Annuals comparison
These are the Annuals that Ashburton Lawncare recommends in the Triangle area. Please contact us with and questions
| Flower | Description | | Begonia |  | Leaves alternate, often brightly colored or with colored veins. Flowers red, pink, yellow, or white, slightly irregular, the male and female separate. Grows in a bush 8 - 12 in. high. | | Dianthus |  | Leaves opposite and usually narrow. Joints swollen. Flowers terminal, usually grouped in small, often dense, cymes or panicles, but sometimes solitary. Calyx veiny, with 5 teeth, and often with 2 or more bracts beneath it. Petals 5, fringed or toothed in some species, always with a long basal shank. Grows upright 8 - 16 in. and spreads. | | Impatiens |  | Simple leaves, alternate, opposite or whorled. Flowers irregular, spurred, solitary or clustered in leaf axils. Grows 10 - 24 in. upright and spreads. | | Pertunia |  | Leaves soft, without marginal teeth, alternate below but the upper ones opposite. Flowers variously colored. Grows 8 - 18 in. upright and spreads. | | Portulaca |  | Stems soft and fleshy, often reddish. Leaves spoon shaped. Flowers are terminal, usually only in full sunlight. Grows 6 - 8 in. spreading |
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