Pink Flowering Annuals
Below you will find a list of Annuals from our plant database that are pink flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
The annuals, also commonly referred to as bedding plants, can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks or in hanging baskets. Annuals, with their blast of color, are used for edging, mass of color, filling in spots between established shrubs, trees and evergreens and as groundcovers. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these annuals grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Many of the plants we use in the United States as bedding plant annuals are actual tropical in origin. Some of these beautiful plants come to us from areas in Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, South America and the Mediterranean region. Frequently, plants from the wild are then selected and hybridized for larger blooms, better bloom color, longer bloom time, improved disease resistance and even better foliage displays.
Some bedding plants with pink flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance.
While the less well-known plants can be fun to try and enjoy their differences, the most well-known annuals with pink blooms are: Angelonia or Summer Snapdragon, Asters, Bacopa, Begonias, Butterfly Flower or Poor Man's Orchid (Schizanthus pinnatus), Calibrachoa, Candytuft, Cape Daisy or South African Daisy, Carnations, Cleome or Spider Flower, Cosmos, Flowering Tobacco or Nicotiana, Fuchsias, Geraniums (Pelargoniums), Hollyhocks, Impatiens or Bush Lizzie, Lantana, Marquerite Daisy, Moss Rose, Nemesia or Cape Jewels or Paintbox, New Guinea Impatiens, Pansy, Periwinkle or Vinca, Petunias, Phlox, Pinks, Rose Mallows, Salvia or Sage, Snapdragons, Stock, Sweet William, Twinspur or Diascia, Verbena or Vervain, Zinnia.
Annuals with pink flowers add a feeling of playfulness to the home garden. The romantic pink hues can be enjoyed throughout the season and blends well with cool colors of purple, blue and white but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow.
Flowering annuals by their very nature are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.
