Functional Flower Seed Collection – 36 Varieties for a Garden That Gives Back

Grow Flowers That Work as Hard as the Rest of Your Garden

A flower garden can be beautiful and useful.

The Functional Flower Collection brings together 36 different heirloom flower varieties chosen to provide practical benefits throughout the garden. Along with season-long color, these plants can help attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial visitors; provide edible or useful flowers; complement vegetables and herbs; support wildlife; and give you armloads of blooms for cutting and sharing.

The collection ranges from familiar favorites such as sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, lavender, calendula, and snapdragons to native and pollinator-friendly plants including milkweed, coneflower, Black Eyed Susan, bluebonnet, yarrow, and blanket flower.

Plant a dedicated flower garden, tuck varieties among your vegetables and herbs, create pollinator habitat around your property, or simply grow a more diverse landscape.

Every variety earns its place.

More Than a Pretty Flower Garden

Feed the Pollinators
Milkweed, coneflower, sunflowers, cosmos, blanket flower, lavender, yarrow, and many other blooms provide nectar, pollen, or habitat for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial insects.

Grow Edible & Useful Flowers
Varieties such as nasturtium, calendula, pansy, amaranth, lavender, and other traditionally useful flowers can bring the garden into the kitchen, craft room, or home.

Add Flowers to the Vegetable Garden
Flowers such as marigolds, nasturtiums, calendula, yarrow, and others are commonly grown alongside food crops to increase garden diversity, attract beneficial insects, and support companion-planting strategies.

Support a Healthier Garden Ecosystem
Native plants, deep-rooted flowers, legumes such as Texas Bluebonnet, and diverse flowering species help create a more varied landscape above and below the soil.

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers
Zinnias, sunflowers, cosmos, snapdragons, hollyhocks, sweet peas, daisies, and other favorites give you plenty of choices for bouquets and arrangements.

Feed Wildlife After the Blooms Fade
Allow selected seed heads to mature and they can provide food and habitat for birds and other garden wildlife later in the season.

36 Varieties. Countless Ways to Use Them.

You Don't Have to Plant All 36 at Once

A collection this large is meant to give you choices.

Create a dedicated flower bed, plant pockets of flowers around your vegetable garden, fill containers, establish a pollinator area, or add new varieties to your landscape a few at a time.

Some varieties are fast-growing annuals that provide color in their first season. Others are perennials that can become lasting parts of your garden once established.

Plant what fits your space this year and properly store the remaining packets for future seasons.