Fast Growing Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs

We understand. Instant gratification is incredibly satisfying in many aspects of our lives, even when it comes to our gardens. Maybe you’ve just built a new house and have some major spaces to fill, or you’ve finally yanked out those scrubby old shrubs in the backyard and want to put in something pretty. Maybe you need to build a living screen between you and a nosy neighbor.

Empty garden beds and containers beg to be filled, and when you plant fast growing plants like those we’re suggesting below, you’ll see results quickly. Start by establishing a mix of perennials and shrubs to create structure in your garden beds, then add liberal doses of vibrantly colored annuals. While you’re waiting for your perennials and shrubs to grow to their mature size, fast growing annuals make great fillers suppress the weeds while bringing cheerfulness to the garden.  

ANNUALS  

These annuals deliver masses of color in a short amount of time in garden beds and containers. You won’t need many to make a big visual impact.

Angelface® Super Blue Angelonia	Golden Butterfly® Argyranthemum	Silver Bullet® Artemisia
Surefire® Rose Begonia	Superbells® Dreamsicle® Calibrachoa (best in containers)	Toucan® Scarlet Canna
Senorita Rosalita® Cleome	ColorBlaze® Rediculous® Coleus	ColorBlaze® Strawberry Drop Coleus
Diamond Mountain® Euphorbia	Suncredible™ Yellow Helianthus	‘Sweet Caroline Light Green’ Ipomoea
Pink Chablis® Lamium	Snow Princess® Lobularia	Supertunia® Bordeaux™ Petunia
Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® Petunia	Snowstorm Giant Snowflake® Sutera	Tangerine Slice A-Peel® Thunbergia
Summer Wave® Large Blue Toreni	Superbena® Stormburst Verbena

PERENNIALS 

Three years is an average amount of time for most perennials to mature, but the ten pictured here will really start to impress from year one.

‘Firefly Sunshine’ Achillea	‘Serendipity’ Allium	‘Storm Cloud’ Amsonia
‘Tuscan Sun’ Heliopsis	‘Going Bananas’ Hemerocallis	‘Berry Awesome’ Hibiscus
‘Cat’s Pajamas’ Nepeta	‘Opening Act Ultrapink’ Phlox	‘Violet Riot’ Salvia
‘Pure Joy’ Sedum

SHRUBS

Fast growing shrubs are often used in new garden beds and landscapes to establish quick privacy and structure. Most of those pictured here are members of series which include additional colors. Find them all here.

Brilliantina™ Abelia	Spring Grove® Western Arborvitae	Beyond Midnight® Caryopteris
Miss Molly' Butterfly Bush	Kodiak® Orange Diervilla	Black Lace® Sambucus
Estrellita Little Star® Firecracker Bush	Little Quick Fire® Panicle Hydrangea	Let's Dance Can Do!® Reblooming hydrangea
Arctic Fire® Red Red-Osier Dogwood	Blue Chiffon® Rose of Sharon	Sweet Talker® Fragrant viburnum

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