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Zinnias
Easy annual flowers for sunny beds, cutting gardens, and long summer color.
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Marigolds
Reliable warm-season annuals for beds, borders, and vegetable garden edges.
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Sunflowers
Tall annual flowers grown for blooms, pollinators, and seed harvests in full sun.
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Cosmos
Airy, fast-growing annuals that bloom for months with very little attention.
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Lavender
A fragrant perennial for hot, sunny, well-drained sites and dried-flower use.
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Coneflowers
Long-lived perennial flowers that bloom through summer heat and support pollinators.
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Nasturtiums
Easy annuals with edible flowers and leaves, thriving in lean soil where others struggle.
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Petunias
Long-blooming annuals for beds, borders, and containers in full sun.
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Snapdragons
Cool-season spikes for spring and fall color and long-lasting cut flowers.
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Dahlias
Tuber-grown showstoppers that bloom from midsummer to frost and reward staking.
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Sweet peas
Fragrant cool-season climbers for trellises and cutting, best started very early.
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Calendula
A cool-season annual with edible orange and yellow blooms that keeps flowering until hard frost.
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Pansies
Cool-season flowers for spring and fall color in beds and containers, tolerant of light frost.
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Cornflowers
Old-fashioned cool-season annuals with true blue blooms, also sold as bachelor's buttons.
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Morning glories
Fast warm-season vines that cover trellises and fences with trumpet blooms by midsummer.
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Foxgloves
Tall biennial spires for the back of part-shaded borders. Every part of the plant is toxic.
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Hostas
Shade perennials grown for bold foliage, filling the dim corners where flowers struggle.
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Impatiens
The standard shade annual, blooming nonstop in low light from spring until frost.
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Daylilies
Nearly indestructible perennials that bloom for weeks and divide easily into more plants.
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Garden phlox
Midsummer perennial clusters with a sweet scent, worth the airflow they demand.
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Peonies
Long-lived perennials with huge late-spring blooms, often outliving the gardeners who plant them.
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Sedum
Succulent perennials that bloom in fall, shrug off drought, and feed late-season pollinators.
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Daffodils
Fall-planted bulbs that bloom reliably each spring and are ignored by deer and rodents.