Winter Color Guide – Tallahassee Nurseries

 PANSIES

Pansies are one of the vital standard and recognizable cool climate annuals throughout the nation. Pansies provide charming spherical flowers that create a pop of shade from fall until spring. Pansies and violas have edible flowers continuously used so as to add distinctive shade to salads or desserts. There are an abundance of types all with an array of colours and mixes. Pansies flowers can include what we gardeners wish to name a “face” or blotch. This can be a normally a darkish coloured sample in the course of the bloom that offers every flower much more character. Right here on the Tallahassee Nurseries we routinely carry 4-7 totally different varieties in as many various colours as potential, providing you with one of the best choice on your backyard.

Temperature: It is very important wait to plant pansies and violas till night temperatures produce a nip within the air and summer season’s warmth dissipates. Planting whereas it’s heat forces vegetation into stress creating lanky, weak vegetation vulnerable to insect and illness injury.

Solar Wants: Plant your pansies in afternoon solar with effectively-drained soil for greatest outcomes. With much less daylight within the winter because of shorter days it’s greatest to provide most of your winter annuals a superb dose of daylight ideally in the course of the center of the day.

Fertilization: Fertilize each 3-Four weeks with Flower Tone and keep in mind to maintain your new planted pansies effectively watered for the primary a number of weeks to get your vegetation off to a robust and wholesome begin. Deadheading or pruning off spent flowers will maintain your vegetation wanting higher and blooming extra.

Lastly, you don’t want to fret about frosts or freezes with pansies. Grown as far north as Minnesota and southern Canada, these vegetation don’t thoughts our chilly and can not want winter safety.

NOTABLE PANSY SERIES:

• Majestic Big Sequence
  • Traits: Bigger blooms reaching 4” in width. Historically, every shade incorporates a blotch within the heart, however newer variations additionally are available stable colours.
  • Colours: Blue, Purple, Rose, Scarlet, White, Yellow, Marina Shades, Combine
• Frizzle Sizzle Sequence
  • Traits: Medium-sized flowers which are extremely ruffled.
  • Colours: Multi-coloured

• Delta Sequence
  • Traits: This collection has one the most important and a number of the most unusual variations in colours of any pansy collection. They’ve quick stems, which maintain the flowers held up proper. Medium bloom dimension.
  • Colours: Pure Colours Combine, Pure Mild Blue, True Blue, Beaconsfield, Citrus Combine, Pure Lemon, Orange, Pink, Rose
• Trailing Pansies
  • Traits: Trailing pansies have the identical giant flowers as conventional pansies however they keep low and unfold. They’re good for hanging baskets or spilling out of patio containers. These pansies develop quicker and maintain up higher by way of rain and climate. 
  • Colours: Shades of Blue, White, Yellow, Purple, and Rose

VIOLAS

Showing very similar to pansies, violas generally often known as Johnny Soar Ups have smaller blooms than their bigger flowered cousins however make up for it by producing extra blooms per plant. These little flowers are available much more colours and mixes than pansies with new varieties popping out every year. This offers you the chance to seek out the right shade on your backyard. Violas flowers are edible and can be utilized as a pleasant garnish for any variety of dishes mostly on baked items.

Temperature: Like pansies, wait till appropriately cool climate approaches to plant your violas. Planting throughout heat, summer season-like climate creates weak stretched vegetation that aren’t as wholesome in the long term. As soon as established, violas deal with hotter temperatures pansies and their bounce again quicker from rain.

Solar Wants: Plant your violas in a sunny location with effectively-drained soil. Violas look nice in containers, hanging baskets or within the panorama. Fertilize each 3-Four weeks with Flower Tone. Violas are one of many best cool season annuals to develop however provide you with a number of the largest shade. As with pansies no want to fret about violas throughout icy nights. Frost and ice might knock again the blooms however established vegetation should not have any downside.

NOTABLE VIOLA SERIES:

• Penny Sequence
  • Traits: Blooms are typically bigger than most varieties. A particularly giant array of colours and mixes. Chilly and warmth tolerant.
  • Colours: Blue, Citrus Combine, Deep Blue, Denim, Soar Up Combine, Marina, Mickey, Orange, Primrose Bicolor, Violet, White, Winter Combine, Yellow, Yellow Soar Up, and extra

• ColorMax Sequence
  • Traits: Heavy bloomers. An plentiful combine of colours! Warmth tolerant. Bigger flower.    
  • Colours: Blue, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Pink, White

SNAPDRAGONS

Snapdragons provide vivid colours on tall stalks with a light-weight perfume. There are a number of totally different collection that supply various heights starting from 6” to 36” providing you with choices to seek out the snapdragon greatest suited on your backyard. Snapdragons are additionally attractive additions to contemporary reduce preparations and bouquets.

Solar Wants & Care: They need to be planted in afternoon solar in the course of the fall or early spring and with the suitable circumstances, they will final proper up ‘til summer season. Slicing again spent bloom stalks is beneficial to encourage higher branching on the plant providing you with sturdier plant with extra shade. Taller varieties look nice in the back of mattress and would possibly require staking particularly after rain. Decrease rising varieties are a good selection  for hanging baskets or on the entrance of a boarder or container.

Fertilization: Fertilize within the spring and fall as soon as each 3-Four weeks with Flower Tone to maintain your snaps wanting stunning. Onerous freezes and frosts can brown open blooms and newly set buds. Mild fabric can be utilized to insulate and defend your snaps. Snapdragons are listed as deer resistant.

NOTABLE SNAPDRAGON SERIES:

• Low-Rising (Montego, Snapshot, Floral Showers)
  • Traits: These snaps solely attain between 6-10” tall. They’re quick and bushy vegetation that bloom extra usually than taller varieties and don’t require any staking. Seems nice planted in a mass. Simple care.
  • Colours: Bronze, Pink, Rose, White, and Yellow. Additionally they are available thrilling and distinctive bicolored flowers.

• Medium-Rising (Sonnets, Liberty, Snaptastic)
  • Traits: Mostly used, these develop between 12-18” tall. Profit from occasional pruning. Flower stalks are sometimes utilized in reduce floral preparations. Plant within the floor or in a container.
  • Colours: Bronze, Crimson, Pink, Magenta, Rose, Yellow, and White.

• Tall-Rising (Rocket)
  • Traits: The tallest rising snapdragon reaching between 2’ and three’ tall. Profit from occasional pruning. Might require staking. It’s lengthy flower stalks make for gorgeous reduce flower preparations. Their flowers even have a stronger spicy aroma that you simply’ll love within the backyard or in a reduce association. Greatest grown within the floor.
  • Colours: Crimson, Rose, Magenta, Yellow, Bronze, White. Different picks and colours could also be obtainable in seed.

PETUNIAS

Some of the standard annuals grown across the nation. Petunias are available a really giant vary of colours and kinds. What makes them so standard is the truth that they are often grown so simply and produce seemingly countless quantities of shade. They’re mostly utilized in hanging baskets or in containers as a component to spill over the sting of the pot. Some varieties keep mounded and compact whereas others are meant to path and ramble. Advisable planting distance is one plant each one sq. foot.

Temperature: Petunias right here in Tallahassee develop one of the best fall by way of spring. Our relentless summer season humidity and warmth are typically an excessive amount of for many petunia varieties.

Solar Wants: They’re greatest planted in afternoon daylight however can deal with some shade.

Upkeep & Care: Newer styles of petunias, together with those we supply are labeled as self-deadheading. This implies every blooms falls off the stem by itself and requires much less work from you. Nonetheless, it is strongly recommended that you simply do trim again vegetation all through the season to encourage branching and to maintain your plant wanting wholesome. Fertilize each 3-Four weeks with Flower-tone. If you happen to’re rising petunias in a dangling basket we’d advocate fertilizing with Osmocote which might final a number of months with only one utility. New colours and patterns of petunias come out every year so it’s all the time a good suggestion to examine again into the nursery and to see what’s are available! Petunias can deal with gentle frosts however for tougher freezing circumstances it’s greatest to guard your vegetation.

NOTABLE PETUNIA SERIES:

• Wave Sequence
  • Traits: These are an awesome trailing selection that are available a number of vivid colours. They impress in hanging baskets or on the sting of a container to spill over the facet. If used within the panorama, they keep low and unfold as much as a number of toes round. 
  • Colours: Pink, White, Pink, Purple

• Supertunias
  • Traits: The preferred alternative by far amongst petunias right here on the nursery. These workhorses are bred to deal with the warmth and humidity higher than any selection. Bubblegum Pink, the unique shade remains to be our favourite. It’s a vigorous plant with profuse quantities of soppy pink flowers that may merely astound you. Supertunias are sturdy sufficient to be planted within the floor. Rapidly fills out a patio container, window field, or hanging basket.
  • Colours: Bubble gum, Bordeaux, Black Cherry, Royal Velvet, DayBreak Allure, Silverberry, White.

• SuperCals
  • Traits: These sturdy vegetation have superior climate sturdiness holding up higher and bouncing again quicker after rain. SuperCals have bigger flowers that are available many distinctive and vibrant colours. They work effectively as trailing components or as a mounding filler possibility in a container.
  • Colours: Numerous

ALYSSUM

These stunning small white flowers make a pleasant addition to combined beds, hanging baskets and containers or make a swish influence by themselves. Alyssum has a candy delicate perfume and may be very engaging to many sorts of pollinators. It is available in a small however charming shade vary of white, purple, and pink. They offer you a watch-catching skilled look with out the trouble. New varieties seem virtually yearly. Make sure that to examine in every season to see what’s are available! Strive them with trailing petunias and snapdragons for a straightforward and nice-wanting show.

Solar Wants & Care: Alyssum in our local weather grows greatest within the spring and fall. During times of ice and frost, it’s best to maneuver alyssum right into a protected space if in a pot or cowl it with a breathable fabric if planted within the floor. Plant them in full solar notably in fall whereas day size is shorter. In the direction of the onset of summer season you possibly can attempt giving alyssum a bit extra shade to increase its season into our hotter months.

Fertilization: Fertilize within the spring and fall as soon as each 3-Four weeks with Flower Tone to maintain them wanting stunning. Onerous freezes and frosts can brown open blooms and newly set buds. Mild fabric can be utilized to insulate and defend your cool-climate annuals.

NOTABLE ALYSSUM VARIETIES:

• Snow Princess: This plant, by our normal, is one of the best performing and warmth-hardy alyssum available on the market. It grows full and huge shortly with an abundance of white flowers. A favourite amongst our container designers and native landscapers. Wonderful addition to a mixture patio container as a spiller that works effectively with plenty of colours and flower combos. Positively give this plant a attempt!
• White Knight & Darkish Knight: Cousins of Snow princess, the Knight collection presents superior efficiency however in a barely smaller dimension. The flowers are ever so smaller than ‘Snow Princess’ however stays extra compact because the plant matures. Its eventual smaller dimension makes it simpler to make use of in smaller containers or window containers. Darkish Knight performs and grows equally however as a substitute presents a wealthy purple flower to your backyard or container.
• Stream Sequence: One other alternative that has wonderful backyard efficiency and warmth tolerance. Its flowers are barely smaller than Snow Princess however they nonetheless present up in mass. One other nice alternative for a raised mattress, patio container, hanging basket, or window field.

DIANTHUS

If you happen to’ve been gardening for a whilst you would possibly know these as Candy Williams or Pinks. However no matter it’s possible you’ll name them, dianthus is a low-upkeep and versatile performer within the backyard. Throughout the fall and spring, dianthus is a superb butterfly attractor. We take into account dianthus to be an annual in our local weather however with the suitable circumstances and care it will possibly perennialize. Dianthus is available in an extremely diverse shade choice, many sorts actually have a multicolored sample. Some varieties have just one bloom per stalk whereas others can have a cluster of flowers. It’s best to deadhead spent bloom stalks to maintain your plant wanting clear and to advertise extra shade sooner or later. Like snapdragons, dianthus is available in various heights relying on the choice. They will vary in top from round 4” as much as a few toes tall. Lastly, you’ll want to try our seed choice for much more distinctive and tougher-to-discover picks. New picks and enhancements come out yearly so you’ll want to come by and take a look at what’s are available. Dianthus blooms are additionally edible. Strive them as an thrilling and colourful garnish to your baked delicacies.

Solar Wants & Care: Right here in Tallahassee, dianthus thrives in our cool seasons however tends to undergo by way of our humid summers. Dianthus can take chilly climate however we nonetheless advocate defending your dianthus earlier than a tough freeze. Tolerant of full solar to partial shade they are often planted in a container or your panorama beds. They like soil that’s effectively drained and reply shortly to fertilizing.

Fertilization: Fertilize within the spring and fall as soon as each 3-Four weeks with Flower Tone to maintain them wanting stunning. Onerous freezes and frosts can brown open blooms and newly set buds. Mild fabric can be utilized to insulate and defend your cool-climate annuals.

NOTABLE DIANTHUS VARIETIES:

• Jolt Sequence: This award-successful choice has superior warmth tolerance and large flower energy. The flowers are vibrant shades of pink and purple that carry on going effectively into the summer season. It’s a really sturdy dianthus that’ll be a superb addition to any cottage backyard, perennial mattress, or container. Taller rising reaching 16- 20” tall.
• Telstar Combine: This choice has been round some time and for good purpose. Telstar dianthus has distinctive outside efficiency. Its blooms have a carnation-like look they usually are available many enjoyable vivid colours. This can be a decrease rising selection solely reaching 8-10” tall making it an awesome alternative as a boarding planting or on the fringe of a container.
• Coronet: Blooms on this dianthus are a lot bigger than different varieties reaching 2-3” throughout. Every bloom is extremely fringed giving it a really lacy look. The colours on this collection are very daring and embody crimson, white, purple, and pink. The coronet collection is one other low-rising selection topping out round 8-12” tall. It’s an awesome alternative for a container or perhaps a rock backyard.

CYCLAMEN

If you happen to’re searching for a shade loving flower that grows effectively within the shade or as a houseplant, Cyclamen is likely one of the greatest choices obtainable. They’ve an intricate sample on their leaves and the flowers are extremely vivid and showy. They don’t develop very giant, solely reaching 8-10” tall and develop effectively in small containers. These spectacular wanting vegetation are greatest utilized in patio containers, window containers, or set inside and grown as a houseplant.

Solar Wants & Care: Discovering flowers that bloom within the shade could be tough particularly within the winter however Cyclamen is our best choice. Shade to half solar are very best circumstances. Take care to not over water your cyclamen particularly in the event that they’re rising in deep shade or in a dim room. Left in damp situation too lengthy, its bulb might start to rot.

Fertilization: Cyclamen can put out a variety of flowers throughout its blooming season. The easiest way to maintain your plant wholesome and whereas persevering with to flower is to fertilize. You should utilize a liquid feed each couple weeks whereas it’s blooming or use a gradual launch fertilizer on the time of planting.

Temperature: Cyclamen choose our cooler fall, winter, and spring temperatures. Throughout the summer season, the foliage will die again to the bottom and go dormant.

DUSTY MILLER

This implausible plant has velvety white foliage that provides a vivid clear influence to your backyard. Usually utilized in giant business beds, preparations in amusement parks, in addition to residential plantings. It’s a strong plant that isn’t very choosy and holds up effectively by way of every kind of climate. By mid summer season, clusters of small frilly flowers seem. Simple manner so as to add daring texture to your backyard mattress, patio container or window field.

This versatile annual seems nice planted in mass or as an accent in a combined container. It performs simply as effectively in full solar or partial shade.

Solar Wants & Care: Dusty Miller does effectively in full solar to half shade. If planted in deep shade vegetation develop into leggy and lose their silvery solid. They’re drought tolerant as soon as established, don’t require a lot pruning or fertilizing, and don’t expertise many pest issues.

Temperature: Dusty Miller is greatest planted in spring and fall. Our delicate winters usually don’t require any winter safety. Vegetation which are established earlier than summer season can usually perennialize within the backyard.

NOTABLE DUSTY MILLER VARIETIES:

• Silver Mud: This choice has deep reduce foliage that provides a fern-like texture to your backyard or container. Its distinctive foliage can pair effectively with large broad leaves or shine by itself.
• Cirrus: In distinction to Silver Mud, Cirrus has broad fuzzy leaves. Works simply as effectively in containers or the panorama. Pairs effectively with many colours and leaf shapes.

All of the varieties listed are what we usually have on-website, not an exhaustive record. Come go to us Tallahassee Nurseries to see our present, large choice of all cool climate annuals!