Whats the best flowering plant for year round colour ?

Question

Whats the best flowering plant for year round colour ?

Answer 1

Oops! The first answer confuses me. Petunias and marigolds are annuals. That means they grow up, bloom, and die in one warm season.

Actually, the best flowering plant for year-round color depends on where you live. Check the web (Google?) for gardening "zones" to learn your home zone. Then google again or go to the web site of a magazine such as Home and Garden....or your state extension service (at your state's Land Grant University...for tips that will answer your questions.

I can think of no flowering plant that provides flower color all year, but I think of this tree as an example of good year-round color in your yard/garden:  the crepe myrtle. In spring, the crepe myrtle bursts out with beautiful clear fresh spring green. Then in late spring or early summer it begins blooming.....gorgeous colors in big fluffy graceful clumps, usually all over the tree. In fall when the flowers are gone and the leaves fall, the tree has a bare trunk and bare branches..   But.... LO!  Look at that trunk!  The trunk will be missing many big irregular patches of the top layer of bark. Thus, you have a gorgeous shaped trunk (or multiple trunks, depending on how the tree is trained as it grows), with bi-colors displayed for your enjoyment.

Yesterday I saw a large single-main-trunked crepe myrtle with large main limbs beginning not four feet from the ground. The main trunk and bottoms of the largest limbs were gray and maroon! Sometimes they are dark gray and sort-of pink; sometimes, lighter gray and almost orangey tinted.

That is one flowering plant whose colors you will love, all year round. Best, the crepe myrtle grows from the southernmost zone in the continental USA up at least to mid-USA...Carolinas, etc.

Check it out. Ummmmm!

Answer 2

Flowers like Marigolds and petunias are annuals, they flower one season and then die.  The best thing to do is to mix up plants, put some flowers/ shrubs that will flower in the spring, some that flower in the summer and some that will flower in the fall, this way you will have year round color that will come back every year.  You can add a little bit of annuals if you wish for some color during the " in between" periods as you change seasons.

Answer 3

petunia's ......marigolds.......zinnia's

hearty plants that last through spring, summer and fall~