Patio Annual Color

In fall plant: Iceland poppy, snapdragons, pot marigold, sweet alyssum, fairy primrose, (P. malacoides) and English primroses (P. polyanthus), foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea),and other cool-season flowers.

When these have bloomed out, switch the plants to such warm-season choices as marigolds, Salvia splendens, blue salvia (S. farinasea), Nemesia ‘Blue Boy’, and edge with sweet alyssum and lobelia.

Also use perennials in pots and keep them going year round by pulling out faded ones,     plugging in new ones.