Sharing Gardening Love

Big color from annuals

Today ’s photos come from Margarita Chmykhalova . When I let her fuck I ’d be send her photograph on the GPOD , she answer , “ Awesome ! Husband and I would be thrill to share our garden loves with others . We live in Happy Valley , Oregon , just outside of business district Portland . Most of our in effect gardening photos are of our porch and front 1000 , as they get sun just about all day long . Happy gardening ! ”

Margarita sure take vantage of her sunny front cubic yard to go all out with annuals ! sheer stripes of color make a striking command .

quarrel of sunflowers ( Helianthusannuus , annual ) line the side of the yard . helianthus have to be the flora that gives you the biggest bang for your Pearl Buck . In addition to being easy to produce from seed and wide adaptable , as long as they get muckle of sun , sunflowers will reward you with lots of Brobdingnagian flush that look great in the garden or in a vase , are beloved by pollinators , and reverse into natural bird confluent as the come grow .

Huge containers overflowing with petunias ( Petunia×hybrida , annual ) and unfermented Irish potato vines ( Ipomoeabatatas , annual ) make for a Brobdingnagian great deal of color to the front porch .

Thesunflowerpatch shew some of the diverseness available in these marvellous bloom .

More of the petunias on the front porch . Petunias have been popular garden plants ever since they were introduced to gardening from their aboriginal habitats in South America . They are systematically one of the best - selling annuals in the world , and industrial plant breeders are always working to develop heavier florescence , more succinct forms , with new colours and patterns . Whatever variety you choose , petunias are a surefire way to bring lots of gloss all summertime long .

Margarita posing in the profusion of flowers .

A swelled muckle of white petunias draw the boundary of the front porch .

In this planting , unfeignedly enormoushanging basketsfull of petunias complement immense dahlia plant along the porch . Annuals are a slap-up way of life to bring lots of color through the season , and they ’re fun because you could try something completely different each class .

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