Impatiens Type: Summer annual Exposure: Shade Care: Low-maintenance but does need frequent watering on hot days Uses: Flower beds and containers. Blooms.

Impatiens

Type: Summer annual

Exposure: Shade

Care: Low-maintenance but does need frequent watering on hot days

Uses: Flower beds and containers. Blooms all summer up until first frost

Leaves: Simple ovate, dentate margins

Flowers: every color but yellow and a true blue. 2” flowers. Distinctive tail on backside of petal.

Size: 1’ to 2’ mounds

New Guinea Impatiens

Type: Summer annual

Exposure: Full sun to part shade

Care: frequent watering in full sun, good indicator plant for watering. Wilts bad but bounces back

Uses: beds and containers

Leaves: elongated and dentate, some varieties have yellow variegation and attractive patterns.

Flowers: Slightly larger than regular impatiens but same colors

Size: 1’ to 2’ tall and same width

ColeusType: Summer annual

Exposure: Full sun to part shade

Care: pinch off blooms to retain leaf color. Easy to root cuttings.

Uses: Grown for leaf color. Beds , containers

Flowers: small purple spikes, but not showy

Leaves: Many patterns and colors. 1000’s of different varieties, pink , yellow, burgundy, purple, etc

Stems: Square stems and distinct opposite leaf arrangement.

Size: 2’ to 3’ tall

Marigold

Type: Summer Annual, old fashioned varieties self seed.

Exposure: Full Sun

Care: Very low maintenance, deadheading will produce more blooms.

Uses: Beds, containers, in veggie gardens to repel bugs

Leaves: Frilly and deeply lobed. Fern-like

Flowers: many shades of orange, yellow, and rust

Size: 1’ to 3’ depending on the variety

Annual Vinca

• Annual bedding plant• Full sun• 8” to 12” tall• Blooms for a long time

And easy to maintainGlossy oval leavesSimilar to impatiens but takes heat and full sun

Wax Begonia

• Full sun to full shade• Versatile bedding plant• Can have bronze or

green leaved varieties• Annual• Easy to grow and

maintain

Plectranthus / Swedish IvyType: Annual - Houseplant

Exposure: Full sun to full shade

Care: Very low maintenance – low water requirements

Uses: Container plants, beds, indoors in sunny windows

Flowers: purple spikes

Leaves: Green and fuzzy. Fragrant – like a citronella candle. – repels mosquitos. Some varieties are variegated with white or yellow

Size: 2’ to 3’ mounds. It can get taller as it stretches in shady situations

PetuniasType: annual

Exposure: full sun to part shade

Care: easy to grow, benefits from frequent pinching to keep it compact

Uses: hanging baskets, containers, beds

Flowers: Every color in the rainbow, some doubles, even black. Trumpet shaped to 3” across

Leaves: small and oval to 1”

Size: 1 ‘ tall and some varieties – “wave” varieties can crawl to 4’ wide

CalibrachoaType: summer annual – some varieties are hardy in zone 7

Exposure: Full sun

Care: low maintenance; medium water requirements; self cleaning

Uses: beds, containers, hanging baskets

Flowers: many colors; 1” to 1 ½” tubular shaped.

Leaves: small ovate and smooth margin. Slightly fuzzy

Size: low growing – 1’ tall can spread to 2’ across

Tithonia / Mexican SunflowerType: Self-seeding annual

Exposure: Full sun

Care: Regular watering, pinching encourages more blooms

Uses: Adds height to mixed flower beds. Cut-flowers, arrangements.

Flowers: Orange petals surrounding an yellow-orange center. Flowers 2” in diameter. Blooms later than most annuals. Attracts butterflies.

Leaves: 4” to 5” and heart shaped. Fuzzy.

Size: Tall – up to 5’ tall and 5’ wide. Give plenty of space.

Sedum ‘Blue Spruce’

• Perennial• Low maintenance

succulent (low water requirements)

• 6” tall x 2’ spread• Groundcover• Can bloom yellow in

late summer

English Lavender

• -Perennial• -Full Sun , likes sandy

soils• -2’ mounds• -natural stress reducer• Used as potpurri – very

fragrant

Ivy GeraniumsType: Summer Annual

Exposure: Full sun to part shade

Care: Low maintenance, more self-cleaning than older geranium varieties. Pinch back tips to make it fuller.

Uses: containers, beds

Flowers: red, purple, white, pink

Leaves: Palmate and ovate

Size: low and sprawling - 2’ tall and 3’ wide if left untrimmed

Dragon Wing BegoniaType: summer annual

Exposure: Part shade

Care: low maintenance – easy to grow

Uses: containers, beds

Flowers: red, pink

Leaves: glossy, waxed up to 4” long and half as wide. Not symmetrical. Slightly dentate

Size: 3’ tall and 3’ wide – pinch tips to control size.

New Gold LantanaType: Tender perennial – hardy to zone 7 – may return from roots after mild winters.

Exposure: Full sun – leggy and less blooms in shady situations

Care: Thrives on neglect, super-easy to grow. Drought tolerant. No upkeep needed.

Uses: Mass planted in beds, hanging baskets, butterfly gardens

Flower- Lantana comes in many shades of yellow, orange and red. There is also a purple variety. Blooms all summer long. We are growing ‘New Gold’ because it is the most heat and cold tolerant – deep yellow pompom flower clusters. Butterflies flock to it in bloom.

Leaves: Fragrant 1” long half as wide. Serrated margin.

Black Sweet Potato VineType: Annual groundcover or vine

Exposure: Full sun

Uses: Trailing from containers, beds along retaining walls. Covers a lot of space – very spreading with stolons

Flower: None

Leaves: Palm shaped. Deeply lobed. Grown for its dark purple leaves and trailing growth habit

Size: up to 12” tall and 5’ wide

Actually grows edible potatoes underground.

Black Pearl Ornamental PepperType: Annual

Exposure: Full Sun

Care: Regular watering, easy to grow.

Uses: Mass plantings in beds, containers, dark leaves contrasts well with light colored flowers. Decorative peppers – not pleasant to eat!

Flowers: tiny white flowers tinged with purple- they do show up well against dark leaves, but mainly grown for its fruit and leaf color.

Leaves: dark green to black – blacker when planted in full sun – somewhat glossy

Size- 12 – 24 inches – slow growing

Angelonia / Summer SnapdragonType: Summer Annual

Exposure: Full Sun

Care: Low- maintenance. Very heat tolerant.

Uses: containers, flower beds in mass plantings.

Flowers: Small cup shaped flowers on upright spikes. Very unique. Looks like an open mouth of a dragon. Contrasts well with other species. Comes in pink, white, and many different shades of blue.

Leaves: simple lanceolate

Size: 12-18 in.

SedumType: Succulent herbaceous perrenial

Exposure: Full Sun

Care: In the cactus family so it stores water. Don’t overwater. Very drought tolerant.

Uses: containers or beds. Spreads - use as a groundcover. Does very well on slopes, rock gardens

Flower: none

Leaves: Succulent and fleshy. Many shapes and sizes. We are growing ‘Ogon’ (yellow), ‘Blue Spruce’ (bluish-gray), and ‘Album’ (silver –thick leaves)

Size: 2” to 6” tall and up to 2’ wide. Spreads underground with runners.

Osteospermum

Type: summer annual

Exposure: Full sun will not bloom in shade

Care: Medium water requirements

Uses: Sunny borders or containers in full sun. Cut flower arrangements.

Leaves: simple 2” undulated leaf that is longer than it is wide

Flowers: In shades of purple, lavender, white, and soft yellow. Needs to be deadheaded to bloom continuously

Size: 1’ to 2’ and slightly upright ( taller than wide)

Annual Verbena

Type: Annual

Exposure: full sun

Care: Low water requirements, benefits from regular pinching to keep the blooms coming. Heat tolerant.

Uses: Bed, containers, hanging baskets, butterfly gardens

Flowers: Every color, but yellow – clusters at the end of each branch

Leaves- thickly veined and fuzzy. Serrated leaf margin.

Size: up to 8” tall and trails out to 4’. Size can be controlled by frequent pinching

Morning Glory VineType: Annual self-seeding vine

Exposure: Full sun

Care: Train with kite string or fishing line by tying it to something that you want it to crawl on

Uses: To crawl up porch posts or mailboxes.

Flowers: Disk shaped, slightly trumpet shaped. Many colors, mostly pastels. Opens in the morning and closes in the afternoon.

Leaves: Heart shaped about 3” long

Size: Can climb to 6’ in a perfect location.

Love Lies Bleeding

Type: Self seeding annual

Exposure: Full sun

Care: dead heading needed occasionally. Medium water requirements.

Uses: Beds, and containers in full sun. Popular for flower arrangements

Leaves: Simple thin leave to 2” longAnd smooth margin

Flowers: drooping dark red tassles

Size:: Up to 3’ tall.

Gerber DaisyType: Annual

Exposure: Full Sun

Care: needs to be deadheaded when bloom fades. Doesn’t perform well in harsh conditions and has a short bloom season.

Leaves: Deeply veined and rough textured. 4” long and 2” wide with undulating leaf margin

Flowers: Daisy –like with petals radiating from center button. Many color varieties

Uses: Flower beds, containers, cut flowers for arrangements.