Category: Large Annuals Annuals are a wonderful, colorful, and
integral part of the plant world. By definition, an annual is a
plant flowers and dies in the same year or growing season. Some
flowering plants are perennials in warm climates and annuals in
colder climates such as the Calibrachoa plant. In gardening,
most people think of an annual as a plant that grows, blooms,
and dies in one growing season. Some perennials are treated as
annuals because they cannot survive the winters in cold
climates. Tomatoes, sweet potato vines, and peppers would be
examples. Some ornamental annual perennials are impatiens,
snapdragons, coleus, and petunias. Annuals only last one year
but they provide so much color that they are an integral part of
most landscapes. They provide color in shady areas and other
small spaces in the landscape. The multitudes of color you can
obtain from nursery grown annuals can just light up a yard. When
some spring flowers fade, only an annual can provide quick color
in that empty space. Color