Plant Profile: Acorn Bush Squash ‘Table King’ (Cucurbita pepo ‘Table King’)
Karen Whether you bake it, grill it, or use it as a base for soup, acorn squash is a tasty vegetable. Growing them is easy but space can be a problem…
Plant Profile: Rose ‘Easy Does It’
When they named this floribunda rose “Easy Does It’, they weren’t kidding around. It is easy to grow, disease resistant, and a virtual flowering machine. Week after week a single…
Plant Profile: Tomato ‘Big Beef’ F1 (Lycopersicon esculentum ‘Big Beef’)
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…
Plant Profile: Hosta ‘Patriot’
‘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…
Plant Profile: Watermelon ‘Sweet Beauty’ (Citrullus lanatus ‘Sweet Beauty’ Hybrid)
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…
Plant Profile: Cucumber ‘Salad Bush Hybrid” (Cucumis sativus ‘Salad Bush’ Hybrid (F1)
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…
Plant Profile: Peacock Lily (Gladiolus murielae)
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…
Plant Profile: Hosta ‘First Frost’
Chuck 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…
Plant Profile: Leaf Celery (Apium graveolens var. secalinum )
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…
Plant Profile: Zahara ‘Starlight Rose’ Zinnia (Zinnia marylandica Zahara ‘Starlight Rose’)
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.…