ANNUALS & CONTAINER ACCENTS
Plant annuals for bold repeat blooms that will shine all season long in containers or planting beds.
PRIMROSES
Shop from January through early March and enjoy these playfully bright bursts of rainbow color. Easy care! For best results, deadhead spent blooms, and offer supplementary water if not raining.
PRE-ROOTED BULBS
We carry a beautiful selection in late winter that includes narcissus, standard & rock-garden tulips, irises, hyacinths, & more. Enjoy for a single season, or leave in the soil to enjoy year after year.
SNOWDROPS & PAPERWHITES
Enjoy the season with delicate winter blooms. Snowdrops begin to arrive in early to mid January. Forced paperwhites arrive in the greenhouse in December for the holidays.
EARLY SPRING FLOWERS
In February and early March keep an eye out for our earliest spring offerings: daisy-like pericallis first, followed by the rosy blooms of ranunculus and poppy-like anemones.
SPECIALTY ANNUALS
Don’t miss out on unique specialty and heirloom annuals sustainably and locally grown by our friends at Langley Fine Gardens. Shop everything, from amaranth to heirloom zinnias!
GERANIUMS
Around the beginning of April, look for classic zonal and Martha Washington geraniums in shades of white, red, pink, and coral, plus fancy leaf geraniums in a wide variety of patterns and colors.
PANSIES & VIOLAS
Starting in September and generally continuing into the spring, we expect to see these re-blooming cool-weather favorites that work great in the ground or in containers.
SEED GROWN & PACK ANNUALS
From March to mid-June, look for money-saving annual packs of 2-6 plants and seed grown color spots, like alyssum & lobelia. In early spring, shop 2” pots of fuchsias/container accents.
ANNUAL VINES
In May, our annual vine racks will make their appearance, offering fast-growing vines with strikingly unique flowers like this purple bell vine. Many are huge hummingbird attractors!
SHADE ANNUALS
From April into summertime, enjoy a great selection of plants that thrive in the shade. Shop reiger, tuberous and dragon/angel wing begonias, torenia, New Guinea Impatiens and coleus.
HANGING BASKETS
Shop baskets for every light level and taste. From shade-loving fuchsias and begonias to million bells and mixed sun baskets! Best selection just in time for Mothers Day... *wink wink*
DAHLIAS
In late spring, we carry dwarf dahlias in 4" pots. Our first 6" pots of standard-size dahlias arrive in June, followed by the much-anticipated gigantic “dinner plate” dahlias in July.
TROPICAL ACCENTS
Big bold, canna lilies, papyrus, celosia and other container accents that evoke a tropical summery feel start to appear in June and can be available into the fall. Please call to check availability.
SUMMER ANNUALS
Smaller 4" pots plants start to wind down over the summer giving over to larger 6" pots. Shop zinnias, sunflowers and rudbeckia, along with salvia and other vibrant late-bloomers.
MUMS & ASTERS
These flowers are the quintessential festive fall look for any porch, path or patio. Keep in a container, or plant in a protected spot to overwinter these tender perennial plants for next year.
ORNAMENTAL BRASSICAS
These leafy beauties are not for eating! September, October and early November are a great time to shop ornamental cabbage and kale that will quickly fill your planters.
FLORIST'S CYCLAMEN
These unique, winged blooms in shades of pink, red and white are one of the prettiest sights of wintertime. Look for cyclamen from December - February, and protect from extreme cool temps!
WINTER CUT BRANCHES & DECOR
In late November and December, the greenhouse is full of evergreen boughs and wreaths, red twig dogwood, curly willow, and enough glittering bows & baubles to tie it all together.
DIY CONTAINER DESIGN
Not sure where to start when it comes to planting a beautiful container yourself? Find tips and inspiration for every season at the link below.
LOOKING FOR DAISIES?
You'll find some kind of daisy in just about every part of Sky, so it's good to know the botanical name of the plant you're looking for.
FOR THE BEES & BUTTERFLIES
See our complete list of pollinator friendly annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees at the link below, and support our local pollinators!
Our selection is always changing, with fresh shipments arriving throughout the week. Please give us a call to check availability.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Some plants are annuals by habit, meaning that each individual plant only lives for one year regardless of its growing conditions. In nature, these plants use their short lifespans to make seeds so the next generation will live on. Other plants simply can't survive the winters here, but still bloom beautifully through the summer.
While each annual has its own specific care needs, there are some general rules. Make sure they are getting the right amount of sunlight and water for their preferences, and that they have good drainage. Removing blooms once they start to fade encourages the plant to put energy into making new blooms instead of trying to make seeds. Fertilizing regularly ensures that the plant has all of the nutrients it needs.
It may have grown back from seed, or it may be a tender perennial sold as an annual. Many annuals can spread by seed, and a few will seed themselves all over your garden unless you remove the spent flowers consistently. We also sell certain plants as annuals if they are only marginally hardy here and don’t consistently overwinter, even though they can live for multiple years in the right conditions.
Not necessarily. Many annuals can be grown from seed — just plant them in the spring, right where you want them to grow. With heirloom and open-pollinated varieties, you can even save seeds to plant the next year. Some plants in our annuals section, such as geraniums and begonias, can overwinter with special care. Some annual varieties have been bred so that they don't produce seeds at all. These varieties do need to be purchased each year.
Our annual selection changes quickly to keep up with the seasons, so that you’ll always find the freshest and most beautiful annuals at any time of year. Check out our year in the garden page to get an idea of which seasons will bring which annuals, and give us a call to check for the latest availability updates.
Snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, and other spring-blooming bulbs can come back year after year — so it's fair to wonder why they're on this page. While many people plant dormant spring-blooming bulbs in the fall, the ones you'll find this time of year are already planted, sprouted, and about to bloom. Transplanted in the late winter, these starts make beautiful accents for containers or annual beds. If you want to keep your pre-rooted bulbs for years to come, you can wait until the foliage dies all the way back, then dig up the bulbs and plant them deeper, as you would plant any dormant bulb. However, many gardeners choose to treat them like annuals and simply enjoy them for a single season. Check out our bulbs & seeds page if you're looking for dormant bulbs.