There are benefits to both annuals and perennials for growing a gorgeous garden. We asked plant experts for their advice.

An interesting crop of new annual flowers is poised to debut in the 2026 growing season, including a caladium with black ...

“An annual is a plant that produces colorful blooms all season long and lasts for just one year,” explains Dan Stuppiello, divisional merchandise manager of Live Goods at Home Depot. “If you want to ...

The best annual flowers and plants are easy to grow, cheap, and long-flowering, and the brightly colored forms fill the garden with cheer. The likes of cornflower, cosmos, zinnia, snapdragon, and ...

Got a pile of leftover gravel sitting in your yard? Well, you can use it to bring one of those stunning gravel garden ideas to life and transform your outdoor space. A gravel garden is a perfect ...

“An annual is a plant that produces colorful blooms all season long and lasts for just one year,” explains Dan Stuppiello, divisional merchandise manager of Live Goods at Home Depot. “If you want to ...

Summer annuals are the champions of the late-season garden. Perennials are the majority residents in my flower gardens, and each year, I welcome the reliable, repeat performers when they arrive to ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Gardeners should keep an eye out for these new annuals, including Macarenia zinnias, Lemon Hedge sunflowers and Pacific ...

Say the word “annuals” and most gardeners think of subtropical plants like petunias or marigolds. But native annuals do so much more for your garden. By Margaret Roach There it was, as flashy as in ...