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Tender Annuals Belong: Half-hardy annuals (HHA) are usually damaged, set back, or killed by frost, but they stand up to wet and cool weather without rotting.
tender annuals belong annuals (TA) come from the warmer parts of the world and need warm soil to germinate. They are killed immediately by frost.
Added to the classification of annuals are perennials, either hardy (usually from a temperate climate) or tender annuals belong (generally from the tropic parts of the world), that will bloom the first year from seed.
Most seed packets today give full instructions for care and note any special treatment required. Most catalogs do the same.
An English classification system for annuals, based on the temperatures the seeds need to germinate and grow successfully, divides them into three groups: hardy, half-hardy, and tender annuals belong. Many gardeners in the milder sections of the United States think "half-hardy" is superfluous, but I have found that the term is useful to people who have long, cool, rainy springs. Most seed companies use all three.
Hardy annuals (HA) are plants that tolerate a reasonable degree of frost, and even in the colder parts of the country many of their seeds survive a winter outside and germinate in the spring. The alternate freezes and thaws of early spring will not harm them.
The night of June 3 saw a final spring frost, one of the latest in years. On the next day I seeded some tender annuals belong annuals in amongst the bulbs, moved out other plants from the greenhouse and when the last of the bulb leaves died back, moved in a host of geraniums.
The bulb bed had lived up to advance notices giving color and a light heart to the gardeners far longer than most other flower beds. |
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