My Top 6 Favourite Flower-Power Annuals This Year 🌸🌸🌸

Hi there everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. Hello Lottie and I would like to share with you my favorite annuals that I've grown in the garden this year, which I will definitely grow again next year because I love them so much. There have been a lot of annuals that I grew from seed for the first time ever and they have done very very well. Some didn't do very well, these are the ones that have done very well. I haven't grown them all, I can't claim to fame on that. I just wanted to share with you the ones that I've really enjoyed, the ones that have lasted such a long time and the ones that I would definitely do again. Yes, Lottie wants her dinner, you've got to wait a moment. I just want to show you these because I found these at a little antique store and they're made of glass and they were only one pound each. Isn't that amazing? Let me show you closely. Really really pretty, made of glass so I'll be able to keep those out all year and I've stuck them in here for the moment. I now can't get them back in. They will probably get moved around. Oops, well we can have different heights, that's fine. But I just wanted to show you because I was so pleased with my find. First of all, let's look at pelargoniums and I have a lot of different types of pelargoniums in my garden. They last the whole time, all the way to frosts. Pelargoniums such as I have, they are just annuals to me. They are all different colours, shapes, leaves, textures and you can get variegated leaves. I think they're beautiful and some of these I put in containers. You can see these ones which are along my potting bench. They're in these little pots which look very colourful but there's no good nutrients in them. They're in the shade, they're happy and they last forever. So my first annual that I will not be without are pelargoniums. The second annual that I really really do love are these ageratum and they're beautiful. These ones are the lower ones and they're called blue mink. So pretty, it's so nice to have blue in the garden. I did grow some taller ones from seed, they were in a grow bag, well they still are in a grow bag, but they're pretty much dying out now. They were the taller ones and they're just as lovely but these ageratums, I will definitely definitely grow more of these and they've just lasted and lasted as you can see. They still look pretty good, a couple dying back a little bit but they are amazing and I love them. The next ones I have loved are these lobelia, carpet lobelia because you can get tall lobelias like the Queen Victoria which died on me last year but these just go on and on and on and they can spill over. I planted them in little plugs and each one grows into a lovely big mound. It has lasted since May, May, June, July, August, we're into September now. Fabulous and I have them dotted about everywhere and I would definitely get those again because they are just gorgeous. The next I'd like to share with you are these and these are brand new to me. They are commonly known as statis but they are also known as sea lavender and they're from the limonian family and what I like about them is they are standing up on their own. I know I put this stake in because I'm expecting them to flop but they've been amazing. I just have one, two, three, five in a row and a friend gave me the plants and I didn't know what they were and I didn't know how tall they were going to be and how beautiful they were going to be and I put them all in a row and they've just like, they've just been so enjoyable so I love them and they've come up in all different colours unexpected so that's been nice. They all started out quite pale and now they've emerged into beautiful lavenders and mauves and whites and I think they are very delightful. The next annual on my list are these zinnias and I have never had zinnias before and I bought a bag of mixed zinnia seed and this is what happened and it's been absolutely beautiful. They're from the daisy family and these ones are not even planted in the ground, they're still in the grow bag but I put the young seedlings in. Definitely, definitely grow those again, zinnias, beautiful and I'm going to save the seeds from these. You just leave the flowers on until they die right back and then you can collect the seeds. I'm assuming you just shake them into an envelope or something like that. Maybe if the seeds drop on the ground they seed themselves, I don't know but I'm going to save these seeds and we'll definitely have zinnias next year. And what about these? These have to go on your list, surely. They're definitely one of the top things in my list, they are impatiens, busy lizzies and look at them, they are glorious. I haven't dead-headed them, I haven't done a thing to them, I've just watered them if they haven't had enough water for a couple of days because they come in a variety of colours, beautiful colours. What's not to like about impatiens? The only thing is you do need to put them in a little bit of shade and these just get a tiny section of morning sun and then they have shade because they're not so fond of being in the full sun. I have done that in past years, put them in the sun and you're watering them all the time because they just can't handle it but they are fabulous and I will always, I'm promising you, have busy lizzies in my garden. So that's our top six annuals for the garden and there have been other beautiful annuals too but these are the ones that I've had to perform. They have been in since the end of May, we're now in mid-September and they are still looking good and going strong. I've had other ones, they've finished but I'm looking for top quality and performance from everything in this garden. Are you listening, lovely? Yes, that means you too. We want good quality and top performance. So I hope that's given you some ideas because we need to start looking at seeds for next year before all those good ones are sold and when the darker nights start that's what we'll be doing, us gardeners, flicking through catalogs. Hasn't it come around quick everyone? This year, where has it gone? Where has it gone? It's flown by but that's the nature of the game. Soon these annuals will all fade away and I'll take them out, another part of the cycle over, the circle of life, that's the way it goes but we wouldn't want it all to stay exactly the same all year round, that would get very dull and we've got to plant bulbs soon anyway so we're going to need some gaps. So thank you for watching, I'm Jeanette, this is Lottie, we are in our garden and we hope you have fun in your gardens and we will see you very, very soon. Take care and thank you for watching, bye. Do you want your dinner? You're hungry? Yes, I thought so.