Tasha Tudor Flower Seeds 2026
We are pleased to announce that flower seeds from Tasha's garden will be released for sale on Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 1 PM ET. We know you've been waiting! Join us in continuing Tasha's living legacy by adding Tasha's plants to your garden.
Mid-January 2026 finds Vermont in the middle of a deep, cold winter. Today, with the wind chill, it's -5°. The 2026 growing season feels like a dream that will never come to pass. But the days continue to lengthen, the sunset nearing 5 PM. We'll soon set up our seed-starting stand, and the tiny signs of summer life will greet us one morning. Tasha never minded winter, and luckily, neither do any of her descendants that still live on the family property. But an early spring seedling, well, that's a buoyant tiding indeed.
At this time of year, Tasha would scour seed catalogues, leaving notepads on the tea table with orders written in her distinctive handwriting. She would remark upon her growing case of "garden fever" with delight. Now, as was the case then, garden fever is the best fever to catch.
Raising Tasha Tudor Flower Seeds
We raise all of our seeds here on the Tudor family property in southern Vermont. Tasha's extended family enjoys hundreds of acres of forest. Only five or so acres are cleared for ornamental gardening, including Tasha's garden and field. Under these small patches of open sky, we cultivate several gardens which are the source of our seed crops. Some plants, like the yellow foxglove, require only vigilant observation of the ripening seeds. Others require thoughtful effort to continue all the variations, such as hollyhocks and poppy (see below).
Tasha's grandson, Winslow, and his wife, Amy, raise, harvest, sort, and pack the seeds by hand each year. This may not be the fastest or most economical route, but it is in keeping with Tasha's way of life.
Winslow harvesting forget-me-not seeds while Paddy the corgi 'helps.' Blooming foxgloves survey the scene.
Each gardening year is different, with wide variations in temperature, rainfall, as well as the appetites of chipmunks, mice, squirrels, deer, and porcupines, who we hope will leave more than they consume. In 2025, we again missed the small columbine crop as well as the rose hips. Our rose bushes are quite the weather forecasters. Since the rose hips were consumed before we could harvest them, we thought it might be a cold winter ahead - and it has been!
Tasha Tudor's Lettuce Poppy Seeds
A few years ago, we were chagrined to notice how uniform our poppy crop was becoming. We sowed some older stock. Our old friends responded to the invitation, and the lavenders, whites, reds, red with white, and many shades of pink bloomed again. Some solid-edged, some lightly fringed, some very fringed. Plus the beloved "pom-pom" varieties. Too many subtle variations to count unique flower types.
In 2025, we took it a step further and pulled out a 40-year-old jar of poppy seeds. Would they germinate? We sowed a minuscule amount in prime-real estate - a sunny, well-drained raised bed with rich soil. Since poppies will bow out to competition, daily weeding is a must. We were rewarded with an even greater variety and a longer bloom time as the older varieties flowered later. We hope you will enjoy this hard-won batch of poppy seeds!
Tasha Tudor's Lupine Seeds
We've heard that most of the lupines in New England are the invasive Lupinus polyphyllus. After wondering about Tasha's lupines for some time, we have identified them as the interloping non-native western variety. It was initially introduced in New England and quickly escaped home gardens to create beautiful swaths of purple blooms in the early summer.
Photo by Richard W Brown
Unfortunately, the native Lupinus perennis hasn't been able to keep a foothold. It is a slighter, shorter plant with lighter blue flowers that is incapable of filling an entire field or roadside. The endangered Karner blue butterfly caterpillars feed only on the native lupine. It's unlikely that our southern Vermont forest was a habitat for the native lupine, but we wonder if our lupines contribute to the wild lupine decline in any way. We will continue our research.
Lupine seeds in Tasha's potting shed
With the early summer damp in 2025, the lupine seed pods didn't dry out until the very end of the season, leaving us with only a small crop. For 2026, we will offer this small crop for sale. But we will continue to explore the ecological ethics of selling them. We stand astride conflicting goals: to support native plants and insects, and to preserve Tasha's garden. An interesting debate!
2026 Seed Collection
Our 2026 seed collection includes ten varieties, everything but lupine. We first offered the collection in 2024 after it was suggested by a customer. It does sell out within minutes, so be ready if you're aiming to get one. The price is the same as if you purchased them individually.
Housekeeping
Seeds will appear as "sold out" until we update the inventory at 1 PM ET on Sunday, January 25. After that moment, seeds will be available until they sell out, at which point they will again revert to "sold out" status until 2027.
Shipping costs will vary. For orders of only a few seed packets whose weight remains under 1 oz, postage will be a flat rate of $3 for first-class mail delivery. For heavier orders, Priority Mail rates will be quoted based on the delivery address.
We revised our seed restrictions this year based on the national register of invasive plants. Most people understand that to introduce an invasive plant is to damage an ecosystem in far-reaching ways. Because Sweet Rocket, Hesperis matronalis, is found on many invasive or watch lists, we will no longer be selling it. Other plant statuses have changed. In 2026, we are unable to ship foxglove seed to Alaska, California, or Oregon, nor Lupine to New Hampshire.
If you live in one of these states (or the shipping address on your order is in one of these states), we will not ship those seed packets and will refund or substitute another seed packet better suited for your ecological area. Substitutes will vary based on supplies.
Tasha Tudor's Gardening Legacy
Photo by Richard W Brown
Thank you for supporting our preservation of Tasha's living legacy with your seed purchase. Good luck!
Want to know more? Read our 2025 and 2024 blog posts about our seeds.
Notice: Seeds are intended for personal use only. Growing plants for sale is only available via licensing and is otherwise prohibited under intellectual property law. We regret that we no longer ship seeds internationally due to issues with customs.