Annuals
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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Annual | SALVIA ‘Fashion Series’ | Hybrid Sage | A Salvia splendens cross with large, pendulous tubular blooms from dark calyxes through the summer. Similar to the “Wish” and “Skyscraper” series, but more compact. We will carry in orange and rose. |
2 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA greggii ‘Big Pink’ | Autumn Sage | Large, hot-pink flowers with dark maroon calyces. |
18-24 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA guaranitica | Blue Anise Sage | A long-blooming species with spikes of royal blue tubular flowers through the summer into fall. |
3-4 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ | Blue Anise Sage | Royal blue flowers from black calyxes. |
3-4 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA involucrata ‘Mulberry Jam’ | Roseleaf Sage | Deep fuchsia pink flowers backed by dark calyxes emerge from large rounded buds August until frost. |
3-4 feet | 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 ‘Cambridge Blue’ | Gentian Sage | Large powder blue flowers through the summer. |
24-30 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA splendens ‘Louie’s Orange Delight’ | Scarlet Sage | Orange-red flower bracts from late summer into the fall on a tall bushy plant. |
36-42 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SALVIA splendens ‘Van Houttei Paul’ | Scarlet Sage | Very large and strikingly beautiful plum flowers on a bushy shrub. Blooms late summer until hard frost. |
36-42 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
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 | SALVIA ‘Purple Majesty’ | Anise Sage | Large purple flowers blooms mid-summer onwards. |
4-5 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SAUROMATUM venosum | Voodoo Lily | In early spring, a narrow, highly-unusual 12-24″ tall flower in maroon and lime green emits a strong carrion odor to attract flies, its main pollinator. This plant can also be grown in a container. Store corms in a cool, dry location indoors over the winter, similar to dahlias. |
24-30 inches | Part Shade | 6 | ||
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 ‘Brilliant’ | Australian Fan Flower | Profuse fan-shaped blue blooms on cascading stems all season. Can spread to 2 feet. Excellent in pots. Drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. |
12- 14 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | SEDUM aff. adolphii | Golden Sedum | Sometimes considered syn. with Sedum nussbaumerianum, a creeping low-grower with rosettes of yellow-green football-shaped leaves with orange-red highlights. |
8-12 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
Annual | SEDUM booleanum | Sedum | Succulent, tubular gray-green foliage is stacked in small towers and topped by red blooms in early summer. |
4-6 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
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 | ||
Annual | SEDUM morganianum ‘Burrito’ | Donkey Tails | Trailing stems are densely packed with grey-green fleshy leaves covered with a powdery farina. Small pink clusters of flowers appear in spring. |
6-8 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
Annual | SEDUM nussbaumerianum | Coppertone Stonecrop. Golden Sedum | Sometimes syn. with Sedum adolphii; low-growing rosettes of thick pointed yellow-green leaves that turn rosy-gold/bright copper-red in full sun. |
8-9 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
Annual | SENECIO candicans ‘Angel Wings’ | Angel Wings Senecio | Large, silky soft silver foliage is striking in containers alone or mixed with other plants for contrast. Heat and drought tolerant. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | SENECIO haworthii | Cocoon Plant | Frosty white cylindrical leaves bear bright yellow flowers on upright to trailing stems. |
10-12 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
Annual | SENECIO sp. ‘Mini Blue’ | Miniature Blue Chalk Fingers | Powder blue, cylindrical succulent foliage on a dwarf plant. |
2-4 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | TAGETES erecta ‘Sugar & Spice White’ | Marigold | 3″ wide creamy-yellow double flowers fade to white with a frosting of pink all summer and peaking in late summer. Deadheading will keep the plants producing flowers more abundantly. |
18-24 | Full sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | TAGETES patula ‘Strawberry Blonde’ | Marigold | A color-changing and ruffled marigold that opens red and age to cream and pink. More vibrant colored once the temps begin to drop in the fall. Great for containers. Remember to deadhead to keep it neat and keep it flowering well. |
8-12 | Full sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | THUNBERGIA alata ‘African Sunset’ | Black-Eyed Susie Vine | Sunset-colored blossoms with a dark eye-zone flowers all summer on this vigorous vine. Provide support or a hanging basket to view these lovely flowers at their best. Attracts hummingbirds and other pollinators. |
3-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | TORENIA ‘Summer Wave Bouquet Blue’ | Wishbone Flower | Blue and white bicolor with yellow throats; blossoms keep going throughout the summer heat. Mounding/trailing. Self-cleaning. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | TORENIA ‘Summer Wave Silver’ | Wishbone Flower | Light lavender, snapdragon-like flowers all summer. Fast-growing and heat-tolerant. Trailing to 18 inches. |
6-10 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | TRACHYCARPUS fortunei ‘Landcraft’ | Windmill Palm | This hardy selection from Landcraft Environments adds a great architectural element to containers. Large fan-shaped leaves on thick trunks. |
3-4 feet in a container | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | TROPAEOLIUM minus ‘Phoenix’ | Nasturtium | This is a true heirloom variety featured in seed catalogs from the 1890’s! It featured notched petals in brilliant shades of red, orange and yellow with contrasting streaks in the throat. It will trail out along the ground or cascade over pot edges. Deer resistant Attracts all the pollinators. |
12" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | TROPAEOLUM majus ‘Variegated Queen’ | Nasturtium | An heirloom and trailing variety from 1908 catalogs with green leaves speckled in cream. There’s a full range of flower colors from pale yellow to vibrant red many with contrasting markings in the throat. Plant them where they can spill over rock walls or trailing from a hanging basket. Deer resistant Attracts all the pollinators |
12-14" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA bonariensis | Tall Verbena | Slender-branched stems topped by small clusters of rose-purple flowers through the summer. Looks wonderful coming up through grasses and lower-growing perennials. Excellent cut and attracts butterflies. Reseeds. |
3-4 feet | Sun | 6 | ||
Annual | VERBENA bonariensis ‘Meteor Shower’ | Vervain | Lilac-purple lollipops of blooms! Denser, more vigorous, and more diminutive than the species, and less likely to reseed. Deer resistant; pollinators love it. |
2-3 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Empress Imperial Blue’ | Vervain | Mounding/trailing clusters of royal blue star-shaped flowers all summer. Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies. |
12-18 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Empress Sun Red’ | Vervain | Semi-upright habit trails up to 2 feet; star-shaped fire-engine red blooms all summer. Attract butterflies. |
10 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Empress White’ | Vervain | Showy clusters of white star-shaped flowers. |
6-10 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Lanai Bright Eye’ | Vervain | Trailing up to 20″, shades of rose-pink all summer. |
4-10 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Lanai Peach’ | Vervain | Dark peach fading to shades of apricot on stems trailing 1-2 feet. Deer tend to ignore verbenas, but butterflies love them! |
4-10 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VERBENA ‘Lanai Royal Purple’ | Vervain | Dramatic dark wine-purple flowers on 1-2′ trailing stems. |
4-10 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | VIOLA wittrockiana-‘Delta’ varieties; ‘Ultima’ | Pansy | Early blooming and hardy, we’ll have a selection of ‘Cool Water Mix’, ‘Persian Medley’, ‘Pure Primrose’ (zone 7), and ‘Ultima Morpho’ (zone 5). |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Annual | ZINNIA elegans ‘Queeny Lemon Peach’ | Zinnia | A new addition to Queeny series of Zinnias with bright yellow, double blooms showing a hint of lime green and raspberry blush center on strong stems perfect for cutting! Deer resisitant Drought tolerant Attracts all pollinators |
30-36" | Full sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | ZINNIA elegans ‘Queeny Orange Lime’ | Zinnia | Apricot, peach, lime-green and raspberry hues all in each flower. Very double and full blooming all summer with regular deadheading. Give each plant plenty of room to keep powdery mildew in check. Deer resistant. Drought tolerant. Attracts all pollinators. |
30-36" | Full sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | ZINNIA elegans ‘Queeny Red Lime’ | Zinnia | A gorgeous combination of rose-red, lime-green and mauve in a fluffy flower. Tall and strong stems make a perfect cut flower all summer. Keep it deadheaded for continuous bloom. Deer resistant Drought tolkerant Attracts all the pollinators |
30-36" | Full sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | ZINNIA ‘Profusion Series’ | Zinnia | The plants in this series have a dense and bushy habit with non-stop 2″ blooms, both single and double, through the summer, no deadheading required. Butterfly attractant. Drought/heat tolerant. Amazing as cut flowers. Comes in lots of colors. We’ll carry 6-packs for 2022! |
12-24 inches | Sun | Tropical | ||
Annual | ZINNIA ‘Zahara Series’ | Zinnia | A compact Zinnia that blooms all summer with 2 1/2” brilliant blooms over disease-resistant foliage. No deadheading required. Butterfly attractant. Drought/heat/humidity tolerant. Amazing as cut flowers. We’ll have 6-packs for 2022! |
16-20 inches | Sun | Tropical |