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Annual
* Many annuals are shallow rooted, adapting well to the shallow elevated planters
  - continue to bloom and grow all through their season
  - have a very long blooming season
  - produce blooms from planting to frost
* Most annuals are easy to start from seed, either sown directly or started indoors
  - disappear during the dry season, leaving the soil surface exposed
  - have a long season of bloom
  - make great fillers, since they grow so quickly and have such long flowering periods
* Most annuals prefer a well-drained soil in full sun
  - warm soils and stable temperatures to grow well
* Some annuals are perennial in warmer hardiness zones
  - pretty when used as a low hedge or border around other plants
  - perform best in summer heat while others flower vigorously only in cool weather
  - produce fast, upward growth
* adapt to California's summer-dry regime by dying when soils dry.
* are a good source of digestible protein livestock can harvest on their own.
* are also popular, providing the continual bloom that perennials can t always furnish
  - some of the most adaptable and easiest to grow of all plants
  - considerably easier to control and to prevent than perennials
* are easy to grow with a little soil preparation and basic care during the growing season
  - grow, and they come in a dazzling array of colors and varieties
* are flowers that bloom only one season
  - germinate, flower, set seed and die within a single season
  - have one flowering season
  - most people buy and transplant they right into their gardens
  - high water use plants in part because they have shallow, undeveloped roots
  - highly dependent on rainfall
  - much more vulnerable to the cold than most perennials
  - native in southern climates and thrive under hot summer conditions
  - plants that begin as seeds, grow, and die within one year or one growing season
* are plants that complete their life cycle in less than a year
  - cycle in one growing season
  - cycle within one year
  - grow from a seed
  - which flower the first year, and then die at the end of the growing season
  - purely seasonal, but perennials die at different rates
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  - responsible for the colorful desert wildflower displays that often appear in spring
* are the flowers that have long blooming seasons, but live only one year
  - normally sprout quickly, grow fast, and are the first to bloom
  - usually sprout quickly, grow fast, and are the first to bloom
* are the plants that live for only one growing season
* avoid the extremes, compress their life cycle, and exist while the environment is favorable.
* begin and complete their life cycles in one growing season.
* can provide a succession of bloom throughout the year.
* complete their entire life cycle in a year or less
  - growing cycle within one growing season
* complete their life cycle in one growing season
  - season and die
  - season and reproduce from seeds
  - year and produce many seeds
* complete their life cycle within one year and reproduce from seed
  - year and reproduce only by seed
  - cycles in one season by flowering, maturing seed and dying
* damaged by the cold usually end up as little mounds of blackened, mushy foliage and stems.
* finish a life cycle in one year or growing season.
* generally have small tap or fibrous root systems.
* germinate after a brief rain and grow slowly until spring.
* give color to spring flowering bulb beds after the bulbs have finished blooming.
* go through their life cycle in one growing season.
* grow from seeds and flower the current year and then die
  - one season and die back, usually never to return
* grow, set seed, and die within a year.
* have a short growing season to harvest, often measured in mere days
  - long blooming seasons, usually about two months
  - small, shallow root systems and so require a regular supply of water
* live for one gardening season and then die
  - only one growing season, while perennials live more than two years
  - to flower quickly, produce seed and die
* often increase following a fire, creating conditions where wildfires occur more frequently.
* propagate themselves by seed only, unlike many biennials and perennials.
* provide more color at less cost than any other flower.
* represent a large group of garden plants.
* respond with vegetative growth but few flowers.
* take one year to complete their life cycle.
* tend to have more shallow, fibrous roots.
* usually have roots that thrive in the top twelve inches of soil
  - produce more flowers than other types of flowering plants
+ The Beano: Magazines of the United Kingdom
  * The Beano' is a weekly British children's comic. The first issue was on July 30, 1938. Annuals are released each year.