Yellow Annual Flowers

Using a bit of floral preservative will help your flowers last longer. Tall cultivars frequently available include ‘Panorama', ‘Burpee's Topper', ‘Spring Giant', and ‘Rocket'.

Fill a bowl with them, or put a dowel on them and make topiaries for yourself and your friends. However you choose to use them, they are sure to be a great addition to your garden.

Blossoms have a stark white, slightly raised center trimmed by spring green petals and as they unfurl, the blooms showcase bright yellow stamens and more of the unusual green petals.

Cut away any leaves, then hang the stalks upside down in a dark, dry and warm location. Each strong stem features dense clusters of papery, bell-shaped calyxes, or modified leaves.

I love green flowers because of that very reaction; that and chartreuse is my favorite color. Green blooms just when you need them! As most Hellebores, this one needs ample moisture and partial to full shade.

Another familiar green flower is the 18- to 24-inch highFlowering tobacco or Nicotiana alata is a reliable annual for summer-long bloom. More interesting reading about green can be found in

It also exhibits superior properties of insulation, waterproofing, and fireproofing, and can effectively replace not only the structural elements of a wall, but it can stand alone without any additional exterior or interior wall covering.

"Please, can I pick some of these for my mom?"For a look at a similar but fall-blooming daisy, check out S I rushed them home to get them to my mom, and into water. You must toss it aside and quickly pick another one.As an adult, I still can't go past...

If I had known them as cornflowers at that time, I might have smiled and said, "Thank you." Blue eyes fade with age, I think, but if anyone ever again tells me I have cornflower blue eyes, you better believe I will be delighted.

For a gardener, these words might have special significance in February; Faith that spring will come, hope that it will be prosperous and early, and wisdom for a better kept garden.February is a month of romance and iris is a fitting symbol.

During Queen Victoria's reign, edible flowers found their way to the new world where they are experiencing a resurgence today.Besides making the food look nice. All edible flowers have almost zero calories.For those of you with allergies remove the pollen-bearing...

The plant variously referred to as a black-eyed susan, brown-eyed susan, brown betty, coneflower or gloriosa daisy was given its Latin name in 1740 by botanist Carl Linnaeus, who wished to honor his botany professor, Olaf Rudbeck.

Luckily they come in nice oranges, corals, reds and purples. I planted white 'Thalia' daffodils, which bloom later than standard yellow ones, and increase yearly.The poet, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) famously wrote of "crowds" of daffodils (above),...

Amending a garden is an individual process. Each garden has its own soil type. Why not travel back in time by creating a garden abundant with antique flowers? Glance over the neighbor's fence, and you are likely to see several antique flowers peeking...

Consider cannas and other tropicals that you can allow to go dormant and store over the winter. Some day I'll learn about their special needs and bring one home for the challenge of nurturing it back into bloom.Occasionally you may find a rack full of...

You could even use all this red as a foil for a different colored plant, say maybe Blue Wax Flower 'Kiwi Blue' or Blue Marguerite 'Cape Town Blue' Daisies. They can also work as fast growing and inexpensive fillers.

Salvia--when I first heard that word for the garden, the only salvia I knew were the simple and rather small annuals that I had planted year in and year out for the last few garden years.

I was enchanted. Hiding behind a tall shrub, I stretched out on the grass to wait and found myself nose down in a patch of tiny blue florets. Deciding to be content with just looking, I spent a considerable amount of time searching for them in the wide...

Peak performer with trailing stems is impressive in the front of the border, gilding a hanging basket or two, and mingling in a container. It asks for lots of sun and little water.

The wide leafed plants will keep growing if you pinch out the buds. Thank you to trios for the image.This will come back in some areas of the country and is an annual in others, so plan ahead and check to see if they might be able to come back in your...

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Propogation is easy by seeds or by cuttings. Although flowering may wane during the hottest part of the summer, this might be a good time to cut it back a bit and fertilize so the flowering will be more profuse when cooler weather arrives.

They will burst in color early in the spring and keep color into early summer. The best plant to have in the landscape bed around the house in fall and during the winter months. Perfect companion of spring flowering bulbs.

If your town still had actual street corners, they'd be on every one at the beginning of your main gardening season. Click onSubscribing members may also visit the Annuals forum by clicking

I soon concluded that "miniature petunias" and I were not to be. In fact, however, it is an evergreen perennial where the winters are mild. And I'm here to teach you what I learned.Calibrachoa are a terrific choice for containers, my favorite way to garden,...

Either way, it is a worthy addition to most landscapes for any duration. Zones 7 and 8 should wait to install the plants outdoors until late May or preferably early June. Rosy periwinkle plants are extremely affected by heavy rains or excess irrigation...

Cover the seeds lightly with soil, then lay a damp newspaper over the tray because germinating seeds of vinca require total darkness. Read on to learn how.When collecting vinca seeds, look for long, narrow, green seedpods hidden on the stems beneath blooming...