There are some annuals with showy fruits and among them none is so much admired as the Chinese Lantern plant, which produces large, inflated, orange-red, lantern-like pods containing small, flesh...
Plant care for PORTULACA (Rosemoss) (Sunplant) (Seven-sisters), Annual Flower Information
PORTULACA (Rosemoss) (Sunplant) (Seven-sisters)
When one visits an old lady’s flower garden, no matter how small it may be, Portulacas are generally seen encroaching on the wide walk...
REHMANNIA, Annual Flower Information
REHMANNIA
(Named for Joseph Rehmann, physician of Petrograd)
Rehmannias are seldom seen in neither gardens nor even in catalogs and yet they are lovely, long, bell-shaped flowers; a...
RESEDA Mignonette, Annual Flower Information
RESEDA – Mignonette
(Latin name Reseda means “to calm or appease,” and refers to the fact that the plant was employed by the Romans in treating bruises)
The sweet ...
Sanvitalia Annual Flower Information
Sanvitalia procumbens flowers are much like tiny Zinnias, being golden yellow with very dark purple centers, some of them single and others double. The plants grow only 6 inches tall, or rather ...
SCABIOSA – Pineushion flower – Mourning-bride, Annual Flower Information
The long stems and tufted flowers of the annual Scabiosa (S. atropurpurea) are charming. The colors also are pleasing in all cases white, light pink, rose, fiery scarlet, pale yellow, azure b...
SCHIZANTHUS – Butterfly flower, Annual Flower Information
The flowers of this plant are a delight to those who admire extreme grace, dainty markings, and fantastic forms. Many flowers have been compared by writers to butterflies, but it is only this on...
Purple Ragwort – SENECIO (Jacobaea) Purple Groundsel, Annual Flower Information
Purple Ragwort – SENECIO (Jacobaea) – Purple Groundsel
(Latin from senex, old man, refers to gray pappus of seeds)
In English gardens one finds a lovely dwarf annual li...
SILENE – Catchfly, Annual Flower Information
SILENE – Catchfly
(From the Greek for saliva, referring to the stickiness of the stems of some species)
The Sweet-William Catchfly, Silene armeria, is a little known but worth...
Marigold, Annual Flower Information
Marigold
(Tages was an Etruscan god, but perhaps the name is of another derivation)
Even the name-Mary’s Gold-captivates us, and what could be more appropriate? The flowers o...