Fast Growing Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs
Looking to fill a few large spaces in your garden beds quickly? Check out this useful pictorial guide to fast growing plants including annuals, fast growing perennials and shrubs for landscapes.
We understand. Instant gratification is incredibly satisfying in many aspects of our lives, even when it comes to our gardens. Maybe you’ve just built a new house and have some major spaces to fill, or you’ve finally yanked out those scrubby old shrubs in the backyard and want to put in something pretty. Maybe you need to build a living screen between you and a nosy neighbor.
Empty garden beds and containers beg to be filled, and when you plant fast growing plants like those we’re suggesting below, you’ll see results quickly. Start by establishing a mix of perennials and fast growing shrubs to create structure in your garden beds, then add liberal doses of vibrantly colored annuals. While you’re waiting for your fast growing perennials and shrubs to grow to their mature size, fast growing annuals make great fillers suppress the weeds while bringing cheerfulness to the garden.
ANNUALS
These fast growing annuals deliver masses of color in a short amount of time in garden beds and containers. You won’t need many to make a big visual impact on these stunning, fast growing annuals.
 Angelface® Super Blue Angelonia |  Golden Butterfly® Argyranthemum |  Silver Bullet® Artemisia |
 Surefire® Rose Begonia |  Superbells® Dreamsicle® Calibrachoa (best in containers) |  Toucan® Scarlet Canna |
 Senorita Rosalita® Cleome |  ColorBlaze® Rediculous® Coleus |  ColorBlaze® Strawberry Drop Coleus |
 Diamond Mountain® Euphorbia |  Suncredible™ Yellow Helianthus |  ‘Sweet Caroline Light Green’ Ipomoea |
 Pink Chablis® Lamium |  Snow Princess® Lobularia |  Supertunia® Bordeaux™ Petunia |
 Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® Petunia |  Snowstorm Giant Snowflake® Sutera |  Tangerine Slice A-Peel® Thunbergia |
 Summer Wave® Large Blue Toreni |
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Superbena® Stormburst
PERENNIALS
Three years is an average amount of time for most fast growing perennials to mature, but the ten pictured here will really start to impress from year one.
|  ‘Serendipity’ Allium |  ‘Storm Cloud’ Amsonia |
 ‘Tuscan Sun’ Heliopsis |  ‘Going Bananas’ Hemerocallis |  ‘Berry Awesome’ Hibiscus |
 ‘Cat’s Pajamas’ Nepeta |  ‘Opening Act Ultrapink’ Phlox |  ‘Violet Riot’ Salvia |
 ‘Pure Joy’ Sedum |
SHRUBS
Fast growing shrubs are often used in new garden beds and landscapes to establish quick privacy and structure. Most of these pictured here are members of the series of fast growing shrubs which include additional colors. Find them all here.
 Brilliantina™ Abelia |  Spring Grove® Western Arborvitae |  Beyond Midnight® Caryopteris |
 'Miss Molly' Butterfly Bush |  Kodiak® Orange Diervilla |  Black Lace® Sambucus |
 Estrellita Little Star® Firecracker Bush |  Little Quick Fire® Panicle Hydrangea |  Let's Dance Can Do!® Reblooming hydrangea |
 Arctic Fire® Red Red-Osier Dogwood |  Blue Chiffon® Rose of Sharon |  Sweet Talker® Fragrant viburnum |
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