Annual Flowers

Monarda citriodora - (aka; Lemon Mint) Annual. The young leaves make a lovely tea. Tall tiered spikes of lavender-pink are incredibly aromatic and ...

Both beautiful and edible! This is a poppy selected for eating, with huge seed heads that hold their seeds without shattering. The large (relativel...

Selected in Maine by Will Bonsall for large edible seeds. This is the one you want for eating! These plants are a consistent size at around 5-6 fee...

Cosmos sulphureus - Planted in a row, the bushy plants grow into a 4-5' hedge covered in countless orange blossoms. Starts blooming in early summer...

Artemesia annua - aka; Sweet Wormwood. I first encountered this magically scented herb at the Common Ground Fair in Maine. Sweet Annie headdresses ...

Xerochrysum bracteatum - Mixed colours (white, pink, yellow, red, purple) on 3-4' tall plants. Beautiful blossoms with unique papery petals, they h...

Calendula officinalis - This sunny annual is among the very easiest to grow. The flowers can be used in herbal teas or the petals added to salads. ...

I'm happy to have discovered sesame these past few years. Beautiful and easy to care for plants, growing up to 3-4' tall in ideal conditions. By A...

These giant sunflowers live up to their name! Huge single heads on top of mammoth stalks, the biggest specimens in our sunflower forest were 12 fee...

Papaver somniferum - Huge multi-hued flowers are a sight to behold, and the bees think so too. Followed by equally large seed heads, full of edible...

Although a native North American crop, much work has been done in eastern Europe and Russia to breed black oilseed sunflowers for an alternativ...

A vibrant mix of yellow, red, orange and multi-coloured flowers. The plants are branching and medium sized, growing from 4 to 7 feet with lots of s...

Papaver rhoeas - Soft and subtle shades of pink, lilac, orange, lavender, grey and white. Grown en-masse they have an ethereal presence to them. Lo...

Papaver rhoeas - Flowers are a soft palette of grey, lavender and lilac. Unique and eye catching, every visitor to the farm was struck by them. Ann...

Celosia is most often grown as an ornamental in North America (I can see why; they’re stunning plants), but in west Africa they’re among the most w...

An ornamental amaranth, with huge knobby trunk-like seed heads filled with black seeds. They started more conversations than just about any other p...

(Nicotiana rustica) - The story that came with these seeds, is that they were discovered in pottery sealed with pitch at a burial site near the Gre...

A mixture of pinks, reds, whites and multi-colours... no two plants are quite the same shade. Plants grow to 5 feet tall with beautiful ferny folia...

Zinnia elegans - Large dark red blossoms on vigorous 3' plants. Excellent variety for cut flowers. Favourite of bees and butterflies. 30+ seeds-Gro...

Nicotiana tobacum - This is the type typically grown in the Appalachian piedmont. If you’re growing it to smoke, planting in less fertile soil prod...

Eschscholzia californica - Native to our continent's west coast. An easy growing annual that thrives in many places. Golden flowers reach about 1 f...

Centaurea cyanus - Silvery foliage and an abundance of dark and lacy purple-black flowers. Edible flowers, cut-flower or as a dye plant for foods o...

Papaver somniferum - Pink-purple annual poppy. Big showy heads of frilly petals. Several hundred seeds -Grown by Annapolis Seeds

Zinnia haageana - Stunning flowers, with combinations of gold, red, brown, yellow and white. Bushy and compact plants, about 24” tall. 40+ seeds  G...