Rippling Waters Organic Farm

Promoting Community Food Security through Education, Action, & Service

Farm, Farm Store, Greenhouse & Community Gardens
55 River Road, Steep Falls (Standish), Maine 04085
just off Rte. 25 near Limington Rapids picnic area
(207) 642-5161             greengrower@ripplingwaters.org
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Bedding Plants for your Containers and Garden

 

Sun-loving
  • Abutilon: tall, yellow, container, flowering maple
  • Ageratum: short, blue, low borders
 
  • Argyranthemum, Butterfly: tall, yellow
  • Browalia: medium, blue, white, containers
  • Cleome: tall, rose & lavender, borders
  • Convolvulus: creeping, blue, containers

 

  • Cosmos: short, carmine & pink, containers
  • Dahlia: short, mixed colors, containers
  • Datura: tall, white, reseeds
  • Dianthus: short, raspberry & violet, containers, perennial
  • Gaillardia: medium, reddish, containers
  • Gazania: medium, mixed colors, containers, closes at night

 Dahlias

  • Geranium: medium, many colors
  • Lantana: medium, red & orange
  • Lisianthus: short, blue, white, lavender, containers
 
  • Nasturtium: short, some climb, orange & yellows, edible, organic

  • Nicotiana: Tobacco Plant, mixed colors         

  • Ornamental Millet:  Tall, bronze, filler, border, fall
  • Osteospermum: medium, yellow, orange, purple, containers
  • Phlox: short, mixed colors
  • Petunia: medium, some crawl, all colors, containers
  • Portulaca: short, pink colors, containers

 Gazanias

  • Purple Bell Vine: climbing, purple
 
  • Salvia: medium, purple, red & white, containers
 
  • Scaveola: short, trailing, blue, white, containers
   
  • Sunflowers: tall, firecracker
  • Thunbergia: climbing, yellow/orange, containers
  • Tithonia: tall, orange
  • Verbena: medium, mixed colors
  • Vinca: medium, grape & pink, containers
  • Zinnia: short, mixed colors, containers

 Petunias

 

Shade-loving

  • Begonia: mixed colors, containers
  • Fuschia, medium, pinks, containers
  • Impatients: mixed colors, mass plantings, containers
  • Lobelia: short, blues & pinks, some trailing, containers
  • New Guinea Impatients: medium, violet, red, orange, containers
  • Pansies: short, many colors, edible
  • Torenia: medium, burgundy, blue, pink, yellow, some trail, containers
  • Violas: short, black, white, purple, mix

New Guinea Impatients

 

Partial Sun/Shade

  • Bacopa: short,trail, white, containers 
  • Calendula: yellow & orange, edible-organic

  • Dusty Miller: silver lace, containers, great filler
  • Helichrysum: silver mist, containers, great filler
  • Marigolds: medium, orange & yellows, containers, companion
  • Morning Glory: climbing, blue, white
  • Rudebeckia: Black-eyed susan, medium-tall, reseeds
  • Snapdragons, medium, sonnet mix colors,

Bacopa

  • Sweet pea, climbing, old spice mix
  • Verbena: trailing, blue, pink, containers
 


Last updated:  May 2010