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CSU Trial Gardens
The 2021 gardening season is almost upon us. If you want to know what flowers to plant this growing season, a list of great possibilities comes from Colorado State University’s Annual Flower Trial Garden. The garden, which spans nearly three acres on the east side of the Fort Collins campus, is a Northern Colorado showpiece with a focused research and outreach purpose. Each year, the Annual Flower Trial Garden tests and analyzes the performance of more than 1,000 varieties of annual bedding plants in Colorado’s harsh growing conditions. Dozens of expert evaluators rate the plants for vigor, growth pattern, bloom and other characteristics. The trial results help home gardeners identify annual bedding plants that are most likely to succeed.
The best new annual flowers of 2021
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
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A showy new sweet potato vine, two heavy-blooming new begonias, and arguably the best yellow petunia yet top the list of interesting new annual flowers debuting in 2021.
Growers, local garden centers, and other plant experts picked those and more for our four-part, best-new-plants series that we compile each January – a good month for gardeners to plan what to plant in the coming season.
The article on best new edibles of 2021 appeared Jan. 7. The best new perennial flowers of 2021 will post on Jan. 21, and the best new trees and shrubs of 2021 is scheduled for Jan. 28.