We grow annuals, herbs, tropicals and vegetable plants in our heated greenhouse all winter to have beautiful plants ready for you each spring. It's an unnatural environment, and we go to great lengths to make it a healthy and sustainable one.

 

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 We offset our power use with the purchase of green tags from Bonneville Environmental Foundation-Zephyr Energy. We use organic potting mix to keep harmful chemicals like formaldehyde out of the air and out of gardeners' soil and ultimately the plants themselves. It's healthier for the people planting the plants, and makes a healthier herb or veggie for eating.

We use biological and organic controls to keep insect pests out of the greenhouse in a safe way. There are no harmful chemical residues on our plants or in the soil.

Acalpha pendula 'Red' (chenille plant)

Dark green trailing foliage is covered with thick fuzzy pink blooms that resemble pink wooly mammoth caterpillars! Great in hanging baskets and containters as a trailer.

 

Ageratum 'Hawaii' mix

 Fuzzy flower clusters in shades of blue, lavender, pink and white bloom all summer on this compact variety that grows to just 6-8" in height. Excellent heat and drought tolerance.

 

Ageratum 'Tall Cut Wonder'

Fuzzy flower clusters of light blue top this 24" heat tolerant annual that makes great cut flower arrangement fillers. Easy to grow, fun to use with Tithonias, perennial statice and other cut flowers for bouquets.

Alternathera

Glossy dark purple foliage makes a wonderful foliage contrast with anything! Try 'Gail's Choice' with it's rounded leaves, or threadleaf with a fernier texture. Very heat and drought tolerant plants.

Alyssum 'Easter Basket' mix

Tiny fragrant flowers open in clusters on this low-growing annual in shades of pink, lavender and white. An excellent edger in the bed or container, it's fine texture compliments large-leaf plants nicely.

Amaranthus 'Cascade' red and green
Long tails up to 20" long in shades of red or green open all summer through frost on this large trailing annual. Fabuslous hanging baskets, this plant stands alone or can be mixed with complimentary flowers and foliage. Very heat tolerant.

Angelonia

Also called summer snapdragon
because of it's resemblance and excellent heat tolerance. 12-16" flower-covered spikes over crisp green foliage all summer long. These wonderful annuals are a must-have. Try some this year and you'll never go without it again!

Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold' & "Silky Deep Red'
Larval and nectar plant of monarch and queen butterflies, these annual butterfly milkweeds have vivid yellow and red blooms all summer. Collect seed in fall for next spring!

Bacopa

Great used as a trailer in hanging baskets, window boxes and containers. White flowers and dark green foliage compliment anything. Make a white combo planter with White Wave Petunias, 'Belle Blanche' white Datura. You might even throw in a little blue fescue for texture!

 

Begonia coccinea (angel wing)

We grow an assortment of angel wing begonias in a variety of foliage colors and patterns. These begonias make great houseplants through the winter, as well as fine summer patio plants.

 

wax leaf Begonia x semperflorens (wax leaf)

Drought tolerance for shade! These plants don't grow too large, topping out at 10-12", so they won't crowd other plants in baskets and planters. We offer Cocktail and Olympia mixes, which both flower in shades of red, pink and white. One with crisp green foliage, the other with a bronze leaf.

 

Begonia x tuberosa

Super-fancy double blooms in pinks, reds, yellow and apricot over interstingly veined foliage of green and burgundy make these plants seem high maintenance. But they aren't! We use these for our tree house planters where they rarely get watred and they look great all summer long!

 

Bells of Ireland

Spikes of large, green bloosoms resemble short hollyhocks. An unusual annual plant for garden beds, these flowers make great cut flower arrangements. Plant with tall verbena and any color of tall growing gomphrena for a nice looking cut flower garden that can be brought indoors in vases athroughout the summer!

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Bidens 'Peter's Gold'

Trailing yellow blooms spill over the edge of planters, baskets and beds like a tidal wave. Heat loving.

Try bidens around:
· purple millet
· tall celosias
· yellow mandevilla
· upright geraniums
· Marguerite daisies
· coleus

 

Brugmansia variegated (angel's trumpet)

Very large growing tropical plant with highly fragrant blooms 8-10" long that drop throughtout the canopy. Excellent patio tree should be moved indoors for winter, and allowed to dry between waterings. Underplant with airplant plant, golden creeping Jenny, or tradescantia if desired.

 

Calendula 'Flashback' mix

Calendulas prefer cool temperatures, and may stop blooming during the intense heat of summer. Planting in afternoon shade will extend their blooming season considerably. Calendula flowers will surprise you again when night temperatures begin to cool and will bloom into fall, even with light frosts.

Caladium

Excellent foliage for color in shade. Useful in the ground, where they can be lifted and brought in for the winter, or in planters. Try with:
· coleus
· New Guinea impatiens
· trailing snapdragons
or perennials like:
· sweet flag
· 'Evergold' sedge
· heucheras
· hostas

Callibrachoa

Sometimes called mini petunias, these trailers make great hanging basket subjects. Try them combined with:
· bacopa
· trailing ivy geraniums
· plumbago
· Wave petunias
· sweet potato vine
· red or green tails
amaranthus
· licorice plant
· trailing verbena

 

Ricinis communis (castor bean)

Very large, tropical-looking foliage has wonderful leaf shape and texture, interesting flower spikes and cool seed pods. Purple and deep green varieties with red stems are available. In the ground, castor bean plants can grow up to 10' tall. Used in pots they won't grow as large. Save some seed for next year!

 

Celosia

Many, many sizes and colors of celosia are available! All are easy to grow, thriving in the heat of summer in the ground or in containers. All make wonderful cut and dried flowers for arrangements. We offer varieties with nice foliage color, in plume or cockscomb type blooms. A must-have annual!

 

Cleome

Also called spider plant, the taller varieties are wonderful in garden beds where they will self-seed and weave through other plants. Our dwarf variety offers a more dense habit with more attractive deep green foliage with burgundy undertones. It works beautifully in containers.

 

Coleus

So many colors and variegations to choose from, so little time. One could conceivably plant their entire annual garden in only coleus and produce a fantastic display. We grow all sizes, habits and colors every year, and offer them in a huge buffet of color in the greenhouse!

 Cosmos

 An heirloom garden classic, cosmos flowers come in shades of violet, white and also in warm oranges and yellow. All cultivars bloom over fine, ferny foliage. Cosmos is a wonderful self-seeder, and will wind its way through your garden from year to year. Just pull the plants that come up where you don't want them! Cosmos 'Sonata' mix is the pink, lavender and white mix. Cosmos sulphureus 'Cosmic' mix is the
yellow, orange and red mix

  

 Cuphea

We offer Mexican heather in lavender and white. Both make a wonderful filler or edger. Both foliage and flowers give a fine texture. Bat face cuphea and cigar plant are both hot colored flowers with forms that resemble their names, and with incredible performance during dismlly hot, dry spells. All look fabulous when others are wilting!

 

Dahlia

Small dahlia varieties make wonderful container subjects with their full range of colors. Dinner-plate dahlias grow huge, plate-sized blooms that usually require staking to support. Both are wonderful, heat tolerant plants that make great cut flowers.

 

Datura

Wonderful large blooms open over rich dark foliage and deep red stems. Punctuated with exotic spiny seed pods. White flowering forms or double flowering "Purple Ballerina" make excellent garden bed plantings in mass, or specimen plants in containers. Highly recommended. Seed can be saved for next season!

 

Dianthus

Also called pinks in the heirloom garden, or carnations for the annual varieties, these blooms shower you with shades of pink, red and white all summer long. Tall forms make great cut flowers. Plant with geraniums, coleus or sweet potato vine for a lovely but heat/drought tolerant container planting.

 

Diascia (twin spur)

Also called twin spur, the new diascia cultivars really beat the heat and keep blooming through the summer. Using in containers and baskets as trailers with:
· nierembergia
· ageratum · lobelia
· amaranthus · coleus
· periwinkle · bacopa
· dianthus · pentas
· fucshia
· polka dot plant

 

Dichondra 'Silver Falls'

Long trailing vines of small, round, silver foliage tumble from hanging baskets, wall plants and garden walls creating an exotic look. Try it with purple foliage for contrast.

Dracena (spike)

Spike is the traditional centerpiece for petunias
and geraniums in pots! Requires no care, and looks great with anything else.

Dusty Miller

Classic annual foliage that often survives mild winters when planted in beds. Grows to a height of 10-14", making it an excellent choice for planters, hanging baskets and garden bed edges. Plant with purple and yellow foliage plants to give this old favorite a new, more sophisticated look.

Evolvulus nuttelianus 'Blue Daze'

Often overlooked during the spring buying rush, this annual looks its best when temperatures soar. Plant in hanging baskets or containers alone or with:
· licorice plant
· lantana
· bacopa
· dichondra 'Silver Falls'
· short gomphrena cultivars
· 'Marguarita' sweet potato

(Isolepsis cernus) fiber optic grass

Short, fine grass is topped with small "flowers" at the end of each grass blade, producing a fiber optic effect. Excellent contrast foliage for mixed containers.

four o'clocks

Bushy plants grow 24-30" tall and around and are covered with showy blooms all summer. Flowers open in the afternoon, giving this heirloom plant its name. Great in the garden bed as a small focal point. Collect seed for next year.

 

Fucshia 'Autumnale'

Autumnale Fuchsia has some of the most beautiful foliage that we have ever seen. This fuchsia has a red sepal and purple corolla bloom offset by pure gold leaves flushed with purple and orange. Hummingbirds love fuchsias and this one has proven to be one of their favorites. As with most fuchsias it should be planted in a sheltered spot in well-drained soil. Autumnale is an early bloomer with flowers being produced summer through early fall.

Fuchsias do not like to dry out so if it is planted in a hanging basket it may need daily watering. Keep the soil moist to the touch but not sopping wet. Grows only 6"-18" high by 15"-18" wide, which makes this a splendid trailing fuchsia which would be perfect for window boxes, hanging baskets, and containers.

Fucshia 'Dark Eyes'

Trailing cultivars make excellent hanging baskets and container edges, while upright varieties can be used as centers for combo planters. All have unique blooms that look like nothing else. Foliage ranges from deep purple to green to a golden color blushed with red!

Fucshia 'Gartenmeister'

An upright cultivare with dark purple foliage and fire orange, tubular blooms. This is an easy care variety that tolerates heat better than the rest. An excellent tall combo plant with begonias and impatiens.

Fucshia 'Sunray'

An upright cultivare with variegated green and white leaves flushed with pink. Another exellent companion to other shade annual containers.
Gazania

Daisy form flowers, each petal comes to a sharp point at its tip. Colors range from brilliant orange to dark russet, bright yellow and pink. All have dark brown central eyes. Wonderful heat tolerance, they are often the most showy annual in the garden when summer temperatures begin to fall again.

zonal geranium (Pelargonium)

Fanstastic foliage is as much a part of these wonderful zonals as the blooms themselves. We offer the best varieties in every color, many with fancy variegated foliage as well.

ivy geranium (Pelargonium)

Full, frilly gernaium blooms cascade along these trailing ivy types all summer long. Wonderful for hanging baskets.

scented geranium

We offer an assortment of scented varieites for the collector. Foliage scents range from apple cinnamon to lavender to jasmine. One variety repels mosquitos. Start your collection this summer!

Gerbera daisy

Grow your own flowers for arranging. These classic flowers come in a range of colors that range from bubble gum pink to copper orange. Planted in a container, they make a living bouquet. Try them with:
· bacopa
· trailing verbena
· rose moss
· celosia
· gomphrena

Gomphrena

Used for park plantings because of their drought tolerance, gomphrena varieties can be as short as 8" and as tall as 24". Great in planters and beds where water is unavailable. Add this to your cutting garden, or use in containers.

Heliotrope 'Marine'

This plant will be looking good in containers in the heat of summer when some plants have lost their will to live! Crisp textured foliage and true blue blooms look especially fabulous in planters with silver and golden foliage plants:
· sweet potato vine
· dichondra
· silver plectranthus
· licorice plant
· coleus

Hypoestes (polka dot plant)

Unusual mottled colors on small foliage plants growing to 10". Use in containers with:
· ivy · spike
· diascia · dianthus
· golden creeping Jenny
· alternathera
· short gomphrena varieties
· low-growing celosias
· Mexican heather
· pink 'Clown' torenia

Double Impatiens

Like miniature roses in form, these double form impatiens are just as floriferous as their single cousins. Can be planted in the ground in mass, or used in shaded containers and hanging baskets.

In planters, combine with:
· ivy
· golden creeping Jenny
· coleus
· caladiums

Impatiens

Add some royal elegance to your palace with a mass planting of impatiens! Choose one color, or randomly mix three or more colors throughout the area. Also great for smaller scale containers and hanging baskets.
Plant with:
· spike · ivy
· coleus · diascia
· asparagus fern

Impatiens 'Fusion'

These little beauties found their way into our greenhouse 2 years ago and we love them! Their colors are fruity, their bloom shape divine and their foliage deep green. Very exotic looking, they're fantastic underplanting elephant ears and caladiums.

New Guinea Impatiens

More sun tolerant than their cousins, New Guineas grow in a range of sizes, from trailers for baskets to tall uprights for the garden bed. Foliage varies, from deep green to glossy purple and often variegated.

Iresine (chicken gizzard)

Blood red foliage is veined in pink. Leaves are rounded and slightly puckered. Yes, they slightly resemble avain innards. An heirloom foliage that's easy to grow and pretty with dusty miller and other contrasting foliage.

Iresine 'Blazin' Rose'

This is a fancy new-fangled iresine with large leaves and taller growth habit. A nice center folaige for planters with low-growing flowers or foliage around, it makes a nice bridge for pink to yellow or even orange combinations because of it's russet-orange undertone. Very nice..

Ivy (assorted)

A wide variety of variegations and leaf size and shapes are available in this slow growing vining foliage plant. Ivy makes a great combo filler, or an excellent stand alone that can be kept indoors in winter. Ivy also makes a great topiary plant and can be trained on virtually and wire frame.

Lantana

Trailing foliage has a wonderful scent. These plants are the quintesential southern plant, rewarding high temperatures with copious flowering. Interesting bicolor blooms make interesting combinations of all sorts of other flowers possible, as they bridge contrasting hues so well.
  

Larkspur 'Giant Imperial' mix

Generously self-seeding heirloom garden plant provides and effortless show of lavender and white spikes of ruffled blossoms over ferny foliage in summer. A wonderful mass planting, this non-hardy delphinium makes a splendid show without the hassle of its hardy relative.

 

Licorice

Another helichrysum, licorice plant varieties grow in silver or gold forms, with varying leaf size and shape. Great fillers and trailers in container combos. Plant with:
· lobelia
· heliotrope
· 'Profusion' or 'Star' zinnias
· fiber optic grass

  

Lobelia

Beautiful blue filler plants have a wonderful layered texture. Plant with:
· plumbago
· Wave blue petunia
· 'Domino' green nicotiana
· Datura
· trailing snapdragons
· fucshia
· New Guinea impatiens
· 'Fusion' impatiens

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