Annuals
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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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 |