Annuals

The Facts Height: 0.5′ – 1.5′ Spread: 0.5′ – 1′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Dianthus has many varieties and in Oklahoma is split into perennial and annual. Depending on the winter, annual Dianthus can re-seed itself like its perennial cousin. More often than not, though, this is not the case. Half inch diameter bloom heads cluster together to form brilliant displays of color on green to gray green foliage. Its clumping habit helps lend it

The Facts Height: 6″ – 1′ Spread: 2′ – 3′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Blue Daze is a low growing, spreading mounding annual. Its fuzzy gray-green foliage and limbs sprawls the ground creating a carpet like display. Deep blue blooms appear mid-spring, a half inch in diameter, providing a stark contrast and an excellent statement in the landscape. Blooms will repeat sporadically through the growing season. This annual is one of few that prod

The Facts Height: 1′ – 2′ Spread: 3′ – 4′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast Asparagus Fern is an herbaceous plant perfect for creating a lusciously green space and providing filler to containers and hanging baskets. Its needlelike foliage is like none other. Its electric lime green color pops in the landscape. Its very low maintenance and heat and drought tolerance make it a popular choice for the hot Oklahoma summer sun. This annual is one to h

Scaevola is a great plant to add to any floral environment. Its high versatility makes it a wise choice for potted combinations or garden ground coverage. Create beautiful potted combinations and garden landscapes with these unique fan flowers. Scaevola is a semi-trailing to trailing annual, grown for its perpetual display of curiously shaped flowers. The fleshy, trailing to mounding stems of Scaevola are crowded with small, bright green, oval leaves with toothed edges, and s

Incredible Impatiens Get Growing Today The compact, extremely uniform growth habit and bright blooms make this a fantastic choice for landscape, baskets, and containers in shady areas. The blooms are approximately 1.5” wide that bloom right up until the frost. Dazzler Impatiens are desired most for their wide selection of bright, ever-blooming colors. Height 9 to 12”. Width 13 to 15”.

Get Growing at TLC Garden Centers Supertunia® Vista Bubblegum Sometimes a petunia isn’t just another petunia. Sometimes you get something so outstanding it makes you rethink what you were sure you knew about a plant. Supertunia® Vista Bubblegum Petunia is one of those plants. Supertunia Vista petunias are very vigorous, with mounding habits that can reach up to 2 feet in height in the landscape and will trail over the edges of baskets and containers up to 4 feet by the end of

Sensational SunPatiens Get Growing Today with TLC! Garden success has never been simpler with easy-to-grow SunPatiens. The thicker petals and tough foliage are less prone to disease, and their strong sturdy stems tolerate high heat and humidity, rain, and adverse weather conditions. They bloom from spring through summer and until a fall frost. Unlike its shade-loving cousins, SunPatiens thrives in full sun to partial shade. They require a minimum of 4 hours of sunlight to flo

Colorful Calibrachoa Get Growing Today at TLC! Calibrachoa is a lovely addition to any bed, landscape or container. It has a trailing habit with it reaching heights of 8” and spreading to 16”. “Callie” blooms early and maintains blooms throughout the Summer and Fall. It has green trailing foliage and vibrant colored flowers that fall gracefully over container edges or baskets. Flower colors include reds, pinks, orange, purple, yellow, and white. Calibrachoa prefers full sun b

Supertunia® Vista Bubblegum ® Petunia Sometimes a petunia isn’t just another petunia.  Sometimes you get something so outstanding it makes you rethink what you were sure you knew about a plant.  Supertunia Vista Bubblegum  Petunia is one of those plants. Supertunia® Vista Petunias are very vigorous, with mounding habits that can reach up to 2 feet in height in the landscape and will trail over the edges of baskets and containers up to 4 feet by the end of the season. They are

Cool Caladiums Get Growing with TLC Caladiums are grown for their large colorful leaves as landscape bedding plants. These 1-3 feet tall plants bear bi-colored or tri-colored leaves. These plants add bold strikes of color to shady garden areas. They are easy to grow in decent soil. Caladium bulbs (actually tubers) need to be planted in shade but will have better foliage color if the area receives adequate light. Plant bulbs 2-4” deep, but wait to plant until the soil and nigh

Bigger and Better Begonias Bronze leaf Wax begonia varieties have been widely used for years in Oklahoma. This easy-to-grow annual does well in a variety of conditions and needs little to thrive. However, there are several other Begonia varieties with different shapes, sizes, and colors that have no problem taking the spotlight in any garden setting.They are well-suited for container gardens and for landscape beds. Big Begonia Bigger and better than standard wax begonias. Cre

Lantana (Annual Variety) Luscious Lantana Lantana flowers have long since been admired for their extended bloom time. The mounding growth habit and colorful blooms makes this a fantastic choice for landscape, baskets and containers! The Lantana is desired most for their bright, ever-blooming colors, heat tolerance, low maintenance and mounding growth habit for landscape, beds, baskets and containers. This is a great annual for Spring, Summer, and Fall. Attracts bees, butterfl

Annual vincas, also called periwinkle, aren’t the newest annual flowers on the gardening scene, but these cultivar developments have improved flower size and colors, and drought tolerance. Phenomenal flower coverage with glistening green foliage makes these periwinkles outperform all others. They do well in the landscape as a border, filler or even in mass plantings. They’re also perfect for containers and hanging baskets, either as standalone or in combinations. Periwinkles

Get Growing at TLC Garden Centers Peaceful Petunias One of the most popular annuals, petunias add mountains of color to gardens and containers. These tough plants are capable of putting on loads of blooms through all spring and come in a wide variety of colors and patterns to suit any need. Petunias are very vigorous, with mounding habits that can reach up to 1-2 feet in height in the landscape and will trail over the edges of baskets and containers up to 2-4 feet by the end

Coleus Color Spectacular! What’s not to love about a genus that produces colors from gentle butter yellow to shocking magenta, with leaves that range in shape from simple ovals to frilly triangles—especially when coleus plants are so easy to grow that each pot should bear the slogan, “Just add water”? In fact, with the wide range of selections available, the most difficult part of growing coleus is choosing one. Below are some TLC selected varieties. Coleus have historically

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The Facts Height: 2′ – 4′ Spread: 1′ Sun: Full Sun. Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This annual is a tried...

The Facts Height: 0.5′ – 11. Spread: 1′ Sun: Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium. Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast...

The Facts Height: 2′ – 3′ Spread: 1′ – 2′ Sun: Full Sun. Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained. Growth...

As a guide, partial shade refers to those areas that are shaded for 4-6 hours per day. Morning sun or east facing locations are typical...