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Purple Beauty Bell Pepper

The Pepper Bell Purple Beauty, \’Capsicum annuum\’, is a compact plant with very meaty, thick-fleshed, sweet, purple peppers. It is unlike most peppers which start out green, this one starts out purple and provides color early in the season. This is another exciting pepper to add to your collection of beautiful sweet bell peppers. Peppers use quite a bit of water but prefer to be watered deeply and not too often. Blossom pruning will improve fruit size. Pinch off about 50% of the flowers.

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Stargazer Oriental Lily

The Lily \’Stargazer\’, \’Lilium Oriental Hybrid\’, a fall planted bulb, is the most popular of all oriental lilies because of it\’s fragrance, red and white flowers, and long lasting vase life. Oriental hybrid lilies, known as the most flamboyant personalities within the world of lilies, are characterized by their immense flowers, at least 6\” across. The elegant flowers, with their gracefully recurved petals, have an intense fragrance and rich colors. Oriental Lilies are very long-lived in the garden and will multiply over the years, if left undisturbed. They attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

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California Blackeye Southern Bean

The Bean Southern Cowpea California Blackeye # 5, \’Vigna ungiculata\’, is the most popular southern pea. The large, smooth seed is mostly eaten fresh, but they can also be dried, or the pods can be eaten whole when they are young. Technically a bean, Southern Peas grow in conditions similar to or slightly warmer and more humid than snap beans. They are very high in protein, low in fat, and high in vitamin B1. For dried beans, wait until the pod has turned yellow and other colors and beans are then dry.

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Saturday Night Live Iris

The Iris Saturday Night Live, \’Iris\’, is a part of the Bearded Iris family and has huge ruby red flowers. With a velvety texture and beautiful evergreen foliage, it has a plant height of 37\’ and a width of 18-24\”. This Iris blooms heavily in early summer. `Saturday Night Live\’ is an attractive backdrop for your garden and it is an easily grown Iris.Iris `Saturday Night Live\’ is useful in many ways. They also make magnificent cut flowers and are resistant to deer.

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Butterfly Light Lavender Penta

The Butterfly Light Lavender Penta, \’Penta lanceolata\’ is a unique and very hardy plant that can be grown at any light level. It\’s fairly drought tolerant too! This tall garden plant can be grown in both northern and southern garden beds and patio containers. This annual is also called \’\'Egyptian starflowers\”. The flowers are light lavender in color. This hybrid has very good plant vigor and it produces larger flowers and umbels, withstands stressful conditions, and demonstrates better garden performance than other commercial varieties on the market today.

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Mixed Colors Salvia

The Mixed Colors Salvia, \’Salvia splendens\’, has very unusual intensely colored spikes on dense, deep green plants. This plant has a dramatic appearance in mass plantings, border, and pots. The Mixed Colors Salvia have 6 to 8 inch tall spikes of salmon, rose, scarlet, and violet flowers. This plant will do best in full sun, but will thrive and bloom in partial shade. Plant in the spring after the last killing frost date. This Salvia is easy to grow and makes an excellent border plant and is great in containers or planters.

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Iceberg Climbing Rose

The Climbing Iceberg rose is a climbing sport of the famous floribunda that is extremely vigorous. The supple canes need support but can be deployed against a painted surface because it can be considered virtually disease free. Given enough space to develop it will produce a shower of bloom turning it into a virtual snow bank. Our shipping containers require that all plants be cut to the same height with the result that the first year\’s performance is primarily providing growth to support the following year\’s bloom, so please be patient.

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