Coloring with annuals: combos with one-season wonders Annuals supply brilliant color, grow quickly, and can provide a "wow" factor to gardens, says Minnesota nursery owner Dean Engelmann. So why limit their use to container and entryway plantings?. In the January/February 2011 issue of Fine Gardening (#137), Dean describes his strategy for "plant linking," by which one can integrate annuals into beds with perennials, trees, and shrubs. To identify many of the plants in these two photos from his article "Coloring with Annuals," move your mouse over the circles.
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Establish a common thread to link one-season container combos in the garden. In this scene, purple spills from container to garden, uniting the individual combos into one attractive and functional garden space.
