The nice thing about annuals is they seem to hang on a lot longer than any other flowers or foliage. My hostas are already melting into yellowy decayed nothingness, but the begonias still look pretty good actually:
And one final shot of this season's marigolds:
I've always kind of felt like annuals are cheating, from a gardening point of view--somebody else starts them and gets them flowering and you just come along and chuck them in the ground and water them for a few weeks. It's like horticultural plagiarism. Even if you start your own annual seeds, it's not the same as perennials that you nurture for years and years.
However, I think I'm going to do more with annuals next year because they really provide a ton of great color and structure in the garden and last a lot longer than periennials.
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