The Cactus Dahlia Sure Thing, \’Dahlia\’, a spring planted tuberous root, produces endless supplies of bright red, 6 inch flowers all summer long. The Cactus Dahlia take their name from their unusual pointed, narrow petals. Dahlia\’s are ideal for cut flowers, borders, containers, and massings. They tend to bloom for long periods and few plants offer as much variety and showy flowers as the Dahlia. They do best in well drained, humus rich soils.
The Red Chockecherry, Aronia arbutifolia \’Brilliantissima\’, cultivar is a deciduous shrub which typically grows slowly to 6-8\’ tall and is perhaps most noted for its attractive glossy red berries and red fall foliage color. Clusters of white to pinkish flowers appear in spring. Flowers are followed by abundant glossy red fruits (3/8\” diameter) which appear in dense clusters along the branches. Best fruit production usually occurs in full sun.
The Sweet Pea Bouquet Blend, \’Lathyrus odoratus\’, was developed with longer, heavier stems and larger flowers to make an ideal sweet pea for cut flowers. The Bouquet Blend has 1.5 to 2.5 inch flowers in colors of purple, rose, white, pink, blue, scarlet, cream, and salmon. The sweet peas bloom in the spring and the duration of blooming depends on the weather. In warm climates, plant in October through January for spring bloom. They are used for cut flowers and covering for fences and walls if given proper support.
The Sassy Salad Mesclun is a custom mix of greens that will fill your salad bowl with many flavors. Leaf lettuces, romaine lettuce, arugula, endive, spinach, mustard and more, enough variety to please even the choosiest gourmet. For continuous harvest, cut rather than pull the greens and sow successive plantings every 3 weeks. Mesclun is the French name for a mixture of salad greens. Be sure to keep the weeds pulled so they do not compete with the plants for water and sun.
The Grape Hyacinth \’Feather\’, \’Muscari armeniacum\’, a fall planted bulb, produce unassuming flowers that add a sweet, fragrant touch to the spring garden. This is a very peculiar cultivar originating from the species found around the Mediterranean Sea. What we see when this plant \’blooms\’ is not really the flowers (they develop later, in May-June) but the highly branched, purple flower stems. They are excellent as cut flowers, for rock gardens, beds, borders, and under trees and bushes. Muscari often multiply and spread over the years.
The Ageratum Artist Purple , \’Ageratum hybrid\’, has beautiful purple blooms. This Proven Winner plant is able to renew itself continuously throughout the season by over-growing old blooms with fresh colorful new blooms. It is also exceptionally heat tolerant. They produce radiant clusters of fuzzy flowers, early and on even compact plants. They flower May through October and are a low maintainence plant. Ageratum are great for borders, containers, and rock gardens.For zones 9-11, this plant can also be a perennial.
The Mutsu Apple has a moderately sweet flavor with firm, juicy and cramy white flesh. Its skin color is a yellowish green with an orange blush. The Mutsu apple is also known as Crispin. This apple is vigorous, fairly early, and the fruit is large and oblong shaped. It is excellent for fresh eating, sauces, pies, and baking. This apple stores and keeps well.
