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Gardening
Brighten
your garden
with annual
pleasures
By Rhea Hamilton -Seeger
Gardening runs through its phases of
fashion just like clothes and food
trends.
We have broken away from
landscapes of compact shrubbery and
acres of lawn to swing towards
perennial gardens which are now
evolving into naturalized settings with
native species. Amidst all this garden
designing sits the lowly annual.
Unlike perennials, annuals are a bit
more costly over time as they have to
be reseeded each year and if you don't
collect the seeds for the following year
you must purchase them. If they are
hybrids they will not breed true and you
still have to purchase more seeds .
There was a time when a mass
planting of annuals could take your
breath away. (Who am I kidding a mass
planting if done well can still take your
breath away.) Always blooming, they
offer a wide variety of both subtle and
brilliant colours all through the growing
season with nary a moment's
hesitation.
When I was a child it was common
practise to intersperse annuals in the
perennial border for splashes of colour
during the hot days of summer. I
remember helping Dad set out pansies
in clusters of three or five in early
spring and then follow with groupings
of marigolds in the sunny parts of the
garden and impatiens in the shady parts
below the lilacs and smoke tree. In the
back we tossed a few cosmos seeds to
soften the look of the hollyhocks and
hide the delphiniums when they were
cut back after their first rush of bloom
in July.
The swing over the past ten years
has been to ignore the annuals and
concentrate on perennials. New
gardeners were not prepared to bother
with annuals. It was a whole new task
to start the seeds and deal with damping
off and spindly specimens. To go out
a buy a flat of annuals meant an annual
cost to their garden. But times change