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 certified 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.

Marguerite daisy

 Available in a range of unusual colors and forms, these sun lovers make a great choice for beds and containers.

Try the low-growing Madeiras surrounded by:
·diascia
·verbena
·lantana (match your bicolors!)
·Angeline sedum
·purple alternathera
·Dichondra 'Silver Falls'
Marigold

 Singles and doubles, tall and short, yellow, orange, white and bicolor ... we grow them all! These classic garden gems are wonderfully heat and drought tolerant, and are also said to repel pests from vegetable gardens and patios.

Melampodium 'Million Gold'

Heat tolerant bedding plants will provide color all summer long with little attention. Plants grow 12-16" tall and around.

Also useful in planters. Looks great with:
· purple fountain grass
· sweet potato vine
· black-eyed Susans

Melina nerviglume grass (pink champagne bubbles)

Fine grass grows 16-20" high and is covered with brilliant airy, pink plumes in late summer through frost. Excellent texture and color for grass seeds.

Millet

'Purple Majesty' is a dark purple millet that makes a fantastic pot of bed planting. 'Jester' is another colorful variation, offering a golden-chartruese leave edged in crisp purple, then aging to solid purple through the summer. A nice alternative to spike.

Mimosa pudica (sensitive plant)

Looking like a small mimosa tree, the foliage of this bizarre plant snaps closed when touched. A great plant for kids! Grows 12-24" tall, and produces small pink puffball flowers sporadically.

Nasturtium

Edible blooms of brilliant yellow, orange and scarlet, along with bicolors cover unique round leaves. Plants grow to about 12" tall and will tumble over container edges. Lovely planted around herbs, but does require some afternoon shade.

Neirembergia

Heat and drought tolerant low-growing annuals with small 1" blooms of purple or white/pruple bicolor over fine foliage. Great edgers or trailers for containers.
Nemesia 'Compact Innocence'

Small white flowers in clusters create a fabulous aroma you can smell from across a patio! Compact habit makes it an ideal container mixer or garden edger.
Nicotiana 'Domino' mix

Showy blooms of pink, lavender picotee, fucshia, white and lime green grow 12-16" tall and offer another pretty choice for shade beds and planters.

Very pretty combined with:
· coleus
· elephant ears,
· lobelia
· impatiens
· torenia

Nicotiana langsdorfii (lemon tree)

Lemon yellow trumpets on tall stems through summer make an unusual show. An intersting nicotiana, try it planted with elephant ears, caladiums and iresine for a tropical feel.
Nicotiana sylvestris (old fashioned fragrant tobacco)

Fragrant old-fashioned tobacco plant grows 2-3 feet and produces spires surrounded with long white trumpets over huge green leaves all summer. Plant with purple fountain grass and shasta daisies for a dramatic white and purple display.

Nigella (love-in-a-mist)

These unique flowers cover extremely fine, ferny foliage and are followed by showy seed pods that are as beautiful as the blooms. A classic cut flower garden plant, and an heirloom self-seeder.

Ornamental pepper 'Black Beauty'

Growing 14-18" tall with black leaves and shiny black fruit. Fruit is edible and very hot!

Ornamental pepper 'Medusa'

6" plants are coverd with crazy spikes of red, orange and yellow long, twisted peppers. Fruit is "child safe" with no flavor.

Ornamental pepper 'Red Missile'

8" plants have large 2" long fruits that change from cream to orange to red.

Osteospermum (African daisy)

These little beauties bloom in a range of wonderful crisp colors, some fading into contrasting eyes. Their only drawback is their difficulty with the summer heat, when they tend to stop blooming. Try moving into afternoon shade during the dog days of summer to promote continued blooms.

Pansy

Pansies are cool weather flowers that tolerate light frost.

Great companions include:
· ornamental kale
· ornamental grasses
· hardy mums
· purple Moses-in-a-cradle
· spider plant
· sweet peas

Try something unusual and plant them with peas!

parrot's beak (Lotus maculatus)

Fine silver foliage covers long trailing branches and are punctuates with large bright orange blooms that resemble parrot's beaks.

Pentas

A hot weather dependable flower that won't disappoint even in the heat of high summer. Use in containers or beds. Combines well with:
· Wave petunia
· gomphrena
· ageratum
· osteospurmum
· grasses
· setcrecea or purple    tradescantia
· Profusion zinnia
 

Petunia

The most carefree petunia ever! Wave petunias are available in a variety of colors including Rosy Dawn, White, Blue and Purple. Wave petunias are also available in double flowering form, and we offer Purple Vien and Dark Blue. Use in hanging baskets, combo planters and as groundcover in beds. Catch a Wave, you'll be sittin' on top of the world!

Phacelia (honey plant)

Phacelia is the botanical name for this true blue cool weather bloomer. Treat it like lobelia with afternoon shade and even moisture to prolong bloom into summer. Unusual and hard to find.

Phlox drummondii '21st Century'

Many single blooms are borne in clusters atop 10" plants all summer long. Flowers range in color from white, purple, magenta, lavender and some bicolors. Very nice looking compact plants keep their good looks easily through summer in pots or in the ground.

Plumbago 'Imperial Blue'

Large-growing plants are covered with phlox-like blooms of sky blue all summer long. These wonderful plants ask for little and give a lot! Use as a specimen alone in a container, or plant with sweet potato vine for foliage contrast. Also great in beds where it can reach 3 feet in height.

Portulaca

A classic maintenance free annual with fancy rose-like blooms all summer. Often self-seeding in garden beds and under planters, this little ground covering annual requires little moisture to thrive and therefore makes a great subject for wire topiary plants, urns, strawberry pots and planters in hard-to-water places.

Purslane

Like an impatiens for the sun, this is the plant we use for beds and urn in hard to water locations. They bloom as long as the sun shines, and they never wilt, no matter what! One plant can spread up to 24" and stays a nice, low, compact 3-5" tall.

purple fountain grass (Pennisetum rubrum)

Dark purple grass grows to 3' in height, and individual clumps can grow 2' across in one season from a 3.5" plant. Looks great as a backdrop for any flowering or foliage plant. Also a fabulous grass for containers alone, or planted with trailers around. If only it were Zone 5 cold hardy

Russelia Nightlights Tangerine
1" tubular, tangerine blooms cover this flowing 12-24" annual with fine green foliage. Grown in sun to partial shade, it has moderate water requirements and makes a wonderful filler or stand alone. Fine texture and soft color make it a wonderful companion with other plants in beds, borders and containers.
Salpiglossis grandiflora mix

These flowrs look like they should be the cover art for a Jimmy Hendrix album. Their multi-colored striping that flows from the center of each bloom makes a wonderful, unique looking design we've not seen anywhere else. Great for flower arrangements, too.

Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red'

Like it's dark green relative known as pineapple sage, when crushed, the leaves release a strong pineapple scent. This annual is suitable for beds and combination planters where it will grow 2-3' in height unless pinched. It grows best in full sun.Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious' produces fuzzy, bright yellow foliage, which provides a good backdrop for its fire engine red, tubular flowers.

Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious'

Like it's dark green relative known as pineapple sage, when crushed, the leaves release a strong pineapple scent. This annual is suitable for beds and combination planters where it will grow 2-3' in height unless pinched. It grows best in full sun.Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious' produces fuzzy, bright yellow foliage, which provides a good backdrop for its fire engine red, tubular flowers.

Salvia 'Pink Sundae', 'Scarlet', 'Evolution and 'White Nymph'

Tall flowering annual salvias are tough, drought tolerant plants that look great with almost anything and can be used in the ground or in containers. Available in a range of colors including white, blue, peach and red. Varieties grow from 16-20" in height with a spread of about a foot.

Sanvitallia

Try 'Mandarin Orange' or 'Gold Braid' for a low-maintenance, self-seeding garden edge or a pretty container mixer. Small blooms look like miniature sunflowers (they're a popular subject for the miniature division at the Vinland Fair each fall). Super easy to grow even in very shallow soil, they spread around taller things making a pretty carpet of bright color.

  

Scaevola

Tough plants trail over container edges and hanging baskets with layering purple fans throughout summer.

Plant with:
· Wave petunia
· 'Gnome' gomphrena
· angelonia
· alternathera
· licorice plant
· airplane plant

  

Setcreacea (Moses-in-a-Cradle

Setcresea is the botanical name for this vigorous growing trailer with large, pointed, deep purple foliage. A wonderful contrast plant for anything else, and able to grow well in almost any conditions. Also great as a trouble free houseplant.

  

Snapdragon

Varieties range from tall growing to low, 8-10" types. The trailing 'Luminarie' cultivar is the newest additon to the snapdragon family. Great for cut flower arrangements or container or bed plantings. Available in a wide array of colors for combo planting.

Spilanthes (toothache plant, peek-a-boo plant)

Unusual ball-shaped flowers of russet-orange striped with yellow and brown. Can self-seed, and has proven to be drought and heat tolerant. Wonderful planted with purple foliage plants.

  

strawflower (Bracteantha)

Excellent care-free annuals come in a range of colors including pinks, reds, lavenders, yellows, oranges, bronze and white. Hang cut flowers upside down to dry stems and use for dried arrangements that will last for years. Easy to grow.

  

Streptocarpella 'Blue Horizon'

A beauty of a streptocarpella, 'Blue Horizon' has flowers in that rarely seen shade of powder blue. Excellent for baskets and combos. Placed in full to partial sun, this annual will grow 8-12".

  

Strobilanthes 'Persian Shield'

Large purple leaves are heavily overlaid with silver veil and dark veining. Very nice foliage plant for containers or beds.

  

Plectranthus 'Nicodemus'

A more heat, sun tolerant foliage for mixed conatiners than licorice, this variety has small leaves and an overal smaler growth habit than silver plectranthus.

  

Swedish ivy

Plain green or variegated green and white, this little ound-leaf tropical has slightly serrated edges and makes a great house plant. Easy to keep, trouble free.

  

Silver Plectranthus

Large, fuzzy, silver leaves make wonderful contrast foliage for most everything else. Wonderful with the fine foliage of grasses, and the smaller silver foliage of dichondra and licorice plant. Add a single flowering annual like petunia or geranium and you've got a show stopper!

  

sweet potato pine

These trailing vines grow like Jack's beanstalk throughout summer, no matter how hot it gets!

Great to use for:
· trailing plants in large combo containers like barrels
· as groundcover around tall flowering perennials and annuals, as well as shrubbery and trees

  

Thunbergia alata (black-eyed Susan vine)

Five petal flowers of yellow, peach and orange are centered with a dark brown or black eye. Vines vigorously climb anything near! Excellent vines for obelisks and teepees in planters, or fences and arbors in the ground.

  

Tithonia 'Fiesta del Sol'

Mexican marigolds, this variety doesn't get as tall as it's cousin. A monarch nectar plant, they'll stand up in the hot, dry summer and look fantastic when most others are failing. Very pretty planted with tall Verbena bonariensis. Everyone should have this plant in the summer garden.

  

Tidytips (Layia platyglossa)

This seldom offered but gorgeous California native is a member of the sunflower family. It grows very rapidly to 1 to1.5' tall and produces 2 inch yellow flowers with neatly marked white tips in spring and summer. Can self-seed from year to year in the right spot.

Torenia

Delicate bicolor blooms in shades of deep, dark purple, light blue, bright pink, pale pink and yellow are produced copiously through summer. Plants grow 12-16" tall, and won't overcrowd others in planters and hanging baskets.
Try it with:
· nemesia
· nicotiana
· begonia
· coleus

  

 Verbena bonariensis (tall verbena)

The perfect self-seeding, tall flowering annual to set free in the garden bed to weave and wind its way around other flowers.

Especially wonderful with:
· 'Indian Summer' Rudbeckia
· 'Shasta Alaska' shasta daisy
· torch tithonia (wow!)

Also very nice alone in a large planter on a patio.

Verbena

Trailing filler plants are available in colors to complement any combination of annuals and foliage. Tough and fast growing, they make a great accent tumbling over the edge of hanging baskets and planters.

Vinca 'Cooler' mix

'Cooler' mix periwinkle offers a huge variety of pinks, lavenders, salmons and white bloom as generously as impatiens. The trick is, they won't begin to bloom and grow until it gets hot! Plant in mass in sunny beds, or use in containers and baskets with angelonia, geraniums, lantana and other heat lovers.

Viscaria 'Oculata' mix

This fast growing summer annual has lance-shaped, grayish green leaves and showy 5-petaled flowers in shades of pink, blue, lavender and white, most with a contrasting lighter or darker eye. They bloom over a very long season and make great cut flowers. Grows 24 inches tall.

 Zinnia angustifolia 'Star' mix

This fast growing summer annual has lance-shaped, grayish green leaves and small 5-petaled flowers. Plants grow only 10-14" high, and make wonderful hanging basket and conatiner plants as well as garden edgers. Very heat and drought tolerant.

Zinnia 'Magellan' mix

The classic multicolor collection of large flowering zinnias. Plants grow 12-16" tall. Flowers are double in shades of yellow, red, orange, lavender, white and apricot. Use in beds and containers. Cutting flowers for bouquest will increase flower production on plants.

 Zinnia 'Profusion'

Compact, dense plants grow to 12" and are covered with blooms all summer long. Choose 'cherry, white, fire, yellow or orange. An excellent mass planting, or edger for beds or containers surrounding tall plants like purple fountain grass, celosia, sunflowers, black-eyed Susan
or teepee poles with annual vines.

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