5/6. Annuals/Biennials Flashcards
Centaurea cyanus
Hardy - Used as annual
Description:
- Erect annual that bears single, bright blue flowers from late
- spring to mid-summer
Uses:
-Use in an annual border, in a wildflower meadow, in a wildlife
or cottage garden or in a mixed border
Helianthus annuus ‘Valentine’
Hardy - Used as annual
Description:
- Fast growing, tall annual, with large, single, creamy- yellow daisy
- like flowers 17cm across with a contrasting deep brown centre
Uses:
- Use at the back of an annual or mixed border
- In a cottage garden or for cut flowers
Limnanthes douglasii
Hardy - Used as annual
Description:
- Spreading bushy annual, with finely divided leaves
- Fragrant, open bowl-shaped yellow flowers with white-tipped petals,
in summer and autumn
- The nectar rich flowers are very attractive to bees and hoverflies
Uses:
- Use as a path edging, at the front of an annual or mixed border
- In a cottage garden
- On a rock garden
Argyranthemum ‘Jamaica Primrose’
Half-hardy used as annual
Description:
- This has coarsely toothed, greyish-green leaves
- Long branching stems bear primrose-yellow flowers with darker yellow centres
Uses:
- Use as summer bedding in beds and borders
- In containers
Fuchsia ‘Mrs Popple’
Half-hardy used as annual
Description:
- Upright bushy, vigorous plant with deep green leaves
- Single flowers with bright red sepals and tube and violet-purple petals
Uses:
- Use as summer bedding plants in beds and borders
- In containers for summer interest
Heliotropium arborescens
Half-hardy used as annual
Description:
- Marine is a compact cultivar with wrinkled, darkgreen leaves tinged purple
- It has scented, deep violet-blue flowerheads
Uses:
- Summer bedding plants in a mixed or herbaceous border
- Grown in containers or window-boxes
Lobelia erinus
Hanging basket
Description:
- Carmine-red, violet -blue, pink, or white flowers
- Regatta has blue, pink, crimson or white flowers
Trailing 30cm
Requirements:
- Grow in full sun
Glechoma hederacea ‘Variegata’ (ground ivy)
Hanging basket
Description:
- The leaves are kidney-shaped, soft, pale-green, marbled pure white around the margins
- It bears whorls of 4-6 lilac-mauve dead nettle-like flowers in summer.
Training 20cm+
Uses:
- Grown for its attractive foliage.
Petunia Surfinia Series
Hanging basket
Description:
- Vigorous and trailing plants with flowers in white and shades of pink, magenta, red, lavender-blue and blue
Requirements:
- Grow in sun
Bellis perennis Tasso Series daisy
Biennial
Description:
- Rosette forming plants that from late winter to late spring bear double pom-pom shaped daisy flowers in pink, white or red
Uses:
- Use in late winter / spring bedding schemes with spring bulbs
- In containers with bulbs for late winter / spring colour
Digitalis purpurea foxglove
Biennial
Description:
- This produces a rosette of woolly leaves in the first year
- Then tall one-sided spikes of purple, pink or white flowers, spotted purple or maroon inside are borne in early summer
Uses:
-Use in a woodland garden, in a border in a cottage garden, or a mixed border
Myosotis sylvatica forget-me-not
Biennial
Description:
- Grey green leaves and from spring to early summer bears small saucer-shaped, blue or sometimes white flowers, with a yellow eye
Uses:
-Use in a mixed or wildflower border and its cultivars can be used in a spring bedding scheme or in containers with spring flowering bulbs
Difference between Hardy and Half hardy annual
- A hardy annual is able to withstand frost and cold temperatures -15c
- A half-hardy annual can only withstand temperatures down to -5C
Uses for Annuals (plants used as)
Hardy:
- Quick way of achieving colour in the garden
- Introducing some unpredictability into the planting
- Annual borders
- Wild flower meadows
- Seasonal bedding displays for both spring and summer
- Formal bedding schemes
- Fillers in herbaceous or mixed borders
- In containers and hanging baskets
- Cut flowers/decoration
Half hardy:
- Seasonal summer bedding in borders
- Containers
- Path edging
- Mixed boarder in a cottage garden
Uses for Biennials
- Fill gaps in the mixed or herbaceous border
- Woodland and wild flower meadows
- As cut flowers
- They self-seed so quickly/freely that they become a permanent feature coming up on a regular basis
