North Dakota State grows around 45,000 annual perennial flowers each year, with annual flower beds on campus utilizing about 35,000 of those plants, Pete Zimmerman, associate director of business operations for facilities management, said.

Four thousand annuals are sent from NDSU to to Mayville State University and 6,000 annuals to Valley City State University for annual displays.

Three to four hundred perennial flowers are planted every year on the NDSU campus, as well.

Annual flowers are flowers that have one long growing period and die off for winter, whereas perennial flowers die above ground and regrow every year.

Flowers are also grown for 180 hanging baskets on campus.  Almost all of the basket flowers are wave petunias, with some also having pansies and impatiens.

Annual flowers planted on campus include marigolds, cannas, pansies and begonias.