3 12 annuals to add to your arsenal
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Annuals to Add
to your ArsenalTerri James
Why Add Annuals to Your Arsenal?
Addition of full season color
Filler for bare spots in garden
Seasonal Interest
Abutilon – Flowering Maple
Voodoo
Fairy Coral Red
Melon Sorbet
Acalypha - Copperleaf
Acalypha - Copperleaf
Sizzle Scissors
Beyond Paradise
Alternenthera – Joseph’s Coat
Begoina -
Begoina -
Baby wing
Angle wing
Bonfire
Big series
Green & bronze
leaf
For 2013 …
Begonia Crackling
Fire Series
Creamy Yellow
Orange
Pink
White
Canna
floridata.com
missouriplants.com
images.mooseyscountrygarden.com
Carex - Sedges
calfloranursery.com
anniesannuals.com
mountaincrestgardens.com
Cleome – Not the Old
Fashioned
Coleus -
For 2013 …
ColorBlaze
Keystone Kopper
Colacasia – Elephant Ear
Colacasia – Elephant Ear
Blackstem
Jack’s Giant
Cordyline
Red Star
pendernursery.commooseyscountrygarden.com
Cuphea – Cigar Plant
Cuphea – Cigar Plant
Firecracker
Batface
Mexican Heather
Caribbean Sunsetextension.iastate.edu
mexicohorse.com
monchesfarm.com
Eragrostis – Love Grass
Wind Dancer
Purple Love Grass
Erigeron –
Mexican DaisyYes, this is a weed, to some
flickr.com
chilternseeds.co.uk
Eupatorium – Elegant Feather
hardys-plants.co.uk
Euphorbia -
Diamond Frost
Breathless Blush
Gaura -o Ballerina Rose
clwa.org
pendernursery.com
Geranium -
Hibicus - Annualo Maple Sugar
Impatiens -
Various colors
Fusion series
Exotic Sunset
For 2013 … New Guinea Strike Series Variegated foliage Compact Colors
Orange
Orchid
Pink
Plum
Salmon
White
Ipomoea – Sweet Potato Vine
Ipomoea – Sweet Potato Vine
Lantana -
Lantana -
Lucky series
Red Hot
Peach
Flame
Bandana Red
Melinis – Ruby Grass
Millet -
Jester
Jade Princess
Purple Barron
hortgardenstoday.blogspot.com
Musa / Ensete – Banana
Pennisetum – Fountain Grasses
Purple Fountain
Bunny tails
Prince
Princess
Pentas -
Ornamental Peppers -
Osteospermum
Asti Series
White
Lavender
Purple
Asti Mix
For 2013 …
Osteo Zion Red
Series has good
heat
Does not melt out
Perilla – Beefsteak Plant
Perilla – Beefsteak Plant
Magilla Purple
Magilla Vanilla
For 2013 …
Petunia
‘Queen bee’
Dark purple and
yellow
Lots of variation
For 2013 … Petunia Crazytunia
Series Pulse
Star Jubilee
Red Blues
Mandeville
Cherry Cheesecake
Black Mamba
Plectranthus - Spurflowers
Variegated
Silver Shield
Mona Lavender
Swedish Ivy
Purslane – Yes, another weed!
davesgarden.comflickr.com
Rudbeckia -
Cherry Brandy
martinseebergardendesign.co.uk
ozarksgardens.com
Salvia -
Black-n-Blue
Dancing Flame
Evolution – AAS Winner
Summer Jewel Red &
Pink
AAS winners
Stipta – Ponytail Grass
Strobilanthes – Persian Shield
Talinum paniculatum - Limòn
whiteflowerfarm.com
Verbena -
For 2013 …
Verbena Lanai
Lime Green
Mounding Habit
Verbena Lanai
Candy Cane
Zinnia -
Profusion Series
Where to find the latest & greatest?
All America Selection
www.all-americaselections.org
Grimes
Proven Winners
www.provenwinners.com
Colorado State Annual Trails
www.flowertrials.colostate.edu
All-America
Selection
All-America Selection - 2013
Canna South
Pacific Scarlet
All-America Selection - 2013
Echinacea
Cheyenne Spirit
All-America Selection - 2013
Geranium Pinto
Premium White to
Rose
All-America Selection - 2013
Tomato – Jasper F¹
All-America Selection - 2013
Melon Melemon
All-America Selection - 2013
Watermelon
Harvest Moon
All-America Selection - 2013
Zinnia Profusion
Double Deep
Salmon
All-America Selection
Zinnia Profusion
Double Hot Cherry
Also look for Perennials! Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
Great Plants®
Perennial Plant Association
Perennial Plant of the Year
Plant Select®
All-America Rose Selections
American Hosta Society
For 2013 … Great Plants Program
Queen of the Prairie (Filipendula rubra ‘Venusta’)
Hill’s Oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)
Border Pine (Pinus strobiformis)
Redwing American Cranberrybush Viburnum (Viburnum trilbum ‘Redwing’)
Blue Heaven Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scopariumBlue Heaven)
Now that your have your list!
What are you going to do with all of these
plants?
1. Place them in open spots of your flower beds
2. Containers
a. Hanging Baskets
b. Window boxes
c. Pots
How to Create
Show Stopping
Containers!For all Four Seasons!
Planning Find great containers
Use good potting soil
Bark, peat moss,
pearlite, vermiculite
Use a slow release
fertilizer
For big pots use a filler in the bottom
Mulch, cans, Styrofoam peanuts
Use hardscape items Trellis, obelisk, woody
stems
Steal ideas!
For 2013 …
Color of the year
Emerald
When planting
thinko Thriller
o Filler
o Spiller
www.thrillersfillersandspillers.com
Spring! Pansy
Cabbage
Chard
Heuchera
Viola
Tiarella (Foamflower)
Photos: Proven Winners
Summer
Photos: Terri James
Summer
Thriller Cana
Cordyline
Banana Elephant Ears
Spillers
Plectranthus
Begonia
Wind Dancer - grass
Sweet potato vine
Fillers Plectranthus
Ponytail grass Persian shield Peppers Lantana
Geranium Euphorbia
Common Fillers
Uncommon Fillers - Swiss Chard
Peppers
Eggplant
Tomatoes
Okra
Artichokes
Patio Gardening Cauliflower, Attribute
Hybrid
Peppers, Sweet Red Popper
Eggplant, Shooting Star
Lettuce Blends
Herbs
Corn
Summer
Fall Keep things that will
take the cool weather
Grasses
Add
Mums
Artificial flower picks
Scarecrows
Mini pumpkins
Fall
Winter
Winter
Trim shrubs for color and texture interest Red dogwood
Yellow dogwood
Curly willow
Add
Pinecones
Snowflakes
Christmas ornaments
Gentility trim shrubs for greens
Pines
Yews
Junipers
Winter
For 2013 …
Try something different for a container
Hollow out a pumpkin and plant some
mums in it
Fairy Gardens
Reuse a pallet for a vertical garden
Your imagination is your limit
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