Nursery and Landscape #5: Bedding Plants

A display of plants set into a garden bed or container when it is about to bloom, typically an annual used for colorful display and replaced/discarded at the end of the season.

• landscape plants
• fiber crops
• fuel crops
• bedding plants

Bedding/annual plant with profuse red, pink, or white flowers on a tall single stalk that rises high above the clover-like leaves (like a long-neck giraffe).

• Geranium
• Oleander
• Gardenia
• Petunia

A shade tolerant bedding/annual plant with burgundy leaves and a lime green border around each leaf. Planted yearly for their leaf color rather than flower color.

• Azalea
• Croton
• Hibiscus
• Coleus

Low growing bedding/annual plant with yellow or orange flowers. Used as flower or vegetable bed borders and they also act as a companion plant because they repel insect pests!

• Hibiscus
• Croton
• Marigold
• Gardenia

Bedding/annual plant with tall spikes topped with red, pink, white, or purple flower towers whose faces look somewhat like a _____________'s face.

• Wax Begonia
• Marigold
• Snapdragon
• Croton

Bedding/annual plant with profuse red, pink, white, or purple flowers that usually have a star pattern in the center of a single fused petal that goes all the way around (like Patrick the starfish).

• Gardenia
• Geranium
• Petunia
• Marigold

Shade tolerant bedding/annual plant whose leaves and flowers have a shiny coating and the flowers are shaped like the leaves.

• Marigold
• Gardenia
• Wax Begonia
• Petunia

Name this flower.

• snapdragon
• petunia
• geranium
• hibiscus

Name this flower:

• wax begonia
• marigold
• petunia
• oleander

Name this flower:

• geranium
• azalea
• hibiscus
• petunia