Specialty Annuals
It’s the small touches or accents that complete a room. The same applies to the garden – your outside room. A container, planted with these accent plants will tie in beautifully with your other featured choices.
Fireworks Red Fountain Grass
- Upright mound with red leaves that are striped with green and white
- In summer the red-purple plumes arch above the foliage
- Effective in the landscapes, combination planters and adds great patio colour
- Grows well in sun
Skyrocket Fountain Grass
- Spectacular cream, white and green coloured foliage with burgundy plumes makes this grass stand out in any garden
- Hardy and easy to grow
- Effective in the landscapes, combination planters and adds great patio colour
- Grows well in sun
Red Fountain Grass
- Spectacular burgundy foliage with paler burgundy plumes
- Hardy and easy to grow
- Spectacular as a specimen, in large containers or mass plantings
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Grows well in sun
Cherry Sparkler Grass
- Upright mound of foliage
- Pink blush overtakes the white and green striped leaves
- Red burgundy plumes arch above the foliage in summer
- Effective when planted in drifts, combination plantings or patio planter
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Grows well in sun
Green Spike Draceana
- Very popular plant
- Long, narrow, pointed, arching, grass like leaves grow well above any under planting
- Adds interest and texture to garden
- Perfect for container gardening, mixed gardens or in borders
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Grows well in sun
Red Star Spike
- Evergreen tall grass like shrub with burgundy red, long narrow foliage creating an exotic tropical look
- Needs good light to maintain colour
- Provides a bold accent to both container and landscape gardens
- Ideal for long pathways, mixed with annuals and perennials or in a container
- Grows well in sun
Namid Compact Bidens
- Dense compact variety with scented flowers
- Golden yellow flowers bloom all season long
- Deep green lacy foliage
- Easy to grow, heat tolerant
- Well suited for container gardens, borders garden beds
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Grows well in sun
Defiance Coleus
- Prized for its brightly coloured, detailed foliage
- Bright red pointed narrow leaves have a wide bright, yellow edge
- Heat tolerant
- Ideal in borders, container, garden plantings or can be used indoors also
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Grows well in sun
Witch Doctor Coleus
- Sun loving annual that is grown for its brightly coloured unique foliage
- Bright lime green leaves lined with purple in a very cutleaf form
- Fantastic colour for a summer bedding, hanging baskets or containers
- Grows well in sun
Big Blonde Coleus
- Bold chartreuse leaves with dark magenta stems makes a dramatic statement
- Heat tolerant
- Ideal in borders, containers, or gardens
- Grows well in sun
Breathless Blush Euphorbia
- This elegant and durable variety has a red flush leaf form with showy masses of white flowers
- A strong branching variety quick to fill in
- Great for outdoor container gardens or as a bedding plant
- Grows well in sun
Silver Fog Euphorbia
- Compact plant with an attractive, rounded growth habit
- Tiny, frilly, pure white blooms cover stems all summer and into fall
- Drought and heat tolerant
- Great for container gardens or in plant beds
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Grows well in sun
Blue Sensation Bacopa
- A vigorous living carpet that grows quickly and makes a beautiful ground cover
- Beautiful, small blue flowers
- Used in baskets and window boxes, patio containers or as an under planting or ground cover
- Grows well in sun
Atlas White Bacopa
- Vigorous, creeping carpet
- Produces masses of extra large, white flowers throughout the summer
- Great for use in baskets, window boxes, containers or as a ground cover
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Grows well in sun
Ernie Fuchsia
- Extremely popular plant grown for its free flowering and fast growth habit
- Large, double flowers have white sepals with a red corolla
- Great for hanging baskets, containers or plant beds
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Grows well in partial shade
Firecracker Fuchsia
- Features large variegated leaves and showy scarlet-orange tubular flowers
- Striking in window boxes, containers and hanging baskets
- Great for patios and porches
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Grows well in partial shade
President G. Bartlett Fuchsia
- Extremely popular plant grown for its free flowering and fast growth habit
- Large, double flowers have almost the same hot pink colour for sepals and corolla
- Great for hanging baskets, containers or plant beds
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Grows well in partial shade
Allison Patricia Fuchsia
- An extremely popular plant that is grown for it's free flowering and fast growth habit
- Large double flowers have rose sepals with a violet corolla
- Use in hanging baskets, container standards or bedding
- Grows well in partial shade
Strawberry Lime Rex Begonia
- Sports uniquely shaped, multi coloured leaves
- Exceptional plant for patio containers, window boxes, and garden beds
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Grows well in shade
Rothko Rex Begonia
- Sports uniquely shaped, rich red and black coloured leaves
- Exceptional plant for patio containers, window boxes, and garden beds
- Grows well in shade
Moonlight Rex Begonia
- Sports uniquely shaped, silver-white coloured leaves
- Exceptional for patio containers, window boxes or as a bedding plant
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Grows well in shade
Techno Heat Violet Lobelia
- Low growing, trailing plant with a well branched habit
- Masses of star shaped, intense, blue blooms cover the plant from late spring up until fall
- Heat tolerant
- Allow to trail over a wall or plant in rock garden. Beautiful in hanging baskets or window boxes
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Grows well in sun
Techno Heat Light Blue Lobelia
- Low growing, trailing plant with a well branched habit
- Masses of light blue blooms cover the plant during summer up until fall
- Heat tolerant
- Allow to trail over a wall or plant in rock garden. Beautiful in hanging baskets or window boxes
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Grows well in sun
Techno Blue Lobelia
- Easy flowering annual with excellent branching and a semi trailing, mounding, growth habit
- Masses of intense cobalt blue flowers cover the plant throughout the summer
- Allow to trail over a wall or plant in small patches throughout a rock garden
- Use in hanging baskets or window boxes
- Grows well in sun
Techno Heat White Lobelia
- Low growing, trailing plant with a well branched habit
- Masses of white blooms cover the plant from late spring up until fall
- Heat tolerant
- Allow to trail over a wall or plant in rock garden. Beautiful in hanging baskets or window boxes
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Grows well in sun
Mystic Spires Blue Salvia
- Attractive compact sage with an upright naturally compact habit
- Free flowering with spikes of true blue flowers all season
- Ideally suited for mixed containers or gardens for a great splash of colour
- Grows well in sun
Fan Dancer Scaveola
- Very interesting fan shaped daisy like flowers with a yellow crescent centre
- Deep green foliage
- Heat tolerant
- Well suited for containers, gardens or hanging baskets
- Grows well in sun
Sweet Georgia Potato Vine
- A rapid growing ornamental trailing vine producing large leaves
- Develops large underground tubers which can be dug and keep in dry, cool, storage during the winter
- Well suited for containers, gardens or hanging baskets
- Lime, bronze or black colour
- Grows well in sun
