Annuals you can't live without?

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:45 am

I love annuals. They add color to everything. Yes, you have to buy them every year...but I even like that too.

What annuals can you not live without?

Mine are...

Coleus

Wave Petunias

Impatients

Trupet Vines

Geraniums

Begonias

These are must haves every year. What are some you must always have?

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:57 am

hotsauce wrote: I love annuals. They add color to everything. Yes, you have to buy them every year...but I even like that too.

What annuals can you not live without?

Mine are...

Coleus

Wave Petunias

Impatients

Trupet Vines

Geraniums

Begonias

These are must haves every year. What are some you must always have?

You make me wish I liked gardening

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:04 am

I've never kept anything alive long enough to get that attached. This year is different.....I'm going to keep them alive this year.....I swear!

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:13 pm

have to get Oor Wullie or the Broons on the alternate year. I know they're for kids but they always give me a nice nostalgic feeling.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:12 pm

I always have trailing petunias on my front fence, and pansy's, begonias and lobelia in all my other pots. I only 'do' pots thats enough 'gardening' for me!

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:51 pm

I love annuals... but, for the most part annuals are only annuals if they don't come back the following year... so in that sense most of my annuals are more like perennials since I either bring them in and cut them back... sometimes down to the bare root or bulb... but since I've had the greenhouses and the conservatory... nearly everything returns... and I'm propogating many of my plants or removing seed nowadays... and even got into creating new varieties and species...

Mookey1229 · Post by **Mookey1229** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:59 pm

You named most of my favorites, but I will have to add fuscias for hanging baskets, mairigolds to keep bugs away, and lobelia. Don't know if I spelled em right, but I right like em alot.

Samantha · Post by **Samantha** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:50 am

You guys sound busy! Me too. I do coleus, impatience, geraniums (but I over winter them), lobellia, wave petunias, nicotiana, sunflowers (the gold finches love them). I also do tender perennails that some people treat as annuals. I love my tuberous begonias, caladiums, dahlias, callas, colocassia, oh shoot, I just have tons.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:01 am

Impatiens, begonias, and geraniums are a must. They hold happy memories of my childhood because we always had them when I was growing up. This year, I plan to do 2 of my hills in wildflowers. By the way, I brought one of my geraniums in this fall and it's blooming.:-6

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:34 am

Not doing so many pots and baskets this year as last years hosepipe ban has been extended sooooo....

Definites:-

Geraniums

Osteospermums

New Guinea impatiens

Maybes:-

Surfinia Petunias

Pansies

My garden is mostly perrenials and shrubs so will still have plenty of colour.....OK....so I'm ready with pot and plants.....

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:55 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Jeez, I keep reading this thread title as "Animals you can't live without":-2

First time I read it i thought of Beano and Dandy etc....