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Annuals For Color:
Even if summer color is desired, it is still possible to underplant and interplant for other times of the year using bulbs and annuals for color.
Bulbs and annuals for color are invaluable for spring and early summer color, while herbaceous perennials are the most colorful summer contributors. In many places herbaceous perennials can be found in flower for most of the year, and by planting a good cross section it is possible to get a long flowering season.annuals for color are superb for bringing color into mixed borders. Either use them boldly spread in drifts, so that their color is not diluted, or mix them with other plants and perhaps plant them by scale rather than by color. There is a wide range of bulbous plants that can be grown in a mixed border, from the stately gladiolus to the perfumed lily. Make sure that you know the eventual height that the flower will reach before planting it.
MANY BIENNIALS flower in early and midsummer, thus usefully filling an awkward gap that can occur between the spring and summer flowers. Like annuals for color, they are temporary plants which should be pulled up and put on the compost pile when they have finished flowering. Also, as with annuals for color, though it's easy enough to save seed of most kinds it is usually impossible to prevent cross-fertilization of different varieties, as a result of which home-saved seed produces only a mongrel population. The distinction between annuals for color, biennials and herbaceous perennials is not always clear-cut since sometimes varieties of one group can be treated as if they belonged to one of the other groups; hollyhocks (Alcea), for example, can be grown as annuals for color, biennials or short-lived perennials. However, to be sure of a regular succession of biennials it is necessary to sow seed every year at the correct season.
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