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This plant can be invasive...

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Very vigorous, nice color.

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Throughout late spring and summer I consider 'Chocolate' a good mid to back garden foliage plant. It has a nice rounded habit with new leaves emerging purple brown (matching the stems) and eventually turning green. When most of the garden is shutting down in early fall the dense mass of small white flowers brings a smile on. Bees love it and so do I. It's done well in dappled shade with no special attention.

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I bought this plant late in summer when Select Seeds was having their big close-out sale. I wanted it because I had seen a Mexican Flame Vine at USF Botanical Gardens and it was a real butterfly magnet. I am a butterfly gardener and thought this would be perfect on a fence. I planted it late in the year but I made sure it got lots of water in the Florida heat so it could get established. But then, in the fall, I noticed it had disappeared. I figured I had killed it and I forgot about it. But late this winter, a mysterious vine started growing in the same place. It didn't look like any weed I recognized, so I thought maybe the Mexican Flame Vine had come back. Sure enough, it bloomed today and it has come back and is spreading rapidly up and down my fence! So a friendly heads-up that apparently this vine can go dormant for a while, but don't give up on it until you're sure it's not coming back.

Update: This vine got really aggressive for me, so I pulled it out in April 2016. I have gone back twice now and dug up more pieces where it has come back from roots, and some that might have layered or self-seeded. If you plant this, make sure you have plenty of room for it to grow. Preferably not near anything else as it was smothering some of my other plants.

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Give this beautiful Iris plenty of space -- it loves to increase! In the 18 months between the fall of 2012 when I planted one rhizome, and the spring of 2014 when it bloomed for the first time, it produced 14 increases and is blooming like mad!! Gorgeous Iris!!!

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Love my hoya, but it took a long time to get big enough to bloom. To me, the blooms smell vaguely of chocolate.

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Since receiving 9 or 10 fans in September 2012, I've been impressed with how robust this SPEC-X is. Last year the flowers emerged with a yellow ground that changed to a luminous white by day two. The clump has multiplied well and the new foliage really draws the eye with its mixture of new golden leaves and older green leaves, a trait shared with a presumed parent, I. pseudacorus. The registered height of 18 inches may be affected by culture because in my sandy loam I've noted the clump tops 3 feet.

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This is a long season (60-70 day) white radish that supposedly grows to turnip size. It is not suitable for spring planting in this area. It bolts rapidly and develops poor irregular shaped radishes. Some long season radishes, Watermelon for example, do well here in the spring. Not this one.

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Entry is for a daffodil mix offered by several vendors. Some of these mixes share the characteristic (called 'halo') exemplified by a white circle in the center of the daffodil flower best illustrated by the cultivar 'Intrigue'. Springhill Nursery.
Another mix is a mix of div. 2 cultivars - Delibes, Flower Record, and Pink Charm. Dutch Bulbs.
Michigan Bulb Co. also offers a mix named 'Halo'.

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Per PanAmerican Seed this is a mix of

Orange XP, Yellow XP and White XP

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Per PanAmerican Seed this is a mix of

White XP and Violet XP plus Marina, which is not available separately.

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Can be grown indoors in a sunny windowsill for baby salad leaves. Grow outside for mature leaves.

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Seeds for this plant last a long time if kept in the refrigerator. I started some this winter from seeds I bought in 1997!

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The seed packet said this variety is a half hardy annual and will only overwinter in mild climates. I planted 3 last year and 2 have returned despite the horribly snowy & cold winter. Oddly, the one plant that was mulched did not return. The other 2 were just covered in fallen leaves.

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I grew Nemesia Opal Innocence last year (not sure if it survived the winter yet) and liked it so much that I decided to start Nemesia Paintbox seeds over the winter. The seeds were from 2004, so I wasn't sure whether they would even grow. I ended up with 7 plants. So far 4 have bloomed and they are all different colors. All are bicolors in shades of pink and purple with some white. The flowers are held in clusters and start out small but seem to get larger over time. They are supposed to flower mid-summer until fall. My seeds were started in January and were starting to bloom in April! They are very colorful and they branch well without pinching. The flowers look good even after heavy rain and they last quite a while. I have these planted next to spring bulbs so that, as they die back, the Nemesias cover the dying foliage. They are a great way to add some color to front borders and containers. Highly recommended!

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Grows well in my harsh Texas shade garden. One of the first flowering shrubs in February/March

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This is a sport of the parent Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten' that occurred in the U.S. The variegation is very stable. The plant should be trimmed often, taking several inches off the new growth.

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Self seeding jolly plant that readily weaves its way among established plants. If you don't like where it lands, easy enough to pull out. Good companion for tall iris, where it will fill in below the iris blooms.

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This rather curious plant is a South African native usually grown as a houseplant. Some sources maintain the Pregnant Onion can also be grown outside, naming Southern California as a good example for growing outdoors.
Once the bulb reaches a certain size it begins to produce bulbils that grow off the main bulb, hence the "pregnant" part of its common name. The bulb grows above ground with only its roots anchored underground in its native habitat. The bulb can grow to around 5 inches. When it is grown as a houseplant, the top half is left free of soil. Seldom needs re-potting.The long strap-like leaves can attain a yard in length. Periodically, a flower stalk is produced, It can reach 60 inches and produce multiple (up to a hundred) small green-striped, white fragrant flowers that form a spike on the stalk.

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This miniature ladies mantle has done well in my zone5 garden, weathering the worst winter I have experienced in the past 15 years.
A very nice small plant that has earned its place in my garden, planted in the ground in partial shade.

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