Week 1

Bedding Plants

AgeratumAgeratum mexicanum

•Height: 4-12”•Leaves deltoid and hairy (hirstute)•Head flower white, purple or blue•Light: sun-part shade

Gerbera DaisyGerbera jamesonii•Height: 12-18”•Perennial•Head shaped flowers (all colors)•Basal, wooly leaves•Light: Sun•Seeds, Tissue Culture or Division in spring

ColeusColeus x hybridus•Height: 1-3’•Leaves: brilliant colors (green, yellow, white, pink, red, orange or purple) contrasting•Square stem•Shade-Full sun•Adds color to flower bed & containers•Stem cuttings

Shasta DaisyChrysanthemum x superbum•Height: 1-3’•Leaves: serrated, spatulate leaves •Full sun•White head shaped flower with yellow centers.•Division

ConeflowerEchinaceae pupurea•Height: 3’•Perennial•Flower (July-Sept)•Pink, Purple, White or Yellow•Sun•Laceolate leaves•Stems are coarse and pubsecent

Ivy Leaf GeraniumPelargonium peltatum

•Height: Vining• Clusters of flowers at end of stems with leathery scalooped leaves•White, red, peppermint, pink flowers in umbel•Deadhead•Sun-Part Shade

SalviaSalvia splendens

•Height: 1-3’•Spike flowers red, white, orange, maroon and bi-color (summer-frost)•Light: sun•Seeds

Madagascar Periwinkle or VincaCatharanthus roseus•Height: 10-18”•Head flower with white center (not all) white, red, pink, multi•Bright green leaves•Light: sun•Can reseed

Ajuga or Bugle WeedAjuga reptans•Height: 2”•Perennial ground cover•Purple/green spatulate leaves•Spike blue, pink or purple flower in spring•Light: Sun-part shade

Purple Wandering JewTradescantia zebrina•Height: 36”•Purple, silver and green striped leaves•Tiny, white flowers•Water when soil is dry•Light: High•Stem cuttings•Good for hanging baskets

VerbenaVerbena hybrida

•Height:9-12”•Umbel flower pink, red, white, purple, bicolor•Sun

Week 2

Bedding Plants

FuchsiaFuchsia x hybrida•Hanging basket•Showy stamens and pendant petals (white, pink, red, lavender, purple)•Will turn into a shrub•High light•Stem cuttings or seed

ZinniaZinnia elegans

•Height:10-18”•Head flower (single or double) rose, apricot, red, white, violet, pale yellow, green, orange•Coarse leaves•Full sun

Wax BegoniaBegonia x semperflorens culturom

GeraniumPelargonium x hortorum

African MarigoldTagetes erecta

PansyViola x wittrockiana