1. Week 1 Bedding Plants

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

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

4. Coleus Coleus 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

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

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

7. Ivy Leaf Geranium Pelargonium 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

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

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

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

11. Purple Wandering Jew Tradescantia 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

12. Verbena Verbena hybrida Height:9-12” Umbel flower pink, red, white, purple, bicolor Sun

13. Week 2 Bedding Plants

14. Fuchsia Fuchsia 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

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

16. Wax Begonia Begonia x semperflorens culturom

17. Geranium Pelargonium x hortorum

18. African Marigold Tagetes erecta

19. Pansy Viola x wittrockiana