How to keep your garden ever blooming

Every garden needs long lasting trees, shrubs and ground-covers to give it structure and permanence. But no garden is complete without bright and colourful annuals. Although annuals will live for just one season - and they will literally bloom their heads off while at it.

In fact, no other group of plants will give you flower colour as quickly and as vigorously as annuals. They adequately make up for their short lives by flowering continuously for three, four or six months. Their short lives are also a blessing in disguise: they give you the opportunity to have something fresh at different times of the year.