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Plan for Frost to Frost™ Color
A little planning goes a long way. This perennial planner illustrates a different set of perennials to show color in your gardens each of the four core seasons will ensure your year-round garden color always looks nice and stunningly colorful all throughout the seasons.
It’s easy to pick out pretty plants at the garden center, but how do you know which plants will go well together in the garden or in your patio pots? We’re sharing 20 beautiful ideas with you here, complete with details like how much sun and water they’ll need to thrive.
Use these tried-and-true fall flowers to brighten up your landscape with a final burst of color before the season winds down.
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.
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.
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.
Heuchera is a versatile colorful foliage perennial, with attractive foliage and bell-shaped flowers. Also known as coral bells, they offer an array of colors and forms, multi-seasonal interest and long bloom time. Grow coral bells perennial in a shade garden or in pots.
More really is more when it comes to flowers! If you’ve got the space, a line of bountifully blooming shrubs can quickly transform an area from bland to grand. Flowering hedges are perfect for sidewalk edges, the front of the border, disguising fencing, and just about any other place or application you can dream up!
