What are the best annual bedding plants?
Some annuals that are used as bedding plants can be sown from seed in spring. These include cosmos, nicotiana and snapdragons. Cosmos is easy to grow from seed but for bedding such as lobelia, geraniums and pansies it’s easier to buy them as plug plants or young plants from the garden centre. Attract attention and keep your gardens looking colourful by removing spent plants that are past their best and filling the gaps with the most popular colourful summer bedding plants such as geraniums, petunias, marigolds, impatiens, and lobelia.Most Popular Bedding Plants: Late Spring through Summer varieties are Alyssum, Lobelia, Coleus, Zinnias, Wax leaf Begonias, Annual Salvias (Reds & Blues), Marigolds, Portulaca, Petunias, Impatiens, Geraniums and Calibrachoa.