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My Must Have Cottage Garden Annuals
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items I've been an avid flower gardener for about 11 years now and these are the annuals that I will plant every single year, without a doubt, until I can garden no more! Every one of these flowers are still blooming at the very end of the season, and make...
Snapdragons, in tall, cut-flower varieties only, not the little shorties you often find in garden centers! I love these apple blossoms for the beautiful color, and they often come back if you cut down back in the fall and they'll bloom til frost.
Snapdragon Seeds - Appleblossom
I know these seeds are pricey, but buy them once and save them for years to come. The flowers are all Sephora toned and almost every bloom I have from this seed is huge and doubled!!
Zinnia Victorian Wedding - Floret Library
Literally looks perfectly fresh when dried! Easy to grow annuals that are beautiful when dried! I hand them in bunches in my kitchen!
Statice Seeds - 100% Guaranteed
Globe amaranth is beautiful dried, and keeps its vivid color perfectly. The blooms just get bigger as they age and last for months. In the fall when most everything else has died, these are still beautiful, so I can cut them all for hanging when the...
Gomphrena Seeds (Globe Amaranth)
Another annual that blooms so much! The blooms last all season long and they are super easy to grow from seed. Of all the annuals that I grow, these seeds germinate the easiest and quickest. They are also amazing dried flowers!
Ageratum Seeds | Shop 6 Varieties
I love this variety and the apricot, specifically, but any tall, cut-flower variety of strawflower is great! You literally can't tell the difference between a dried strawflower and a live one. They're beautiful to string up as garland in the fall, or...
Silvery Rose - Strawflower Seed
Chocolate Queen Anne's Lace are so easy to grow and super hardy, once they get a little size on them. They're beautiful for pressing and the blooms are tough in the heat. I'm working on naturalizing them in an area and they're taking very well, as Qu...
Queen Anne's Lace Seeds - Chocolate Lace Flower
These are trailing or "creeping" begonias and this variety is so so gorgeous! Put them in a hanging basket and it's like a totally different flower altogether. I don't even love begonias, to be honest, but these are amazing for a shady porch!
Illumination Mix Begonia Seeds - Annual Flower Seeds
To my understanding, these can't be grown by seed, so you'll have to get starter plants, but they're 100% worth it. They do well in part shade, and they get big super fast, and will bloom till frost. They are super showy and so much prettier than the...
Double Impatiens | Rockapulco® Rose
I never see these in stores, but they're a super fast growing, annual vibe in the legume family. They come in this purple blooming variety and then there's and white-flowered one. The leaves are beautiful and the flower come, then you get these adora...
'Purple Hyacinth Bean' Heirloom Flowering Vine
These are another annual vine that grows really quickly and produces tons of flowers. The foliage by itself is so fragile and dainty looking- it looks kind of fern-like! I grow it in my window boxes, up and around my windows! And the little flowers a...
Cypress Vine - Ipomoea quamoclit
Cosmos are super easy, and again, they will bloom all the way til it starts to frost! I like tall varieties and the double click is my fave so far! This variety has whites, pinks, and magentas- I like it better than the red and yellow varieties and t...
Double Click Mix - Cosmos Seed