You have quite a green thumb.
Would you please look on the left side of this page and click on the 4th icon from the left, which is your personal profile, and put your location in the appropriate place. When you do this, it will show on the right side of all of your posts. This info is helpful to all of us. It helps us help you and it encourages those of us in a similar zone to try your suggestions/methods/recommendation, etc.
to ATP and Happy Gardening! Also, you can start your own (separate) thread on this forum to talk about whatever you want related to Annuals.