Floral Encounters. Click for Home Page
  Dried Flowers Seeds
Sweet Annie
Seeds
Latin    Common Name
Clover - White
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Bronze & Green Fennel
Cardinal Flower
Chocolate Flower
Cockscomb Flamingo
Cockscomb Kurume
Cupids Dart
Eryngium Blue Glitter
Feverfew
Garlic Chives
Hollyhock Indian Spring
Hyssop
Lemon Bergamot
Moneyplant/Honesty
Purple Coneflower
Rose / Swamp Mallow
Rue
Sage
Saint Johns wort
Savory - Winter
Shoo Fly
Sweet Annie
Thrift
 
Dried Flowers
Latin    Common Name
Chocolate Flower
Cupids Dart
Green Kyllinga
Lavender
Mangles' Everlasting
Quaking Grass
Red Brome grass
Scabious Rotaria
Shoo Fly pods
Statice Limonum
Sunflowers
Sweet Annie
Teasel
Yarrow
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Articles
Natural Lawns
Inoculants
 
Flower Arrangements
Farm Images
About Us
About Our Seeds
FAQ
Links
 
 
Our website is run on solar power!
 
Solution Graphics
Seeds

 Clover - White Trifolium repens

Clover - White
(Trifolium repens)

White clover is a low growing plant that tolerates being cut and walked on very well. For those interested in a more organic lawn with less fertilizers and chemicals adding white clover can be a excellent additive. It has the wonderful ability to fix nitrogen which ensures that your lawn needs less maybe even no fertilizer to keep it healthy. It is very tough and will stay green during times of drought when typical lawns turn brown and dull.

1 Packet for $1.1.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Bird's Foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus

Bird's Foot Trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus)

This is a really charming plant that is hardy, easy to grow. It tolerates heat and drought extremely well and also fixes nitrogen so it helps fertilize the plants around it. Trefoil is a low growing bushy plant that also tolerates foot traffic and cutting very well making it an ideal plant for walkways and inclusion in a lawn, or an interesting border plant.

1 Packet for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Bronze & Green Fennel Foeniculum vulgare

Bronze & Green Fennel
(Foeniculum vulgare)

Mounds of glorious light lacy fern like leaves in a mixture of bronze or smoky purple and green which often seem to hang like smoke. Great alone or as a backdrop for other plants. Easy to grow, deer resistant, needs full sun and little water. Foliage grows 2-3 feet with slower stalks up to six feet. Edible leaves and seeds.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.5.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis

Cardinal Flower
(Lobelia cardinalis)

One of our more stunning native pernnial wildflowers and the most commonly used in rain gardens. It likes wet boggy condtions and the scarlet flowers can be seen from over 100 yards away making attractive to people but even more so to hummingbirds.

1 Packet 200 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Chocolate Flower Berlandiera lyrata

Chocolate Flower
(Berlandiera lyrata)

Essential plant for the chocolate lover. This north American native perennial has pretty bright yellow daisy flower are slightly larger than a quarter with chocolate colored centers, dark red striped under petals and a rich chocolate aroma. Likes full sun but will grow on poor soil with little water. Easy to grow and takes little care once established. Edible flowers!

1 Packet 30 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Cockscomb Flamingo Celosia spicata

Cockscomb Flamingo
(Celosia spicata)

Really easy, stunning heavily branched annual with tall rose pink flower spikes. Each spike is made up of small flowers that flower from the bottom up and keep getting longer and longer as the season progresses. If planted early flower spikes can reach over a foot in length by time the frost arrives.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Cockscomb Kurume Celosia cristata

Cockscomb Kurume
(Celosia cristata)

Really easy to grow these Stunning annuals with rich velvety flower heads that can grow as large as 10" across! Mix of magenta, mahogany-red, burgundy, bright rose, scarlet, and yellow. Held up on thick stiff stems which can branch off at sides producing even more flower head below the large massive central one. Needs full sun and some water for best development.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Cupids Dart Catananche caerulea

Cupids Dart
(Catananche caerulea)

Beautiful easy to grow perennial plant with dozens of bright blue flowers that seem to float above the plant. Cupids dart can tolerate poor soil conditions and drought, once the plant is established. It needs full sun and flowers from seed the first year, but only sparingly. Multitudes of flowers are produced from the second year onwards.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Eryngium Blue Glitter Eryngium planum

Eryngium Blue Glitter
(Eryngium planum)

This perennial has bright silver blue flowers that last throughout the summer. Drought resistant and tolerates salt so is great for shore gardens. Needs a sunny location and can grow on poor soil. Very little maintenance once established and flowers the first year from seed. Great as a cut flower, and dried can be enjoyed for years.

1 Packet 20 seeds for $2.5.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium

Feverfew
(Tanacetum parthenium)

Large clusters of bright white daisy flowers on mid green leaves. This plant is very drought tolerant, needs virtually no water and will grow almost anywhere in full sun. Easy to grow needs no maintenance. Deer don't eat it. Strong scent long blooming. A self seeding annual that flowers up to twice a year.

1 Packet 500 seeds for $2.5.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Garlic Chives Allium tuberosum

Garlic Chives
(Allium tuberosum)

Allium tuberosum from seed. Flat thick grass like leaves with a rich garlic flavor, more powerful than regular chives. In summer a thick stalk bearing a profusion of small white flowers in a cluster rise up to two feet above the plant. Both leaves and flowers can be eaten. Seed heads can be dried and used in flower arrangements. Easy to grow and little care once established.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Hollyhock  Indian  Spring Altheaea rosea

Hollyhock Indian Spring
(Altheaea rosea)

Lovely old fashioned large dramatic plants that provide a strong anchor of color in any garden. Listed as a biennial plant - meaning it flowers in the second year hollyhocks will often grow for several years so may be considered short lived perennials depending on the location. The flower spikes can rise to 5 feet tall giving very dramatic vertical interest to any garden.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $3.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Hyssop Hyssopus officinalis

Hyssop
(Hyssopus officinalis)

Wonderful evergreen shrubby plant which is easy to grow from seed and flowers in the first year. Strong aroma and a profusion of flowers from the second year onwards that last from early summer until frost. Needs full sun but very little water, can tolerate poor soil and deer don't eat it!

1 100 Seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Lemon Bergamot Monarda citriodora

Lemon Bergamot
(Monarda citriodora)

This native wildflower is very easy to grow and a delight in the garden. The lance shaped mid green leaves have a distinctive citrus or lemony scent when the leaves are rubbed or crushed. Several stems grow from a compact clump and between the leaves whorled flower heads of fragrant lavender, lilac to pink flowers arise from June to August to a height of 3 feet. It makes an excellent cut flower.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Moneyplant/Honesty Lunaria annua

Moneyplant/Honesty
(Lunaria annua)

Wonderful plant for shady spots in the garden. Drought tolerant and needing little care once established. Money plant is a biannual producing a group of large green leaves in the first year that remain throughout the winter. In the second year it produces masses of purple flowers which are followed by large dollar sized seed pods which turn silver as the summer progresses. No need to water just sow and admire!

1 Packet 50 seeds for $2.5.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea

Purple Coneflower
(Echinacea purpurea)

This wonderful native perennial is drought tolerant and needs little or no care. It blooms for months and it's large purple daisy like flowers make excellent cut flowers. Very showy in the garden and loved by native butterflies.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $3.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Rose / Swamp Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos

Rose / Swamp Mallow
(Hibiscus moscheutos)

This wonderful north American Native is by far the largest most exotic and showy plant to be grown in the garden. Huge pink flowers up to 6" on stems that can reach seven feet tall. It's so easy to grow, and needs little maintenance. Likes full sun, great for areas that either have water or some water runoff.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $4.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Rue Ruta graveolens

Rue
(Ruta graveolens)

Rue is a very versatile small evergreen shrub that is an excellent addition to most gardens. It is extremely drought tolerant and is very happy in hot dry conditions once it is established. It will grow on poor soil and can grow in semi shaded locations but will not do as well. It has very attractive finely cut blue green foliage. The flowers are small conical star shaped with yellow or greenish-yellow petals born on short stems with wide terminal panicles blossoming from June to September.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Sage Salvia officinalis

Sage
(Salvia officinalis)

This beautiful, versatile shrubby evergreen perennial is a great addition any garden. Easy to grow, even easier to maintain. Profusion of beautiful blue / violet flowers in late spring. Aromatic, very useful in the kitchen and deer don't eat it.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Saint Johns wort Hypericum perforatum

Saint Johns wort
(Hypericum perforatum)

This interesting plant is very easy to grow and takes little or no effort once established. It is a hardy perennial with small oval green leaves. Growing from 1-3 feet in height and bears multitudes of small bright yellow flowers from May until September. It can grow in sun or partial shade so is an excellent choice for the edges of a garden or just under trees. Can tolerate poor soils.

1 Packet 200 seeds for $2.5.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Savory - Winter Satureja montana

Savory - Winter
(Satureja montana)

This woody little evergreen perennial is easy to grow. It has small dark green acute pointed leaves on many stiff upright stems growing to about two feet in height. In summer it produces a multitude of small white or lavender flowers from July until October. The whole plant is very aromatic and makes an attractive border plant. It can be pruned to form a hedge or any shape you like. It can be grown in containers and makes an attractive plant for the deck or patio.

1 Packet 200 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Shoo Fly Nicandra physaloides

Shoo Fly
(Nicandra physaloides)

This very drought tolerant annual shoots up to over three feet in height producing arching branches of bright blue flowers from early summer until frost. Flowers are followed by showy green and purple chinesse lanturn shaped pods which make the plant attractive all year long.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $6.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Sweet Annie Artemisia annua

Sweet Annie
(Artemisia annua)

Tall ferny green plant that grows to over seven feet high and four feet wide in one year! Grown mainly for it's foliage and wonderful scent Sweet Annie has thick woody stems and many branches of fine light to olive green foliage. Likes full sun and can tolerate very little water and poor soils. Deer don't eat it.

1 Packet 100 seeds for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

Thrift Armeria maritima

Thrift
(Armeria maritima)

Low growing perennial for full sun. Needs very little water and tolerates salt and copper very well. Short grass like clumps of leaves produce long stalks with bright globe like flowers in spring. Makes an wonderful ground cover which is moderately deer resistant. Needs no maintenance once established. Excellent for hot dry areas.

1 Packet for $2.

Quantity  button

Larger packets may be available.

 
 
Copyright © 2007 - 2010 Visual Encounters Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy         Contact