Planning a perennial garden requires more time than simply planting annuals.

But last year, he planted annuals and summer bulbs in a dozen 16-inch to 24-inch pots, one variety of lobelia, cosmos, heliotrope or dahlia to a pot.

Taking these precautions and planting annuals will give you a garden that grows bright and bountiful all season with the most basic amount of work and effort.

If you can't plant annuals right now, you can use mulch as a decorative ground cover.

You can plant annuals around them to provide some flower color since the daffodil leaves will eventually ripen fully and wither away.

When planting perennials and annuals, choose nectar-rich species like coneflowers, marigolds, zinnias, morning glories, bee balm and butterfly weed.

In doing so, he added, it may also be possible to get some extras thrown in, such as cleaning sand off roads at the end of winter or planting annuals.

Nonnus planted annuals near his hut.

She used to plant colorful annuals in pots outside her store each spring, but now she has 18 freeze-dried miniature evergreens instead.

The county is spreading wood chipsinstead of planting annuals in its parks, and county buses will go longer without being washed.