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To most gardeners, annuals mean dramatic color-and lots of it. From the simplest display in a window box to the most lavish design in a for mal garden, these short-lived plants enhance any garden with their exu berance. The California patio garden at right, for example, practically blazes with the red and pink of cosmos and wax begonia blossoms.
Annuals-which in gardening parlance include their short-season cousins, biennials and tender perennials-deserve renown for a num ber of other virtues as well. They are reliable, easy-care plants and have a tremendous versatility that makes them suitable for any gardening purpose, under almost any condition. However you choose to incorpo rate annuals in your landscape, this chapter and those that follow will belp you pick out the appropriate plants for your site-whether it's sun ny or shaded, warm or cool, dry or damp. You'll also learn how to de sign the myriad beautiful spaces they'll occupy and how to care for them at every stage from seed through flowering.
