Regina - Thank you for your suggestions! I do love and have grown Dahlias, but they never come back for a second year. Not sure why. The price is what discourages me on those, but if they would return year after year, I'd be sold on them! Coleus is sweet. It gets quite large here. Maybe there are miniature cultivars that stay smaller? I even thought about Caladiums (the miniature cultivars) as I do love them and they like my yard. I have many of them growing in containers. Celosia tends to be invasive here in my yard. Took me 3 years to get rid of it all. And I do indeed have various species of cuphea around my yard. It's the Florida climate. I had thought of just planting small zinnias around and maybe even some marigolds. But that is about all I could think of that is REALLY annuals here for me.
