Lazy Gardener's Annuals: Self-Cleaning Blooms All Season

Too busy to deadhead? Choose annuals that grow over their spent flowers and keep pumping out blooms. Trailing petunias (Cascadia, Supertunia, Surfinia, Wave series) and their relative Calibrachoa (million bells) are prime examples. Other low-maintenance picks:

• Angelonia
• Bacopa
• Bidens
• Cobbitty daisies or marguerites ('Butterfly', 'Comet Pink', 'Summer Melody')
• Compact zinnias ('Profusion Orange', 'Star White')
• Evolvulus ('Blue Daze', 'Hawaiian Blue Eyes')
• Heliotrope
• Pimpernel (Anagallis)
• Trailing gazanias ('Sunburst', 'Sunglow')