Annuals Articles
For continuous color in the landscape, few plants rival verbena. This low-maintenance annual or perennial needs little supplemental care, yet rewards with months of bloom.
Accessorizing a porch, patio or deck with beautiful hanging basket flowers is a great way to maximize your outdoor space. Combine plants with upright, mounding or trailing habits for a “thriller, spiller, filler” effect. Mix and match varieties with flowers and foliage in different shapes and colors. Move baskets around the yard or switch out new plants for a fresh look all summer long.
Wondering how to create a tropical garden and make your garden look and feel more tropical? We’re sharing ten ideas for tropical garden design elements plus handy lists of heat and humidity tolerant annuals, perennials and shrubs in this fun article featuring tropical plants for hot climates.
For long-lasting color and sheer drama in the landscape, few plants rival the ornamental sweet potato vine plant (Ipomoea batatas), and learning how to grow sweet potato vine helps ensure vigorous growth. Grown for its showy, exotic-looking foliage, this fast-growing heat lover comes in various colors and forms.
Have you been wondering how you can make the front of your home look more welcoming? Explore these ten ways you can boost curb appeal with flowers—from simple steps you can take today, to bigger projects that will require a little more time and muscle.
When Proven Winners® was created, the main principle was to introduce the best annuals in the world — plants with exceptional garden performance that give both growers and gardeners real reasons to choose them. We work hard every day to make that vision a reality. The person most responsible for delivering on that promise is our Chief Product Development Officer, Kevin Hurd. Kevin and his team search the world for interesting new annuals to trial for Proven Winners. It's a very cool, unusual and stressful job. His endeavors are the linchpin for our continued success. Here's an insider look into how Proven Winners continues to raise the bar for annual plants, written in Kevin's own words.
Have you ever wondered what kind of flowers you can grow to eat? Check out this list of 10 best edible flowers from our collection.
Yellow is an attention-grabbing color that makes a cheerful statement in the landscape. Use these beautiful yellow flowers to liven up your beds, borders and containers.
Soil is the basic foundation for any garden, especially raised garden soil, which is why we have multiple articles in our ‘Dirt on Dirt’ series. After several questions from gardeners asking us what is the best soil to use in raised beds, we’ve decided to add an article that covers the ins and outs of creating soil for raised bed gardens. Taking the time to get the right soil for raised beds will make the rest of your gardening season much easier…after all, happy roots are the path to happy plants when using quality raised bed soil.
Do you find dark plants intriguing? Could your garden use a little more mystery? A goth garden might be just your style. Check out these ideas for designing a goth garden and the enchanting elements one might include.
