Tag: annuals
Wildflowers On The Wild Side
UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals are more varied than cool season annuals for one simple reason. Spring and early summer are the best time for...
Warm Season Vegetables Start Early
UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals that are becoming more available in nurseries are a clue. As they become seasonal, so do warm season vegetables, or...
Warm Season Annuals Start Early
UNITED STATES—Cool season annuals that started late last summer should be finishing soon. A few might have potential to continue as perennials. However, about...
Cool Season Bedding Plants Begin
UNITED STATES—There is no rush yet. Some cool season bedding plants can go into their gardens as late as autumn. Ornamental kale and cyclamen...
Vegetables Change With The Seasons
UNITED STATES—Annuals are not all that change with the seasons. Vegetables do also. After all, with few exceptions, vegetable plants are also annuals, or...
Annuals Change With The Seasons
UNITED STATES—Winter continues. It will not end until March 19. Wintry weather is unconcerned with such dates though. It could end at any time,...
Cool Season Color Returns Seasonally
UNITED STATES—Cool season vegetables are the first clue. Now that they are seasonal, cool season color is also seasonal. Both comply with similar schedules....
Warm Season Bedding Plants Begin
UNITED STATES—Annual bedding plants are surprisingly more popular among those who enjoy gardening less. Those who procure the services of gardeners appreciate the rich...
Autumn Annuals Transition From Summer
UNITED STATES—Cool season vegetables will replace warm season vegetables during autumn. Also, cool season annuals will replace warm season annuals. Neither simple task is...
Perennial Plants Keep On Giving
UNITED STATES—Many popular annual bedding plants have potential to be perennial if they get a chance. Cyclamen commonly perform as a cool season annual,...
Warm Season Annuals Are Getting Hot
UNITED STATES—Cool season annuals were cool just a few months ago. Now, it is getting to be about time to warm up to warm...
Winter Annuals Are Moving Into The Garden
UNITED STATES—It is inevitable. It begins at about the same time that cool season vegetable plants start to replace warm season vegetable plants. Cool...
Deadhead To Promote Continued Bloom
UNITED STATES—Seed and fruiting structures develop immediately after bloom. Such processes consume valuable resources that could otherwise sustain subsequent bloom or vegetative growth. That...
Color Is Not Always Black And White
UNITED STATES—Several months ago, warm season vegetable plants replaced cool season vegetable plants. More recently, new cool season vegetable plants began to grow from...
Bedding Plants That Defy Seasons
UNITED STATES—Bedding plants that go into the garden in spring are generally warm season or summer annuals. They should perform through summer until the...
Docile Annual And Perennial Vines
UNITED STATES—Most of the familiar vines really are exploitative bullies. They shade the same trees and shrubs that they climb for support. Some will...
Some Annuals Are Really Perennials
UNITED STATES—Annuals are plants that complete their entire life cycle from germination to death within a single year. Biennials complete their entire life cycle...
Cool Season Annuals Are Next
UNITED STATES—Gardening is not always fun. After diligently tending to warm season vegetables through spring and summer, it eventually becomes necessary to pull them...
Seasons Are Constantly In Flux
UNITED STATES—Gardening requires planning. There is always planning. The vegetables that are getting harvested now are developing mostly on plants that were put out...
Annuals Come And Annuals Go
UNITED STATES—Just like warm season vegetable plants in the vegetable garden, flowering warm season annuals get replaced this time of year. Although the weather...