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A shade garden is just as lovely as a garden filled with sun-loving plants. While perennials, which return for many years, should be the backbone of any garden, annuals have a place, too! Annuals live for only one season, but they allow you to shake things up and change your planting plan every year so it never gets boring. With a vast number of sizes, forms, and colors, annuals often bloom from spring to frost for a season-long show. Bonus: some annuals drop seeds, so baby plants often pop up next year on their own (yay!).

Before choosing your plants,