Annuals

Sun. Kale is a cool-season leafy green vegetable with high nutritional value. It’s considered much closer to the original wild form of cabbage, but unlike domesticated cabbage, kale’s [...]

Full sun; a drought-tolerant annual that blooms in a variety of colors including white, purple, pink and red. Easily grown from seed planted in early summer.\n\nBachelor’s button has [...]

Sun. A fairly large herbaceous perennial with grey-green toothed leaves and cheerful yellow flowers throughout the warm season. The flowers can be distinguished from similar daisy and sunflower [...]

Sun or shade; annual. Grown for vivid foliage, generally in shades of pink, purple, green, and maroon. The small purple blooms are not showy. Coleus are most useful for quickly livening up a [...]

Chisme (Spanish for gossip) spreads like gossip from seed, though easily removed. The low growing annual fills in nicely around other larger plants and displays attractive fuchsia flowers in the [...]

Profusion is a warm-season zinnia cultivar with daisy-like flowers in yellow, orange, pink and white. It’s typically used for spots of color among other perennials. Compared to most [...]

Full hot sun; an annual with dahlia-like flowers in shades of yellow, orange, pink and white especially in early summer. Mildew affects many zinnias; ‘Dreamland’ is considered [...]

Sun or partial shade. Semi-evergreen perennial or groundcover, with deeply lobed leaves and 5-petaled purple chalice flowers in spring and early summer. Prefers well-drained sandy or rocky soils; [...]

Full sun; annual, with prolific summer blooms in shades of pink, rose and white about the size of a quarter. Best planted in early summer so as not to prolong heavy watering into the [...]

Partial shade or bright shade. A warm-season perennial in Zones 8-11 with narrow pointed leaves and 8-inch flower spikes in shades of pink and lavender. Short stature makes angelonia a natural [...]