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Annuals & Perennials

Annuals

Annuals offer the gardener a chance to experiment with color, height, texture, and form. If a mistake is made, it’s only for one growing season. Annuals are useful for filling in spaces until permanent plants are installed, to extend perennial beds and fill in holes where an earlier perennial is gone or the next one has yet to bloom; to cover areas where spring bulbs have bloomed and died back; and to fill planters, window boxes, and hanging baskets.

Annuals provide instant gratification in the garden. Beginning gardeners, and especially children, find the quick response and easy success of annuls a springboard to working with a wider range of plants. Children love to pick flowers and annuals love to be picked. When a spot in the garden cries out for color, you can reach for instant gratification by tucking in 6” or larger pots of annuals already in full bloom.

Hanging baskets can really punch up a porch or patio, and for folks with little or no space for down-in-the-dirt gardening, they’re perfect. We carry a large assortment of ready-to-hang baskets, or we can fill a basket or planter with your selections from our stock of annual plants.

Perennials

Perennials are an indispensable part of every garden, regardless of size. They are a source of back-ground in color and size and provide an abundance of cut flowers. They give us plant material that provides almost ever blooming borders and no end for the use of our ideas. Contrary to popular belief, perennials are not expensive to grow.

It is best to select plants with a purpose in mind, such as edging plants, accents for evergreens, masses of color, rock garden specimens, etc. With specific purposes in mind, you can choose perennials by considering their characteristics and deciding which plants best meet your requirements. With careful planning, a perennial flowerbed will change colors, as one type of plant finishes and another variety begins to bloom. By combining perennials with annuals, a continuous colorful show can be provided in your garden.

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