5" Fancy Annuals
A superior collection of new and unique annuals specially selected for gardeners who aren't looking for the traditional varieties. Your customers are into the trend of home decorating, so appeal to their senses with these upscale varieties at a terrific value.
| Variety | Description | Height | Spacing | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|
African Mallow |
A pallet of pink blooms leap off minty green foliage. Cape Mallow is native to South Africa and prefers somewhat cooler temperatures. It will suffer when it is hot and humid. This is especially true when night temperatures begin staying in the 70's or higher. Self cleaning, no deadheading necessary. | 30-36" | 24" | Full Sun |
Cleome
Senorita Rosalita |
The magnificent dark leaves on this 3 feet tall upright branches are topped by clusters of bright, lavender, pink or white flowers. And they bloom with abandon from late spring through fall. Deadheading is no more. All they ask is that you plant them in full sun in a place where water drains freely through the soil. | 24-48" | 20-24" | Full Sun |
Colocasia |
Commonly known as Elephant Ears, with leaves that can measure 2 feet in length, these plants deliver strong architectural lines to prevent your landscaping from becoming too fussy or predictable. | 24-36" | 24-36" | Sun or Partial Sun |
Crossandra |
Grow this under-used and under-appreciated tropical plant and you're sure to get lots of questions -- and compliments! It's a great performer in hot, sunny spots. It produces clusters of frilly orange flowers all season and shiny, dark green leaves. When frost threatens, you can bring it indoors and grow it as a houseplant, too, where it will flower on and off all year if it gets enough light. | 12-18" | 12" | Part Shade |
Euphorbia
Diamond Frost |
Incredible, continuously blooming clouds of airy white flowers with a mounded habit tolerate heat and drought. The versatility is of both as a single specimin plant or combinations. It is easy to grow and has the ability to stay beautiful without deadheading. | 12-18" | 10-12" | Sun or Partial Sun |
Fern Maiden
Hair |
Maidenhair Fern is pretty and delicate with wiry, purple-brown petioles and feathery, circular fronds that grow outward in a flat, fan-like position. Maidenhair Ferns are slow spreading and non-invasive. They remain attractive from spring to fall when planted in humus-rich, loose, well-drained soil that is kept moist at all times. | 18" | Part Sun to Shade | |
Fern Silver
Lace |
A very attractive clump-forming fern with spectacular variegated fronds that display narrow leaflets banded in silvery white throughout the midsections and radiate towards the contrasting dark green and slightly ruffled margins. Hence, commonly known as Silver Lace Fern for its lovely lacelike textures. | 18" | 24-36" | Partial Shade |
Gaura |
Each flowering stem adds blooms, continuously to the end of the spike. Wands of pink flowers hover like butterflies over dark green foliage May through September. It is heat and drought tolerant and will attract butterflies. | 12-24" | 8-12" | Full Sun |
Gerbera |
Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant. Gerbera daisy flowers exhibit large blooms with yellowish central disks surrounded by colorful rays of pink, orange, yellow and red. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and birds. | 12-18" | Sun to Partial Sun | |
Lobularia
Snow Princess |
If there's one new plant that should be on everyone's list, it's Snow Princess! A unique breakthrough in heat tolerance and extended season performance. This Lobularia is extremely vigorous and because it puts no energy into setting seed it has an incredibly long bloom time. Creates a great hanging basket or window box and is a perfect filler in combinations. | 4-6" | 8-10" | Sun to Partial Sun |
Reiger
Begonias |
The double, waxy flowers resemble miniature roses and bloom in a wide range of bright colors: orange-apricot, pink, rose-pink, salmon-pink, red, or yellow. Remove the spent flowers for a new flush of fresh blooms. Bring your begonia indoors during the winter and place it in a warm, sunny window for more blooms. Avoid wetting the foliage and provide good air circulation to keep this plant healthy. | 12-18" | Part Shade to Shade | |
Rex
Begonias |
Fancy foliage is the smart way to brighten up a shaded patio or a garden corner. Their leaves are large and richly patterned with blotches, splashes, and sprinkles in endless combinations of bronze, red, pink, purple, silver, and green. They're also rippled, dimpled, crinkled, and curled. Some are fuzzy, while others have a metallic sheen. There's a whole show going on in each leaf. Rex begonias like part to deep shade, ordinary potting soil and water when the top inch or so of the soil is dry. | 6-12" | 15-18" | Partial Shade |
Salvia Black
& Blue |
Indigo-blue tubular flowers emerge from an almost black base and attract both hummingbirds and butterflies in abundance. The 10" showy flower spikes bloom from early summer to late autumn and are ideally planted in mass in the background of annual borders or in mixed shrub and perennial plantings. This vigorous grower has dark mint green colored foliage and a loose, bushy, upright growth habit. | 36-48" | 36-48" | Full Sun to Part Shade |
