Annuals: The Best Kinds and How to Grow Them
At every Board Meeting we start with a "Bailey Moment". This is from our May meeting.
“The kinds I like best are the ones easiest to grow. My personal equation, I suppose, determines this. Zinnias, petunias, marigold, four-o-clock, sunflower, phlox, scabiosa, sweet sultan, bachelor’s buttons, verbena, calendula, calliopsis, morning-glory, nasturtium, sweet pea-these are some of the kinds that are surest, and least attacked by bugs and fungi. I do not know where the investment of five cents will bring as great reward as in a packet of seeds of any of these plants.
Before one sets out to grow these or any other plants he must make for himself an ideal. Will he grow for a garden effect, or for specimen plants or specimen blooms? If for specimens, then each plant muse have plenty of room and receive particular individual care. If for garden effect, then see to it that the entire space is solidly covered, and that you have a continuous maze of color. Usually the specimen plants would best be grown in a side garden, as vegetables are, where they can be tilled, trained, and severally cared for.
There is really a third ideal, and I hope that some of you may try it-to grow all varieties of one species. You really do not know what the China aster or the balsam is until you have seen all the kinds of it. Suppose that you ask your seedsman to send you one packet of every variety of cockscomb that he has. Next year you may want to try stocks or annual poppies, or something else. All this will be a study in evolution.
There is still a fourth ideal—the growing for gathering or “picking”. If you want many flowers for house decoration and to give away, then grow them at one side in regular rows as you would potatoes or sweet corn. Cultivate them by horse-or wheel-hoe. Harvest them in the same spirit that you would harvest string beans or tomatoes; that is what they are for. You do not have to consider the “looks” of your garden. You will not be afraid to pick them. The old stalks will remain, as the stumps of cabbages do. When you have harvested an armful your garden is not despoiled.”
excerpt from The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion, Annuals: The Best Kinds and How to Grow Them, pp. 113-114.
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Really enjoyed this breakdown of annuals — I've had the best luck with cosmos and marigolds in my own beds, though timing the last frost still trips me up every spring. Off-topic, but after a long afternoon of weeding I usually unwind with something silly like the Scary Teacher 3D prank game. If you want a no-download version that runs free in your browser, horrorgameshub.com/scary-teacher-3d works well. Also glad you linked the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum tour — definitely adding that to my list.
Great primer on annuals—especially the sections on zinnias, marigolds, and cosmos. I’ve learned that soil prep, full sun, and consistent deadheading make the biggest difference for continuous bloom. For those of us who like tracking garden variables and seed packet probabilities, it’s also fun to compare random outcomes. I recently used lowest RNGdle number to check exact EP, badges, rarity tiers, and percentiles. Oddly motivating while planning next season’s beds.
What a lovely primer on annuals — I've had the best luck direct-sowing cosmos and calendula, though my marigolds sulk until the nights finally warm up. The note about pinching back petunias mid-summer genuinely changed my beds last year; they flowered right through September instead of fizzling in August. I'd love to see deadheading schedules broken out by growing zone, since that's where I always second-guess myself. Slightly off-topic, but a friend pulled me into an indie horror game lately and I ended up relying on this guide to sort out the Burial and Decay endings. Thanks for the growing notes — saving these for spring planting.