(Painted Daisy, Robinson's Red Painted Daisy)

The painted daisy ‘Robinson’s Red’ is valued for its large, rich red daisies with bright yellow centers. If cut back after flowering, it will often rebloom later in summer.

Painted daisy, or pyrethrum, is a clump-forming perennial with ferny green foliage and classic daisy flowers. Native to Iran and the Caucus Mountains in western Asia, it is a short-lived perennial that easily self-sows. Its blooms appear in late spring or early summer. The ferny compound leaves release a pungent, aromatic...

(Painted Daisy, Robinson's Painted Daisy)

The painted daisies in Robinson’s Mix are large, vibrant, crimson, pink, red and white daisies with bright yellow centers. If cut back after flowering, it will often rebloom later in summer.

Painted daisy, or pyrethrum, is a clump-forming perennial with ferny green foliage and classic daisy flowers. Native to Iran and the Caucus Mountains in western Asia, it is a short-lived perennial that easily self-sows. Its blooms appear in late spring or early summer. The ferny compound leaves release...

(Common Dandelion)

The dandelion, a dreaded perennial lawn weed that children love to spread joyously as they pick and blow their puffy seedheads hither and yon. One can’t deny their spring flowers are cheerful, and if you have a foraging instinct for natural food their young greens are very tasty, but watch out for those seedheads. Just a small breeze will send hundreds of parachute seeds all across the landscape, and almost all will germinate digging their hard-to-pull taproots deep into the soil. Even though dandelions...

(Lanceleaf Thermopsis, Russian False Lupine)

As long as the summertime temperatures don't get too hot, the Russian false lupine is an excellent and dynamic addition to a meadow or mixed perennial garden. This herbaceous plant, growing from slowly spreading rhizomes, forms a tidy clump. It's native to Siberia and Alaska.

Touch the green leaves of the Russian false lupine and enjoy a silky but hairy sensation. The leaves comprise three lance-shaped leaflets and two leaf-like stipules. In spring, stem tips produce an upright spike of bright...

(Black-Eyed Susan Vine, Orange Wonder Black-Eyed Susan Vine)

Orange wonder black-eyed Susan vine is a tropical perennial vine that is grown as a tender perennial in temperate climates. This fast-growing African native has distinctly arrowhead-shaped, medium green leaves with winged stems. It is everblooming and produces many tubular flowers of tangerine orange with nearly black centers. These are larger than your average Thunbergia alata flower.

Plant this vine in a site with full to part sun and well-drained soil. Partial sun is preferred where summers...

(Lemon Thyme)

Talk about a great culinary thyme! Bearing medium-green leaves edged in golden yellow, 'Gold King' is an attractive and wonderfully flavorful perennial herb with a slightly more upright, bushy habit. From early to midsummer this lemon thyme bears many small, condensed spikes of pale lilac flowers. Its tiny oval evergreen leaves smell of citrus and thyme when bruised. These can be harvested throughout the season and combine well with fish, poultry, and vegetables.

Thyme does well with heat and...

(Fiesta del Sol Mexican Sunflower, Mexican Sunflower)

A rounded, dwarf selection of Mexican sunflower, the fantastic 'Fiesta Del Sol' has deep green leaves as the backdrop for vibrant reddish orange daisies from early summer to frost. An annual that reseeds itself, it is a hybrid developed from plants native to Central America.

The deep green leaves are spade-shaped and jaggedly edged. With the warmth of spring, summer and fall, the stem tips bear golf ball-sized daisies that attract butterflies and bees. A golden yellow center is surrounded by...

(Clavel de Muerto, Mexican Sunflower)

Mexican sunflower is a tall, erect, branching tender perennial native to Mexico and Central America. It is prized for its beautiful bright orange to orange-red flowers produced summer to fall. The leaves are large and fuzzy. Among its many cultivars are 'Torch', with dazzling orange-red flowers, and the compact, vivid-orange-flowered 'Goldfinger'.

Mexican sunflower is at its best in full sun and moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It adds vertical impact to a mixed or annual border,...

(Mexican Sunflower)

Mexican sunflower is a tall, erect, branching tender perennial native to Mexico and Central America. It is prized for its beautiful bright orange to orange-red flowers produced summer to fall. The leaves are large and fuzzy. Among its many cultivars are 'Torch', with dazzling orange-red flowers, and the compact, vivid-orange-flowered 'Goldfinger'.

Mexican sunflower is at its best in full sun and moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soil. It adds vertical impact to a mixed or annual border,...

(Nasturtium)

What a phenomenal, ever-blooming tender perennial! Originating from regions across South and Central America, the common nasturtium is a beautiful vining plant with colorful showy flowers that will brighten any summer flower garden.

Throughout the growing season nasturtiums offer a profusion of showy, open, five-petaled flowers with large, nectar-rich spurs. They come in shades of yellow, orange, red, apricot, rose or pink and all are highly attractive to hummingbirds. The beauty of their...