Is there a difference between hardy annuals and half-hardy annuals?
Hardy annuals can spend their entire life outdoors – from seed-sowing, right through to flowering. The seed can be sown outdoors in late winter or early spring. Half hardy annual seeds will not germinate in conditions, so have to be sown in a heated place – Greenhouse, propagator, frame or indoors. (They then have to be hardened off before planting outside as young plants. Most popular bedding plants are half-hardy annuals – marigolds, busy lizzies, salvias etc.
