Mother Nature’s Instant Party Plants
(ARA) - Mother Nature seems to have provided you with just one color scheme for your yard: green. You want color and texture fast and there’s no time for potting or planting.
Solution: fill your yard, patio and deck with the spectacular blooms of a variety of robust, durable, easy to maintain annuals for an instant garden that looks like it’s been there all along. Plus those blooms and color will last. “Annuals are really nature’s ready-made party decorations,” says Jeff Gibson, marketing manager for Ball Horticultural’s “Simply Beautiful” line of annuals. “They provide almost limitless choices for color, bloom continuously, and best of all they’re live plants, which means you can enjoy their beauty throughout the entire growing season.”
But first things first. With the deadline for your outdoor party looming, focus on geraniums, impatiens and petunias, the Big Three of annuals and the real workhorses when it comes to color and bloom. “Our Simply Beautiful Tidal Wave petunias are bountiful when it comes to filling landscapes or hanging baskets,” Gibson notes. “The blooms spread upward and outward spilling over containers and baskets like a thick carpet of color and texture.”
Angel Mist angelonia and Fanfare trailing impatiens are also lavish in their spreading floral displays. Angel Mist features orchid-like blooms ideal for beds and containers. Or, fill an entry container with Fanfare impatiens for a dramatic waterfall of color. Free-flowering and very vigorous, Jungle Gold impatiens are ideal for mixed containers, where they put on a big show in combination with other large, robust container plants.
“Less is more when it comes to color and annuals,” says Gibson. “Choosing a single color pattern carries a more dramatic visual impact than mixing and matching. And you can get more bang for the buck in terms of color and coverage by breaking the normal rules for potting and planting annuals that call for spacing them widely apart.”
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