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Honey & Cream Corn

The Corn Honey & Cream, \’Zea mays var rugosa\’, is excellent for small gardens and short growing seasons. If we had to choose two vegetables that were much better home grown than bought from a store, corn and tomatoes would be our choice. Honey and Cream allows gardeners with small plots or gardeners in northern climates to enjoy this wonderful flavor. Harvest the ears when the husks are dark green and the silks are brown but not brittle. Corn is usually ready 3 weeks after silks appear.

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Double Spotty Dianthus

The Dianthus `Double Spotty\’, Dianthus x \’Double Spotty, has a wonderful red rose flower with white spots. With its grassy blue-gray foliage and profuse blooming time, `Double Spotty\’ is one not to miss. Dianthus will bloom from mid summer to early fall. In order for a longer bloom time, deadhead the blooms continuously throughout the summer. These fragrant, spicy dove like flowers look wonderful as a border plant, rock gardens, along walks or paths, or edging and a definite in cottage gardens.

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Buttered Popcorn Ranunculus

The Buttered Popcorn\’, Ranunculus repens, is a great ground cover that vigorously spreads to 4\’. Its broad finley cut leaves are silvery-green with a variegated chartreuse edge. It has delicate yellow flowers in late spring but is mostly grown for its striking foliage color. \’Buttered Popcorn\’ needs to be planted in a full sun location with well-drained soil.

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Bristlecone Pine

The Bristlecone Pine, \’Pinus aristata\’, is a type of pine tree that can reach an age far greater than that of any other living thing known - up to 5,000 years.It is dense in growth, the shoots set with dark, short needles, five per bundle. The cones which occasion its names are indeed tipped by slender spines or bristles. Looks aside, bristlecone pine is famous because in its arid mountain home of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, it can live for thousands of years. In cultivation it proves slow, bushy, dark and enduring of difficult sites.

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Pencil Pod Snap Bean Bush

The Bean Bush, Snap Pencil Pod, \’Phaseolus vulgaris\’, is a very adaptable wax bean that will grow anywhere in the country. It has excellent bean flavor with very attractive bright yellow pods. The bright yellow pods borne on the upper part of the bush make Pencil Pod an attractive addition to any garden. The very tasty 6 inch pods have black seeds and they are produced on an upright, bushy plant. This bush bean prefers rich, organic, well drained and warm soil. The soil must be kept evenly moist but not soggy.

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Teddy Bear Sunflower

The Teddy Bear sunflower, \’Helianthus annuus\’, is a dwarf sunflower plant with many 4 to 6 inch double yellow-gold flowers that look like huge mums. Teddy Bear sunflowers are annual that blooms mid-summer to fall. It will grow in almost any soil and is drought tolerant but, for larger and profuse flowering, good moisture is required. A second planting 2 weeks after the initial planting and a third planting 2 weeks later will produce attractive foliage and flowers until the first fall frost. Place this plant in full sun for best results.

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White Glitter Geranium

The Geranium White Glitter, \’Pelargonium x hybrids\’, exhibits beautiful white flowers. Appropriately named, White Glitter\’s unique white star shaped flowers with occasional red speckles give the appearance of glitter when in full bloom. They are excellent in containers of all types from small pots to large tubs to window boxes and combine well with other plants such as petunias and ivies. Fertilize lightly every 2 weeks. Pinching of the shoots will promote bushiness Remove spent flowers to enhance flowering.

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