Collection: Rare & Unusual Seeds (Heirloom)
Enhance your cut flower garden with these unique heirloom veggie, herb, and flower seeds! Hard-to-find doesn’t always mean difficult to grow—in fact, all of our uncommon heirloom flowers are actually very easy to grow. Plant these heirlooms in the field or in a container garden and enjoy their eccentricity outdoors or in a vase. You could start with one or two varieties, but we have a feeling you’ll want to try them all!
What we adore about rare heirloom veggie, herb, and flower seeds
- 68 hard-to-find heirloom veggie and flower seed varieties
- Unique blooms add interest and texture to bouquets
- Attract pollinators and beneficial insects
- Annual and perennial varieties suitable for all hardiness zones
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Marshmallow Seeds
Unique ornamental addition and conversation starterRegular price $4.99 - $23.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $23.99 -
Hollyhock Seeds - Nigra
Rich, mahogany blooms look almost black in the right lightRegular price $4.99 - $47.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $47.99 -
Gourd Seeds - Luffa
Source of the popular bathroom and kitchen scrubberRegular price $4.99 - $75.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $75.99 -
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Cleome Seeds - Mixed Colors
Colorful blooms will turn your garden into a bustling pollinator hubRegular price $4.99 - $333.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $333.99Best Seller -
Caper Seeds
Necessary for pickling and seasoningRegular price $6.99 - $110.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $110.99 -
French Marigold Seeds - Court Jester
Red and yellow striped petals look great with tomato plants and keep pests awayRegular price $4.99 - $45.49Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $45.49 -
Cucumber Seeds - Mexican Sour Gherkin
Lilliputian cucumbers with a hint of lemonRegular price $5.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.99 -
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Collard Seeds - Georgia Southern
Slow to bolt variety with huge and juicy leavesRegular price $4.99 - $157.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $157.99Best Seller -
Lavender Seeds - Munstead
Hints of blues and greens compact enough for your English garden borderRegular price $6.99 - $173.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $173.99 -
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Love in a Mist Seeds - Mixed Colors
Colorful starburst-shaped flowers are a cottage garden favoriteRegular price $4.99 - $49.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $49.99Best Seller -
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Passiflora Seeds
Each exotic bloom lasts for one glorious dayRegular price $6.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99Best Seller -
Sweet Pepper Seeds - Emerald Giant
Chef's choice for large green peppersRegular price $5.99 - $95.49Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.99 - $95.49 -
Pumpkin Seeds - Atlantic Giant
Record breaking, spectacularly largeRegular price $6.99 - $185.49Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $185.49 -
Tomato Seeds - Hillbilly (Potato Leaf)
Streaked in oranges, yellows and red, even more beautiful slicedRegular price $6.99 - $70.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $70.99 -
Wild Blue Iris Seeds
North American wildflower boasts deeply veined petals in a rare shade of blueRegular price $5.99 - $265.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.99 - $265.99 -
Foxglove Seeds - Dalmatian Peach
A first-year flowering perennial in a classically elegant shadeRegular price $4.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99
What we adore about rare heirloom veggie, herb, and flower seeds
- 68 hard-to-find heirloom veggie and flower seed varieties
- Unique blooms add interest and texture to bouquets
- Attract pollinators and beneficial insects
- Annual and perennial varieties suitable for all hardiness zones
The most extensive collection of rare and unusual heirloom seeds
An heirloom variety is any vegetable, herb, or flower variety that has been cultivated for fifty or more years. Heirloom flowers are always open-pollinated cultivars with stable genetics—meaning, the seeds can be saved and will grow true to type, producing offspring that resembles the parent generation.
At Eden Brothers, we get excited about heirloom seeds because we are passionate about preserving genetic diversity in the world’s seedstock. Biological variance is essential to nature—plus, we think these rare and unusual heirloom seeds are so much more fun than hybrids!
Whimsical heirloom flowers for your cottage garden and cut flower patch
Take Chinese Houses Seeds, for instance. This California native wildflower boasts clusters of bicolored florets atop one another on a tall stem—a very efficient design for attracting pollinators! Love-in-a-mist is another whimsical flower straight out of a storybook. The feather petals and wispy foliage will certainly have you believe in fairies! A workhorse in the garden, try growing Love-In-A-Mist Mixed Colors and dry the seedpods for a fun textural element to use in bouquets.
Filter these lovely heirloom flowers using the tabs on the left-hand side of this page to find the perfect variety for your garden. Sort varieties by plant height, bloom season, and sowing method, among many other features.
All of our exotic heirloom flower seeds are easy to grow, so you can spend less time stressing and more time enjoying these quirky plants! Tuck a few of these eccentric flowers into a fresh bouquet for an intriguing arrangement and conversation starter.
Even if you have some limiting factors, you can still cultivate the exotic flower garden of your dreams. Blanket Flower and Creeping Thyme will thrive in a shade garden, and Foxglove Excelsior Mix and Wild Blue Iris are deer and rabbit resistant varieties.
If you don’t have a ton of space, try growing these heirloom flowers in containers! Pot up these beauties into a well-draining pot and you’ll get just as much out of them as you would in the field.
Safe heirloom flower seeds guaranteed to grow
Whichever heirloom flower(s) you fall for, you can expect the same quality that you would from any other Eden Brothers’ product. All our seeds are certified non-GMO and filler-free—because the last thing you need to worry about is unnecessary additives in your seeds. Whether you buy a packet of heirloom flower seeds or you order in bulk, you can trust that you’ll receive only 100% pure seed, packed for this season—guaranteed to grow if you abide by our planting recommendations located in our Flower Seeds Planting Guide.
These rare and unique heirloom flower seeds sell out fast, so order your seeds today before these special varieties sell out for the season!