Chima Family Heirloom Poppy, Organic
$3.45
$3.95
Seed Exchange - The stunning double flowers of this breadseed poppy are coral-pink and reach 2-2 ½' tall. Valeria Dukelow donated this gorgeous poppy to Seed Savers Exchange in 2012 and has grown it in her Pittsburgh garden since the 1960s, when she obtained the seeds from her Romanian-born mother. All plant parts except the seeds are toxic.
Organic
Stunning double dark pink to red blooms
Grows 2 to 2.5 feet tall
Blooms late June - July
200 Seeds
Instructions - Direct seeding is preferable, as poppies do not like to have their roots disturbed. Sow seeds outdoors in the early spring when the soil is still cool and light frost is possible. Can also be sown in the fall just before the ground freezes. Plants will tolerate poor soil.
Direct Seed 1/4" deep
Germination 10-15 days
Thin 8-10" apart
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Color Fountains Cleome Flower, 1700's Heirloom
$2.99
The Seed Savers Exchange - (Cleome hassleriana) (aka Cleome) Introduced from the West Indies to England in 1817. Airy blossoms in a mix of rose, pink, purple, and white. Flowers are followed by narrow 4-5" intriguing seedpods which resemble spider legs. Moderately thorny stems. Very easy to maintain. Self-seeding, half-hardy annual, 3-4' tall.
Characteristics:
Self-seeding, half-hardy annual plants grow to 3-4 feet tall
Pink, purple, and white flowers
Thorny stems like a rose bush
Great as a cut flower or in ornamental plantings
.5g or ~250 Seeds per packet
Instructions: Sow seeds outdoors after the last frost. Prefers rich soil. Tolerant of dry conditions. To avoid self-seeding, cut off flower heads before seeds open. May require staking.
Direct Seed: 1/8" Deep
Germination: 10-14 Days
Thin: 18-24" Apart
Light: Sun/Partial Shade
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Color Palette Cupid, Windowbox Sweet Pea
$3.39
$3.69
Renee's Garden - Color Palette Cupid is a lovely color mix of fragrant bush sweet peas perfect to grow in outdoor containers to decorate your patio, deck or any small space garden area. These diminutive vines grow just eight to 10 inches tall, then the sweetly scented big flowers bloom happily on softly cascading branches. Fill up your containers with this special blend of all the Cupid colors. You’ll have plants with blossoms in rose-pink and white, soft lavender, shell pink, and deep purple.
Characteristics:
Window Length
Large ruffled blooms
Soft watercolor shades
Lasting cut flowers
Approx 45-50 seeds
Instructions - Sweet peas must have well-drained soil, so dig deeply and enrich with aged manure or compost before sowing seeds. Erect a well-anchored trellis, vertical netting or other support for vines before planting. Sow seeds in full sun in cool early spring weather as early as the ground can be worked. In mild winter areas, where the ground does not freeze, plant in fall; seeds will germinate and form strong root systems, then overwinter to bloom strongly in spring. Plant sweet pea seeds 1 inch deep and 2 to 3 inches apart. When seedlings are 2 inches tall, thin them 4 to 5 inches apart, to allow plants room to mature.
Plant in: February - April
Full sun
Plant 1 inch deep
Plant 2-3 inches apart
12-20 days to germinate
Mature Height:1-2 feet
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Copper Pot California Poppy
$3.25
Stunning Orange Blossoms - The blossoms of this luminous California poppy glow in radiant coppery-red shades, especially dazzling when lit by the sun. Copper Pot’s satiny flowers shine like bright beacons above mounds of feathery, gray-green foliage. Their vibrant colors are real showstoppers throughout spring and early summer. Ideal for drifts of cheerful color, these easy to grow flowers will often naturalize and happily resow themselves for another season of bloom. Copper Pot is perfect to cover bare or neglected garden areas. Eschscholzia californica
Characteristics:
Deep Orange Blossoms
Re-seeding annual
Tolerates poor soil
3-4' tall
78 days
2 grams (~1200 seeds)
Instructions - This poppy is a hardy annual preferring full sun, well-drained sandy soil. It will do well in poor soils so do not fertilize. Direct seed in fall for early summer blooms in zones 7-10, plant in spring for late summer blooms in all zones. The plant will be reseeded, but it is also helpful to gather some seeds to replant next year. Poppies can be started indoors as transplants but direct seeding is best and HIGHLY Recommended
Direct Seed 1/4" deep
Germination 10-15 days
Thin 8-10" apart
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County Fair Blend Zinnias Flower, Organic
$3.25
$3.55
A warm-toned mix of pink, orange, purple, gold, and cream blooms.
High Mowing Organic Seeds - An excellent cut flower that blooms until frost; the more you cut the more they grow! 2-5" blooms ideal for borders and bouquets. Heat and disease tolerant. Zinnias last longer if you change the water in the vase every two days and keep out of direct sunlight
Characteristics:
Organic, non-GMO, and open-pollinated
High Mowing Seeds Exclusive
Excellent cut flower
Attracts butterflies
24-36" plants
Annual
Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors after the last frost. Zinnias perform best in Full Sun with well-drained fertile soil. Excellent cut flower. Remove spent blossoms regularly to prolong blooming. You can start indoors 4-6 weeks before the last frost to encourage faster bloom time.
Sow 1/4 " Deep
Germination 3-10 days
Scatter seeds and thin to 9" apart
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Crackerjack Mix African Marigold, Organic, Heirloom
$2.99
$3.25
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Crackerjack Mix African Marigolds are classics that take 82 days to bloom in shades of yellow, gold, and orange. (Tagetes erecta)
Certified Organic
Heirloom
Especially well-suited to the South-East
From Small Farms
3-4 ft. plants
Instructions - Annual. Germination: 70°F, 4-8 days. Full sun. Direct sow or transplant after last frost. Space 8-16” apart.
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Crego Mix China Aster Flower
from $3.25
$3.75
Crego Aster Mix provides tons of flowers from late summer through mid-fall. They are a blend of purple, blue, pink and white jewel tones. Flowers are very full and have a wonderful shaggy appearance. Flowers provide a late nectar and pollen source and plenty of blooms for flower arrangments.
Annual
Long-lasting flowers
A mix of purples, pinks, and whites
250 Seeds Firefly Farm & Mercantile Packet
Instructions: Plant outdoors after the danger of frost has passed in late spring. Prefers average soil. Remove spent blossoms regularly to prolong blooming.
Alternative Sowing for those that want earlier blooms
Start Indoors: 8-10 weeks before the last frost
Germination: 7-10 Days
Plant Outdoors: 7-10” Apart
Light: Sun/Partial Shade
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Cupani's Original Sweet Pea, 1600's Heirloom's
$2.99
Renee's Garden - Ours is an especially strong blooming strain of this heat tolerant treasured heirloom. Its ancestry can be traced to the first wild sweet peas from Sicily named for Father Francis Cupani, the Italian monk who discovered and sent them back to England in the 17th century. These intensely perfumed, beautifully bicolored flowers have petals of deep maroon purple and orchid-violet. The fragrance of these classic simple blossoms truly wafts in the air, delighting every passerby.
Characteristics:
Heat tolerant
Large ruffled blooms
Our oldest Sweet Pea
Lasting cut flowers
Approx 35-40 seeds
Instructions - Sweet peas must have well-drained soil, so dig deeply and enrich with aged manure or compost before sowing seeds. Erect a well-anchored trellis, vertical netting or other support for vines before planting. Sow seeds in full sun in cool early spring weather as early as the ground can be worked. In mild winter areas, where the ground does not freeze, plant in fall; seeds will germinate and form strong root systems, then overwinter to bloom strongly in spring. Plant sweet pea seeds 1 inch deep and 2 to 3 inches apart. When seedlings are 2 inches tall, thin them 4 to 5 inches apart, to allow plants room to mature.
Plant in: February - April
Full sun
Plant 1 inch deep
Plant 2-3 inches apart
12-20 days to germinate
Mature Height:1-2 feet
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Dallas Edwards Bean, Heirloom
$3.45
$3.95
The Seed Savers Exchange - This pole snap bean boasts excellent flavor and texture and remains crunchy and juicy for an extended period of time. Early- to mid-season maturing plants are strong climbers and producers; seeds have good flavor and texture as a dry bean too. This variety was donated to Seed Savers Exchange in 2014 by Paris Fortner of Erie, Michigan, who received its seeds in the 1990s from the daughter of Dallas Edwards (the Tennessee woman for whom the variety is named).
Characteristics:
Pole bean
Donated to SSE in 2014
Crunchy and juicy
Very productive
Snap or dry bean
52 days
Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors after the danger of frost has passed and soil and air temperatures have warmed. Harvest dry beans when the pods are completely mature and dry.
Direct Seed: 2" Apart
Seed Depth: 1"
Support: Trellis, tepee, or fencing
Light: Full Sun
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Dancing Ballerinas California Poppy
$3.25
Dancing Ballerinas California Poppy Seeds - Enchanting Dancing Ballerina is a graceful mix of special California poppies that have unusual fully double and semidouble blossoms with delicate fluted petals. These paper-thin, glowing flowers bloom in a shimmering range of rich sherbet colors including deep rose, lilac, scarlet, orange, yellow and white. Like all California poppies, you’ll find carefree Dancing Ballerina is easy to grow and forgiving of poor soil. The abundant flowers shine on slender stems above feathery, gray-green foliage. Eschscholzia californica
Characteristics:
Beautiful double blossoms!
Re-seeding annual
Tolerates poor soil
3-4' tall
78 days
2 grams (~1200 seeds)
Instructions - This poppy is a hardy annual preferring full sun, well-drained sandy soil. It will do well in poor soils so do not fertilize. Direct seed in fall for early summer blooms in zones 7-10, plant in spring for late summer blooms in all zones. The plant will be reseeded, but it is also helpful to gather some seeds to replant next year. Poppies can be started indoors as transplants but direct seeding is best and HIGHLY Recommended
Direct Seed 1/4" deep
Germination 10-15 days
Thin 8-10" apart
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Dark Night Pincushion, Heirloom Scabiosa
$2.99
$3.39
Renee's Garden - A cottage garden favorite, Dark Night's buds resemble jeweled Victorian brooches that unfurl into densely petaled, frilled, "pincushion" shaped flowers. Planted in sunny borders, the blossoms attract a myriad of pollinators throughout the summer, especially Monarch, Fritillary and Skipper butterflies. With their deep, rich color and intricate form, Dark Night is a wonderful color accent in bouquets. Flowers also air dry easily for everlasting arrangements.
Characteristics:
Heirloom
Hardy Annual
Dark purple colors
Lasting cut flowers
500mg, Approx 45-50 seeds
Instructions - Sow seeds 1 to 2 inches apart in a container of seed starting mix, 2 or 3 weeks before last expected frost. Cover 1/4 inch deep, keep moist, and provide a good light source until seedlings are ready to transplant. Plant out into fertile garden soil in full sun when plants are 3 to 4 inches tall.
Plant in: February - April
Full sun
Plant 1/4 inch deep
Plant 8-10 inches apart
12-15 days to germinate
Mature Height: 3-4 feet
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Diablos Cosmos Flower, 400 year old Heirloom
$3.25
$3.75
Not available for 2024
The Seed Savers Exchange - This variety of Cosmos is native to Mexico and Central and South America. As such, it can tolerate growing with very little water after the seeds germinate. It was introduced into English horticulture in the late 18th century.
Diablo Cosmos is of the species Cosmos sulphureus. This species of flower was preferred by the Korean-Japanese botanist and plant breeder Dr. Woo Jang-choon in his program of planting cosmos flowers along the highways and railroads in Japan and Korea.
In 1974 Diablo Cosmos won the All-America Selections award for Flowers.
Reintroduced for 2019
Half-hardy annual plants grow to 2-3 feet
Scarlet-orange blossoms
Long lasting cut flower
Good for ornamental plantings
Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors after the last frost. Cosmos prefer poor soil. They will thrive with very little attention and do not need a lot of water. Excellent cut flower. Remove spent blossoms regularly to prolong blooming. May require staking.
Sow 1/" Deep
Germination 3-10 days
Scatter seeds and thin to 18" apart
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Dondo Blue Ageratum, Organic
$3.25
$3.50
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Dondo Blue Ageratum, also known as Floss Fower or Bluemink Flowers, Prolific clusters of blue flowers. Long stems do well in bouquets, but may take root if allowed to rest on the ground. Native to Mexico. Self-sows. Small packet (0.05 g) has about 200 seeds.
Botanical Name: Ageratum houstonianum
Organic
Light Blue flowers
Used in mass plantings for endless summer color
Beloved by pollinators
Butterfly magnet
Instructions - Annual. Germination: 70°F, 4-8 days. Full sun. Direct sow or transplant after last frost. Space 8-16” apart.
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Double Click Cosmos Blend Flower, Organic
$3.25
$3.55
Stunning Twist on the historic Sensation mix.
High Mowing Organic - Blend of fully double and semi-double flowers share the many-shaded pinks of Sensation Blend, but have the layered petals of an aster or dahlia. Hardy, tolerant of drought and low fertility, subject to very little disease or pest pressure, this cosmos blend is much easier to grow than either of its look-alikes. Give Double Click a try!
Looks like a small Dahlia
Very easy to grow
Half-hardy annual plants grow to 4-5 feet tall
Tubular flowers in pink, red, and white
Great in cut flower arrangements
Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors after the last frost. Cosmos prefer poor soil. They will thrive with very little attention and do not need a lot of water. Excellent cut flower. Remove spent blossoms regularly to prolong blooming. May require staking.
Sow 1/2" Deep
Germination 3-10 days
Scatter seeds and thin to 18" apart
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Doubled Chinensis Mix Dianthus, Organic
$3.45
$3.75
Gorgeous, frilly blooms with a variety of patterns and shades ranging from deep rosy reds and pinks to pastel pinks with illuminating white highlights.
Flowering in its first year, plants are grown as annuals with reliable, fragrant blooms. Great as a garden crop and can be used for detail work in smaller floral arrangements. Excellent for very flashy, mini tabletop bouquets. Approx. 35,000 seeds/oz.
First year flowering
16-20" tall
Annual
Open-Pollinated
25 Seeds
Instructions: Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors when a light frost is still possible. Will self-sow profusely. Prefers average soil and tolerates dry conditions. Good cut flower, fresh or dried seedpod.
Direct Seed: 1/8" Deep
Germination: 7-15 Days
Thin: 8-12" Apart
Light: Full Sun