Best Zone 5 Flower Seeds in 2026

Days to Maturity: 75 from direct sow For more than 125 years, gardeners have been growing Basil Lettuce Leaf. It's simply the most productive variety, with giant leaves on bushy, vigorous plants. The aroma is enticing, and the flavor is more sweet than spicy, a gentle mild bite that the whole family will love. You're going to love this popular favorite!

Basil Lettuce Leaf earns its name with big, slightly serrated and crinkled leaves up to 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. Very closely set on well-branched plants 18 to 24 inches high, they keep coming all season—just pinch off the flower buds as they form, and Lettuce Leaf will keep growing more foliage.

About those flowers, though—Lettuce Leaf is slow to bolt, so you'll get a longer season of harvest. And as you pinch off the blooms, save them—they make delicious additions to salads and yummy garnish for the plate.

Includes 25 Seeds in a Pack. This sturdy, long-blooming Marigold boasts fully double blooms a mind-boggling 4 inches across.

These bright yellow, gold, and orange flowers are simply stuffed with short, quilled petals, so symmetrical and beautifully rounded that they scarcely look real!

Reaching 18 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and blooming just as freely as its smaller cousins all summer long. You may get a few blooms that are 3 3/4 instead of the full 4 inches, but that's a problem most of us would just love to have!

The new standard for large Marigolds has arrived, and its name is Whopper! Available only from Park, this sturdy, long-blooming Marigold boasts fully double blooms a mind-boggling 4 inches across. Not since the old Inca (now discontinued) have blooms even approaching this size been available -- and Park's Whopper holds its double flower form all season, unlike many crash-and-burn giants!

These bright orange flowers are simply stuffed with short, quilled petals, so symmetrical and beautifully rounded that they scarcely look real! A closely-spaced planting of Park's Whopper is a real delight, because when the plants begin blooming, you literally have a solid wall of flowers -- no foliage or ground visible in between!

Best of all, this Marigold isn't a prima dona that gives you one or two magnificent blooms and then rests on its laurels, while you ply it with fertilizer and attention to try to coax a little more color out of it! No, this is simply a terrific garden plant, reaching 18 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and blooming just as freely as its smaller cousins all summer long.

Marigold 'Daisy Wheel Lemon' features frilly-edged single blooms in a perfectly lovely pale lemon shade.

The unique shape and color of the blooms offers a beautiful contrast to the bushy dark green foliage of the plant.

With regular deadheading, this showy French marigold will continue to bloom all summer long.

Nothing evokes a country gate or rustic mailbox as cheerily as a twining Black-Eyed Susan Vine, with masses of blooms all summer and large, lush foliage. This vine is ideal for growing up through fences and gates, pillars and poles.

Especially effective in containers, where its very full habit looks incredibly lush! 1 to 2-inch blooms arise very profusely, facing out from the vine. Petal color ranges from mid-yellow to deep orange, & many blooms feature the characteristic black eye.

If you love Black-Eyed Susan, you've got to see the two new color mixes fresh from our gardens! Blushing Susie is a warm-toned blend of red and rose shades, with a few pinks and apricots thrown in for good measure.

The Victorians were Coleus addicts -- so much so that, at the height of this plant's popularity, there was said to be a "Coleus craze" sweeping the populace! Looking at these reselected varieties from the heyday of the Coleus craze, it's easy to see why they were so popular!

In this mix you get large foliage on small plants. Most of the leaves are 6 to 7 inches long and 4 inches wide, yet the plants are very compact -- 12 to 15 inches high and wide! They arise in all the colors for which Coleus is known -- burgundy, scarlet, maroon, bronze, cream, pink, and white -- and sporting interesting touches, such as neatly-serrated edges or dramatic veining. You will love these old-fashioned beauties, reselected for modern vigor and terrific garden or container performance!

Originally selected as houseplants, the Coleus in this mix are also fine specimens in the shade garden, and are just the right size for containers. They are also fabulous in a mass planting!

Fleuroselect Novelty Award Winner 2014 The Zinderella family of zinnias burst onto the scene when peach won Europe's Fleuroselect Novelty Award for its unique color and very unusual flower form.

Known as scabiosa blooms for their resemblance to pincushion flower (scabiosa), these double blooms are eye-catching from way down the street, and boast so many layers of petals they are often as "tall" as they are wide.

Zinderella Lilac' offers big crested pompon blooms of bright lilac with a delicate cream "halo" around the central eye. Reaching 2 to 3 inches wide, these blooms boast a pompon of tightly-clustered short petals above a skirt of longer, daisylike petals. During warm days and warm nights, you will see 10-15-20% single flowers. When day and night temperatures differ, double blooms will appear. Very distinctive.

No wonder PowWow Wild Berry won an All-America Selection Award 2010 (continues to pile up honors). It's not only the most brilliantly colored Echinacea yet, but it's also the best branched, which means more flowers all season. It doesn't need to be deadheaded to set new buds, so the flowers just keep coming. It's compact, you can grow it in a container, or squeeze it into that crowded sunny border. Oh, & did we mention that it blooms the first year, just 20 weeks from sowing the seed.

It's truly a breakthrough for the Echinacea purpurea family. The bloom color is fade-proof and absolutely unique. (The flowers make terrific everlastings as well as fresh-cut bouquets, by the way.) The flowers are so profuse on these compact little plants, beginning in early summer & then going right into fall until nipped back by frost. Like all echinacea, PowWow Wild Berry attracts butterflies & bees to the fresh blooms in summer & birds to the seed-filled cones in autumn & winter.

This plant reaches just 20 to 24 inches high when not in bloom, and spreads 12 to 16 inches wide. Despite this small size, it bears more blooms than just about any other echinacea we've ever grown. The flowers add another 9 to 12 inches to the plant's height, giving you thick, long lasting stems for the vase. And you don't have to keep up with pinching off the fading blooms.

One of the most striking Snapdragons we have ever seen, Night and Day is a bold study in contrast. The deep scarlet blooms shade almost into black, revealing their parentage (the famous heirloom Snap, Black Prince) and highlighting the pure white of the lower "jaws." Absolutely stunning!

The plant grows 18 inches tall and about a foot wide, blooming in spring and fall in warm climates and all summer in cooler ones. The blooms have a strong spicy scent and arise very abundantly on robust plants.

For an interesting effect, try interplanting Night and Day with its parent, Black Prince, which has deep crimson blooms and bronze foliage (and is the same plant size).

Masses of pencil-thin, vibrantly colorful bloomspikes arise on this perennial sage, so densely set that they present a solid wall of color in the border.

The deep blue blooms are richly colorful on dwarf 12-inch plants, blooming in early summer and then repeating their fine show later in the season.

A spectacular source of dark, intense color and narrow, vertical form, Blue Queen is one of the finest salvias we know, attracting butterflies to the garden and prompting exclamations and double-takes from visitors.

Flirty Skirts is "the" container pansy in Europe, and will create a sensation in your garden, too.

Ruffles and smiling faces are the hallmarks of this fantastic European variety, one of our classic favorites for many seasons now. These cheerful 2 inch blooms are 100% ruffled, as compared to older varieties where the ruffles tend to be erratic and scarce. And the flowers turn upward instead of nodding, giving you a much showier display than larger flowered types that shyly hide their faces.

Mix Includes Two Color Blends: Blue: Offers a bright confection of white, yellow, and various shades of purple and blue. Burgundy: Combines deep reddish-purple and blue with jet-black markings.

Stunning Silver Dollar Plant: Grow versatile Eucalyptus Cinerea seeds for exceptional color, fragrance, and texture, perfect for both indoor and outdoor gardens.

Rapid Growth & Longevity: Enjoy quick growth with up to 8 feet of height in a single season and a mature height of up to 30 feet, ideal for small gardens and landscapes.

Hardy & Low-Maintenance: Thriving in full sun with moist, well-drained loamy soil, these easy-care, drought-tolerant plants are resistant to diseases, pests, heat, and humidity.

Make a bold statement in your planter, hanging basket, flower bed or landscape with the Petunia Shock Wave Tie Dye Purple plant. This spreading Petunia provides abundant blooms from Spring through late Summer in shades of lavender to violet, and some bicolors.

Shock Waves start blooming much sooner in spring, thanks to less day-length sensitivity, and they keep coming all summer and into fall. And the old blooms obligingly drop from the plants, so no more deadheading for you!

And the Shock Waves stand up to rain, humidity, heat, and other environmental stresses better than older Waves, bouncing back from summer showers and thunderstorms very well. Compact and very well-branched, they keep their lush, full habit.

In 4 vibrant shades, these big semi- to fully-double flowers arise all along tall, sturdy stalks beginning just 4 months from sowing. An annual Summer Carnival Hollyhock is a long-blooming, very colorful series so garden-worthy that it received an AAS award. Tall and stately, it blooms all summer for a rich display of big powderpuff blossoms in every shade of pink, rose, red, and yellow.

The 4-inch blooms are richly hued, and will not fade in the summer sun. Superb for cutting, they open from the bottom of the stalk upwards, keeping you in fresh blooms for weeks on end. And this stunning series sets its blooms even lower on the stalk than most hollyhocks, for a little more color on every stalk.

Easy to grow in full sun and almost any well-drained soil, this annual really takes off with a top-dressing of cow manure.

What a joy—big, wide-open Hollyhock blooms in clear shades of white, yellow, red, purple, and pink with Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix. Single-flowered Hollyhocks are hard to find these days, and rust-resistant varieties harder still. But this improved mix not only gives you radiant color and plenty of it, but is also a tall, rust-free, ready-to-bloom plant just made for the back of the border, the garage or barn wall, and other show-off spots. No wonder it won Europe's highest seed award.

Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix is a bold blend of white, pink, purple, red, and yellow blooms, each measuring about 3 inches apart and arising all along 5- to 7-foot stalks. This Hollyhock is no shrinking Violet—it shoots up tall and fast, with a long season of color-drenched blooms you can see from down the street. (Maybe they should have called it "Happy Searchlights" instead.)

Sow the seeds in February for blooms the first summer, or in July and August for next year. Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix thrives in any good garden soil (even dry ones) provided it's well-drained and exposed to full sunshine. Best of all, Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix is more resistant to rust than most any other Hollyhock. I would've said Country Garden couldn't be improved, but boy oh boy, Happy Lights has proved me wrong. You'll love the difference.

Never predictable and always a delight, this mixture is for gourd fanciers tired of the same old look.

It is simply the most diverse collection of gourds we know, with fruits ranging from egg-sized to gargantuan—and everything in between.

Both smooth and warted varieties are included, and the colors span the full range of this beloved fruit—whites, creams, yellows, tans, oranges, and of course greens, with many speckled, spotted, banded and striped types.

Classic Romantic' Mix are cool weather annuals offering late spring through summer interest. Often grown in cutting gardens, the plants bloom abundantly, have a long bloom period, and produce charming daisy-like double flowers in a well-balanced mix of pink, white, and rosy-red shades.

Some are red with white tips, some have light petals and a dark center, and still others are varying combinations of pink and red. Borne singly on tall, willowy stems, the long-lasting, nectar-rich flowers attract honeybees and butterflies and add lovely bits of color to floral arrangements, cut or dried. The flowers are edible and can be used as garnish.

These hardy plants, also known as cornflowers or bachelor's buttons, have an upright, clumping habit of lance-shaped, gray-green leaves. Easy to establish from seed, low maintenance, and very adaptable, the plants prefer full sun and average, medium moisture, well-drained soils but will grow in poor soil and tolerate low water conditions.

The varieties in 'The Seven Dwarfs' Mix Dwarf Larkspur are hardy, cool weather annuals offering summer interest. This blend of dwarf larkspurs flowers in densely packed spires of pink, mauve, rose, purple, grey, white, and shades of blue blooms.

Borne in spike-like racemes, the flowers attract bees, bumblebees, and butterflies and make excellent cut flowers for fresh and dried arrangements.

The 'The Seven Dwarfs' Mix Dwarf Larkspur varieties have a compact habit of deeply cut almost ferny leaves and a fast rate of growth. Shown to best effect planted in drifts or groups in borders and containers.