Annual Flowers Add Instant Color
for Texas Gardens
Annuals complete their life cycle in a year or less, yet they’re real workhorses of the garden, blooming for months on end. They have a great range of colorful flowers from which to choose. Warm season annuals often bear flowers from Spring until frost. Cool season annuals like Pansies and Cyclamen offer brilliant colors for your garden during Winter months when most of the trees, shrubs and perennials are quiet, dormant and drab.
Tips for success
Keep the plants growing steadily through their season by watering regularly, feeding on schedule, and deadheading spent flowers. Deadheading keeps blooms coming all season long. Simply remove spent blossoms before plants begin seed formation. With flowers removed, the plant must bloom again to provide for its reproductive process. That’s why you see experienced gardeners spend a few minutes every day or so just grooming their flowerbeds, picking off the dying flowers.
Planting Tips
Watering
The best way to water is at the surface level, rather than by sprinkling. Set out a soaker hose, or bring a regular hose into the bed and let water soak the earth. Do this in the early morning to avoid excess evaporation. Establish a nice routine to check the soil for dampness and to water when the soil is dry when you poke a finger beneath the surface.
Feeding
Calloway’s Flower Foods and “New Generation” Organic Fertilizer are appropriate foods for your Spring annuals. Follow label instructions, but generally you may feed every four weeks.
Butterfly and Hummingbird
Put some flutter in your garden. Some plants attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Learn about these plants and how to plan and grow your own butterfly or hummingbird garden. Read more about Butterfly and Hummingbird gardens
Callie Select
If you are looking for superior plants, carefully selected, designed and specially grown for our Texas gardens, think two words: Callie Select.
Color Creations
Learn steps to create beautiful Container Gardens. Container gardens can be a stunning addition to your landscape. Yet they’re surprisingly easy to make. Just follow these steps. Read more about Color Creations.
FlameProof Plants
Each year the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden tests more than 4,000 plants and awards the very best the “FlameProof™” Plant Award. These plants like it hot!. Learn more about FlameProof Plants.
Fragrant Gardens
Making Scents of it all. Fragrance has an immediate, irresistible impact on us. Be it a steak on the grill or a floral scent wafting from the garden; scent gets our attention. Learn more about Fragrant Gardens.
Simply Beautiful Containers
Color your world with long-lasting color in the garden. Learn to select and group plants that bloom well and are easy to grow. Stagger blooming times so something is always blooming. Read more about Simply Beautiful Containers.
SunPatiens®
A Proven Sun-Lover for Texas gardens! As the weather warms up, we are always on the look-out for new Summer color. A newcomer onto the scene, SunPatiens®, has all the industry in a buzz! Learn more about SunPatiens®.