Hi, I amMillie Davenport, a horticulture extension agent with the Clemson University Home and Garden Information Center. Today were looking at Summer Flowering Annuals. We are here at the South Carolina Botanical Gardens outside the Fran Hanson Discovery Center and we are going to look at a few summer flowering annuals. Your summer flowering annuals are warm season plants that perform really well throughout the summer months and then they are going to die back with the first frost or freeze that comes along in the fall. Summer flowering annuals are a great way to add lots of flower power to your landscape. This is Angelonia angustifolia, also known as Summer Snapdragon. It is in the Snapdragon family, Scrophulariaceae. It has these really nice tall spikes of flower blossoms that are similar to our traditional Snapdragon. Most of your Angelonias are reproduced by cuttings, this particular variety is by seed. So, it is one of the first from seed. Its name is Serena. It is a mix, it has different colors and has a really nice mounded growth habit to it. The ones that are usually reproduced by cuttings can get up to 24 inches tall. This particular variety only gets 10 to 12 inches tall. Whether you are choosing the Angelonia varieties reproduced by cuttings or the seed variety like Serena they all have interesting colors, like purples, the whites, or even the pink colors that are available, some are even bi-colored. This is a mix, so you will get a mixture of all the different <b>...</b>