Vibrant Annuals for Curb Appeal
Bring your garden to life with our wide selection of annuals, chosen for vibrant colour, continuous blooms, and reliable performance all season long. Perfect for beds, borders, and containers, annuals are an easy way to refresh your outdoor spaces and create instant curb appeal from spring through fall.
Annual Top Picks
Explore our most popular annuals, chosen for their strong performance, vibrant colour, and seasonal availability. These are the go-to favourites our customers ask for every day, perfect for refreshing planters, garden beds, and hanging baskets.
Geranium
Geraniums are a classic favourite, known for their bold blooms and strong, upright growth. Their tidy, mounded habit makes them perfect for structured planters and mixed arrangements.
Reliable and long-lasting, geraniums bring timeless colour and versatility to any outdoor space.
Wave Petunia
Wave Petunias are a top choice for creating bold, cascading colour in garden beds, hanging baskets, and containers. Known for their vigorous spreading/trailing habit, they quickly fill in spaces with a blanket of vibrant blooms.
Ideal for baskets, planters, and groundcover-style planting, perfect for spilling over edges and creating a full, lush look.
Marigold
Marigolds are a versatile annual, loved for their bold golden, orange, and yellow blooms. Their compact to bushy growth makes them excellent for edging, mass planting, or mixing into planters for a vibrant display.
A popular companion plant, marigolds are also known for helping deter certain garden pests, making them both beautiful and beneficial.
Impatiens
Impatiens are a go-to choice for adding reliable colour to shaded and partially shaded areas. Their compact, mounded growth makes them perfect for filling in spaces and creating a full, finished look.
Ideal for baskets, planters, and garden beds, impatiens are a low-maintenance favourite for dependable, long-lasting colour.
Our Annual Varieties
Shop our most requested annuals, in stock now and ready to brighten your garden. These in demand varieties are known for their bold colour, dependable growth, and beautiful blooms all season long, perfect for adding instant impact to beds, borders, and containers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What annuals are best for full sun?
For full sun areas (6+ hours of direct light), choose heat-loving, high-performing annuals such as geraniums, petunias, marigolds, calibrachoa, zinnias, verbena, and lantana. These varieties thrive in bright conditions and provide continuous colour throughout the season with regular watering and feeding.
What annuals are best for partial sun?
For areas that receive about 3–6 hours of sun, look for versatile annuals like impatiens (sun-tolerant varieties), begonias, coleus, nicotiana, lobelia, and pansies (early season). These plants perform well with a mix of sun and shade and maintain strong colour and growth in changing light conditions.
What annuals are best for shade?
In low-light or shaded spaces (less than 3 hours of direct sun), choose shade-tolerant annuals such as impatiens, begonias, coleus, fuchsia, and caladiums. These plants are ideal for adding vibrant colour and texture where sunlight is limited.
What plants should I use to make my own planter?
A well-balanced planter typically includes three elements:
- Thriller (height/focal point): dracaena, ornamental grass, canna, or upright geranium
- Filler (volume/colour): begonias, petunias, impatiens, coleus, or calibrachoa
- Spiller (trailing effect): sweet potato vine, ivy, bacopa, trailing lobelia, or creeping jenny
Mixing these creates a full, balanced container with continuous visual interest all season long.
What plants are best for hanging baskets?
Hanging baskets do best with plants that trail, spill, and bloom continuously through the season. Some of the most reliable choices include:
- Petunias – classic, full blooms and strong trailing habit
- Calibrachoa (Million Bells) – smaller blooms, very heavy flowering
- Fuchsia – excellent for shade to part shade with unique, dangling flowers
- Bacopa – soft trailing flowers that fill in beautifully
- Ivy geraniums – strong cascading growth with bold colour
- Verbena – heat-tolerant and long-blooming
- Lobelia – great for cooler weather and soft trailing colour
- Sweet potato vine – fast-growing foliage for bold spill and contrast
For best results, mix a thriller (if applicable), fillers, and spillers, and choose plants based on your basket’s light conditions (sun vs. shade). Regular watering and feeding are key, since hanging baskets dry out faster than garden beds.
Feed Your Planters and Hanging Baskets for Strong, Healthy Growth
Give your flowers the nutrients they need to thrive with Garden Gallery Flower Gro Fertilizer. Specially formulated to support strong growth and abundant blooms, this balanced blend helps annuals, perennials, and flowering plants reach their full potential.
Ideal for use in garden beds, containers, and hanging baskets, it promotes vibrant colour, healthy foliage, and continuous flowering throughout the season