Erect perennials with daisylike flowers; good for late summer and fall bloom in large casual borders.

RedGold Hybrids: Yellow, orange, and bronze shades

Tough, sturdy annual plants with coarse leaves and large bold flowers. Very popular cut flowers.

Dwarf Types for Pot Production

Big Smile: Dwarf plants with golden yellow blooms; ideal for 4-6 inch pots
Incredible: Dwarf 12-15 inch plants with big flowers
Pacino: Improved dwarf pot type; 12-16 inches tall with 4-5 inch yellow flowers
Teddy Bear: Compact 24 inch plants with fully double golden yellow flowers

Tall Types for Cut Flower Production

" Double Shine F₁: 100% double pollenless yellow flowers
" Elite Sun: Pollenless dark yellow flowers; finishes in only 8 weeks
" Floristan: Large bicolored flowers with rusty red petals and yellow tips
" Full Sun F₁: Large golden yellow blooms on 5-8 foot stems
" Goldburst: Unusual semi-upright plants with large, fully double golden yellow blooms
" Ikarus: Large light yellow flowers on base-branching plants; good in gardens
" Lemon Wonder
" Moonbright F₁: Lemon-yellow pollenless flowers with dark brown centers
" Prado Gold F₁: Small golden-yellow flowers with brown centers; multiflora type
" Prado Red F₁: Velvety red flowers with brown centers; multiflora type
" Sonja: Medium golden-orange flowers with brown centers
" Soraya: Large 4-6 inch orange flowers with dark centers; 20-25 stems per plant
" Sunbeam F₁: Medium gold flowers with greenish-yellow discs; daylength neutral
" Sunbright Superior F₁: Medium golden-yellow flowers with dark brown centers; improved uniformity and earliness
" Sunrich Lemon F₁: Lemon-yellow pollenless flowers with dark brown centers
" Sunrich Orange F₁: Orange flowers with dark brown centers
" Superior Gold: Light golden yellow petals surround black pollen-free disc
" Superior Sunset: Golden orange flowers with black discs
" Valentine: Small lemon-yellow flowers with black discs on long, basal-branching stems

Summer annual with everlasting papery pompom-like flowers. Tall types make excellent dried flowers.

Bikini Series: Dwarf type with brightly colored 2 inch double flowers

White
Pink
Golden
Hot Red
Mix Includes crimson, golden yellow, hot red, pink, and white

" H. bracteatum monstrosum Tall (“King Size”) Series: Extremely large flowers on tall stems; bred for commercial dried flower production

Silvery White Pure white
Bright Pink
Silvery Rose Rose tinged silver
New Rose
Frosted Sulphur Pastel sulphur yellow tinged silvery white
Golden Yellow
Lemon Yellow
Fireball Vivid red
Orange
Salmon
Tall Mix

H. italycum Curry Dwarf: Clusters of tiny mustard yellow flowers; aromatic silver leaves

H. italycum Curry Tal: Grey foliage, very aromatic with yellow flowers

Heliotropium arborescens

Tender perennial usually grown as annual with large umbels of fragrant deep purple flowers.

Marine: Huge clusters of deep purple aromatic flowers
Mini Marine: Compact 8 inch plants

Papery daisy-like flowers retain color and form when dried.

H. manglesii (Rhodanthe)

" Timeless Rose: Daylength neutral; clear rose flowers with dark ring around yellow centers; recommended for dried flower production

H. roseum (Acrolineum)

" Brilliant: Double, bright rose flowers with yellow centers
" Goliath: Large, deep rose flowers with dark centers
" Pierrot: Paperwhite flowers with black centers and gray-green foliage

(Sweet Rocket)

Old-fashioned, long-stemmed biennial with clusters of fragrant phlox-like flowers.

" Violet

Compact perennials form clumps of scalloped leaves with nodding clusters of bell-shaped flowers on thin wiry stems.

H. micrantha

Palace Purple: Dark crimson/bronze foliage with creamy white flowers; 1991 PPA perennial plant of the year

H. sanguinea

Bressingham Hybrids: White, rose, and dark red shades
Vivid: Crimson-red flower spikes and green foliage
Fackel: Scarlet flowers and bronze/green foliage

Hardy perennial requires some protection from severe frost.

Disco Belle Series F₁: Compact, basal-branching plants grow to 20 inches tall with beautiful 9 inch flowers

White
Pink
Rosy Red
Mix

Old-fashioned towering perennials/biennials provide bright color against fences and in back of borders.

A. ficifolia : True perennial with large single flowers; generally flowers in second year

Happy Lights: Improved ficifolia mix of single blooms; flowers in the first year

A. rosea

" Chaters Double Series: Biennial; grows to 6-8 feet with large double flowers

White
Chamois Rose
Salmon Pink
Golden Yellow
Maroon
Scarlet
Double Mix

" Powderpuffs Mix: Huge double 5 inch flowers in pastel colors

Summer Carnival: Double red, white, yellow, pink, and purple flowers on strong stems

The Watchman: Large, very dark maroon single flowers

Sunlite: Annual border plant with large clear yellow poppy-like flowers and ferny foliage