Annual flowers are great fun to add to a garden in the spring. Whether you grow your annuals from seeds or buy them in packs from your local garden center, nothing adds the zing of instant color to a garden as annuals do. While annual flowers only last one season, if well cared for they often bloom all of that season. And each year you can try your old favorite annuals again, something new, or a bit of both.

Now try this quiz to see how much you know about what every gardener's cheerful helpers - annual flowers.

Question 1: This colorful cabbage is attractive enough to add to any landscaping.
A. Sweet Peas
B. Verbena
C. Ornamental Kale

Question 2: The name of this flower refers to it's bursting seed pods.
A. Snapdragons
B. Impatiens
C. Poppy

Question 3: This flower is often used in the Mexican Day Dead Celebration, where they are thought to attract the souls of the dead.
A. Marigold
B. Moonflower
C. Gazania

Question 4: Blooms on this flowering vine are typically withering by noon.
A. Four O'Clocks
B. Moonflower
C. Morning Glory

Question 5: Because of the brightness of it's blooms, the name of this flower comes from the Latin word for flame.
A. Phlox
B. Zinnia
C. Petunia

Question 6: You can use some of this annual to make your next salad more colorful and spicy.
A. Petunia
B. Nasturtium
C. Zinnia

Question 7: This annual is kept more for it's colorful red leaves than it's flowers.
A. Coleus
B. Dusty Miller
C. Portulaca

Question 8: These relatives of violets are usually of the first annuals blooming in the spring garden.
A. Marigold
B. Pansies
C. Gazania

Question 9: These innocently beautiful flowers are in the same genus as Tobacco.
A. Pansy
B. Nicotania
C. Cosmos

Question 10: Gently squeeze one of these flowers and it almost seems to be a mouth opening wide.
A. Poppy
B. Portulaca
C. Snapdragons

Answer 1: C, Ornamental kale is indeed a form of cabbage. With a bright white or vibrant red center, Ornamental Kale can add lasting color to any garden.

Answer 2: B, The name impatiens refers to the suddenness with which a ripened seed pod will burst when touched, sending tiny seeds flying in all directions.

Answer 3: A, Orange Mexican marigolds are traditionally used in Day of the Dead Celebrations, where they are often used to decorate graves. Some say that the distinctive and strong marigold scent helps to guide the spirits home.

Answer 4: C, The blossoms of a morning glory vine will indeed live up to their name, opening early in the morning only to die by that afternoon.

Answer 5: A, The name phlox is Latin for a flame colored flower, and it's easy to understand why when you see a patch of these vibrant beauties.

Answer 6: B, All parts of nasturtium plant are edible, including the leaves and delicate yellow, orange, or red flowers. Nasturtium is perfect to add some colorful zing to a salad with it's peppery or spicy taste.

Answer 7: A, The green, pink, and red variegated leaves of the coleus plant are far more striking than the plant's flowers, and will add continuous color to an annual bed.

Answer 8: B, Pansies are derived from Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species. These are often the first annuals of spring to be sold at garden centers.

Answer 9: B, Flowering nicotania hybrids are often called "flowering tobacco", and members of this genus may be used for tobacco production, as ornamental flowers, or occasionally as both.

Answer 10: C, If you gently squeeze and release the sides of a snapdragon flower it resembles a mouth, perhaps the mouth of a dragon, snapping open and closed.