Annuals used for Pots,
Baskets, and Beauty
The following lists will help you when you
are trying to choose annuals to beautify the garden. Remember that annual
means one year. So these plants will flower for most of the season and then
die at the end of the summer. You will have to buy them again next year. You
could try to collect seed but most annuals now are hybrids. Which means
breeders might take an orange mother and a purple father to come up with a
red son. So if you take the seed from the son (F1 hybrid), then next year
you might end up with a colour totally different from the plant a year
earlier.
As you go through the annual list if you are
from different parts of Canada or from another country you will notice that
many of the plants are perennials. This is true but on the prairies these
plants can turn black with one light frost or in the case of geraniums they
need to be taken inside. Greenhouses treat these as throw away
plants; therefore, are considered annuals.
There are many more annuals that are used and
sold in greenhouses. This list represents the bulk of available annuals. You
should be able to find most of these
The 4 categories are: