2011 New Annuals

Aloe Collection

A collection of ornamental aloe, in a variety of sizes and unusual colorful markings on the leaves, including white, pale green and orange.

Angelonia Zebra

Zebra's exotic appearance is reflective of its native habitat in tropical South America. It's fuchsia-pink flowers with purple stripes down the petal are sure to brighten any bed or large container. Zebra has a long blooming season, so that you may enjoy this upright, brightly colored plant well into the fall.

Begonia Big

At home in full sun or partial shade, in beds or containers, and by itself or combined with annuals and perennials, Big Red with Bronze Leaf flowers early and often. It's part Angelwing Begonia and part Firbrous Begonia, with an arching, upright habit and well-branched stems that hold large, 2-3 inch blooms above the leaves. An absolute knockout for summer color, and you'll want to bring this one indoors for the winter, too.

Begonia Bonfire Choc Red

Bonfire Choc Red has an eye-catching profusion of exotic bright red-orange flowers covering the plant. It features interesting chocolate-plum foliage with serrated edges highlighted by a red margin, and offers a neat, bushy growth habit. Ideal for patio pots, hanging baskets and window boxes.

Begonia Gryphon

Gryphon is a rex type begonia with shimmering, silvery black foliage that is elegant in the garden or living room window. This superb foliage begonia combines majestic beauty with strength and durability. The showy plants deliver enough "WOW" to make a dramatic garden statement in mixed or solo containers. Tolerates shade to partial shade and drying conditions for great success in many locations. It's the perfect companion to Dragon Wing begonia, Kong coleus, Super Elfin and Impreza impatiens, and New Guinea impatiens.

Begonia Illumination Golden Picotee

Illumination Golden Picotee features, showy 2-3 inch semi-double and fully double blooms in designer shades of salmon, coral, gold and orange. The dramatic cascading plants are heat tolerant and easy to grow. One of the very best tuberous begonias for hanging baskets where they can trail up to 3 feet, and spread 12-15 inches across.

Begonia Rex Red Kiss

Striking, bright red leaves with dark centers and edges, create a stunning display in any shade garden or container. Use indoors or outdoors in hanging baskets, containers or beds, alone or mixed with other shade-loving plants.

Begonia Solenia Orange

Solenia Orange is characterized by its numerous large and attractive orange, fully double flowers. Solenia begonias are more tolerant of full sun than other begonias. Their succulent, glossy, dark green leaves show off the brightness of their flowers. Grow in mixed borders, containers or hanging baskets.

Bractheantha

An abundance of eye-catching bi-color blooms have a papery feeling that appeals to kids of all ages. More controlled and mounded than other strawflowers. Use these low growing plants to color your containers and garden from early spring through fall.

Cactus Bunny Ears

Opuntia microdasys, or polka-dot prickly pear cactus, is shaped like bunny ears, with polka dots, or tufts, of tiny, very sharp needles. These detach very easily on being touched, and can cause considerable skin irritation, so the plants must be treated with caution. The tufts are white or red in color. Flowers are normally yellow with brilliant red centers. Easily grown in containers.

Calibrachoa Blackberry Punch

A unique color combination - violet-purple flower edges surround a large, shimmering, inky-black center, with just a hint of yellow deep in the throat. The plant is mounded-trailing and rather vigorous. It is best placed in a spot where it can be viewed up close.

Canna Tropical Red

Tropical Red features tropical foliage and huge 3 to 4-inch firey-scarlet blooms on a dwarf 2 1/2-foot plant. Compact enough to grow in a container. Ideal for small water gardens!

Coleus Hurricane Jenni

This sun-tolerant selection has stormy burgundy, saw-toothed leaves that are edged with brilliant lime green. Pinch back flowers to encourage bushiness. A great choice for containers.

Coleus Pineapple Splash

Striking contrast of bright yellow leaves with red venation down the midrib of the leaf. The warmer it gets the better the color.

Cotyledon Happy Young Lady

Grown for its handsome succulent foliage and its drought tolerance, it bears thick, blue-green, spoon-shaped leaves with maroon, wedge-shaped tips. This densely branched plant is ideal for mixed containers or as a houseplant.

Cuphea Mellow Yellow

Mellow Yellow has glossy, dark-green foliage. It is loaded with bright yellow flowers year-round and has a uniform trailing habit.

Dahlia Lucky Face

The bright pink 2-3 inch flowers with splashes of darker pink and a yellow center make Lucky Face a real show-stopper.

Dahlia Mystic Wonder

This beautiful dahlia features almost-black foliage as a backdrop for the velvety-red flowers. Gorgeous when planted with contrasting plants in the garden border or container.

Dahlia Rose Bicolor

Rose Bicolor is a real eye-catcher with its spectacular large, pink and yellow bicolor flowers. Excellent performer in landscapes or containers, and especially on your balcony or patio. The radiant color of these very large, elegant flowers is overwhelming and will always attract attention.

Datura Ballerina Yellow

Ballerina Yellow features soft, frilly, fully-double, buttery yellow flowers. The huge 6-8 inch blooms point upward (instead of dangling like single-flowered Angel's Trumpets) wafting their heavenly aroma throughout the entire garden! The plant is quite compact in containers, reaching only about a foot high and 3 feet wide. In the garden, it forms a dense, well-branched shrub 3 feet tall and slightly wider.

Dyckia Burgundy

The foliage of this succulent is spikey with a rich burgundy color and white spines. Dykias have a rossette growth habit and are great in rock gardens as well as containers. This variety will maintain its burgundy color year round as long as it is in full sun. The bright orange blossoms in the summer are great for attracting hummingbirds.

Echeveria Barbillon

This is one of a kind, you either love it or hate it. Each leaf contains a raised 'wart', that becomes more prominent with sun and harder conditions. Leaves turn redder and frillier with age.

Fern Ritas Gold

This beautiful fern features chartreuse-green fronds that grow 18 to 24 inches long. While the frond size is slightly smaller than other Boston ferns, the color stays true all summer. It makes a great accent plant when grown in the shade with other annuals, such as orange impatiens and blue torenias. Grows best in the shade but will tolerate some sun.

Fuchsia Seventh Heaven

A very showy fuchsia whose large, double, white and deep rose-pink flowers are perfect for hanging baskets and containers. They are very durable and weather resistant.

Gazania Sunbathers Gold Coast

Large showy flowers are bright gold without the typical dark eye. Semi-double blooms help keep them open at night. Loves hot summers. Does not require deadheading as frequently because the blooms last longer.

Haworthia Fasciata Zebra Plant

Commonly known as the Zebra Haworthia because it's convex dark green fleshy leaves are covered with silver-white raised stripes. Very attractive rosette shape is very easy to look after and will thrive on any sunny windowsill with the very minimum of attention. As the plant matures, offshoots may appear around the base of the plant. Occasionally it will send a long thin flower spike from the center of the plant.

Impatiens Patchwork

Patchwork Pink Shades produces unusual, color-filled blooms of mid-pink with eye-catching dark centers. The low-maintenance, dark green-leafed plants are mounded, well-branched and spreading, with non-stop flowers all season.

Impatiens Sunpatiens

Sun-loving, heat-loving impatiens that grow in sun or shade and explode with color from spring through frost. These beauties are so tough they will thrive almost anywhere.

Justica Red Shrimp Plant

This is a great plant for bedding in masses, it creates a subtle field of light red accented with white. The everblooming red bracts have white/pink veined shrimp-like flower spikes that arch gently.

Mandevilla Stars And Stripes

Voted the favorite new flowering plant at last year's Tropical Plant Exhibition, Mandevilla Stars and Stripes has red star-shaped blossoms with white stripes through the center of each of the 5 petals. A golden-yellow throat contrasts nicely with the petals. It blooms abundantly from spring to fall and is a favorite for hummingbirds. Its leaves are deep, glossy green and are held on twining stems.

Marigold Moonsong

This 2010 AAS Winner has vibrant deep orange flower color. Large fully double blooms rank among the best of class. Constant blooms are fade resistant. Easy to grow plants with excellent garden vigor tolerate stress such as heat or drought. In the full sun garden, the erect plants will reach 12 to 15 inches tall. Over the summer, the old blooms will be covered with green foliage, which keeps the plants looking fresh throughout the growing season.

Mecardonia Golddust

Small dark green leaves provide a good contrast to the bright yellow nemesia-like flowers. It performs well in containers and landscapes, has excellent heat tolerance and will bloom from May through October.

Mimulus Curious Orange

This well-branched mimulus variety has a long bloom period and large, long-lasting brilliant orange flowers. Grown as annuals and fed regularly, they will bloom prolifically throughout the summer. Allowed a period of rest during late summer, and a warm windowsill through winter and judicious pruning, they can be kept as blooming houseplants for several years.

Pansy Plentifall

With a true trailing habit, these fragrant pansies are ready to drape fetchingly from a hanging basket or brighten up your borders. The dainty 1 ½ inch flowers are edible, and welcome additions to a summer salad.

Passiflora Incense

A sweetly perfumed cultivar that's a feast for the eyes! With large, five-fingered, 5" royal purple flowers, its lacy-edged corolla overlays the petals. The more sun this plant gets, the more it blooms. Very fast growing vine to 10-20 feet, sometimes longer.

Petunia Littletunia Bicolor Illusion

This trailing Petunia provides an abundance of miniature violet flowers with white star-shaped markings on trailing plants. Littletunias grow fast like a spreading petunia, but have the cute little blooms like a million bells. Irrisistable not only in containers, Littletunias perform great in flower beds, too!

Petunia Phantom

An amazing and unusual bicolor petunia. Black flowers with distinct yellow stars are stunning, covering low mounding beds, or cascading from patio planters.

Petunia Picobella Mix

Vigorous, well-branched, weather tolerant plants. The richly colored 1-2 inch blooms appear earlier than other petunias and cover the compact, 8-10 inch tall plants all summer long. Colors include blue, carmine, light lavender, red, rose, salmon, and white. Picobella petunias offer superb performance for containers or borders.

Salvia Mesa Scarlet

Salvia Mesa Scarlet offers scarlet red blooms that hummingbirds flock to. The 18-24 inch tall plants are vase-shaped in habit with aromatic foliage.

Tecoma Mayan Gold

The flower is a large golden bell shape, hence the common name Yellow Bells. The foliage is a deep glossy green bringing an upscale, exotic look to beds and mixed containers.

Cauliflower Carnival

As fun to look at as it is tasty to eat, eye-catching lime-green carnival is an Italian romanesco type that holds its brilliant color even when cooked. The perfectly spiraled and very symmetrical heads have tightly beaded, pointed domes with a milder, sweeter flavor than standard cauliflower. It's terrific used raw on antipasto trays, cooked or pickled – be sure to harvest the heads when small for the best flavor. A vigorous grower, carnival has excellent heat tolerance.

Gourd Galaxy Of Stars

A unique, mostly star-shaped fruit that comes in varying striped patterns in colors of yellow, cream, orange, green, and white, with nice slender stems. Plant several to get the entire selection of shapes, colors and sizes.

Onion Frontier

Frontier has excellent size and uniformity and under optimum conditions can be stored until early April. Skins are excellent, dark golden in color and necks are small.

Pepper Sweet Spot

This high-yielding banana type pepper produces an incredible harvest of mild, sweet peppers about 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. Peppers may be enjoyed at any color stage-yellow, orange, or bright red. Non-pungent and sweet, grilled, sauteed or raw.

Tomato Megabite

Large, tasty fruits from compact plants. Mega Bite grows to around 24 inches high with a spread of 16 inches. In larger containers each plant can produce up to 70 fruits about 3 inches across. This variety can also be grown direct in the garden. Perfect for pick-your-own at barbeques!

Tomato San Marzano

Indeterminate. For canning, paste, and a killer spaghetti sauce, it's hard to beat this sought-after heirloom. Vines start bearing later in the summer but then come on fast and furiously, producing heavy, 3½-inch-long tapered fruits in clusters of five or six. It's low in sugar and acid, which gives it superior flavor when cooked. The vigorous plants are extremely prolific and produce until the first hard frost.

Tomato Tumbling Tiger

Determinate. The plum sized and shaped fruits of this unusual variety are red striped with green. Compact growing and with a gently branching habit, it makes quite a feature in larger patio pots or hanging baskets. Tumbling Tiger is both high yielding and very tasty.

Watermelon Shiny Boy

AAS Winner. The deep red flesh of these 20 pound globe shaped, striped melons has a sweet, tropical taste and crisp texture. Vines up to 12 feet long can be grown vertically if space is limited. Disease resistant, weather tolerant, high-yielding plants.