Annuals
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | PENNISETUM advena ‘Rubrum’ | Red Fountain Grass | Striking burgundy grass with rosy plumes. Lasts well into fall. |
2-3 feet | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PETCHOA ‘Snowberry White’ | Hybrid Petunia | Pure white with a pink eye mini petunia. |
Full sun | ||||
| Annual | PETCHOA ‘Sunray Pink’ | Petunia Hybrid | Scads of bright pink flowers on cascading plants. |
Full sun | ||||
| Annual | PETCHOA ‘SuperCal Blue’ | Petunia Hybrid | The best characteristics of the favorites Petunia and Calibrachoa with medium blue flowers. |
10-14 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PETUNIA ‘Crazytunia Blue Picotee’ | Deep purple-blue with a wide white border. |
Full sun | |||||
| Annual | PETUNIA ‘Easy Wave Coral Reef’ | Light salmon-pink on this free flowering cascader. |
Full sun | |||||
| Annual | PETUNIA ‘Easy Wave White’ | Petunia | Mounding/semi-trailing to a width of 2-3 feet; abundant white blooms; great in baskets or landscapes. Petunias don’t require deadheading but cutting back the ends promotes bushier growth. Attracts pollinators. |
6-12 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PETUNIA Supertunia ‘Mini Vista Yellow’ | Petunia | Petite yellow flowers with a pale green throat. |
6-12 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PETUNIA ‘Surfinia Blue Vein’ | Petunia | Trailing/spreading up to 3 feet, with velvety, pale lavender to white ruffled flowers with darker purple-blue veins/centers. |
8-12 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PETUNIA ‘Blue Skies’ | Hybrid Petunia | New Petunias require no deadheading. This cultivar with lovely sky bloom flowers. |
6-10 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | PHORMIUM tenax ‘Pink Stripe’ | New Zealand Flax | Leathery sword-shaped leaves are bronze striped in pink. |
4-5 feet | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PHYGELIUS aequalis ‘Devil’s Tears’ | Cape Fuchsia | Brilliant red long, trumpet-shaped blooms with yellow throats on bushy plants. Attracts hummingbirds |
18-24" | Full sun | |||
| Annual | PHYGELIUS ‘Passionate’ | Cape Fuchsia | Deep black-green foliage and bright coral-red tubular flowers. Hummingbird magnet |
18-24" | Full sun | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS collides ‘Mini Variegata’ | Cuban Oregano | Felted, semi-succulent gray-green foliage is edged in cream and is highly aromatic. Trailing stems to 2 feet long. Great in containers. |
10-12 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS fosteri ‘Green on Green’ | Swedish Ivy | Thick, soft, velvety leaves are green and edged in lime. |
22-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS fosteri ‘Marginatus’ | Swedish Ivy | Very large leaves of dark velvety green with white edges and heavy scalloping on an upright bushy mound. |
28-30 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS ‘Troy’s Gold’ | Swedish Ivy | Compact grower with gold leaves randomly in green. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | |||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS ‘Velvet Elvis’ | Swedish Ivy | Fuzzy deep green leaves with a deep purple underside sport many sprays of lavender flowers in late summer. |
12-24" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | POLYSTICHUM tsus-simense | Korean Rock Fern | Compact, fine-toothed leaves and lance-shaped fronds that are leathery and glossy. It will make a lovely addition to shady mixed planters. |
12-24" | Part Shade/Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | PORTULACA ‘Colorblast Dragonfruit’ | Moss Rose | Succulent and trailing plant covered in double blooms of magenta centers and yellow-orange outer petals.. The Colorblast series have blooms that stay open longer in low light conditions. Drought tolerant |
4-6 inches | Full sun | Succulent | ||
| Annual | PORTULACA grandiflora ‘Double Sunset Fire’ | Moss Rose | Bright double flowers feature intense magenta ruffled center petals surrounded by lemon-yellow back petals. Narrow succulent foliage forms flat mats. Great for hot dry situations. |
6-8 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | PTERIS cretica ‘Albo-lineata’ | Variegated Brake Fern | Small, delicate fern with gray-green margins on silver fronds. |
18-24 inches | Part Shade/Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PTILOTUS ‘Joey’ | Pink Pussy Tails | Interesting feathery pink flowers with grey-green foliage all summer. Drought tolerant |
12-24" | Full sun | |||
| Annual | ROSMARINUS ‘Tuscan Blue’ | Tuscan Blue Rosemary | Upright hedge of aromatic, needle-like evergreen foliage excellent in culinary and medicinal applications. Profuse clear blue flowers. Can be kept as a houseplant. |
6 feet | Sun | 8 | ||
| Annual | RUDBECKIA hirta ‘Cherry Brandy’ | Gloriosa Daisy | Beautiful cherry-red petals surround a chocolate-brown center. An easy to grow self-sowing annual. |
20-22 inches | Sun | 6 | ||
| Annual | RUDBECKIA hirta ‘Indian Summer’ | Gloriosa Daisy | Free-flowering “gloriosa daisies”are short-lived, but reseed vigorously. This cultivar has large, 6-8 inch golden yellow flowers with dark centers. |
2-3 feet | Sun | 6 | ||
| Annual | RUDBECKIA hirta ‘Prairie Sun’ | Gloriosa Daisy | Free-flowering “gloriosa daisies”are short-lived, but reseed vigorously. This cultivar has yellow flowers centered in orange. |
30-36 inches | Sun | 6 | ||
| Annual | RUDBECKIA hirta ‘Denver Daisy’ | Gloriosa Daisy | Compact with larger golden-yellow flower have a mahogany blotch at the base of each petal. |
12-20 inches | Sun | 6 | ||
| Annual | RUSSELIA equisetiformis ‘Coral Fountain’ | Coral Plant | Bright orange trumpet-shaped blooms in profusion on cascading stems. Attracts hummingbirds & butterflies |
24-36" | Full sun | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Amante’ | Hybrid Sage | Bright fuchsia flowers with dark calyxes on tall stems. Hummingbird and bumblebee magnet |
40-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Amistad’ | Hybrid Sage | Salvias are pollinator magnets with long, narrow, tubular blooms that hummingbirds love! Whorls of large deep purple flowers all summer on a semi-shrubby plant. |
4-6 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA coccinea ‘Cherry Blossom’ | Scarlet Sage | Bushy plants with many stems bearing salmon-pink tubular flowers that the hummingbirds go nuts for. |
18-24" | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Ember’s Wish’ | Hybrid Sage | A sport from S. ‘Wendy’s Wish’ with large coral red tubular blooms through the summer. |
3-4 feet | Tropical | |||
| Annual | SALVIA guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ | Blue Anise Sage | Royal blue flowers from black calyxes. |
3-4 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA leucantha ‘Bicolor’ | Mexican Sage | Small white tubular flowers emerge from very fuzzy purple calyxes creating a distinctive bi-color display. Drought tolerant |
36-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA leucantha ‘Santa Barbara’ | Mexican Sage | Solid purple fuzzy flowers on a more compact plant. Attracts pollinators Deer tolerant Drought tolerant |
24-36 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA leucantha ‘Solid Purple’ | Mexican Sage | Much like Salvia ‘Santa Barbara’ but much taller. Solid purple velvety flowers on long stems. |
36-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA leucantha ‘Velour Pink’ | Mexican Sage | Fuzzy pink flowers emerge from velvety soft white calyxes. An eye-catching combination. |
24-36 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA leucantha ‘White Mischief’ | Mexican Sage | An all white version of Mexican sage. White tubular flowers emerging from fuzzy white calyxes. |
36-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA microphylla | Little-leaf Sage | Striking red, velvety blooms over small oval foliage. Will flower from late spring through frost. |
28-30 inches | Full sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Mystic Spires’ | Mystic Spires Sage | A sport of S. ‘Indigo Spires’ with a more compact form. |
22-24 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA patens ‘Blue Angel’ | Gentian Sage | A compact, well-branched cultivar with large, vivid blue flowers through the summer. Loved by pollinators. Deer/drought resistant. |
24-36 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA patens ‘Pink Ice’ | Large, soft pink flowers loved by hummingbirds. |
14-16 inches | Full sun | ||||
| Annual | SALVIA uliginosa | Bog Sage | Native to South America. Beautiful light blue flowers on tall airy stems summer to hard frost. Needs consistently moist soil. |
4-6 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Wendy’s Wish’ | Hybrid Sage | Large, hot pink tubular flowers all summer over attractive dark green foliage. |
2-3 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SAUROMATTUM venosum | Voodoo Lily | An unusual relative of our native jack-in-the-pulpit. this rarity flowers early in the season with stinky flowers that are pollinated by flys. Once the flower dies down it then sends up a large fingered leaf with heavily spotted stems. |
24-36 inches | Part Shade | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | SCABIOSA atropurpurea ‘Formula Mix’ | Pin-cushion Flower | An heirloom annual that has been grown in gardens since colonial times. The closed buds resemble your grandmother’s pin cushion! This mix produces a beautiful array of colors to add brilliance to the later summer garden. Perfect for cutting. Deer resistant. Attracts all pollinators. |
30-36 | Full sun | Tropical | ||
| Annual | SCAEVOLA ‘Fairy Blue’ | Loads of blue fan shaped flowers cascade over the pot edge. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | |||||
| Annual | SCAEVOLA ‘Fairy White’ | Low maintenance cascade with pure white fans. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | |||||
| Annual | SEDUM japonicum ‘Tokyo Sun’ | Sedum | Mats of brilliant gold mini succulent foliage. Excellent for troughs. Topped with yellow flowers in summer. |
1-2 inches | Sun | Succulent |