Hardy Annuals for Winter Sowing

Hardy Annuals Suggested 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)