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(Mirabilis jalapa) An essential addition to your Moon Garden, Four O'Clocks are the perfect package for night pollinators and midnight garden parties: moonlight-reflecting white flowers and an alluring, sweet scent reminiscent of jasmine. Plant under your bedroom window and outside your breakfast nook to enjoy the nighttime and early morning...

(Mirabilis jalapa) This botanical party originally came to us from our dear friend and collaborator Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network who gathered the seed from wild roadside plants in the village of Castiglione di Sicilia - north of Mount Etna in northeastern Sicily, close to her familial home. She...

(Digitalis purpurea) AKA “Suttons Apricot” and simply “Apricot’. We know how hard waiting can be. Accustomed to the instant gratification that assails us daily, waiting is an almost extinct leap of faith. Apricot Beauty is well worth the wait for a second-year bloomer. Worth the magnificent 4-5’ tall flower spikes...

(Digitalis lanata) You may have noticed that over the past few years we have really fallen in love with the diversity of the foxglove family. Café Crème is an elegant and alluring beauty. Dense evergreen rosettes of deep green lanceolate leaves give way to spikes of orchid-like blooms with an...

(Digitalis purpurea) These beautiful flowers come to you from the wilds of Whatcom County! The white and pink foxgloves with spotted throats that dot the hills and roadsides and rush to fill in otherwise vacant and recently cleared land could be yours. Long-lasting showy perennials and one of the first...

(Matricaria recutita) These little daisy-like flowers are native to Europe, Asia, and Africa and have been used as a calming digestive tea for centuries. Cheery blooms sit atop low-growing (18”-24”) lacy foliage and will happily reseed if allowed to mature. Wonderful fragrance, both fresh and dried. Keep on cutting, and...

(Gypsophila elegans) Baby’s breath needs no introduction. Easy to grow, elegant sprays of delicate white flowers on fine stems add a classic, weightless airiness to bouquets. A good choice to succession plant throughout the season, it is very quick from seed/transplant to bloom. 18-24" tall. 50-60 days. UO Packet: 100...

(Hyssopus officinalis) Lovely scented, perennial Mediterranean herb in the mint family. 16-24" tall and around with long stems of deep blue-violet flowers. Forms neat mounds and is easily shaped for borders. Dried aerial parts are medicinally used in cough syrups and teas for bronchitis, sore throats, colds, and flu. Leaves may...

(Polemonium caeruleum) Jacob’s ladder earns its common name from the tidy and regular 90-degree placements of the many narrow leaflets on the compound leaves, giving the appearance of a structure very conducive for climbing if one were the proper height. Also known as Greek valerian, it starts as a rosette...

(Consolida regalis) One of our longtime favorites that we've had the pleasure of growing for over 15 years now. You will be immediately taken by the cloudlike drama of this plant; Delicate foliage, profuse, rich purple/blue petite blooms, and a graceful and open growing habit. Flowers, like tiny delphiniums, form...

(Delphinium consolida) There is a hushed wonder stepping into a greenhouse on a rather dismal rainy day only to be astonished by the haunting beauty that is Earl Grey. A dusty and silvery slate purple in color, this is one that will do even better if you had a chance...

(Delpinium consolida) Salmon Beauty is not demure in its presence. It is brilliant and soft at once, holding the unique papery, perfectly folded flower quality that larkspurs are so well loved for. Dense, single and double  blooms are a slightly dusty rosy pink with hints of salmony-orange undertones, especially in...

(Consolida regalis) No ordinary larkspur, 'White Cloud', like 'Blue Cloud', grows in sprays rather than traditional spires and is therefore especially well-suited for use as a high volume low-density filler. Consider it flower and filler in one shining white, long-blooming package! 32” height and width at peak maturity, these perfect...

(Tagetes patula)A very showy low growing (12-18”) marigold covered with beautiful red doubled blooms accented with oranges and golds. Very elegant looking in a Baroque sort of way. Blooms fade to a lovely burnt orange. Very beneficial in the garden, marigolds have strong nematicidal properties. Edible petals! This is a...

(Tagetes tenuifolia) A very tidy and ridiculously cheerful (12-18”) mounding plant with a never-ending display of petite marigold flowers ranging in colors from your classic deep reddish-orange to dusty tangerine and lemon yellow. With their strong and slight citrusy smell (especially the yellows), brilliant colors and lacy foliage, it’s no...

(Tagetes patula) This bright and easy-going marigold continues to find a place in our garden each year. Each plant produces more cheerful red and yellow bi-color blooms than you can count! Stunning and lovely to cut at 3-4'. Dates back to the 17th century. 80-90 days. TR Packet: 50 seeds...

(Althea officinalis) If any of you are prone to long-lasting coughs and sore throats in the winter months, you’ll want this perennial herb in your garden. Edible white/blushed with pink flowers and big soft leaves reaching a height of 6-8’ make this herb hard to miss & resist. Both the...

(Reseda odorata) At first sight, mignonette hardly seems a plant to inspire such rich history and lore as it does: an unkempt and sprawly plant with loose spikes of tiny non-descript cream-colored flowers with orange anthers. I’ll admit, when we grew it for the first time and saw it in...

(Monarda citriodora) A member of the mint family, this perennial flowering herb is native across much of the United States and Mexico. Vertically stacked whorls of impossibly vibrant purple flowers prove irresistible to bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and just buzz with pollinators (hence another common name for it, "bee balm"). The...

*Heirloom* (I. purpurea) Now famous as the variety that set the Whealy’s on their path to eventually found the Seed Savers Exchange, Grandpa Ott’s is a real beauty. Of Bavarian origins, its purple trumpets have glowing magenta centers and a dark five pointed star pattern. Climbs over 10’ in a...

(Tropaeolum minus) When we used to grow production salad mix, we always had a special mix for restaurants that was a little more work to produce but was just so beautiful with its diversity of shapes, colors, textures, and flavors. One of the cornerstones of the mix were the leaves...

(Trapaeolum majus) Cheerful, easy to grow, edible, and long-lasting, nasturtiums have remained at the top of our list for as long as we’ve grown a garden. More of a place in the garden than a plant, these beauties can trail to over 8’ across and adorn their lush leafiness with...

(Nicotiana langsdorffii) Do you ever feel like you need more ease in this world? A moment to appreciate, remember, and live within delight? Many moments? Moments that extend from summer until frost? Moments that are there whether you notice or not, and do not need you to notice to thrive?...

(Nicotiana langsdorffii) It’s lovely when plants need very little from us. This one seems to thrive on appreciative glances and not too much else. Nothing bothers it and pollinators adore it. WE love it! Absurd as it may be in a world of color, lime green flowers remain a favorite...

(Nicotiana alata) Velvety green tobacco leaves give rise to flower spikes of nodding chartreuse trumpet flowers that glow in any light. Add to that the absolutely intoxicating fragrance released into the evening air at dusk and continuing into the morning hours...*sigh* Each plant continually branches reaching a height of 3-4’...

(Nicotiana sylvestris) This statuesque nicotiana (part of the tobacco family) creates a spectacularly tall focal point to cottage-style gardens. Very vertical in stature, it grows from verdant green rosettes to 6+’ topped with clusters of extraordinarily long (4-5”) and slim, tubed, nodding white blooms. The effect of the sweetly fragrant...

(Nicotiana glutinosa) We love a good name and when we read a couple of seed growers in Oregon had given this species of nicotiana the nickname “Peach Screamer” on account of its flowers, that look like little screaming mouths, we knew we had to help make it stick. Native to...

(Nigella sativa) Grown throughout the Middle East and also known as Blessed Seed, Herb from Heaven, Black Seed, Roman Coriander, Black Caraway, Black Onion Seed, Kalonji, Corek Otu, Ketzah, Chaveux de Venus, etc., and referenced in the Old Testament, ancient Islamic and Greek literature, found in Egyptian tombs... It is...

(Nigella bucharica) You know what I love? Edible flowers. Love them. I love the shapes and textures, and I love the worry I see on people's faces. I might like the worry the best. Bahahaha. In this world, I’d like your worry to be about a flower. Truly. Ok onward,...

(Nigella papillosa) Deep purple elongated anthers? Check. Pure white petals? Check. Ferny foliage? Check. Humming with bees and other pollinators? Check. Easy to grow and delightful to observe? Check. Great cut flower? Check. I know. We’re speechless too. 24-36”. 70-80 days. FL, TR Packet: 100 seeds   [split] Growing Info...

(Nigella papillosa) In our fast-growing collection of nigella flowers, Delft Blue is the only one that is a mix of colors instead of any one distinct color. Very similar in habit and look to Exotica and with the same very decorative, magenta stamens, but with pure white, streaked blue, streaked...

(Nigella hispanica) Exotica is our favorite of the Nigella (Love In a Mist) family. The beautiful purple passionflower-like blooms make an outstanding and long-lasting cut flower filler. Very delicate and abundant sprays with flowers that contrast from deep purple flower petals to dark purple centers to magenta stamens. Once the...

(Panicum elegans) If you’d love the ease of making an elegant bouquet quickly or simply want a sumptuous and airy backdrop to your (life) garden, I think I have your answer. The answers to questions you were unaware you had are always the best anyway. We love this. It feels...

(Achillea ptarmica) Stunning bright white sprays of doubled blooms on 2.5' mounded foliage. A lovely addition to any garden, long blooming through October, beloved by pollinators and us! While these would be perfect as a filler, they are impressive on their own. Long lasting and stemmed fresh and a perfect...

(Phacelia tanacetifolia) Ok. Yeah, yeah I know. Your Anise Hyssop attracts a lot of bees, and your Borage too. But honestly, you ain’t seen nothing until you plant a swath of this in your garden. Put in a clump of it and if there is a bee within 2 miles...

(Papaver somniferum) Why, Hellooo my brilliant red, white, and lacy friend! Not one to shy away from direct attention or compliments and sure to distract and titillate…perfect for the bedside table. Ahem. I mean the bees. Need I say more? Oh yes, a copious amount of seeds if you desire...

(Papaver somniferum) A culinary poppy from the village of Ziar, Slovakia known for large seed heads filled with unusually sweet grayish-blue seeds. Seed heads have been bred to have closed vents on the sides preventing seeds from spilling onto the ground instead of making it into your bread. Approx. 4’...

(Eschscholzia californica) Long-lasting colors ranging from pastel to richly hued shades of cream, orange, rose, mustard and violet. Our mix throws some truly beautiful, unique color combinations, and some striking pleated chiffon textures. Keeps on setting new blooms throughout the summer and way into fall. Lower growing at approx. 12-15”....

(Papaver nudicaule) After years of flower selection, we are thrilled to continually offer this diverse color population created from the popular commercial cultivar “Meadow Pastels”. There is nothing quite like Iceland poppies. Long stems, flowers like translucent stained glass, and more blooms then you will ever keep up with. The...

(Papaver somniferum) Stunning. Deep purple verging on black poppies with finely cut, frilly petals. 4’ tall and a necessity in your garden. Lovely decorative pods.80-90 days. UO Packet: 300 seeds [split] Growing Info SOWING: Sow indoors 6-8 weeks before your last frost. Transplant out early Spring. Direct sow in late...

(Papaver somniferum) A show stopper. Even flower farming veterans are astonished by these beauties when touring our home farm in past years. Impossibly huge peony-like pastel blooms from white to rose to deep purple. Not pastel, like easter kitsch, but pastel, like gorgeous antique flower paintings. The gene pool spans...

(Papaver somniferum) We love the drama of frilly, pom-pom type peony poppies and are delighted with this soft lavender version of the form to accompany Black Swan and Frilled White in our collection. Blooms seemingly explode from their buds like a supernova before eventually carpeting the ground in their huge...

(Papaver rhoeas) AKA “Cedric Morris,” named after the late accomplished painter, plant breeder and gardening enthusiast. Like many of his sumptuous paintings, these beauties were selected by him for their muted, smokey tones, their distinction being their subtlety. Pearly whites, roses, smoky greys, lavenders, and speckled petals, many with picoteed...

(Papaver rhoeas) Shirley poppies with the delicate, crinkly texture we all love in atmospheric hues of dusty lilac, pearly purple/slate grey-blue, and the rare antique rose and white. Semi-double and single perpetual petite blooms. Yup. Pretty much dazzling. Loved by Pollinators. 2-3’ tall/wide. Annual. 55-65 Days. UO Packet: 300 seeds [split]...

(Papaver rhoeas) We are told that these grow wild as common field weeds in the south of France. Charming. We get lettuce thistle and the French get pretty little red poppies. So. Not. Fair. A sprinkle of seeds here, a sprinkle there. Wait. Smile and feel joy. Long blooming, brilliant...

(Papaver rhoeas) You know a flower is something special when seeing them from across a field can make you gasp! Now imagine your delight at close range, and you’ve got these outstanding Shirley poppies. Stripey, ruffled, captivating and a summer long bloomer, Pandora is the carmine inspired big sister to...

(Rudbeckia hirta) Rudbeckias are cheerful, bright, long-lasting in the garden and vase and keep on blooming and blooming through light frosts. This particular variety is 2-3’ tall and stunningly covered with long stems ranging from single (rarely) to double to almost mum-like density 3-5” blooms in autumnal hues of gold,...

(Rudbeckia occidentalis) “Petal-less” might be a tough selling point for a flower cultivar, but this unique rudbeckia shines in garden borders and as bouquet filler. In place of the more typical ray flowers, this elongated coneflower has a collar of upswept green petal-like sepals. Native to spongy meadows and stream...