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Dreamsicle Series Calibrocoa

The Brazilian Buttercup grows a 5" mound of shiny bright green foliage with clear yellow buttercup flowers...This flower loves the heat and humidity!

Superbells, Calibrachoas look like little Petunias, and they a’re related. Superbells aren’t sticky, perk right back up after it rains, and stay compact and bushy even when stressed. They are covered with hundreds of flowers from early spring all the way through those first light frosts. Just 6 - 10 inches tall, with long, trailing branches that cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and other containers, and spread over flower beds. Attract Hummingbirds and birds.

Sky Blue Dream Petunia

Along with many other colors, this series of Dream Petunias are more disease resistant than other varieties.

Blue Print performs well in baskets and containers, covered with pale lavender blue, fan-shaped flowers.

Swizzle Cherry and Ivory sports giant 3- to 4-inch blooms, packed with petals and completely covering the petite 10- to 12-inch plants! The inner circle of each bloom is fire-engine red, succeeded by a narrow white circle and tipped with a pencil-thin edging of red! It's as if the blooms are bull's-eyes!

Swizzle Scarlet and Yellow has stunning yellow petals and the inner circle is scarlet red. This zinnia is great mixed with Swizzle Cherry and Ivory!

New Vegetables in Six Packs

Celery, Giant Pascal

This quality Danish strain is the earliest of the arugulas to mature in our salad garden. The deep green, serrated leaves show good disease tolerance and, even though they mature early, do not stretch or bolt with the first warm spell. Slightly milder in taste than others, it is a great choice for braising or for tossing into a mild mesclun blend.

Early, Delicious Red Ace comes up earlier than other beets. Not only are the vigorous plants early to produce, but they are very widely adaptable, giving you big yields even in climates that other varieties find stressful. The globes are smooth and rounded, with a deep scarlet cast and clearly-marked concentric rings. The flavor is smooth, tender, and sweet. Red Ace is a reliable and versatile performer. Beets are a cool-weather crop, direct-sown in fall or as soon as soil can be worked in spring.

This plant produces jumbo size celery. Giant Pascal is a favorite celery of French chefs. The large ribs that are easy to blanch with a very mild and delectable flavor, very disease resistant.

Red Butterhead Lettuce

Bright Lights Swiss Chard

There's a reason they call it butter lettuce: it melts in your mouth. Butter lettuce is buttery and tender from the first bite. Serve red butter lettuce alone or as a colorful addition to salad greens. Red butter lettuce is a good match to light vinaigrette or lemon and oil mix. It is a colorful addition to salad greens and as a base for sliced fruits or cottage cheese.

This beautiful red Romaine lettuce produces 10 to 12 inch bronze-red heads with a green heart. Leaves are loosely folded on heads. Excellent for salads and garnishes. One of the slowest to bolt lettuce on the market. Good for spring, summer and fall planting as it's cold-hardy and heat tolerant.

Strictly a vegetable but with colour and form that looks striking in a mixed Tropical Border. Bright Lights includes a stunning colour range of Gold, Red, Pink and White. Excellent as a lettuce substitute if you pick the emerging young leaves, with the benefit of a crop source that lasts all summer and into the winter.

Growing Sweet Potatoes is very easy and fun but takes patience as they take up to 238 days to mature. Sweet potatoes are a tender, warm-weather root vegetable. The vines are are attractive and they are fun to grow.

Savoy spinach, it’s distinguishable by its crinkly, curly (or savoyed) leaves. Its dark green color and springy, crisp texture make it an exceptionally tasty choice for fresh salads or to top off your favorite sandwiches. Plus, you can’t beat it for cooking. Its hearty leaves hold up well in most recipes that call for spinach—from soups and dips to lasagnas and quiches.

Teton produces high yields of flavorful dark green spinach leaves. This variety is slow to bolt. Excellent greens used in salads or cooked. High in Vitamin A, C, and B-complex. Good freezing variety.

Dutchmill has blue violet flowers with large silvery grey foliage. This variety features long 2-1/2' stems. Its late summer blooms have a strong fragrance. Dutch Mill is wonderful in fresh bouquets because the large, free-forming flower heads really enhance flower arrangements. Good cold resistance. Makes handsome hedge or feature planting.

Paris is the most frost hardy Rosemary yet! ItIt will withstand temperatures cold down to about -140 F!. This is an upright, aromatic perennial. Single pinch recommended.

This is an attractive plant for the garden, with mounds of shiny green and cream variegated foliage and dark pink flowers in summer. It is perfect planted as an ornamental in rock gardens or paths or a useful part of the herb garden. Like all thymes it should be trimmed hard after flowering to ensure lots of new shoots for use in the kitchen and also to keep the plant neat and compact. Foxley thyme has an excellent flavour for cooking, the leaves are softer than common thyme and easier to chop.

Sugary Grape Tomatoes

This rare tomato has purple to black skin and reddish-black flesh. It is a large tomato with a slightly irregular surface. Most black tomatoes come from Russia and this one originates from the Island of Krim which is on the Black Sea.

The Black Krim is a 2005 All-America Selections Winner! The plant produces high yields of glossy red grape shaped tomatoes in 60 days. Tomatoes are very sweet and perfect for salads and gourmet dishes. Grows in clusters like grapes too. Indeterminate.

the Supersonic produces meaty, 8 to 12 oz. tomatoes with good flavor and solid structure tolerant to cracking. Vigorous vines grow best with some means of support. Indeterminate.

Invicibelle® Spirit
Smooth Hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens

Incrediball®
Smooth Hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens

The first pink flowered mophead Hydrangea arborescens! Invincibelle Spirit is as hardy and adaptable as 'Annabelle' but produces loads of hot pink flowers from early summer to frost. It's a reliable bloomer in the north and is also heat tolerant.

This very hardy, reliable bloomer is native to the Americans. They should be pruned back in late winer or early spring to encourage strong new growth and blooming. Adaptable to most moist, well drained soils. Bloom color is not affected by soil pH.

Deadheading is not necessary. In fact, Invincibelle doesn't have any special needs! It is easy to maintain, has normal water needs. They will grow: 36 - 48" in height and should be spaced 48 - 60" in sun to partial shade.

Hot pink summer flowers add rich color to summer landscapes. Excellent native plant for rmixed borders or perennial gardens. May be used in containers.

Proven Winners will donate $1.00 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each Invincibelle Spirit sold.

This adaptable native plant produces huge white flowers (as much as 12" across) is reliable, beautiful and very cold hardy. Incrediball blooms on new growth so even very cold winters won't keep it from blooming. The flowers are held upright on very sturdy stems, so they don't flop like 'Annabelle' will.

The massive flowers bloom in summer. This hydrangea should be pruned back in late winter or early spring to encourage strong new growth and flowering. Flower color is not affected by soil pH. Very hardy and reliable. Good for cut flowers, containers or used as a landscape plant.

Incrediball will grow 48 - 60" tall and should be spaced 60 - 72" apart.

Incrediball does best in moist, well drained soil but adapts to most sites. May need part shade in warmer climates. This easy to grow hydrangea has normal water needs.

Bloomerang™ reaches a petite 4 to 5 feet wide and 4 feet tall, an ideal size for smaller gardens or containers. Give it full sun and enriched, well-drained soil and water it during dry spells, and this ultra-fragrant mini will repay you in armloads of blooms! Bloomerang is a heavy-flowering, ultra-fragrant, reblooming dwarf lilac that blooms well past the late-flowering varieties!

Bloomerang blooms in spring and then again throughout the summer. It does go through a rest period in the heat of the summer, then flowers. While traditional lilac varieties bloom for a few short weeks in spring, Bloomerang's fragrant flowers continue until frost. This compact, mounded variety fits easily into any landscape, and is ideal as a foundation planting or as part of the mixed border. You can even include it into perennial beds. Enjoy classic lilac fragrance for months instead of weeks!

Trim to shape after flowering. Good for cutting and incredibly fragrant. Bloomerang is deer resistant and attracts butterflies. It needs to be planted in full sun. It is an easy to grow shrub with normal watering conditions.

Remove spent blooms promptly to encourage reblooming. Prune to shape after blooming. Flower production may decline during extremely hot summers but will resume when temperatures cool in fall. Apply a controlled release fertilizer in the spring. This variety has good powdery mildew resistance, and is also resistant to the root rots that can be problematic for lilacs.

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