Think about cooking up a hamburger on the outside grill and serving it with all fixings. Those big slices of tomato are probabably beefsteaks because they are the largest tomatoes…
‘Patriot’ has had a prominent place in my garden for over 10 years and I never fail to enjoy it. The outstanding characteristic of this “Hosta of the Year” for…
The hot days of summer are made so much more enjoyable by the cool refreshing taste of watermelon. And ‘Sweet Beauty’ , an All American Selection winner of 2004, is…
Cucumber vines can be long and need a lot of garden space but this one does not. Needing a couple of square feet, ‘Salad Bush’ does well in a small…
Also known as Abyssinian gladiolus and peacock orchid, this perennial corm is native to mountainous areas of eastern Africa and is a member of the iris family, Iridaceae, that also…
Hostas come in many shades of green, blue, white, yellow and blends of these. ‘First Frost’ combines them all with blue-green leaves edged with gold that turns white later in…
When you think of celery you probably think of a vegetable that has long whitish stalks topped with pale green leaves but that is not the only celery that can…
If you have been browsing zinnias lately you may have noticed the bicolor ones. ‘Starlight Rose’ has 2½” flowers with white petals surrounding a rose center that grows more intense.…
Early summer is welcomed by the production of zucchini and ‘Cocozelle’ is one of my favorites. An Italian heirloom variety, it has a has a nutty flavor that makes it…
Calla lily is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial native to southern Africa in Lesotho, South Africa, and Eswatini and is in the arum family, Araceae, that also includes jack-in-the pulpits, anthurium,…
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