Showing off the front yard to its greatest advantage will make a great first impression when you show a house. One nice addition to a home’s exterior is a flowerbed of annual plants, because annuals are bred for their brightly colored flowers. Annuals are prone to mature the best during spring and summer months. A fence covered with sweet peas or morning glories in flower is relaxing and welcoming. Of course annuals are, well, annual, and that can be a shortcoming. Going to seed after all your planting and caring is a less attractive characteristic of annuals, since, after all, who wants a seedy house? If you plan upon a speedy sale, annuals are a good idea, but if not, be ready to lug away the old dead plants and swap them with something more in keeping with the season. Pansies might have to be replaced the summer dianthus or anemones as the climate grows cooler. Like annuals, bulbs grow for a season, make big showy blossoms, and seem to wither in the fall, but mature back in the spring, making them a kind of “annual” that will not necessitate continual plantings each year.