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Annuals

Type Botanical Name Native Common Name Description Height Light Req. Zone Add to My List
Annual CALADIUM ‘Miss Muffet’ Caladium

The leaves pale yellow with a wash of pale apple green and spotted with rose and burgundy spots.

12-24 Part Shade/Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CALADIUM ‘Tiki Torch’ Caladium

Large scarlet red leaves with a broad chartreuse margin. It’s more tolerant of full sun conditions.

12-14" Part Shade/Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CALIBRACHOA varieties Million Bells

Covered with hundreds of small, petunia-like blossoms, heavy blooming and self-cleaning. Fast-growing and easy. Cascading/mounding habit great for hanging baskets. Attracts many pollinators. For 2023 we’ll have Callie Light Blue, Orange & Yellow

6-8 inches Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual CALYLOPHUS ‘Ladybird Sunglow’ Augusta Texas Primrose

Sunny yellow primrose blooms all summer on a tough plant you can neglect! Mounding/trailing habit is great in baskets, containers, and landscapes. Heat/drought tolerant. Attract bees/butterflies. Deer resistant.

8 inches Sun Tropical
Annual CANNA ‘Australia’ Canna Lily

Large tropical foliage plant with bright showy flowers. Tubers can be stored over winter.  Quite adaptable to water gardening.  This cultivar with dark glossy bronze foliage and bright red flowers.

4-6 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual CANNA ‘Canova Orange Shades’ Canna

Huge green leaves and bright orange flowers will give your garden a tropical look.

36-48 inches Full sun Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CANNA ‘Cleopatra’ Canna Lily

The large leaves are divided between apple green and dark chocolate. The flowers range from solid yellow to solid red with many variations in between.

4-5' Full Sun/Part Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CANNA ‘Ermine’ Canna Lily

A lovely creamy white form.

2-4 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual CANNA ‘Moonshine’ Canna

Large green leaves and almost white flowers.

36-48 inches Full sun Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CANNA ‘Pretoria’ Canna Lily

Deep orange flowers above wild green and gold heavily striped foliage.

4-5 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual CANNA ‘Shining Diva’ Canna

Upright green leaves and buttercream-yellow flowers.

36-48 inches Full sun Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CANNA ‘Stuttgart’ Canna

Narrow variegated leaves of white, cream and green. Salmon flowers.

6-8 feet Part Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual CANNA ‘Tropicana’ Canna Lily

Tangerine orange flowers over foliage heavily striped with yellow, orange, pink and red.

5-6 feet Tropical
Annual CASSIA didymobotrya Popcorn Bush

8 – 12″ long spikes of interesting bright yellow flowers emerging from black buds on a tall well branched plant. The foliage smells like popcorn when crushed.

4-6 feet Full sun 6
Annual CELOSIA ‘Flamingo Feather’ Wheat Celosia

Graceful, profuse waves of rose-pink flowers shading to silver at the base. Great fresh or dried cut flower. Midsummer to fall bloom.

2-2.5 feet Sun Tropical
Annual CESTRUM nocturnum Night Blooming Jasmine

Arching branches covered in fragrant white flowers, most fragrant in the evening.

30-36 inches Full sun Overwinter Indoors
Annual CHASMATOPHYLLUM masculinum ‘Krugerskraal’ Tiger's Jaws

Tight mat of succulent toothed foliage with fluffy bright yellow flowers.

2-4 inches Sun Succulent
Annual CISSUS discolor Rex Begonia vine

Burgundy leaves with a metallic silver sheen and markings. Us in a hanging basket or provide support.

6-8 feet Part Shade Overwinter Indoors
Annual CITRUS medica car. sarcodactylis Buddha's Hand

Strongly fragrant blooms produce strange fruits looking like fingered hands.

6-8 feet Full sun Overwinter Indoors
Annual CLERODENDRUM incisum ‘Musical Notes’ Witches Tongue

A bushy shrub with flowers that while in bud look just like notes on a musical composition. the buds open to curved trumpet-shaped white flowers.

4-5 feet Full sun Tropical
Annual CLERODENDRUM ugandense Blue Butterfly Bush

Large panicles of bicolor blue and white winged flowers all summer on an evergreen shrub; Syn. Rotheca myricoides

3-4 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual CLIVIA miniata ‘Belgian Hybrid’ Kaffir Lily

Large clusters of flaming orange-red florets over strap-like foliage. Blooms in early spring and needs a cool period to bloom.  Drought-tolerant.

2-3 feet Part Shade Tropical
Annual CLIVIA miniata ‘Golden Dragon’ Kaffir Lily

Clear yellow flowers on a vigorous plants.

2-3 feet Part Shade Tropical
Annual COCHLIASANTHUS caracalla Corkscrew Flower

Lavender and white corkscrew-shaped flowers that are very fragrant on this twining vine.

10-12 feet Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Alabama Sunset’ Coleus

Bright pink to red foliage with touches of gold. Medium to large upright grower.

24-26 inches Sun/Part Shade/Shade Overwinter Indoors
Annual COLEUS ‘Bryce Canyon’ Coleus

Bright orange foliage streaked with gold.

12-24 inches Sun/Part Shade/Shade
Annual COLEUS ‘Dipt in Wine’ Coleus

Velvety red leaves are centered and edged with gold.

2-3 feet Sun/Part Shade/Shade Overwinter Indoors
Annual COLEUS ‘Fishnet Stockings’ Coleus

Green foliage is heavily veined and edged in burgundy.

2-3 feet Sun/Part Shade/Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Kiwi Fern’ Coleus

A distinctive coleus with slender burgundy fern-shaped leaves, edged with gold ruffles.

18-20 inches Sun/Part Shade/Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Kong Mosaic’
Annual COLEUS ‘Lemon Sunsation’

Lacy edged gold foliage with a red margin.

Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Magenta Frill’

Lacy edged foliage of the most brilliant magenta.

Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Molten Lava’

Scalloped edged deep red leaves.

Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Saturn’

Bright lime leaves with a wide brick-red edge.

Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLEUS ‘Sedona’ Coleus

Beautiful russet orange foliage. Deer/drought resistant.

2-4 feet Sun/Part Shade/Shade Tropical
Annual COLOCASIA esculenta ‘Tea Cup’ Elephant Ears

Shiny, cupped olive-green foliage on purple stems.

2-3 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical
Annual COLOCASIA gigantea ‘Thailand Giant’

Huge leaves with bright white veining. Fragrant white flowers.

Part Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual COLOCASIA ‘Hawaiian Punch’

Deep green leaves with a bright red stem.

Part Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual COLOCASIA ‘Nancy’s Revenge’

Large creamy-white markings on bright green leaves.

Part Shade Overwinter Dormant Indoors
Annual COSMOS bipinnatus ‘Cupcakes White’ Cosmos

This fun flower looks just like a pleated cupcake liner! Attracts bees & butterflies

22-24" Full sun
Annual COSMOS bipinnatus ‘Double Click Bicolor Violet’ Cosmos

A new Cosmos with striped and ruffled petals of purple & white on strong stems making it a great cut flower. It branches well and when regularly deadheaded will send out a nonstop display all summer. Drought tolerant Attracts bees, butterflies and lady bugs

36-48 inches Full sun Tropical
Annual COTYLEDON orbicular ‘Elk Horns’ Elk Horns

An interesting succulent with powdery-silver gray-green leaves, round initially then becoming flat and multi-pronged.

12 inches Sun Succulent
Annual CRASSULA ‘Ivory Pagoda’ Ivory Pagoda Jade Plant

Overlapping, upright, succulent gray leaves form small “towers”.

4-5 inches Sun Succulent
Annual CRASSULA ‘Morgan’s Pink’ Jade Plant

Thick silver-blue foliage that is stacked along the stem. Clusters of pink flowers at the ends of stems appear from winter to spring.

4-6 inches Sun Succulent
Annual CRASSULA ovata ‘Gollum’ Jade Plant

Tubular succulent foliage is tipped in red and grows on upright trunks.  Looks like some bizarre underwater creature.

2-3 feet Sun Succulent
Annual CRASSULA arborescens ssp. undulatifolia Wavy Jade

Wavy succulent foliage forms a compact mound. Leaves are bluish-grey with dark green dots and purple edges.

6-8 inches Full sun Tropical
Annual CRASSULA perforata var. falcata Sickle Plant

What a cool plant!  Gray-green, succulent, sickle-shaped leaves alternate in a tight clump.

12-18 inches Succulent
Annual CRASSULA perforata ‘Variegata’ String of Buttons

Succulent triangular leaves are edged in cream to pink and form small upright stacks.

9-12 inches Sun Succulent
Annual CRASSULA picturata Tiger Jade

Their leaves are usually bright green with small, dark speckles across the surface. The thick, fleshy leaves feature intricate dark green or blackish-green patterns of vibrant bright lime green or yellow bands.

4-6" Full sun Succulent
Annual CUPHEA ignea ‘David Verity’ Firecracker Plant

Bright orange, 1”-2″ tubular flowers that hummingbirds love.  Blooms through the heat of the summer.

2-3 feet Sun/Part Shade Tropical