Annual garden

Learn how to choose winning color combinations in a flower garden and in your container plantings that will pair perfectly every time!

Flashy zinnias (Zinnia elegans) love hot weather and can handle drought and poor soil. Read on for tips on how to grow these low-maintenance flowers.

Not sure whether to plant annuals or perennials in your garden? Here's how to settle the perennial vs. annual debate to help you have a blooming garden and front yard. #gardening #gardenideas #realsimple #flowergarden #growingflowers #curbappealideas

Annuals deliver lovely color, make excellent cut flowers, and great bedding plants. These 28 varieties will keep you in lasting color.

Learn about Martha's extensive peony garden at her Bedford home.

This reader has fantastic flowers for every season. Check out the gorgeous color in this Pennsylvania garden, here.

Snapdragons - some planted, some volunteers - are blooming cheerfully among zinnias, verbena and African daisies (Osteospermum) in the northwest corner garden at the Spokane Temple. Last year the flowers in this area were kind of blah - I can say that since I made the design - but this year we used more colors, watering issues were solved, and the area looks better. Tall salmon-colored 'Senora' zinnias (above) and shorter 'Zahara' Cherry zinnias are happy about the hot summer we've been…

Elevate your garden's beauty with these 15 essential tall perennial flowers that add height and charm to any landscape!

Create an easy-care bed of flowers that will look gorgeous from spring until frost.