Favorite annuals

What's your favorite annual and where do you use it(container, hanging basket or in the garden)???

I think I'd have to say for me it's petunia, I end up gravitating toward them when I'm in a garden center. Maybe if I had room to do my own seeds I'd branch out more.
The dark purple petunias have a great fragrance, trying to find one that matches it.

I'd have to go with petunias too - and impatiens

petunias

Oh gosh I like em all!
Petunias are definitly my first choice for sun, and impatiens and coleus for the shade.

I'll have to say angelonia....great size at 24", & blooms until killing frost. I also like the annual penstemons, like Esprit, love cosmos for it's height & how it sways in the breeze....also like cleome, but hate the way it smells! Fuchsia, which I plant in the shade garden, & never winter over, is also a fav.....last year Calif. poppy & zinnias were terrific in the cutting garden.....

I love all of the above! Jen - that's a gorgeous shot of the purple and yellow petunias at the top of the thread. Ditto for me depending on shade or sun, and I especially love the new hybrid petunias and calibrochias that don't need to be pinched. I am also finding a lot of the new begonias that can handle sun or shade to be really striking and full of long-lasting color. I have my petunias in, but I still have to buy some impatiens and begonias. I also love the nicotianas, but since they are poison, I'll have to pass on them. I plant zinnias for cutting in my vegetable garden and lisianthus and African daisies are also favorites.

Would be an Orchid for me....they are house plants for everyone else, but annuals for me!! LOL
My new favorite..........

Ok where does everyone have their annuals???? Typically containers???

Containers, baskets, and in the ground.

I love all of the above... and plant most in containers... and some in the ground.. hoping to get some of my containers filled today

Hi everybody!

Hanging baskets: petunias...this year I scored the new varieties, so I have Black Velvet, Pinstripe, and Phantom. Black Velvet is in two hanging baskets with Diamond Frost Euphorbia, Phantom is in a few pots with yellow Callobrochoa (sp...million bells) and Pinstripe is in a hanging basket with a pinkish annual (can't remember the name).

For my larger pots and 1/2 whiskey barrel planters, I almost always go huge: elephant ears, banana cannas, etc...occasionally I throw in Dahlias, some type of ornamental grass, and sweet potato vines.

Favorites: (no particular order) Petunias, Cannas, Million Bells, Elephant Ears, Sweet Potato Vines, Dahlias. I plant atleast 1-3 of each every year.

hey Thom!!

Hi Thom!!! How are you??

On a more serious note Jen, I love and so does Brian...moss roses. This one being my favorite so far.

Pixie, those were my Dad's favorite annual! I plant my annuals wherever a space opens in the per. beds, in containers, & now a a small section of the veggie garden just for cutting....hey, Thom, nice to see you posting!

love that Celeste!!.. pretty mini wanna be rose!!!

Hey Thom!!!!

I was happy to see some moss roses when we first moved here but they never came back

they usually reseed Jen

Pretty, Celeste!

I do ground and containers but mostly containers. Pretty moss rose, that makes a great edging for pots.
Don't forget sunflowers, they brighten up any day!

Do you all but market packs, direct or winter sow or start inside? I do some of each, mostly direct sowed and market packs this year though.

I just started all my Japanese morning glories and am having great germination on most of them!

Awesome, Ronnie! They are not easy to germinate.

I plant my annuals in pots, baskets, in the ground and I do start some sunflowers in peat pots so the chipmunks won't dig up the seeds and eat them. One downside of being a snowbird is that you can't really start seeds when you should because there's nowhere to put them in the car. I can only do sunflowers because they are ready to go in the ground almost immediately.

Doing fine, ty all for asking :-)

I've never grown moss roses...but will have to google them. lol.

hi Thom
I like coleus ,profusion zinnias.
This summers combos include Lobelias and Torenias. I will reserve judgment as to favorites or not.
This is last years Profusion White with Siberian iris,Miss Muffet caladiums and a coleus.

So very good to be able to say, Hi Thom!

I pretty much just do annuals in the ground. Since I have mostly shade, my favorite are Begonias. They just seem incredibly low maintenance and easy, constant color. Some I bring indoors for the winter, but I just get the cheap six packs to fill a variety of pots. For my few sun pots I like petunias, and last year I discovered some hot pink Celosia that I really liked...will be looking for that again.

Here's red dragon wing Begonia last year. It got hailed on like everything else, and still came back pretty...unlike the hosta

simple cheapie begonias in a pot

Nice combo, Jo......yeah, hail is a bummer, Norheaster. I direct sow stuff like zinnias & Calif. poppies that are easy to grow....others, I buy 6 packs.....

I just love osteospermum, I love petunias too and have lots of them everywhere. Then there is zinnia and cosmos. I just love zinnia and cosmos...........okay I love lots of annuals but If I could only pick one it would be pansies. There is just something about pansies I have loves since I was a little girl.

Very pretty Noreaster! I am also a big fan of begonias! They are my next purchase.

I like the cheapie begonias too!!

Hollyhocks or MG's, really not into anything I cant eat.

California poppies, Calibrocha, osteopermum, bachelor buttons, verbena, impatiens (especially new zealand), begonias, coleus, alyssum, phlox and zinnias, diascia, sweet potato vines, and on and on. Most are in containers.

I like these Torenia

me too!!

I also have the silver which is more pale lavander and bright pink.

I bought a bunch of new ones this year too

Begonia's Allison gave me....they look like tiny little rosettes.

tee hee

So many annuals, so little time... I love the usual, cosmos, Cleome, nasturtiums to cover bare ground, marigolds for the herbs & veggies, Zinnia Envy...but can't live without Nicotiana Langsdorfii and Verbena Bonariensis. They only really need to be planted once to have them forever, but I don't trust that until I see it. So this will be the second year I'm starting them from seed, just in case they don't pop up in odd places, easily moved around, and sometimes left where they are for fun.

Pam