‘Panorama’ Begonias For Baskets - Tuber-forming begonias in brilliant colors with a slightly cascading look. Sold as plants so that you can arrange your own baskets or pots. Great on the porch or patio!

‘Illumination’ Begonias for Baskets - For glorious trailing vines that reach 18 to 20 inches. Like the Panorama Mix, these come in a multitude of colors and are sold as plants.

Potato Vine - Beautiful vining plant that has become one of the most popular ornamental annuals for pots, borders, and baskets. The most distinctive variety is "Blackie" which has gorgeous purple-black leaves .

Bacopa ‘Snowstorm’ - A beautiful but delicate vining plant with delightful white flowers. Grow this improved variety in pots in partial shade or on the east side of the house.

Solar Series Coleus - Huge, brilliantly colored leaves on a shrubby plant that is highly sun-tolerant.

Actaea pachypoda and Actaea rubra - White and Red Baneberries are a shade loving native that produce a showy fruit on reddish stems. Each berry has a black eye which contributes to its common name, Doll’s Eyes.

Brunnera macrophylla Variegata - Variegated Siberian Bugloss is a truly choice addition to your garden, brightening up a dappled shady area with its bright foliage. Wide creamy leaf margins with specks of white throughout. Forget-me-not blue flowers in spring. These will go fast!

Heuchera hybrids - Exploding on the scene, these showy Coralbells have every imaginable tone of purple and silver combination. Some new varieties to try: Purple Petticoats, Pewter Moon, Plum Pudding and Montrose Ruby.

Thalictrum kuisianum - Kyushu Meadow Rue is the smallest of meadow rues. Only 6" tall, it brings a light, airy appearance to your garden. Perfect in combination with mini hostas and in shady rock gardens.

Annual flowering vines - "Go vertical" with scarlet runner beans, red cardinal vine, moonflowers, and mina lobata. Or choose from our many varieties of the fragrant, old-fashioned annual sweet peas, beautiful as cut flowers!

Mescluns, mizunas, maches - If you haven’t tried the wondrous array of salad greens, this may be the year to get iceberg lettuce out of your diet. These gourmet greens normally sell for $8.00 per pound in the stores. Why pay so much for something that is so easy to grow? Start seeds in the ground while our temperatures are cool—late April or May.

Bright Lights Chard - Stalks come in pink, yellow, orange, red, and white, making this a plant that is both ornamental and very delicious eaten raw or cooked. Try sowing it as a colorful border plant along the edge of your vegetable garden, or interplant it in pots with annual flowers. Mmmm, delicious and beautiful!

Akebia guinata leucantha - Fiveleaf Akebia is a graceful vine that produces numerous showy purple pods. Its flowers are fragrant.

Humulus lupulus Nugget - Attention home brewers! Common Hops is an aggressive vine which produces a fruit called "hops" used in beer making. The foliage is bright green and is heartshaped with 3 lobes to each leaf.

Grand Finale - 1998 Rose of the Year. This is one white rose you will want to plant! Twenty years in the making, this is an extremely prolific white tea rose, blooming all summer long. Lightly scented, the blossoms are borne on three-foot plants that resist disease even during humid summers.

Hanging basket roses - If your apartment balcony is too small for roses, consider one of the mini roses developed for baskets. Happy Trails or Snow Shower are two varieties that work especially well.