What Are Annual Flowers?

Series Summary

Landscaping a front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, and provide diversion in which to ponder and meditate. Even with limited yard space, planting a small corner garden is a afternoon task. In this free gardening video series, a horticulturist demonstrates how to plant and grow annual flowers. Learn about the different kinds of annual flowers, and find out which plants are better for which seasons. See the tools necessary for planting flowers, and learn correct planting and watering techniques. Create visual interest in a garden using annual flowers.

Video Transcript

"We are talking about planting annuals in the garden today and an annual is any plant that you might put into the ground for just one season so it might be something like pansies, violas, zinnias, snap dragons or stalk that you might put into your garden that might only be there for three to six months. So there are many different ways that you can use annuals in the garden and many different types of annual plants. Depending on where you live in the country you have many options as to when you can plant things. So you can plant plants in spring, summer or fall depending on if you live in a warm climate and as you can see here we have some examples of plants that we planted this fall. These are violas. Also a great plant is pansies and we can also use kale. We will also plant many of our spring flowering bulbs in the fall such as tulips and daffodils."