When I design my garden I want to make sure I have plenty of space for all of my favorite plants. If you are like maybe when you go to the nursery, you want at least one of everything you see.
When I laid out these beds and planted, I drew from every category of plants. I use small trees, flowering shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and the last but not the least, the annuals.
You know over the years, I discovered that my summer garden would not be the same without the help of annuals such as cosmos, nicotiana, begonias, impatiens and this little guy always come back too each year called globe amaranth. Now, I like it because it comes in a range of colors—a magenta purple, a white, a strawberry red, and this one which is pale pink. I like it the best because it blends with all the plants I have in these boarders.
Another aspect I like about this old fashion annual is that you can look at it as an everlasting in two different ways. First if you let the seed drop to the flower bed each fall. You will be rewarded with volunteer plans each spring. And the second way it is an everlasting is that they blooms themselves will last a long time. Just cut them in the summer, bundle them together, and dry them for fall arrangements.
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