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Well, I am at one of my favorite places in Oklahoma City today. I am at Bricks Nursery on the corner of Classen and Northwest 40th here in the city. And they are getting in more truckloads than the inventory you already see here. There is going to be so much coming in. But even though I’m here for annuals, I want to point out some other spectacular things that I’ve got here. But we’re going to kind of do a countdown. And these are 12. I would call them bulletproof. Super easy. Um, you can’t miss annuals to grow in your landscape. These are wonderful for kind of bedding out, not necessarily for cut flowers, but they are brilliant. They are great pollinator attractors and I love them. So, I’m going to select some for the front. I’m going to select some for the back. And I’ve got a lot of selecting to do. So, what do you say? Let’s do it. Let’s do it. Okay. Okay, this is an annual I don’t think is used nearly enough and that is Joseph’s coat, especially in this chartreuse color. I love it because it mimics the look of the golden fever few I love so much. And it also echoes this same color in my garden in the sunshine legustramm and in well just in a number of different places. And I really think that it’s it’s especially valuable because what it will do is not only handle the heat, handle the drought, handle whatever our summer can throw at it, but it grows fairly quickly. And in short order, it will turn into this just wonderful little mound that looks great when I plant it up and down the walkway. And it would be great planted up and down your walkway, too. Well, if that was number one, this is number 1.5 because this is my preferred color. I absolutely adore this and this fits into the tableau that I’ve got going in front. But look at this gem right here. Because this stuff comes not only in chartreuse, but it also comes in this wonderful color. And this doesn’t have a specific name, but this has a different leaf form and definitely a really rich color palette. I think this would be great in a monochromatic planting and I might just have to put oh maybe three of these in my cart as well. Okay, our number two is sometimes called the summer snapdragon and that is angelonia and these are really beautiful and it’s of course this purple color that draws my eye. It can handle the heat. But the thing about angelonia is even though it grows very easily and it is really, I would say, somewhat drought and heat tolerant, what it does require is lots of deadheading to keep it pumping out these beautiful blooms. So, you want to keep it fertilized and you want to keep it deadheaded. So, I use some of this, but I don’t use a ton of it. And I think today I’m going to put this one back because I’m going to concentrate on some annuals that I like even better than this beautiful angelonia. By the way, this is spectacular in containers. And number three, this is a plant that has really in the past, I would say 15 years experienced a huge renaissance in interest and that is Kolas. There are so many different varieties, so many different shades. So many different conditions in which they can grow. Some are sun colas and they can handle full sun. Some the original ones really like the shade. These are beautiful if you want to get most of your color and most of your interest. Yeah. From foliage. I think they look beautiful if you don’t mix too many kinds together. I kind of like them when they are just uh planted in isolation. Just one type of kolus in one planter. I noticed that Klaus Dolby, somebody who is just a container gardener extraordinaire, he does a lot of that. And I’m sure that you can find here at Bricks any colus to meet your tableau. Look at this. That’s really gorgeous. By the way, here’s a money-saving tip. If you’re going to use kolus to plant out in your landscape, you don’t need to buy a ton of it because you can take clippings from these and they will easily root in water. Another money saving tip is to see if there’s more than one plant in the container. If there is, then you just buy one pot and then you divide it up and you separate the two different plants and plant them in your landscape individually. Buy one get one that yes, buy one get two free depending on how many are in the container. That’s true not just of kolus, but it’s true of pretty much any annuals. So if you are a colus lover, there is a colus color for you. Okay, now Stuart, just meet me down here past the solosia and you can meet me here at the maragolds. Maragolds probably are the most sentimental annual to me in addition to geraniums that I adore. But marolds, well, the scent of them, they remind me of my first mom and she used to grow them. This is my favorite annual to grow in tandem with vegetables because they are a pest deterrent for different kinds of pests in your vegetable garden. They can handle tons of sun. You can get them in small headed varieties like this. There’s another variety called Whopper that has a huge head. It grows very tall and you can use it as a cut flower. But if you want to inject some of this gold, yellow, reddish punch to your garden, then look no further than maragolds. By the way, if you can keep them going through the summer, they will be beautiful in the fall and add tremendous fall color to your to your October and even into November or your first frost garden. Here’s another gardening tip. I have found that maragolds are very prone to spidermite. So check on them daily to see if you see any of those characteristic webs or tiny black spots that indicate that they might have spidermite. If they do, you want to check any plants nearby as well. Treat them as soon as you see any kind of problem with insecticidal soap. You don’t want that spidermite to get out of control. Okay, here are two more annuals that can really segue into fall beautifully both as a cut flower and in the garden itself and that is Cosia. It also grows beautifully from seed. It will come back from seed if you allow it to uh go to seed in your garden. There are so many different varieties. They kind of some of them kind of mimic the look of brains. Stuart, that’s something that would fascinate you and your pamp for science. Look at the beautiful deep deep color of that. Um, again, I think they ju they don’t spread a lot. They grow in kind of a cushiony way. They can make great specimen plantings. They are great in containers. And there’s a very broad color palette from which you can choose, not just in the color of the flower, but in the color of the leaves themselves. something that I think also works in a similar way and that is salvia. I’ve got some saucy red salvia from Southern Living that I’m getting ready to pot up at home, but this also makes a really great These are salvas. I particularly like the white. One thing about these is you really want to keep them deadheaded. Check them for spidermite as well. But if you keep these deadheaded and plant them in full sun, I promise you it will reward you for your efforts. Okay, now this would be a beautiful, beautiful combination. Some of this yellow solosia with some of these bright orange zenyas. Probably one of the most common annuals that you can get. These are profusion zenas. They are more like a cushion zena more so than the traditional cutting zenia which is actually what I prefer. But if you want to do something um as a low border um at the front of the border in your vegetable garden or even in your front yard, these would be beautiful. They come in all sorts of different colors. They do have a tendency to get powdery mildew as all zenyas do. So keep an eye out for that. Make sure that they get plenty of air circulation and lots of light. And they too will gift you with bloom after bloom after bloom. They do appreciate some dead heading. Okay, if you want an annual combo for a container or for a section of your garden beds, then this is a brilliant trio. I think some of this Joseph’s coat with some blooming verbina. This What variety is this? It may not say, but verbena perhaps homestead or some other kind of relooming verbena is a wonderful trailing element in a container. And then if you want something that gives more of a green look but with just a hint of lavender than Mexican heather, man, you can’t beat it. And it can’t be beat by the sun, by drought, by um really high high heat. And this would be a beautiful container put together. You could plant a bunch of this Mexican heather in the middle and then have this as this verbina as a trailer with some of that beautiful Joseph’s coat to pop. Uh, probably I would say you could get maybe six verbina, maybe five of the the uh Mexican heather, maybe four of the Joseph’s coat, and that would be a brilliant formula for a container that you could have on your porch, you could have it by the pool, wherever you put it, it can tough it out. Okay, verbena is absolutely beautiful because not only does it contribute a trailing element to whatever composition you have, but there are so many different color varieties. Stuart was drawn to this that has this kind of coraly pink in the center. It’s really a beautiful, beautiful shade. One thing about verbena is it does need to be deadheaded frequently. Sometimes it’s a little bit difficult to tell the spent flowers from the new buds when they come out. Do keep an eye on it for spidermite or other kinds of pests. But it too, if you take care of it, if you keep an eye on it, if you keep it deadheaded and make sure to fertilize it pretty frequently, it will continue to pump out these exceptionally beautiful blooms. This right here, I think, would be a beautiful companion. to a light colored mandilla vine. That would be gorgeous. Now, I’m not particularly wild about the Porchilaka family of succulents, moss rose, porchaka pelane, um, as a landscaping flower. Though I have seen it used beautifully in areas where it gets tons and tons of sun and where there is excellent drainage and really sandy soil. For me, that’s not always the case, but I do love it in containers. And this would be my nominee for the best succulent. This is Delosperma. I love it in this white color. And this would be my nominee for the best annual to get to plant in a container low growing with a look that has kind of a Mediterranean vibe. Okay. And here’s a tip. When I plant containers like this, think creeping thyme or any kind of creeping succulents that are in a mound, I typically look for some that are already starting to sprawl a little bit because I want them to go from coast to coast, if you will, of that container. I especially like them in concrete containers. And when I do this, I typically get an odd number. So, in this case, I would get four for the periphery and I would get one for the center. And before you know it, they’ll all grow together. Okay. Now, in a previous video, I don’t know if it was yesterday’s or the day before, I talked about this gorgeous pink mandilla vine that I’ve got planted in my window box. And I just said that I think it was the perfect companion to this in color to this trailing verbena. So, I think I need some of this verbina to plant and trail out along with the mandavilla vine in the window box. There’s my question of the day. Do you think I need this? And to me, that’s kind of a no-brainer of an answer. Okay, this may be the most controversial annual that I’m going to recommend. Controversial because I frankly don’t like it that much. By the end of summer, it’s sometimes the only plant that’s still alive. And while that is very commendable, a lot of times by the end of summer, it also is just eaten. It’s got holes in it from slugs. It has cascaded up and beyond and escaped the the the boundaries of whatever flower bed container you have it in. You really need to keep it under control. You need to pinch it. You need to cut it back pretty regularly. Now, that is the downside of that rapid growth. The upside of that is those cutings will root very very easily and that way you can get more for less. So don’t buy a lot of it. Just buy it, take cutings, root them and spread them around. It comes in this really really dark color which I kind of gravitate to. And then also this chartreusy color that I love so much, but this isn’t one of my favorites. Okay, if you love patunias, then you probably love million bells because boy, they can pump out the blooms. The blooms are smaller. They are a little tougher, I think, than the larger patunia blooms. But more importantly, I think they bloom more profusely and they bloom better in the heat and in really hot, sunny conditions. They’re great for a planting like a window box or a container. I personally haven’t had great luck planting them in the ground, probably because I’ve got very, very heavy clay soil and I tend to overwater, but in a container, they’re great. Now, I wish I could find some of the white ones or a companion colored pink that I could put in my window box. I don’t see any white ones right now, so I think I’m just going to hold off until I find some white ones someplace, if not here at Bricks. Okay, wave patunias are also great. I particularly like the pink ones. I think they grow so so beautifully. I’ve got this color right here growing in my Easter display or what was my Easter display. And what color is this? It is crazy tuna black and white. And I think it’s beautiful. Oh my goodness. Look, Stuart. If you look hard enough, you will find I did not see these until just now, but look. There you go. There’s two white million bells or calibbracoa for my window box. Okay, this is this is so common, the common periwinkle that sometimes I forget about it. Um, it is so tough. It can grow in the most dry, hot, sunny of conditions and it really blooms beautifully. But don’t put it anywhere where you are prone to overwatering because it really it really doesn’t like to get soggy. It can get a kind of virus that can really make it look blemished and unappealing, but there’s so many different colors now than there used to be. It is great if you are somebody that has oh, let’s say uh maybe a poolside container and you don’t get around to watering it very often. If you don’t, if it dries out, it will rapidly come back once you give it a drink of water. And I also love the fact that its leaves are very shiny and they beautifully reflect the sun. Okay, this is kind of an unassuming plant, but it too is very very easy. It is tough and I like it for maybe an uncharacteristic reason and that is even though it puts out these little blue flowers i.e. Blue Days. This is Blue Days. Uh not a specific variety. Evolvulus. I can never say that. Evolvulus. Uh but what I like about it is if I want a trailer for full sun and I really want it to just mostly be green, maybe as a standin for ivy in a shadier situation, then I would use this just for kind of a green on green trailer. If it blooms, then that’s great if it matches my color palette. But that’s really not my motivation in planting it. My motivation is for it to be a trailing workhorse in a container planting. Now, let’s take a little intermission here for me to show you some plants that are not annuals, but that you want to hightail it to bricks to find. So many of you comment on the Jane Magnolia, the Jane Star Magnolia that I’ve got planted in the front right off of the social patio. These are not Jane, but it’s one of Jane’s sister’s. Very, very similar. And these are kind of hard to find. Plus, these are absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous specimens. And even though they supposedly are a slow to medium grower, I have found that if you provide them in the right situation, if you give them lots of light, really good drainage, and give them a good fertilization every once in a while, that they will respond accordingly. So, number one, be on the lookout for those. Number two, so many of you guys have asked me about Sunshine Lagustrum, and it’s beautiful. They’ve got it here at Bricks. And I’m going to try in the next few weeks to maybe do a workshop of all of the different ways that you can use Sunshine Lagustrum in your in your beds, in containers, in whatever kind of context that you need a little burst of gold and a burst of sunshine. The other thing that they have here in addition to some lemons and limes and berries are these wonderful, very upright olive trees. I already have olive trees, but I am tempted by these every time I come. And they got some more. For a while, they just had a couple, and now they’ve got a number of them. They move them outside to get a little bit more sun. And here they are positioned next to some really amazing succulents. The inventory of these will increase as it gets hotter and hotter. And Stuart had his eye on this beauty over here, which is a Montrose apple cactus. These guys. Oh, that’s what you had an eye on. Okay. I thought you liked these that are I like them both, but that’s the one I’m looking at. But this is the one. Okay, this one is looks deadly to me. And this is Well, I can’t tell what the exact stenaporious organ kind of sounds like a dinosaur. And that would be appropriate for kind of a comparison for these spiky succulent beauties. Okay, this is a hard to find plant, you guys. And they’ve got some of it here at Bricks. This is this wire vine or muan beekia. I love this. I especially like using it in containers. I used to have on my back steps at the other house at the base of my topiary. I had all sorts of this trailing out. It’s very lacy. It’s very frilly. It’s very romantic and it’s very wonderful for your garden. And finally, my last two probably favorite annuals that I put out every year, mostly because of their ability to to attract butterflies and other pollinators. And that is number one, the penta, and number two, Lantana. I think these are absolutely spectacular. And one thing I love is that here at Bricks, they have the exact color of pink I like. And the exact color I like is lucky star. And let me see if this is the color. I think it is. I think this is lucky star. So, I’m getting a whole flat of that. I like it in my containers. I like it in my window box. Well, let’s just say I like it pretty much everywhere. And I also like lots of Lantana because you talk about an economical annual to plant. Now, I do know that in some zones it’s even perennial, and there are perennial varieties of Lantana, but the ones I’m talking about are annual in my zone, my zone 7B garden. You guys often ask me where I garden, and it’s in zone 7B, and I absolutely love Lantana, and I don’t know if I love it more or the butterflies and other pollinators love it more. Those are my top two. But I can hear you guys out there. But wait, Linda, what about Sunpatience? I love Sunatans. They are extremely popular right now. One of the reasons I love them because it’s got this geranium red color in one of the varieties, but it also has softer colors, whites, lilacs. These two uh they’re they’re what’s called self-cleaning. You don’t need to dead head them. So, they’re very very easy care. They can handle the heat. They can handle lots of sun and they can handle all of the compliments that they get from passers by. So there you go. There are my favorite annuals that can really handle whatever summer throws at them. And you can’t go wrong with any of these beauties. You guys, in the comments below, let me know which are your favorites. [Music]