No plants add as much beauty and color to containers or your garden beds as annuals. Prized for their flowers or striking foliage, annuals provide season-long color. At Vander Giessen Nursery, you’ll find annuals for spring, summer, fall and winter–and because we grow them in our own greenhouses on-site, you can be assured they’re top-quality plants that will exceed the vitality and longevity of plants you’ll find anywhere else.

Our selection of annuals includes tried-and-true classics as well as hot new plant offerings sure to impress your neighbors. Some of our seasonal offerings include:

Late Winter – Early Spring

  • Pansies
  • Primroses
  • Osteospermum African daisies
  • Senetti daisies

Mid-Spring – Early Summer

  • Alyssum
  • Bacopa
  • Begonias
  • Black-eyed susan vine
  • Calibrachoa
  • Coleus
  • Geraniums
  • Gerbera daisies
  • Impatiens
  • Lobelia
  • Lotus vine
  • Marigolds
  • Osteospermum
  • Petunias
  • Salvia
  • Snapdragons
  • Spikes
  • Sweet potato vine
  • Verbena
  • Zinnias

Late Summer – Fall

  • Asters
  • Autumn grasses
  • Mums
  • Ornamental cabbage & kale
  • Winter pansies

Check out our great selection of basket stuffers we grow each year on site in our greenhouses. These trailing plants–mostly flowering varieties–are excellent for use in hanging baskets, patio containers, or even as creeping annual groundcovers. Available beginning in mid-April, our basket stuffers are unbeaten in quality and performance–check out this year’s selection by clicking or tapping the button below!

At Vander Giessen’s, we grow nearly 100 varieties of Proven Winners annuals, our preferred brand for color, vigor and season-long performance. Visit us in spring and early summer for our widest selection and discover the success you can have with Proven Winners annuals started in our greenhouses.