with your favorite annual flower.
4. Use as decoration or edging around your vegetable garden, swimming pool, swing set, pond, gazebo, or any other area of your yard.
5. Fill pots, planters, and window boxes.
6. Spice-up and add additional colors to a perennial flower bed.
These are just a few ways you can use annuals. Even if you neglect them, they will keep blooming all summer long. By getting creative and having fun, you can use annuals to create beautiful colors and liven up almost any area of your yard or garden.
