Also known as ‘periwinkle’, these bright tropical beauties like it HOT HOT HOT! They are akin to moss rose in that they can take a hot sunny location no problem. They top out at around 12-15″ high. They prefer to stay above 60 degrees– so best for those in our area that live at a lower elevation.
Exposure: Sun to Part Sun
Uses: Baskets, containers, landscape
Want something unique? Cuphea offers something a little out of the ordinary. As a bonus whether open or tubular shaped, these are a hummingbird favored flower. Wonderful filler for combos if you need an upright bushy plant to add a little pizzazz.
Exposure: Sun to Part Sun
Uses: Baskets, containers, landscape
Variety:
Bat Face: totally unusual flower form. Looks like a bat with a dark face and red wings!
Funny Face: a tubular shaped flower in blends of pink and yellow
Sweet Talk Red: NEW! deep dark red with purple centers. Compact bushy type stays around 12″-14″
Cubano Presidente: NEW! a “firecracker” type with scarlet tubular flowers
This cheerful daisy-like flower is also called pot marigold. It is usually in the orange to yellow color range. Ever-blooming during the season if deadheaded. Leave the seeds on at the end of the season and they will re-bloom on their own the next year.
Exposure: Sun to Part Sun
Uses: Baskets, containers, landscape
Did you play with these when you were a kid? Snapdragons are a wonderful addition to your sunny garden. They are strong performers that attract butterflies and bloom over a long season. They may even return for a few years at lower elevations or after a mild winter.
Exposure: Sun, Part-Sun
Uses: Large containers, landscape
Annual grasses– or grass-like plants that we carry are listed below. Try these in your combos! Some offer structural height…others a wispy accent to set off your flowers. We encourage using annual foliage such as coleus or sweet potato vine to help kick your combos up a visual notch. Click Here to See Upright Foliage or Trailing Annual Foliage
Cordyline varieties * Carex Types * Pennisetum Types * Spikes
Varieties:
Carex Feather Falls, Firefox
Papyrus Grass/Cyperus
Pennisetum: Fireworks
Pennisetum: Rubrum aka Purple Fountain Grass
Want to add some trailing foliage your combos? We offer varieties for both sun and shade. Ask us which ones will work best for you! Click Here to See Upright Foliage or Annual Grasses
Asparagus Fern * Creeping Jenny * Doreanthus Mezoo * English, German, and Swedish Ivy * Glechoma * Lemon or Silver Licorice Plants * Silver Falls & Emerald Falls Dichondra * Purple Heart Plant * Sweet Potato Vine (lots of varieties!) * Vinca Vine varieties * Wire Vine
Do you love colorful foliage? Rex Begonias are a shade loving begonia grown for their fancy, decorative leaves. As with other begonias, they love warm weather. Wonderful in shady container or basket combinations. They also make great houseplants. They love to grow in our warm greenhouses and are usually rooted by late April or Early May.
Exposure: Morning Sun, Shade
Uses: Baskets or containers
Low, mounding plants with scalloped leaves in a multitude of colors. (perennials in some parts of the city) Use these for unique foliage in your annual combos. In addition to the pretty foliage all season, tall wispy flowers are held in swaying wands above the leaves for a month. Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds.
Exposure: Sun, Part Sun, Morning Sun, Shade
Bloom Time: Summer
Butterfly Flower (Gaura) has wiry wands of flowers that hover over the plant like, well, butterflies! It is both heat and drought tolerant and blooms late Spring through Fall.
Exposure: Sun
Uses: Container, Landscape
Bantam: White
Belleza: Dark Pink
Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana) is an easy care upright annual for sun. As a bonus, its simple blossoms are attractive to hummingbirds. At only a foot tall it will work well in containers or the front of your borders.
Exposure: Sun
Uses: Containers, landscape
Saratoga: Appleblossom, Lime, Red – shorter types that top out around 12″ tall and wide
Sylvestris “Only the Lonely”: Tall white flowering type with elongated white tubular flowers 4′-6′ TALL!
