Hardy Annual Plants for Winter Sowing

(tender annuals are recommended for sowing a few weeks before your winter season ends)

• Abronia umbellata (sand-verbena)

• Adonis aestivalis (pheasant's eye)

• Ageratum houstonianum (floss flower)

• Agrostemma githago (corn cockle)

• Alonsoa acutifolia (maskflower)

• Amaranthus caudatus (love-lies-bleeding)

• Amberboa moschata (sweet sultan)

• Anagallis indica (blue pimpernel)

• Anchusa (bugloss)

• Alyssum maritimum (sweet alyssum)

• Antirrhinum majus (snapdragons)

• Argemone mexicana (prickly poppy)

• Asperula azurea (woodruff)

• Brachycome iberidifolia (swan river daisy)

• Browallia demissa (bush violet)

• Bupleurum rotundifolium (ox-eye daisy)

• Calandrinia grandiflora (red-maids)

• Calendula (pot marigold)

• Callistephus (China aster)

• Campanula (annual Canterbury bells)

• Celosia (cockscomb)

• Centaurea (cornflower)

• Centranthus macrosiphon (valerian)

• Chrysanthemum paludosum (mini-marguerite)

• Clarkia elegans

• Collinsia bicolor (Chinese-houses)

• Collomia coccinea (mountain-trumpet)

• Consolida ajacis (Larkspur)

• Convolvulus (dwarf/bush morning glory)

• Coreopsis tintoria (calliopsis)

• Cosmos bipinnatus (tall cosmos)

• Cosmos sulphureus (sulphur cosmos)

• Crepis rubra (hawks-beard)

• Cuphea ignea (fiery cuphea)

• Cynoglossum (Chinese forget-me-not)

• Datura species (thorn-apple)

• Delphinium (larkspur)

• Dianthus chinensis (China pinks)

• Diascia barberm (twinspur)

• Dicranostigma franchetianum (bright-yellow poppy)

• Dimorphotheca aurantiaca (Cape marigold)

• Dracocephalum moldavica (Moldavian dragonhead)

• Echium creticurn (bugloss)

• Emilia javanica (tassel flower)

• Eschschlotzia californica (California poppy)

• Fagopyrum esculentum (buckwheat)

• Felicia bergeriana (kingfisher daisy)

• Gaillardia pulchella (blanket flower)

• Gilia (bird's-eye)

• Godetia (fairyfan, farewell-to-spring)

• Gypsophila (baby's breath)

• Helianthus (sunflowers)

• Helichrysum (strawflower)

• Helipterum (paper daisy)

• Hunnemannia fumariifolia (Mexican tulip poppy)

• Iberis (candytuft)

• Ionopsidium acaule (false diamond-flower)

• Lathyrus odoratus (sweet peas)

• Lavatera (annual mallow)

• Leonorus (lion's paws)

• Limnanthes douglasii (poached-egg plant)

• Limonium sinuatum (statice)

• Linaria bipartita (toadflax)

• Linum (flax)

• Lobularia (alyssum)

• Lupinus (lupine)

• Lychnis (catchfly)

• Malcomia maritima (Virginian stock)

• Malope trifida (malope)

• Malva (mallow)

• Matthiola bicornis (night-scented stock)

• Myosotis dissitiflora (forget-me-not)

• Nemesia strumosa (Cape jewels)

• Nemophila (baby blue-eyes)

• Nicandra (shoo-fly)

• Nicotiana (flowering tobacco)

• Nigella (love-in-the-mist)

• Osteospermum (Star of the Veldt)

• Papaver (poppy)

• Petunia hybrida (petunias)

• Phacelia (scorpion weed)

• Phlox drummondii (drummon phlox)

• Rehmannia angulata (Chinese foxgloves)

• Reseda odorata (mignonette)

• Rudbeckia bicolor (gloriosa daisy)

• Salpiglossis sinuata (painted tongue)

• Salvia splendens (scarlet sage)

• Sanvitalia procumbens (creeping zinnia)

• Saponaria vaccaria (soapwort)

• Scabiosa (pincushion flower)

• Schizanthus pinnatus (butterfly flower)

• Senecio elegans (ragwort)

• Silene armeria (none-so-pretty)

• Specularia speculum (Venus' looking glass)

• Thunbergia alata (clockvine)

• Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower)

• Torenia fournieri (wishbone flower)

• Trachymene caerulea (laceflower)

• Tropaeolum (nasturtiums)

• Ursinia anethoides (dill-leaf ursinia)

• Vaccaria (cow soapwort)

• Venidium fastuosum (Cape daisy)

• Viola tricolor (pansy)

• Viscaria (rose-of-heaven)

• Xeranthemum (everlasting flower)