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 Monday, March 12, 2007
Sara Begg, Executive Editor
Spring is definitely on the way here in Boston. A new set of colchicum foliage is sprouting in the garden (the first group came up in January and got badly burnt by the cold), yet another reason to grow these pretty pale lavender fall bloomers. They give you green sprouts early. Kind of cheating, I guess, since there'll be no flower until fall, but they still give you that excited spring feeling.
Even with the warmer air blowing through town and the early signs of spring, I still need to seek out explosions of color elsewhere, either in magazines, books, and particularly, on the web. One site that I always go to at this time of year is Annie's Annuals. Annie--who is based in California--sells a riot of color, her plant listing is huge and made up of both common and unusual annuals and perennials, many of them heirloom cottage plants and California natives. The navigation on the site is easy and seductive. I often end up setting up a shopping cart, filling it, and then abandoning it when I realize there is still snow outside my window and shipping from California isn't necessarily the cheapest thing.
We ran a story on Annie a couple of years ago in our July/August 2005 issue. It is worth a read and we'll be uploading it to the site in a couple of days. But for now, here's a short list of Annie's 'Must Haves':
Helianthus 'Giant Sungold'
Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis'
Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama'
Agrostemma githago 'Milas'
Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Black'
Orlaya grandiflora
Nemophila menziesii
Viola 'Etain'
Wahlenbergia spp.
Alonsoa meridonalis 'Apricot'
All are pretty gorgeous, I've seen a few of these in garden action, but I've only grown one myself: Viola 'Etain' . This little charmer costs a little extra but it is definitely worth every penny, with its pale lemon yellow petals edged in a medium purple. Might sound wierd, but it is perfect.
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Monday, March 12, 2007 8:30:05 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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