Annuals

Every spring we have five greenhouses brimming with over 200 varieties of annuals. Our team, Becky, Gail, Laura, Sandie, and Jaime, lovingly plant and care for everything by hand. Come see our greenhouses in bloom and visit with our team!

Specialty Annuals: What's New for 2010


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Jade Princess Ornamental Millet
Intense lime green leaves, with chartreuse colored, large heads. Loves warm temperatures.

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Bunny Tails Lagurus
These bunny tail-looking puffballs are great for fresh or dried arrangements. This neat compact plant grows to a heighth of 12 to 20 inches.

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Easy Wave Rosy Dawn Petunia
These large flowers open deep rose with a wide cream throat, then mature to coral-pink with a morn pattern.

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New Guinea Impatiens Celebrette Light Coral
This New Guinea Impatien has very large, vibrant flowers on compact plants. Prefers morning sun and after noon shade. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Ageratum High Tide White
This series grows taller and more vigorously than other ageratum, outlasting other varieties in gardens and mixed containers. Very well-branched, self-cleaning and easy to care for at 14 to 16 inches in height with white blooms.

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Succulent Wreaths Are Back
These wreaths are 9" squares filled with a variety of succulents.

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Coleus Red Ruffles
Medium sized brilliant red-rose leaves are speckled with black. Ideal for mixed containers and in the landscape. Suitable for sun or shade.

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Bracteantha Strawburst Yellow
This versatile strawflower is heat tolerant and frost hardy. These large bright yellow flowers have oustanding color on this 12-14 inch plant.

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Argyranthumum Comet White
Large purple flowers cover this climbing vine.

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Dahlia Hypnotica Bronze Bicolor
These double flowers love full sun and show out brightly against the dark green leaves. Remove spent flowers to promote continued blooming from spring to fall.

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Rusty Red Ipomoea
A great sweet potato vine for container planting,as it will not 'take over'.

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Supertunia Vista Silverberry & Vista Bubblegum
We will have both of these supertunia varieties. These vigorous petunias have a mounding/cascading growth habit. The self-cleaning habit makes these two plants easy to care for.

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Alternanthera Brazilian Red Hots
This variety of Josephs Coat grows 20-28 inches tall and up to 18 inches wide. The bright pink to red variegation is stunning in full to part sun.

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Duranta Gold Edge
The leaf is edged with a bright golden yellow color with green center splashing and does great in full to part sun.

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Ageratum Patina Delft
Tolerates full sun to partial shade. The mounding habit of this plant allows it to reach 10-12 inches. Great for combo planters or in the landscape.

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Coleus Pink Ruffles
This sun loving coleus speaks for itself.

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Red Rooster Carex
This grass has reddish brown hues that are perfect in combo plantings and great for the fall.

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New Guinea Impatiens Sonic Magic Pink
Pink and white bi-color with extra large flowers. Great in landscapes or containers.

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Penstemon Phoenix Pink
Hummingbirds are attracted to these white-throat, pink rimmed blooms.

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Coleus Defiance
This coleus is great for shade or sun and can reach 24 inches in height. Try a coleus mixed combo for a blast of beauty with no blooms.

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Coleus Burgundy Wedding Train
Try this coleus for your trailer out of a container or along the edge for a border in your garden.

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Dorotheanthus Mezoo Trailing Red
This succulent-like plant has a trailing growth habit with red flowers.

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Verbena Lanai Bright Eye
This cascading plant features a mix of light pink flowers with a prominent dark pink eye.

Vegetable Plants

All of our veggies are planted from seed and hand transplanted with the greatest care.

Early spring crops include broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, endive, spinach, and Swiss chard.*

Later crops include, cucumber, eggplant, celery, hot peppers, winter squash, summer squash, sweet peppers, cantaloupe, and tomatoes.*

*Since everything is grown by seed, all varieties may not be available at all times.

Peppers
Caribbean Red Hot, Carnival Mix, Ladybug, Mucho Nacho, Paprika Supreme, Round of Hungary, Satsuma Hybrid, Serrano, Super Heavyweight, Yummy, Balloon, Cardonney, Fat n Sassy, Giant Marconi, Lipstick, Mavras, Mohawk, Sheepnose pimento, Better Belle, Big Bertha, Habanero, Jalapeno, King Arthur, Melrose, Red Beauty, Super Cayenne, Sweet Banana.
Tomato
Beefsteak, Better Boy, Big Beef, Brandywine, Celebrity, Champion II, Early Girl, Jetstar, Juliet, Roma, Rutgers, Sugar plum, Sunsugar, Super Fantastic, Sweet 100, Big Boy

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Cucumbers
Plant these right after the first frost. Growing season is 3 months.

Herbs

Add fragrance to your garden and flavor to your food! Perfect for gardens or containers.

Available varieties include Cilantro, Dill, Italian Parsley, Purple Ruffled Basil, Sweet Basil, Lemon Basil, Curley Parsley, Chives, Greek Oregano, Mint, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, and Lavender.


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Tri-color Sage
This edible sage is also very colorful and can be useful in container combos.

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Cilantro
Sweet with the slightest hint of heat! Adds so much to any dish.
These do not like a lot of water so if it's rainy once a week, that should be plenty of water.

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Mint
This is a very delicate spice.
Great care must be taken to insure no pests get to this plant when flowering.