was my friend Alice Doyle’s response when I told her I was writing about tall annuals with distinctive shapes instead of the usual “color spots.” Let’s face it: Customary annuals like ...

Following are a dozen of the best heat-tough annuals you’ll find in local garden centers. Most also aren’t deer or rabbit favorites. These foot-tall annuals with the glossy leaves can take the ...

There are a few tricks to remember. If you have a lot of self-seeding tall annuals, for example, cut the entire plants to the ground once they have finished flowering, gone to seed, and the seeds ...

You can get around this by building in a bit of impermanence and planting tall annuals is the ideal way to do so. Think of plants such as cosmos, lavatera, nicotiana, cleome, sunflowers ...

Most grow to about 12 inches tall. The plant has long, thin leaves and will form clumps to 12 or 14 inches in diameter. Dianthus is the most drought tolerant of the cool-weather annuals because of ...

The bloom time of many perennials is fleeting, but annuals continue to flower all summer long. In combination, they become a partnership that pays beautiful dividends. Tall annuals can be planted ...

It is wiry and tall and you can get that airy purple mist effect in your garden as well as in vases. In addition to those classics there are many newer annuals that work well in either the garden or ...

Using tall annuals here and there in the garden has some distinct advantages, and such plants can be used in a variety of ways to enhance the landscape. Tall annual plants used to be relegated to ...

Sunflowers, those fast-growing tall annuals with cheerful faces, seem to say "summer." They're easy to grow, and their seeds are prized by birds and humans. You can even create a barrier or focal ...

Summer annuals are given a tall order -- perform continuously for five or six months of sweltering heat. Some persist. Some don't. The May-through-September stretch may bring too much rain.