Plan Your 2026 Orders with Our Top-Selling Annuals from 2025

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Plan Your 2026 Orders with Our Top-Selling Annuals from 2025

As you plan for the upcoming season, take inspiration from the plants that gardeners loved most in 2025. Our top-selling annuals offer proven performance, vibrant color, and lasting appeal, making them a smart choice for your 2026 inventory and designs. From eye-catching blooms that attract pollinators to lush foliage that enhances containers and landscapes alike, these standout selections will help you plan with confidence and creativity.

This guide highlights customer favorites, their unique attributes, growing conditions, and care tips, so you can anticipate what’s sure to be in high demand next year.

BEGONIA Dragon Wing® Red

The Dragon Wing® Red Begonia is a garden workhorse known for its stunning performance and lush appearance. It features large, wing-shaped, glossy green leaves that provide a dramatic backdrop for its brilliant red, bell-like flowers. This plant blooms continuously from spring until the first frost, providing reliable color all season.

  • Unique Features: Its arching, cane-like stems create a full, mounding habit that is perfect for hanging baskets, containers, and landscape beds. It’s also incredibly heat-tolerant.
  • Ideal Conditions: Thrives in partial sun to shady locations. It prefers well-drained, consistently moist soil.
  • Garden Use: Use it as a “thriller” in large mixed containers or plant it en masse in shady garden beds for a spectacular display of color. It pairs beautifully with ferns and hostas.

CUPHEA Vermillionaire®

Often called the “firecracker plant,” Cuphea Vermillionaire® is a pollinator magnet. Its slender, tubular orange-red flowers with yellow tips resemble tiny firecrackers and are irresistible to hummingbirds. This plant produces an incredible number of blooms, ensuring a lively and active garden.

  • Unique Features: This annual is exceptionally heat and drought-tolerant once established. It has a continuous blooming cycle that doesn’t require deadheading.
  • Ideal Conditions: Plant in full to partial sun. It performs best in well-drained soil and doesn’t like to be overwatered.
  • Garden Use: Its mounded, slightly spreading habit makes it an excellent choice for the front of a border, in rock gardens, or as a “filler” in containers. The fine-textured foliage adds a nice contrast to plants with larger leaves.

DICHONDRA Silver Falls™

For a touch of elegance and drama, look no further than Dichondra Silver Falls™. This plant is grown for its stunning foliage, not its flowers. It produces a cascade of small, fan-shaped, silvery-green leaves on long, trailing stems. It truly looks like a waterfall of silver spilling from your containers.

  • Unique Features: The trailing stems can reach lengths of three to four feet, creating a dramatic effect. It’s also very heat and drought-tolerant.
  • Ideal Conditions: Prefers full sun to light shade. More sun brings out the best silver color. It needs excellent drainage to prevent root rot.
  • Garden Use: As a “spiller,” it is unmatched in hanging baskets, window boxes, and tall containers. It also works as a unique, temporary groundcover between stepping stones or in rock gardens.

EUPHORBIA Diamond Frost®

Euphorbia Diamond Frost® adds a delicate, airy texture to any garden design. It is covered in a cloud of tiny white bracts that look like baby’s breath. This plant creates a soft, frothy effect that beautifully complements other, more bold-colored annuals.

  • Unique Features: It blooms non-stop from planting until frost with no deadheading needed. It’s tough, resilient, and resistant to most pests and diseases.
  • Ideal Conditions: Performs well in full sun to partial shade. It is drought-tolerant and handles heat and humidity with grace.
  • Garden Use: Use it as a filler in mixed containers to weave between other plants, softening the edges and filling in gaps. It looks magical in hanging baskets and adds a touch of whimsy to garden beds.

IMPATIENS SunPatiens® Compact Blush Pink

If you thought impatiens were only for the shade, SunPatiens® will change your mind. The Compact Blush Pink variety offers large, soft pink flowers that stand out against its dark green foliage. These plants are robust, fast-growing, and deliver three seasons of continuous color.

  • Unique Features: As the name suggests, SunPatiens® thrive in full sun as well as shade. They are also highly resistant to downy mildew, a common problem for traditional impatiens.
  • Ideal Conditions: Grow in sun or shade and provide consistent moisture. They do best in rich, well-drained soil.
  • Garden Use: Their uniform, mounding habit makes them ideal for mass plantings in landscape beds, creating a sea of color. They are also excellent in containers and hanging baskets.

PETUNIA Crazytunia® Black Mamba

For a bold and dramatic statement, the Crazytunia® Black Mamba Petunia is an absolute showstopper. Its velvety, deep black blooms are truly unique and provide a striking contrast to brighter flowers. This petunia has a strong, mounding habit and is covered in blooms all season.

  • Unique Features: The rich, solid black color is rare in the plant world. It’s also weather-resistant, bouncing back quickly after rain.
  • Ideal Conditions: Full sun is a must for the best flowering performance. Plant in well-drained soil and fertilize regularly to keep the flowers coming.
  • Garden Use: Pair it with silver foliage like Dichondra Silver Falls™ or bright lime green plants like Sedum Lemon Coral® for a high-contrast, modern look in containers. It also adds depth and mystery to garden borders.

SEDUM Lemon Coral®

Sedum Lemon Coral® is a versatile succulent annual prized for its spiky, chartreuse-to-bright-yellow foliage. It has a vigorous, spreading habit that quickly fills in spaces. This tough plant brings a vibrant pop of color and interesting texture wherever it’s planted.

  • Unique Features: It is extremely drought and heat-tolerant. The foliage is soft to the touch, unlike many other sedums, making it pleasant to work with.
  • Ideal Conditions: Thrives in full sun, which intensifies its lime-green color. It requires very well-drained soil and does not tolerate wet feet.
  • Garden Use: Perfect as a “spiller” in containers and hanging baskets. It also makes a fantastic, low-maintenance groundcover in sunny, dry areas of your garden.

SUPERTUNIA Vista Bubblegum®

A favorite among gardeners everywhere, Supertunia Vista Bubblegum® is famous for its incredible vigor and profuse flowering. It produces masses of bright, bubblegum-pink flowers that completely cover the plant. It grows fast and spreads wide, creating a blanket of color.

  • Unique Features: No deadheading is required for continuous blooms. It’s a very aggressive grower, capable of spreading up to two feet in a landscape setting.
  • Ideal Conditions: Loves full sun. Keep it well-fed with a continuous-release fertilizer and water regularly for the best show.
  • Garden Use: Plant it in large containers where it can mound and trail, or use it in the landscape for a fast-growing, flowering groundcover. One or two plants can easily fill a large area.

SUTERA Snowstorm® Giant Snowflake®

Also known as Bacopa, Sutera Snowstorm® Giant Snowflake® is a classic trailing annual. It features extra-large, pure white flowers that bloom profusely along its cascading stems. It creates a lush, romantic look in any planting.

  • Unique Features: The flowers are significantly larger than older bacopa varieties. It is self-cleaning, so the spent blooms drop off on their own.
  • Ideal Conditions: Prefers partial sun but can tolerate full sun with consistent moisture. It does not like to dry out.
  • Garden Use: An essential “spiller” for hanging baskets, window boxes, and mixed containers. It pairs beautifully with almost any other plant, adding a cascade of clean white blooms that brighten shady spots.