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As soon as I saw the photo of Salvia 'Elk Velvet' on the website of Flowers By The Sea, I knew I had to get it! Gorgeous flower color! I'm growing it in a container with a couple of other Salvias and it's doing great! I liked it so much that I ordered another one!

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When I saw photos of this gorgeous Agastache, I knew I just had to have it! I bought two plants and recently planted them in one of my flowerbeds. They started blooming recently and I wished I had gotten more of them. The color of the flowers is stunningly beautiful! I'm looking forward to seeing them in bloom every year during the summers!

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I have this in a mini garden container. It's a very low-growing yarrow , the leaves are soft and woolly and have a silver look to them.
Flowers are small and I personally cut them off because I prefer the foliage.

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A beautiful bloom! I can't find this one online. Anyone able to help?
THANKS, Lamon

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While registered as having 6 falls, this plant's three upper falls remain upright for quite some time. That, combined with their much smaller size, gives the overall impression of a three-fall JI.

I planted it in 2012 and the first year blooms (2013) are very nice. I'd have to say the veining in the lower falls is bluer in my climate (this year at least) than in many photos I've seen.

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A 53 day light green snap bean . PVP. Bred by Dr. G. Emory, 1989. Similar to Gator Green 15. Good producer of uniform slim pods.

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An excellent early pea that is exceptional under adverse conditions. Taste is good but not as good as main season varieties. If you have trouble growing English peas, this one is about as bullet proof as they come.

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A 2-4 foot vine. Introduced in the 1880's by Thomas Laxton. A smooth seeded pea that is very cold resistant. Good production and good flavor for a smooth seed pea.

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Very early with short 12-15 inch vines, but quite productive and tasty.

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Although here and on the AHS site the height is listed as 18 inches, Mark Carpenter's catalog (with what I presume are the original stats from the hybridizer himself) and Blueridge list the height as 28 inches. Pretty big difference. Someone needs to correct something somewhere.

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Introduced in 2007 by Amy Bergeron, Tropical Storm is a sport of award-winning Rainforest Sunrise, which in turn is a sport of Maui Buttercup, which in turn is a hybrid of August Moon X Francis Williams. It has heart-shaped leaves of good substance which are a rich green, broadly banded with a contrasting yellow border. Slug resistant. A good grower. Medium small.

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Reportedly they do not survive harsh winters after flowering, but that is not a problem for me here. I find they readily self-seed in my garden, so I have plenty of volunteers, pulling them out where I don't want them.
Deadhead on a regular basis to encourage continuous flowering and control self-seeding or shear after the initial flowering to promote a second flush of flowers later in the season.

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This fig is still somewhat rare, and difficult to get a hold of since Asiatica went out of business in 2011, though it is starting to become available. It bears an extended crop of large, dark purple figs. First year crops are not very impressive, but after a couple seasons the figs can be very sweet with moderate "fig" flavor, especially when allowed to fully ripen. The variegation is susceptible to burning in my hot dry climate under all-day sun, and the tree does not grow as aggressively as non-variegated types, but it is still robust and quick to mature. Like many figs it requires a very large pot or ground planting to grow and produce well, though I have also kept them small and ornamental in smaller containers for the last five years, as well. Branches and root suckers sometimes revert to all green or attempt to grow all white, so the tree requires a little bit of pruning to keep it variegated. Outside plantings here in zone 7 tend to winter kill to the ground without protection. Although none of my experimental unprotected trees have produced fruit in the year they died to the ground, they do get bigger each year and may eventually do so--I'm only going into the third year of this experiment.

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A lovely herb that is also a valuable source of color in the flower bed or in a potted combination. It blooms from early to late summer. If you are growing them for food rather than for decoration, snip the flowers before they bloom as they will grow thicker if they’re picked often.

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Monarda is so quick and easy from seed. Direct seeding allows you to create swaths of Bee Balm color exactly where you want it.

The hummers and bees fight it out, and it's interesting to watch the hummers chase the bees away.

The scented foliage is said to have been used to make tea, and the scent is heady.

I have always made sure to have a few varieties of Monarda in my garden. There are many interesting colors available now. It was one of the first plants I got when I started gardening over 30 years ago.

Bringing the scented leaves into the house and placing them in a bowl creates instant heaven!

All in all, a wonderful addition to the garden.

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I was lucky enough to have this one return in a container kept outdoors this year.. even though I am zone 6

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I was given some liriope by a friend. It's a compact kind, with white flowers instead of lavender, but I don't know the name, so I am posting this comment under the general entry.

I planted one row of it around a tree in a shady bed, and it looked wonderful. Eight or so years later, it now fills the middle of the bed, wherever I don't have something else planted. It makes great "living mulch"! It keeps out most weeds, and doesn't seem to bother the new bushes at all. (We took out the original tree a few years ago.)

Its roots are very shallow, and it isn't too much of a chore to rip it out where it isn't wanted. It transplants to a new site very easily. It survived the nasty drought in 2011 (when most of the smaller monkey grass that was planted nearby died), and several cold winters haven't bothered it a bit.

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Hosta Curly Fries is an exciting new small Hosta which features long, narrow, heavily ruffled, and stiffly but gracefully held leaves. The leaves emerge a chartreuse green and age to yellow as the summer progresses. The plant has a spidery look. It is a unique and desirable Hosta. Deep purple scapes are topped with lavender flowers. Great in containers or in the ground. Introduced by Soldberg in 2008, it is a seedling of Pineapple Upside Down Cake X ? I love this one.

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Hosta Wheee was found by Bill Meyer at a garden center without a label. He recognized it as something special and introduced it in 2011. It may be a sport of Hosta Leola Fraim. It has wonderfully ruffled leaves, which are green with cream-colored margins. The leaves are ruffled even in the juvenile stage and have good slug resistance. The medium-sized plants, when mature, are topped with light lavender blooms on purple scapes. This is one of those hostas you will recognize after you have seen it once. A choice hosta with a good growth rate. The form provides good contrast with the form of other hostas in the garden.

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Blue Ivory is a spectacular sport of the popular all-blue Hosta Halcyon. It was found by Meyer, who introduced it in 2007. It has spear-shaped leaves of good substance that are a rich blue in color and banded with a wide border of creamy white. It is a relatively slow grower, which is probably due to the amount of white. I have read that it enjoys a little extra water. Flower stems on this one aren't particularly attractive. Slug resistant. A slow grower but a small plant. It's a nice addition to the garden.

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