Hit the Dirt; Unusual Annuals

Good morning. This is Sally Crossing of a Scaife or hit the dirt. An article in The Boston Globe recently listed some of this year's trends in gardening Samal downhills an unusual annual sit in and to throw in it was the only on yours or one they mentioned there many manuals that maybe grow not just because of a trend but to beautify the garden and be enjoyed for color fragrance and form. I know as a versatile they can be used in walls and trellises in tubs and window boxes in the perennial and shrub borders and in the vegetable garden. The canary vine trapezium paragraph. Well Wanda as its name suggests up to eight feet producing five lobed leaves and dainty bird like yellow flowers trying to wreck seeding. After all danger of frost at the base of a shrub or evergreen if you do this for with an early flowering shrub like forsythia you have another long period of bloom. A climate related to Morning Glory is the cardinal Klima I promote multi fighter. That has masses of vivid crimson small flowers that attract howling birds. This can be a direct seeded all started indoors for weeks prior to your last frost.

For evening fragments there are two all species of the débâcle plant Jasmine tobacco and a lot is three to four feet tall and woodland tobacco negotiate on a Sylvester's is four to five feet tall and has long tubular blooms crusted and hanging at the tops of tall stems. Both species will tolerate partial shade and might be strategically placed near a window or a patio door to pop is well worth trying. Other corner Flanders Poppy Pava row us and the opium poppy some Never room which is also known perhaps to allay fears of illegality by other names such as lettuce Poppy and Poppy the corn Poppy with scalloped flowers looks wonderful in a meadow or grown with blue Love In The Mist. Nigella Dema Siena in the garden. The opium poppy has colors from whitish to pink scarlet and deep wine and the blue seeds maybe save a topping bread and muffins. Both poppies are hearty and should be direct seated as early as possible in the spring. They have a few blossoms to self seed at the end of flowering.

Here are a few more annuals in brief prairie gentian may be found as Lissie atthis or your stomach in nurseries and has blue green foliage and tulip like flowers in white soft shades of pink to Deep Purple. The neat verbena burn Arianne sis is a wonderful tall area of a being with purple to the magenta flowers the flowers of Ox a pair from Soroti I'm also known as Tweety a sorority or blue milkweed or an unusual shade of blue almost turquoise and their profuse from summer until frost. Why not try some everlasting Strawberry Fields is a brilliant red gum freeness striking in the garden and in dried arrangements. An apple of Peru or shoo fly plant near Kandra Fiza loyalties has interesting paper winged seed pods. The common name refers to fly repellent properties. Star everlasting Scabiosa still has an unusual bowl shaped seed head light brown in paper consisting of many florets each with a star like center. Don't forget edible flowering annuals I

always thought of Scott run of beans as a crop for the vegetable garden. But it can equally well be used on an OB or trellis. There is a variety painted lady that has salmon and white flowers golden gleam and scarlet cream or two varieties of mustaches that are not only edible but also deliciously fragrant. They're both all-American selection winners in the 30s calendula or Pot Marigold brightens any garden petals can be used in salads and as the flowers may be used in herbal teas. The best species to use for herbal remedies is Kalandia official notice. Here's a quick guide to hardiness. How do you know animals will tolerate some frost and can be direct and when the forsythia fades they very often self seeders and don't like to be moved. For example poppies in Larkspur half hardy annuals want no frost and should be planted about the time Apple blossom petals fall marigolds and Cosmos are examples. 10 year olds like the heat and prefer woman nights too. For instance in a stash

and zinnias the variety of additives is enormous. These are just the tip of the iceberg exploit honester is some of them have more the marigolds and petunias grow some of your own. Some species can still be started indoors. Others direct seeded in your garden. If you'd like a transcript of today's hit. Why did you send a postcard to hit the care of you in Blue Hill and asked for number 7. Unusual annuals. This is Sally for hit the dirt.