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Down the Garden Path: Add color with bedding plants · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Down the garden path. Add Color with betting plants Written
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  Speaker 1: by Seusstyr and University of Illinois Extension. This article is
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  Speaker 1: being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlet.
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  Speaker 1: When we are looking to add temporary color to beds,
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  Speaker 1: as borders, containers, or hanging baskets, we often look to
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  Speaker 1: betting plants. The color may come from continuous booms or
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  Speaker 1: from distinct foliage. Betting plants are typically annuals plants that
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  Speaker 1: complete their life cycle in one season, but may include biennials,
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  Speaker 1: which are plants that complete growth in two seasons, as
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  Speaker 1: well as perennials, which are long lived plants. Betting plants
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  Speaker 1: are often classified by how tolerant they are to cold temperatures,
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  Speaker 1: like vegetables that can be cold hearty such as peas,
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  Speaker 1: or heat lovers like peppers. Decorative plants also have differing
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  Speaker 1: temperature needs. By taking advantage of these temperature differences, you
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  Speaker 1: can extend the color in your garden as long as possible.
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  Speaker 1: In our northern climate, hardy annuals. Hardy annuals can tolerate
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  Speaker 1: cooler air and soil, as well as light frosts without
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  Speaker 1: being damaged. About four weeks before the last frost date.
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  Speaker 1: Sow the seeds directly into the ground, or plant young seedlings.
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  Speaker 1: Flowering hardy annuals include candy tuf, larkspur, pansy pot, marigold,
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  Speaker 1: snap dragon, and sweet Alyssum. Foliage. Examples include dusty miller,
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  Speaker 1: ornamental cabbage, and kale. Biennial grown as annual hardy biennials.
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  Speaker 1: Since biennials will bloom in their second year, plant biennial
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  Speaker 1: seedlings six to eight weeks before the first frost and fall.
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  Speaker 1: This gives them time to grow leaves before they go
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  Speaker 1: dormant in the winter. They will bloom the following spring.
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  Speaker 1: Examples of flowering biennials include American bellflower, alpine poppy, foxglove,
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  Speaker 1: and hollyhock. Half hardy annuals. Half hardy annual plants can
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  Speaker 1: tolerate cool air soil, but are damaged by frost about
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  Speaker 1: two weeks before the last frost. State plant young seedlings
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  Speaker 1: you've purchased or started, as they are not usually planted
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  Speaker 1: from seed directly outdoors. Flowering examples are Agaratum cosmos, Dianthus lobilia,
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  Speaker 1: and Petunias tender annuals. These plants need both warm soil
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  Speaker 1: and air and do not tolerate any frost. They are
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  Speaker 1: best planted a few weeks after the frost free date.
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  Speaker 1: Flowering examples are floss flower annual, Salvia marigold, African French insignet,
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  Speaker 1: new guinea patients, and Zinnia tender perennials used as annuals.
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  Speaker 1: These plants are perennials in warmer growing zones, but when
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  Speaker 1: planted in cooler zones are killed by frost. You can
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  Speaker 1: save them by digging them up and bringing them indoors
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  Speaker 1: over the winter. Flowering examples are Bogonia flowering, tobacco garden
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  Speaker 1: im patients, Geranium lantana, Lobilia, salvia, tropical Hibiscus Foliage examples
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  Speaker 1: are Colius spider plants and rex Pagonia annuals that act
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  Speaker 1: like pariahs. There are many annuals that may act like
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  Speaker 1: perennials because of the large number of seeds that they
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  Speaker 1: make and drop throughout their lifespan. The seeds of these
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  Speaker 1: plants are not killed by our northern winters and will
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  Speaker 1: sprout and grow the following spring in the area where
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  Speaker 1: the original annuals grew with little care. This can create
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  Speaker 1: a flower bed that comes back every year. Flowering examples
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  Speaker 1: are amaranth, boridge, cliome cosmos snapdragon. By knowing the temperature
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  Speaker 1: tolerances of bedding plants, you can have continuous color in
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  Speaker 1: your garden from spring through fall. For more information, check
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  Speaker 1: out Zeustyr is a certified Master Gardener and Master Naturalist
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  Speaker 1: volunteer with University of Illinois Extension serving DuPage, Cane, and
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  Speaker 1: Kendall Counties.