Annual Flowers

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...

This variety was collected growing near an old school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and shared by Seed Savers Exchange in 1999. Deep red flowers with yel...

The smallest sunflower I’ve yet grown. The petite yellow flowers reach about waist high, with many side branches and continuous blooms for many wee...

Papaver rhoeas - Red, pink and white flowers (and all shades in between). As a cultivated form of the wild field poppy (P. rhoeas), they self-sow q...

Datura stramonium - aka Devil’s Trumpet. This alluring shrub-like annual caught the eye of nearly everyone who visited the gardens last year. The ...

Papaver commutatum - Deep red petals with black spots, like floral ladybirds! An annual species native to the Caucasus Mountains. The slender stems...

Zinnia elegans - Wildly colourful population, selected by the late great vegetable breeder Jim Bagget of Oregon State University. Zinnias were his ...

Mirabilis jalapa - Trumpeting tropical blooms are truly otherworldly. Bushy succulent-looking plants bloom from mid-summer through to frost. Tender...

New for 2025 - Fagopyrum esculentum - Stunning ruby blossomed buckwheat, a cultivar of Common Buckwheat. Fast growing up to 4' tall. All types of b...