Annuals Vegetables :
Wave Petunias - Purple and
Pink. Long and vigorous, these petunias never need pinching and are a knockout for hanging
baskets. Low growing, they also make a good groundcover. Available as plants on our summer
annuals tables.
Melampodium - Plants
are covered with dainty 11/2" yellow, daisy-type blooms. Heat and sunloving, this one will blossom until
frost. Available as plants with our specialty annuals.
Peppers - We carry a wide selection of
seeds, ranging from Chocolate Beauty Bell to the very hot Scotch
Bonnet. Sow indoors now!
Lettuce - How about 25 different seed choices
ranging from a Cimmaron Romaine to Brunia, a red oakleaf variety? Also lots of spicy
mesclun varieties!
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Perennials
:
Achillea x Summerwine -
A deep wine red Yarrow, 24"-30", blooms in July-Aug. Great color for
bouquets.
Amsonia hubrectii - Cutleaf Blue
Stars. Striking finely-dissected foliage, 24"-36", blooms in May with the palest
of blue flowers. Excellent golden fall color.
Clematis recta Purpurea
- A non-climbing clematis, 24" tall with small white flowers that bloom in July.
Unique foliage with a dewy purple cast.
Geum rivale - Chocolate Root.
Bell-shaped, nodding, reddish-purple flowers bloom in June-July. 12"-18" tall,
excellent choice for cool, wet, partially shaded areas. Large-leafed attractive foliage.
Salvia verticillata Purple
Rain - Long arching stems with purple buds opening to smoky purple flowers.
18-24" tall. Extremely long blooming.
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Seeds Bulbs Herbs :
Canna Pretoria - A
daring new canna with yellow and green striped foliage, topped off by a brilliant melon
orange bloom. Four feet tall. Not for the weak at heart ! Available as rhizomes now.
Alocasia macrorrhiza - Upright
Elephant Ears. Striking upright foliage with a strong midrib. Grown for its huge, tropical
leaves. Start early to reach full height of 6. Best in partial shade. Tubers
available now. These sell out quickly.
Siam Queen Thai Basil - 1997 All American
Award Winner. Delicious sweet and spicy flavor. Very aromatic leaves with a licorice basil
aroma Seeds available now; plants available in late-April.
Ipomoea tricolor Flying Saucers Morning
Glory - Unique white blossoms touched with a faint hint of sky blue. Available in
seed packets.
Lemon Grass - A wonderful lemon-scented grass
used for tea and in Asian cooking.
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Roses
Vines :
Aristolochia durior - Dutchmans Pipe. A shade-
loving vine, grows to 30. Large heart-shaped leaves with brownish yellow flowers
resembling a pipe.
Campsis radicans Mme Galen - A salmon
orange variety of the standard red Trumpet Vine
Spice Twice - The 1997Jackson & Perkins
Rose of the Year. A hybrid tea with coral buds which open to a spicy coral orange with a
cream reverse.
Scentimental - A burgundy-red swirled with
white rose, where no two flowers are the same. Strong spicy fragrance, vigorous and
disease resistant.
Timeless - A hybrid tea rose with pointed
buds of deep pink opening to rose red blooms. Strong, upright stems for cutting. Disease
resistant.
The Reeve - A David Austin English Rose.
Large globular deep dusky pink bloom on dark foliage. Extremely rich old rose fragrance.
Four feet tall with arching canes.
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