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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Creeping Thyme Seeds
Low-maintenance perennial groundcover with a citrusy scentRegular price $5.99 - $319.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.99 - $319.99 -
Bee Balm Seeds - Wild Bergamot
This thistle-like wildflower is the preferred bloom of bees everywhereRegular price $5.99 - $150.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.99 - $150.99 -
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Carrot Seeds - Rainbow Blend
Pull a color, any color, delightfully fun to harvestRegular price $6.99 - $112.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $112.99Best Seller -
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Foxglove Seeds - Excelsior Mix
Add elegance to your garden with these pastel biennial bloomsRegular price $4.99 - $47.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $47.99Best Seller -
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Pumpkin Seeds - Fairytale
French heirloom with an excellent tasteRegular price $5.49 - $245.49Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $5.49 - $245.49Best Seller -
Gayfeather / Blazing Star Seeds
With tall purple, spiky plumes, gayfeather is ideal in containers by the front doorRegular price $4.99 - $178.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $178.99 -
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Mexican Sunflower Seeds - Torch
Prolific daisy-shaped blooms in a rich rusty redRegular price $4.99 - $220.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $220.99AAS Winner -
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Tomato Seeds - Heirloom Rainbow Mixture
Our favorite heirloom flavors and colors in one mixRegular price $6.99 - $66.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $66.99Best Seller -
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Tomato Seeds - Cherokee Purple
Purplish flesh known for its intense depth of flavorRegular price $6.99 - $70.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $6.99 - $70.99Best Seller -
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Sweet Pepper Seeds - Mini Bell Blend
Multi-colored miniature sweet peppersRegular price $6.99 - $144.50Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$288.99Sale price $6.99 - $144.50Best Seller Sale -
Spearmint Seeds
Prized for its spicy, citrus, minty tasteRegular price $7.99 - $133.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $7.99 - $133.99 -
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Blanket Flower Seeds
Colorful heirloom and native wildflower capable of naturalizing anywhereRegular price $4.99 - $289.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $289.99Best Seller -
Hyssop Seeds
Spikes of violet blue flowers attract pollinators and sweeten honeyRegular price $4.99 - $110.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $110.99 -
Lemon Mint Seeds
This versatile herb is commonly enjoyed in the flower garden and medicine cabinetRegular price $4.99 - $15.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $15.99 -
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Canterbury Bells Seeds - Mixed
This cottage garden classic is a set-and-forget biennialRegular price $4.99 - $38.99Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$0Sale price $4.99 - $38.99Best Seller -
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Oregano Seeds - Greek
Highly aromatic and flavorful, prized by Italian and Greek chefsRegular price $6.99 - $69.50Regular priceUnit price $0 / per$138.99Sale price $6.99 - $69.50Best Seller Sale
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!