2012 New Annuals

Ageratum Azure Skies

Small, fluffy, blue button-like flowers add color all summer. Dead heading is not needed for this plant. If cut back regularly it is a great plant in the miniature garden. It resembles a blue Hydrangea.

Angelonia Adessa Bicolor

Large blue and white, orchid-like flowers. Spectacular summer garden performance, long lasting bloomer, many spikes of flowers, thrives in heat and humidity, deer resistant, easy to grow.

Begonia Fairyland Rose

Bright shining green leaves with pretty rose colored double flowers. This one is ready to move into a container or be planted in the outside fairy garden.

Begonia Million Kisses Devotion

The most vigorous trailing begonia on the market, Million Kisses is easy to grow with better branching and many early, large flowers. They are prized equally for their flower as well as their nice trailing habit. Popular in flower boxes, container gardens, hanging baskets, or garden beds and borders. Give them plenty of room to grow. Million Kisses can be grown in full sun to part shade.

Begonia Rex Hugh Mclaughlin

Shimmering silver and deep purple leaves are set off by and dark veining.

Calibrachoa Superbells Cherry Star

This calibrachoa features a rich cherry color flower petal that is dissected by a bright golden star that runs from the petal's edge to the center of the flower's throat. The distinct star pattern is very stable throughout the growing season.

Calibrachoa Superbells Coralberry Punch

Coralberry Punch Calibrachoa is a great new shade of Million Bells. The dark red center that fades out to a salmon coral color is very striking in combo planters or planted by itself.

Calibrachoa Superbells Sweet Tart

'Sweet Tart' has a pronounced yellow throat on a pink background that graduates from deep rose to pale pink as the blooms mature. The mounded-trailing habit cascades over the edge of baskets and containers, and is covered with blossoms all season long.

Coleus Under The Sea Bone Fish

The Under The Sea Coleus have a unique crustacean look. A true thriller for mixed containers or the landscape. Bone Fish has deeply lobed dark red leaves with light green tips.

Coleus Under The Sea Gold Anemone

The Under The Sea Coleus have a unique crustacean look. A true thriller for mixed containers or the landscape. Gold Anemone has large, bright gold leaves that are deeply lobed and edged with a thin purple piping.

Coleus Under The Sea Langostino

The Under The Sea Coleus have a unique crustacean look. Langostino's leaves resemble a lobster, with inticately cut lobes that are a colorful mix of deep orange and bright gold. A true thriller for mixed containers or the landscape.

Coleus Under The Sea Molten Coral

The Under The Sea Coleus each have a unique crustacean look. Molten Coral is the brightest variety. The deep red leaves have a bright gold wavy, filigree edge. A true thriller for mixed containers or the landscape.

Coleus Wasabi

Award winning coleus. Large scalloped leaves feature bright chartreuse color. The more sun it gets the more charteuse the color. A very durable and rugged coleus that is best grown in partial shade in a moist, well-drained soil. Outstanding vigor and performance. Use it as an accent in combination planters or in your landscape.

Colocasia Coffee Cups

Colocasia Coffee Cups is a unique plant with large heart-shape leaves that fold up into a cup. The foliage is green with dark, almost black veins and stems. Makes a good choice for the center or back of a border. The large cup-shaped leaves will collect water, then spill over when filled to the brim.

Dahlia Hypnotica Cherish Pink

Cherish Pink has a large bicolored flower and excellent branching, making it a hit in landscapes and containers. Placed on your patio or balcony the radiant color and large elegant flowers will attract attention from your neighbors and butterflies passing by. These long blooming plants combine nicely with other bedding plants and shrubs as well.

Dahlia Xxl Chiapas

Compact plants feature XXL large fully-double blossoms almost half a foot in diameter. An added benefit is that the controlled plant growth makes it ideal for using in combination planters and mixed with other plants in a flowerbed.

Dahlia Xxl Durango

Compact plants feature XXL large fully-double blossoms almost half a foot in diameter. An added benefit is that the controlled plant growth makes it ideal for using in combination planters and mixed with other plants in a flowerbed.

Gaillardia Galya Spark Coral

Gaillardia Galya Coral Spark has unique bi-color red and yellow flowers. The vigorous and quick growing variety forms a well-branched semi-compact bush and its full flower gives a pompon effect. Its continuous flowering lasts long in your garden, patio, mixed container or pot.

Geranium Calliope Scarlet Fire

Ivy-zonal cross with glowing scarlet color, large semi-double blooms and medium dark foliage. Vigorous spreading habit and outstanding heat and drought tolerance.

Hibiscus San Andreas Wind

Large 5-1/4 inch flowers are dark pink with a small white throat.

Ipomoea Bewitched

Handsome rounded mounds of small, toothed, purple leaves and compact growth habit makes them better suited to containers and landscape gardens.

Lithops Living Stones

Resembling the pebbles and stones among which they grow in their natural habitat, their subtle colors of gray, brown, rust, green and pink, combined with their fantastically intricate markings and make them very desirable additions to any plant collection. The flowers are daisy-like and yellow or white depending on variety. They first open during the afternoons of sunnier days.

Lobelia Hot Waterblue

Lovely cascading habit with sky blue flowers. Unlike standard types of lobelia, Hot Waterblue exhibits a stronger tolerance for heat. They will survive the summer with masses of blooms and last until the first frost. Excellent for hanging baskets, mixed containers, and beds.

Lobularia Silver Stream

Silver Stream is a new lobularia that is not as aggressive as Snow Princess, so it plays well with others in combos. It produces a compact, ball shaped plant, covered with small alyssum-like, white, honey scented flowers. It is heat tolerant and blooms all through the summer. It is an ideal filler in mixed containers, hanging baskets or window boxes - as long as it is paired with plants of a similiar growth rate.

Ornamental Corn Field Of Dreams

This new introduction produces variegated green and white foliage with touches of rose, 'Field of Dreams' adds color and structure to large combination pots and accents in the landscape. It produce ears that are as attractive after the season as the plants were beautiful during the season.

Ornamental Rice Black Madras

Splendid violet-streaked foliage from spring 'til frost! This ornamental rice is just the ticket for any sunny garden spot. From spring until frost, it sports gorgeous pointed, upright, elegant green leaves generously streaked and shaded with burgundy-purple. They look great in the vase, too. Black Madras forms a neat, dense, fountain-shaped plant that looks great for months and months. It's perfect in containers as well as the garden, and makes the ideal mass planting for waterside areas.

Osteospermum 3D Purple

3D™ is the first double African Daisy! A double row of short lilac-purple petals surround a 3D center of deep mauve to purple. Its blooms stay open day and night making this truly unique and eye-catching. Cut back in late summer to encourage reblooming and improve habit.

Pennisetum Skyrocket

This variegated form of our favorite fountain grass features green leaves with white striped margins. Add structure and height to containers and landscape areas with this unique grass. The arching plumes start out smoky pink then turn creamy as they age.

Petunia Potunia Papaya

Potunia Papaya's unique salmon-orange color - the Pantone color of 2012 - and great mounding habit make it a great addition to landscape and container combinations.

Petunia Suncatcher Pink Lemonade

This trailing, large-flowered petunia produces an abundance of two-toned soft yellow flowers with a tinge of pink, from early in the season throughout the summer.

Petunia Sweetunia Mystery

Mystery is cream with deep burgundy center and veins. Medium sized flowers are borne in profusion on vigorous plants.

Portulaca Happy Hour Mix

Large, semi-double blooms in vivid colors. Great for hot, dry, full-sun conditions, drought-tolerant Happy Hour is sure to please you with its excellent garden performance. Portulaca prefers well-drained soils and loves neglect.

Salvia Sallyfun Bicolor Beauty

Spires of unusualy mixed blue and white flowers bloom above a mound of deep green foloiage. A reliable choice for borders, containers and rock gardens.

Scaevola Topaz Pink

Topaz Pink displays an abundance of charming large, fan-shaped, deep-pink flowers, with blooms clustering the full length of the stems. Easy-growing plants are perfect for containers, window boxes or groundcover, combining nicely with heat-tolerant varieties like angelonia and bidens.

Selaginella Kraussiana Brownii

Not to be confused with Selaginella 'braunii', Pin-Cushion Spikemoss forms a small, evergreen clump of whorled mounded leaves, growing to only 3 inches. Makes a perfect 'shrub' in a miniature garden.

Verbena Lanai Twister Pink

The flower's clusters have a distinct ring of deep pink petals in the center surrounded by white petals edged with light pink. The Lanai series is early to bloom with large flowers, and the plants have exceptional powdery mildew resistance.

Broccoli Marathon

Marathon is one of the most widely used varieties in California for production in the cool weather season. It also performs well in the Midwest for a late summer and fall crop. The large, blue green heads have a high, smooth, tight dome. We have had great success with this variety over Packman.

Celery Tango

So improved over older varieties that it's almost an entirely new plant. Tango delivers yields and flavor like you've never seen before! The stalks are wonderfully crunchy and sweet, springing up from exceptionally vigorous, robust plants.

Cucumber Gold Standard

One cool, delicious cucumber with gorgeous golden flesh. Boasts five times the beta-carotene of other cucumbers. 18" tall and 60"spreading plants yield 6"-8" fruit.

Flowering Kale Glamour Red

For the brightest color yet from an Ornamental Kale, rely on this dramatic exciting AAS winner. These tightly-packed heads reach 10 to 12 inches wide, with a very large red center. The color begins to show when night temperatures have remained below 55 degrees F for two weeks or more, and continues over a long season. These leaves are not coated with the heavy waxy consistency of most ornamental Kale, so the colors shine more brightly.

Lettuce Healing Hands

This collection of wholesome leafy greens makes creating health-giving salad mixes, with four varieties easy. It has 20% more lutein and 30% more beta-carotene than the average salad mix. Plant once for an entire season. Cut once and cut again 3 weeks later.

Pepper Orange Blaze

Orange Blaze ripens to a beautiful orange color, it has a very sweet flavor and grows 3 to 4-inch long fruits about 1.5 inches wide with 2-3 lobes. A 2011 AAS Winner.

Pepper Sweet Heat

The earliest to bear fruit, compact and bushy. It has 3 to 4" long by 1 to 1.5" wide peppers that are sweet and mildly spicy like pepperoncini, with a great smoky flavour. 'Sweet Heat' can be harvested green or red, and is perfect for grilling or salsa.

Pumpkin Fairy Tale

A traditional variety from the south of France, Fairytale has gorgeous, big flat fruits that are heavily ribbed and look similar to wheels of cheese. Fruit average 20 pounds and ripen to a rich brown when fully ripe. The deep-orange flesh is fine grained, one of the best for baking.

Strawberry Tarpan

Produces abundant, 1-1 1/2", deep rose flowers in about 85 days. Use in a basket, container, or in the ground. The bright red, small to medium-sized fruit are plentiful, tasty. Will produce from midsummer to frost. Produces runners. Grows best in zones 5.

Tomato Poseidon F1

What makes a great tomato? In parts of Asia pink tomatoes are considered the best, as pink tomatoes are typically sweet to the taste with low acid levels. If you are looking for a mild tomato, this pink indeterminate tomato is sure to please.

Watermelon Faerie

A non-traditional watermelon with creamy yellow rind with thin stripes yet still yields sweet pink-red flesh with a high sugar content. Vigorous yet spread only to 11'. Each 7-8" fruit weighs only four to six pounds. Early fruit set tthat continues throughout the season