Tag: Annual

Happy Friday GPODers! It’s been a minute since I did a post on my trip across North America last ...

Summertime means bloom time. Flowering annuals and perennials are bursting with color, fragrance, and texture while providing a feast ...

Whoever has grown a few of the various Celosias has surely been charmed either by their beauty or their ...

The Annual Delphinium is one of the best-known annuals, bearing long racemes of lovely colored flowers and lacy foliage. ...

OENOTHERA, Evening primrose, SundropsThere are many biennial and perennial Oenotheras but several are rather popular annuals.Oenothera drummondi. Drummond Evening-primrose. ...

NICOTIANA Flowering Tobacco(Named for Jean Nicot, French consul to Portugal, who first presented tobacco to the courts of Portugal ...

PHLOX – Texas pride(Name from Greek for a flame, perhaps first applied to another plant)The brilliance and clean colors ...

PORTULACA (Rosemoss) (Sunplant) (Seven-sisters)When one visits an old lady’s flower garden, no matter how small it may be, Portulacas ...

SILENE – Catchfly(From the Greek for saliva, referring to the stickiness of the stems of some species)The Sweet-William Catchfly, ...

Purple Ragwort – SENECIO (Jacobaea) – Purple Groundsel (Latin from senex, old man, refers to gray pappus of seeds)In ...