Mass Annual Or Perennial Garden
One Plant Or Color

A mass annual garden using one color or plant can create a wonderful accent to any landscape. You can take your favorite color, and plant a variety of different plant specimens in groups.

This theme garden can be any shape and size. You can also consider planting several group gardens throughout your property. Perennial flowers can also be used in a group planting.

People love taking a certain color and accenting some of their outdoor features with a mass garden nearby.

Many previous clients liked the idea of doing a specific shape or shapes in an open area, and use a few different varieties of annual flowers in mass planting. If you are planning on a doing a group of the same color flowers or even shrubs, think about the color wheel. Warm colors such as yellow, orange, green, and certain reds, gives you that soothing look.

Cooler colors such as blue, purple, and darker warm tones, create a feeling of a bold landscape.

When planting any type of garden, remember to plant the tallest in the back, and intermingle the medium size flowers throughout the garden. The shortest varieties should be planted in front and along the edge. Create a border using just one variety of a flower.

Putting annuals as a border with a shrub garden is a great way to have color throughout the warm summer months. Below are a few suggestions for mass plantings in a garden setting.

1. Globe Amaranth
2. Begonia
3. Canna
4. Chrysanthemum
5. Cleome
6. Coleus
7. Dusty Miller
8. Marigold
9. Ornamental Kale
10. Ornamental Pepper
11. Petunia
12. Pocketbook Plant
13. Red Salvia
14. Snapdragon
15. Zinnia

Another idea, is to have a garden that is all one size. Many people like a variety of sizes, but taking one or two plant specimens that are equal in height, will give you the exact color and size that fits your space.

Our Outside In Store has a variety of perennial flowers for you to purchase. Feel free to browse through the entire store. Shrubs, pruning tools, and outdoor features that I have selected for you. I have used many of these seeds, and love the Black Eyed Susan. Now is a great time to purchase seeds to create beautiful gardens and landscape for your enjoyment.

Another idea is to plan an annual garden with just one color theme, or a variety of different colors, and have bloom times for every month or season. This type of group planting can be done with some evergreen shrubs and flowers.

Plan on having some bloom in spring, summer and fall. Your evergreens will create color throughout the winter months.

Below are a couple of different flowers you can consider. The Black Eyed Susan's are perennial in some climate zones.

If you have noticed, the pictures are of different colored flowers and foliage. The Black Eyed Susan and Marigolds would look great with variegated shrubs such as a Mop Cypress, Sunkist Arborvitae, or Golden Euonynmus.



The Vinca, Coleus, and and Dianthus could compliment a Loropetalum, Barberry, and other solid evergreen shrubs and trees. Whether you are doing an annual, perennial, or shrub garden, taking one color and doing a mass planting of each flower, or shrub, will create a wonderful lush and full garden.