{"title":"Flower Seeds","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShop flower seeds selected for Florida and southern growing conditions. Explore regionally adapted, climate-resilient varieties chosen for beauty, resilience, pollinator value, and strong garden performance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beebalm-horsemint","title":"Beebalm \/ Horsemint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso known as dotted horsemint, a perennial that dies back to the ground in North Florida unless we have a warm winter. Bushy with 2-4' spread and height of about 3'. Can grow much bigger with irrigation and good soil. Showy lavender and cream flowers are perhaps the best Florida wildflower for attracting vast numbers of pollinators. From summer through fall the blooms attract pollinators. Very drought resistant. Tastes like spicy intense oregano, and used in the kitchen as an herb or tea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis can get \"weedy\" and spreads easily. But we love that about it! And so do the pollinators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46227357794493,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Beebalm.jpg?v=1776463145"},{"product_id":"roselle","title":"Roselle","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautiful large hibiscus shrub with showy flowers and edible red calyxes and leaves, have a delicious sour taste and deep red color. Roselle goes by many names: Florida cranberry, sorrel, Jamaican sorrel, Agua de Jamaica, red zinger, and our kids call it the sour skittles plant!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarvest the red calyxes anytime they are plump and red. They can be use fresh, dried or frozen make faux cranberry sauce, tea (red zinger), jelly, sauce, vinegars, candies, shrubs, fire ciders and so much more! Calyxes also make an excellent natural pigment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA must have Florida garden plant. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300285829309,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Roselle_4.jpg?v=1776462493"},{"product_id":"anise-hyssop","title":"Anise Hyssop","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe love this plant so very much! The pollinators do too, which is our main reason for growing Anise Hyssop, but the tasty leaves and flowers are also a pleasure! They taste like a sweet anise\/licorice and are excellent in teas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurple flowers are gorgeous, abundant and very attractive to many pollinators. Seeds are easy to save too!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrimming\/topping early on when plants are young will encourage more branched, bushy plants. They will die back when summer temperatures start soaring and are best sown in the fall for spring blooms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300309815485,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/AniseHyssop_3.jpg?v=1776463173"},{"product_id":"amaranth-purple-mammoth","title":"Amaranth, Purple Mammoth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis \"variety\" is likely a mix of different amaranths we've grown over the years. The flowers are large, reddish pink, purple and drooping, a real beauty! The leaves like all amaranths, are edible. These beauties grow about 5-7 ft tall and respond to pruning to keep them shorter and bushier. Leaves are quite large and abundant, with various colorations of purple and green leaves. Not knowing what variety it is anymore, we're just calling it Purple Mammoth! Very drought tolerant. There was low germination on this one, so we've stuffed the packs more and recommend you sow a bit thicker.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304240861373,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Purple_Amaranth_2.jpg?v=1776462083"},{"product_id":"beach-sunflower","title":"Beach Sunflower","description":"\u003cp\u003eNative to the Gulf Coast of Florida, a multi-branching plant that grows outward to 6'. Yellow blooms are prolific and attractive to pollinators. This plant is tough as nails, drought tolerant and vigorous. Bloom time is about three months.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304241189053,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Beach_sunflower_at_the_beach.jpg?v=1776686704"},{"product_id":"black-eyed-susan","title":"Black-Eyed Susan","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous and carefree native wildflower that easily self sows in the garden. It gets about 1-2 ft tall, bearing loads of yellow aster-like flowers with a brown central disc. Blooms from spring through fall. This is a perennial that reseeds easily. Pollinators love it! Occasionally flowers appear with red markings around the center. So lovely and cheerful!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304241877181,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/rudbeckia5.jpg?v=1777560766"},{"product_id":"blanket-flower","title":"Blanket Flower","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnual re-seeding bright orange and yellow flowers are long lasting over several months and the plants can get 12-18\" wide and tall or more! Peak flowering is mid spring to late Summer. It has a reputation as being tough as nails; if you have an open, sunny sandy spot where nothing grows, try blanket flower. This readily self-sows and will become a regular in your garden over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304241942717,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Blanketflower5.jpg?v=1776458217"},{"product_id":"borage","title":"Borage","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdible flower and young leaves, with mild cucumber flavor. Large plants bear lots of small blueish\/purple flowers. Attracts bees and butterflies, big time! Leaves are a bit prickly and can be irritating. Once it' past its prime and temperatures heat up, borage seems to just melt into a mushy black mess. But while it's alive it's spectacular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304242073789,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"butterfly-pea","title":"Butterfly Pea","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat a cool plant! Here's what we learned after finally getting a hold of very hard to find seeds and grew some in our gardens in 2021. They really like heat, humidity, and regular summer rains. Don't bother starting seeds till our weather is like that, cool and dry! We tried early, setting out little transplants because we were super excited, but they literally did nothing except for survive, until it got really warm and the summer rains began and then they were off!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey want to climb, and will grow 10' tall or more! Low to no maintenance they do well in moderate soil with no irrigation other than what Mother Nature provides during the summer. They last a long time with continuous blossoms and a generous seed offering. The delicate blue flowers are very attractive to pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDry them or use fresh to make any drink blue or make your own inks and paints from this lovely pigment. Reacts to acid, so if you drop lemon juice into your drink it will turn purple! Does not have much of a taste, just a fun natural dye!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a rare \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneslowfood.com\/en\/ark-of-taste-slow-food\/ternate-butterfly-pea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eSlow Food Ark of Taste\u003c\/a\u003e crop! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304242434237,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Butterfly_Pea_5.jpg?v=1776459153"},{"product_id":"calendula","title":"Calendula","description":"\u003cp\u003eBright yellow and orange blooms with excellent medicinal properties and an edible flower that looks awesome on salads and cakes! Grown in our gardens for the past five years, these lovely bright jewels have become easily adapted to our area. Many flowers have multiple branching blooms per flower and were really spectacular. A great colorful splash in the garden during winter months when not much else is flowering, providing food for pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304242467005,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/calendula2.jpg?v=1777568278"},{"product_id":"celosia","title":"Celosia","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning and long-lasting garden flower in the amaranth family. Wonderful in bouquets and irresistible to pollinators. The leaves are also edible and nutritious, prepared like any cooked green. Plants reach about 5' tall or more depending on soil fertility. Very drought tolerant and generally carefree, but like most things, thrives in good garden conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plant is always a welcome friend bearing loads of long lasting gorgeous blooms that are great for bouquets, dried flowers and of course for pollinators. Thrives in our warm summer months and provides nutritious greens! This plant always gets plenty of attention when visitors tour the gardens. Grow a bunch one year and you may never have to get seed again from us, they are prolifically seedy...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304242598077,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/pointycelosia.jpg?v=1776684674"},{"product_id":"cockscomb-celosia","title":"Cockscomb Celosia","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning and long-lasting garden flower in the amaranth family. Wonderful in bouquets and irresistible to pollinators. The leaves are also edible and nutritious, prepared like any cooked green. Plants reach about 5\" tall or more depending on soil fertility. Very drought tolerant and generally carefree, but like most things, thrives in good garden conditions. We originally acquired this seed from Michael Adler's Edible Plant Project many years ago, and have been growing and saving it for over 7 years. Many years we don't intentionally grow it, as it comes up readily on its own! It's always a welcome friend bearing loads of long lasting gorgeous blooms that are great for long lasting bouquets and for pollinators, thrives in our warm summer months and provides nutritious greens! This plant always gets plenty of attention when visitors tour the gardens. Grow a bunch one year and you may never have to get seed again from us!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304243024061,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Cockscomb_Celosia_wasp.jpg?v=1776457985"},{"product_id":"cosmos","title":"Cosmos","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn easy to grow spring, summer, and fall flower that readily produces seeds and volunteers year after year, while attracting loads of pollinators. Mostly orange but some occasional yellows show up. Carefree, wispy and drought tolerant. They show up in our gardens every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe latest seed batch came only from volunteers- the toughest and most resilient plants!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304243581117,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Cosmos_8.heic?v=1776462637"},{"product_id":"goldenmane-coreopsis","title":"Goldenmane Coreopsis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is Floridas' State Flower, but is not actually native to here! It's from the western plains but does really well here and is great for pollinators. In Florida, Goldenmane Tickseed prefers sunny, disturbed sites that have dry, sandy soil. This wildflower is often found coexisting with bahiagrass. In dry, sandy soils, bahiagrass sod or stands are open enough to allow Goldenmane Tickseed to grow competitively with the grass. Since Goldenmane Tickseed is a spring annual, most of this wildflower's growth and flowering occur before bahiagrass grows large enough to out-compete it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImage borrowed from garrettseed.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304246825149,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"jewels-of-opar","title":"Jewels of Opar","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA delicate, low-growing plant with firm yet tender leaves that are tasty and crunchy. It thrives in the heat of summer, producing edible greens alongside loads of tiny purple flowers. It’s both delicious and very ornamental!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis plant does have a tendency to spread around the garden, but we’ve never found it to be particularly weedy. It pops up here and there during the warmest months, and we usually just let it grow where it lands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt doesn’t seem to compete much with other plants, so unless it’s growing directly in the way, we’re happy to let it do its thing. A lovely little edible ornamental. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304247840957,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/jewelsofopar2.jpg?v=1777568461"},{"product_id":"lanceleaf-coreopsis","title":"Lanceleaf Coreopsis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous and carefree native wildflower that easily self sows in the garden. This grows naturally in North Florida and the Panhandle in sandhills and disturbed areas, but it is widely used farther south. It is a short-lived perennial that readily reseeds. Its yellow ray flowers are complemented by a golden disk atop fairly thick stems. This spring bloomer can flower into summer with dead-heading and is drought tolerant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304248201405,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Lanceleaf_Coreopsis_1.jpg?v=1776463267"},{"product_id":"larkspur","title":"Larkspur","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautiful tall spiked flowers of mixed colors include mostly shades of purple, mixed in with whites and pinks too. We've been growing and saving this since 2012. Originally, we got our seed from Master Gardener Lois McNamara who got them from Mrs. Barbara Feaster in Shiloh, Florida, the same Feasters who have been stewarding their family's mustard for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a long-blooming and lovely flower loved by pollinators. Sow seeds directly in the fall into cool soil after a couple of weeks in the refrigerator to mimic a short winter. They will begin flowering in the early spring, providing tall, wispy, long-lasting blooms. Because they are tall and not consuming of space (until you let them freely seed like we do!), they are great companions for veggies and other things in the garden. Also great as a tall border plant. It will re-sow easily and come up all over the place if you let it go to seed. Chill seed in refrigerator for 7 days for improved germination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304248299709,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/larkspur4.jpg?v=1777557281"},{"product_id":"leavenworths-coreopsis","title":"Leavenworth's Coreopsis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous and carefree native wildflower that easily self sows in the garden and can become weedy in the right conditions. This grows naturally in sandhills, edges of cypress swamps and marshes. Attracts many species of butterfly as well as other pollinators. Birds and other small wildlife consume seed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304248365245,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/Leavenworth_s_Coreopsis.jpg?v=1776459990"},{"product_id":"mexican-sunflower","title":"Mexican Sunflower","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful and hardy plant reaching 6-7' tall, with bright neon orange flowers. One of the most attractive flowers for our local pollinators and other beneficial insects. Sun- loving and drought tolerant when established. 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Didn't matter for us! They were fun and easy to grow, and absolutely lovely. We love strawflowers, and everyone that comes to the garden notices them!\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll winter we had an assassin bug spending time hunting among the flowers that were covered in good (and some bad) insects. They are lovely flowers for the garden, especially if you like fresh cut bouquets or dried flower arrangements. 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