It is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia where it still grows in the wild as a perennial shrub. It likes a long, hot growing season to produce the best cotton fibers.

Garden nasturtium is a climbing or ground-covering culinary herb with edible flowers. The flower buds and seeds can be pickled in vinegar or brine and used as a substitute for capers. The big beautiful flowers and leaves with their unusual shield-like.

Alyssum plants are wonderful for the front of the flower border or spilling out of containers. Starting flower seeds is a great way to have as many plants as you want! Red Queen Alyssum has numerous rich red-purple.

Grow this favorite garden flower from Nasturtium seeds and enjoy its beauty all summer long. Double Gleam Orange features vivid semi-double orange flowers that are deliciously scented.

What a great addition to your flower garden! Globe Amaranth seeds readily produce these bright little golf ball-like blooms. They look so attractive on the bushy, well-branched plant that they're the perfect complement to everything else.

Alyssum plants make a great addition to pots, containers, and baskets. Grow as much as you need from Alyssum seeds! The flower seed can be started either indoors before frost season is over or directly outside once temperatures have warmed up.

Starting Helipterum seeds is an easy and rewarding way to grow this lovely annual. The Helopterum seed mix will produce blooms with yellow centers and papery petals in shades of white and rose. Helipterum flowers are excellent for cutting and drying.

Carnation 'Grenadin Mix' blooms in summer with fragrant, double flowers in shades of pink, red, rose, yellow and white. The plants are relatively compact, and the blue-green foliage is very attractive. Also known as Carnation 'Grenadin Double Mixture'.

You cannot go wrong with this incredible mix of colors! This Aster seed mix offers colors of yellow, scarlet, apricot, dark blue and more. Duchess Asters have huge, double blooms with incurved petals that grow on tall, upright plants.

Beautiful Bolero Marigolds are a fiery mix of bold colors. Petals are a deep, dark orange that are offset by a brilliant burst of yellow at the center. Marigold Bolero is sure to standout in your garden!

Tiger Paw Aster seeds will produce this tall, showy variety of Asters. Aster seeds grow quickly and these flowers bloom heavily all season long. Aster Callistephus are great flowers for the cutting garden. With long 30 inch stems and huge, double blooms.

Nothing is easier to grow and establish from flower seed than Zinnias! They will delight you with the ease of caring for them and the long-lasting display of color. This Zinnia Luminosa has large 4-5 inch flower heads of bright pink.

Needle- or quilled-type blooms atop long, sturdy stems add a delicate appearance to arrangements. 3 1/2–5 1/2" flowers bloom in pastel apricot — a shade lighter than Tower Chamois. Easy to harvest due to the well-branched plants' open, airy habit.

With varied, bright colors and interesting streaks and spots, Heirloom Candy Stripe Zinnias are just the ticket to bring some visual interest into your garden! A favorite of crafters, florists and gardeners alike, Zinnias are easy to grow annuals.

Start Poppy seeds and grow this rosy-red wildflower. The bright carmine rose colors make it shine like a true garden star! As with all California Poppies, Carmine King is an annual in colder climates and a perennial in warmer regions.

Medium height stems produce lovely little blooms in a multitude of colors! Uniquely shaped Lilliput Zinnias bloom in small, round baubles that add interest and texture to your garden, or flower arrangments!

A lovely variety with eye-catching, creamy-white flowers. 1½ft (40cm). The well-known Calfornia Poppy - the official State flower of California - is a beautiful annual with lovely blue-grey feathery foliage and flowers borne in profusion throughout.

A lovely variety with eye-catching, orange flowers. 1½ft (40cm). The well-known Calfornia Poppy - the official State flower of California - is a beautiful annual with lovely blue-grey feathery foliage and flowers borne in profusion throughout.

Nothing brings more beauty and drama than brilliant red blooms! This California Poppy Red Chief grows easily from flower seeds and is a real viewing pleasure. Poppy Red Chief reaches 8-12 inches in height.

What a show these annuals put on in the sunny flower border! Grown from Zinnia seeds, these large 4 - 5 inch brilliant yellow blooms are sure to attract attention. Canary Bird Zinnias will bloom through a long, hot summer without wilting.

Profuse and brilliant pompom blooms of color make Zinnia Lilliput a great addition to your flower garden, containers, and along walkways. Grow this annual from Zinnia seeds for gorgeous orange blooms that will brighten any area.

Growing Salvia seed is so rewarding. The butterflies and hummingbirds will love your garden when you grow these beauties! Blue Victory Salvia plants are heavy blooming, compact and give a spectacular display of color.

"Connie" Princess aster (Callistephus chinensis) is an annual plant developing an erect and compact habit and reaching 50 - 75 cm in height. It develops semi-double crimson-pink inflorescences that sit atop the main stem and side shoots.

Large (up to 10 cm in diameter), semi-double violet inflorescences develop in August atop the main stem and side shoots and continue to bloom until first frosts. Stems of this aster variety are stiff, erect and broadly branching.

This is a mix of Aster Truffaunt's Peony plants. It is an annual variety that grows 50-70 centimetres in height with rigid upright shoots which produce exceptionally decorative globular inflorescences in several colours, including white, yellow, orange!

Yellow peony aster (Callistephus chinensis) will bring truly sunny glow into your garden. This undemanding, persistently blooming annual plant has an erect habit and their straight, branched stems are covered with vividly green, small, oval-spiky leaves.

"Ofelia" peony-flowered aster (Callistephus chinensis) is an attractive plant that would work in many garden arrangements. This annual plant grows 60 - 80 cm tall. Its large inflorescences resemble peony flowers.

White tall peony aster (Callistephus chinensis) is an exceptional aster variety with huge, full flowers that immediately bring peonies to your mind. This sturdy annual plant reaches 50-80 cm in height and starts to bloom in the middle of the summer.

Purple peony aster (Callistephus chinensis) wins more and more supporters every season. This wonderful variety with extremely large, round, double inflorescences dazzles with the abundance and long period of blooming.

Blue peony aster (Callistephus chinensis) with summer-sky coloured blooms outshines the majestic peonies, whom it owes its name. This original variety with untypically coloured blooms can become an exquisite decoration on every sunny corner.

Do you need a colorful, fast growing ground cover plant for your summer landscape? Look no further than this lovely, low-growing scarlet Verbena. These breathtaking scarlet Verbena flowers are easy to establish from Verbena seeds.

Verbena is a familiar summer annual that adds so much with so little effort! This white Verbena has a dwarf and compact growth habit which makes it ideal for growing as a ground cover plant. White Verbena flowers are perfect!

Marigold ‘Aurora Red’ is an annual variety that grows around 25 centimetres in height. This fine plant features gorgeous large red flowers that differentiate this marigold variety from any other one.

Here is a lovely French Marigold to grow from flower seeds! This Dainty Marietta is yellow with a maroon blotch. The flowers are medium-sized and this is an early flowering variety. They are truly unique and will catch the interest of everyone.

This prolific variety with double, large chrysanthemum-like blooms usually grows 90 cm tall. It starts to bloom in July, after the Sweet William, cornflower and ornamental garlic, that it can replace on a multi-species border.

Growing Aster seeds is the perfect way to have enough of these stunning annuals that are late season bloomers. Just when other flowers in the borders are about done, Aster Callistephus starts blooming in the latter part of summer and into the fall.

Start this attractive annual from Dusty Miller seeds! It is known for its attractive silvery-gray foliage and mounding form and makes a lovely accent plant in the border or in containers. Dusty Miller Silverdust has lacy, lobed and deeply cut.

"Hella" Princess aster (Callistephus chinensis) is an annual plant developing an erect and compact habit, reaching 50-80 cm in height. Abundant blooming and beauty of its crimson, cherry-red flowers that gather in large inflorescences atop the main stem.

Delicate white with blue flowers on long, lush vines is what Morning Glory Ismay is known for! Papery pastel blooms are exquisitely offset by a yellow throat, directing the way for hummingbirds to find a sweet treat in your garden!

Princess aster "Malinka" (Callistephus chinensis) is a variety producing extremely decorative flowers. Inflorescences of this variety stand out with their form: their broad centres are filled with disc flowers.