Sweet Farm Sanctuary · Annual Fundraiser
Our plant sale is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year — and every seedling sold supports our nonprofit work. What you plant at home funds what we plant for our neighbors: sale proceeds support our program donating fresh produce to families across the community.
Below are the seedlings we're offering at this year's sale. Search, filter, and sort to find what you want to take home.
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Cucumber
7082 is an experimental green pickling cucumber bred for bold, complex flavors that break away from conventional cucumber taste profiles. Developed through public plant breeding research at Cornell University, this variety matures in 58 days and offers unique flavor characteristics long forgotten in modern cucumbers. Seeds are produced in New York, with each purchase supporting ongoing public plant breeding research.

Tomatoes
Ace 55 is a classic heirloom tomato developed at UCLA in 1950, producing large, deep red fruits with notably low acid content—a rare trait for red tomatoes. This crack-resistant variety features heavy foliage that protects fruit from sunburn and is resistant to verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt, and Alternaria stem canker. The compact plant grows well in containers and benefits from staking, making it ideal for gardeners with limited space.

Zinnia
Agave Zinnia is a striking heirloom variety featuring unique bicolor blooms with vibrant magenta-pink petals tipped in yellow or cream, creating a stunning two-toned effect. This heat and drought-tolerant annual grows 24-36 inches tall and produces excellent cut flowers that attract butterflies and pollinators. Easy to grow from seed, zinnias thrive in warm weather and bloom prolifically from summer through frost.

Peppers
Aha! 80/20 is a genetically diverse open-pollinated pepper that produces a delightful mix of approximately 80% sweet and 20% spicy fruits on each plant. Each plant expresses unique characteristics with glossy crimson and tangerine peppers in a variety of shapes—from sleek tapered fruits to ribbed rounds and flying saucer shapes. This adventurous variety celebrates biodiversity and offers continuous surprises throughout the growing season, perfect for gardeners who love both sweet and hot peppers.

Tomato
Aichi is a rare Japanese heirloom tomato that produces medium-sized, flavorful fruits with excellent taste. This determinate variety is known for its reliable production and compact growth habit, making it suitable for smaller gardens. The tomatoes have a rich, balanced flavor and are excellent for fresh eating and cooking.

Peppers
Aji Amarillo is a beloved Peruvian heirloom pepper that produces bright yellow-orange elongated fruits with moderate heat (30,000-50,000 Scoville units) and a distinctive fruity, slightly smoky flavor. The plants grow 2-3 feet tall and are highly productive, making them essential for authentic South American cuisine including ceviche and sauces. Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost and transplant after all danger of frost has passed.

Pepper
Aji Fantasy White is a stunning ornamental and culinary pepper that produces creamy white pods that ripen through shades of peach to orange-red. These compact plants reach 18-24 inches tall and produce prolifically, with fruits that have a mild to medium heat level (around 30,000-50,000 SHU) and a fruity, citrusy flavor. The peppers are excellent for fresh eating, salsas, and pickling, and the plants make beautiful additions to container gardens.

Pepper
Aji Gold is a beautiful Peruvian heirloom pepper that produces bright golden-yellow, elongated pods typically 3-4 inches long. These peppers have a fruity, citrusy flavor with medium heat (30,000-50,000 Scoville units) and are excellent for fresh eating, salsas, and hot sauces. The productive plants grow 3-4 feet tall and prefer warm temperatures.

Pepper
Aji Guyana is a hot pepper variety from South America producing long, slender, yellow peppers with excellent heat and fruity flavor. The peppers typically grow 3-4 inches long and are perfect for fresh eating, hot sauces, and drying. Plants are productive and vigorous, yielding abundant fruits throughout the growing season.

Pepper
Aji Pineapple is a beautiful heirloom baccatum pepper from South America that produces bright yellow, elongated fruits with a sweet, fruity flavor and mild to medium heat (around 5,000-30,000 SHU). The peppers ripen from green to golden yellow and have a distinct tropical, citrusy taste reminiscent of pineapple. This productive variety thrives in warm conditions and is excellent for fresh eating, salsas, and hot sauces.

Pepper
Aji Rico is a Colombian heirloom pepper variety that produces elongated, pointed fruits that ripen from green to bright red. These peppers offer a fruity, slightly sweet flavor with mild to moderate heat (typically 5,000-15,000 Scoville units), making them excellent for fresh eating, salsas, and cooking. The productive plants grow 24-36 inches tall and thrive in warm conditions with consistent moisture.
Echinacea
Alan's Pride is a stunning Echinacea cultivar featuring vibrant, non-fading orange-red flowers with prominent dark centers. This compact perennial blooms prolifically from mid-summer through fall, attracting butterflies and pollinators while being drought-tolerant once established. It's an excellent choice for borders, cottage gardens, and cut flower arrangements.
Nasturtium
Alaska Mix Nasturtium is a striking heirloom variety featuring variegated green and white marbled foliage with vibrant flowers in shades of red, orange, yellow, and cream. Both the peppery leaves and colorful blooms are edible, making them popular for salads and garnishes. This compact, bushy variety is easy to grow and thrives in poor to average soil, often producing more flowers when not over-fertilized.

Watermelon
Ali Baba is an Iraqi heirloom watermelon variety producing oblong, light green striped fruits weighing 10-20 pounds with sweet, crisp red flesh. This compact variety is well-suited for smaller gardens and performs well in hot climates. The melons have excellent flavor and are known for their reliable production and disease resistance.

Basketflower
American Basketflower (Centaurea americana) is a stunning native annual with fascinating papery buds that resemble fairy baskets, opening into large 4-5" quill-petaled flowers in white and lavender shades. A close relative of bachelor's button, it grows up to 72" tall and is beloved by pollinators. The flowers are excellent for cutting (lasting 4-5 days in vase) and dry beautifully at any stage from bud to spent flower.

Tomatoes
Amethyst Cream is a stunning cherry tomato variety developed by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms, featuring pale golden-yellow fruits splashed with purple coloring that intensifies with sun exposure. This prolific, compact plant produces delicately flavored yet complex tomatoes with excellent resistance to sunburn and cracking, making it ideal for tough growing conditions. The fruits are ready when they show a golden blush and offer good shelf life for a cherry tomato.
Tomatoes
Amish Paste is a popular heirloom tomato variety originating from the Amish community in Wisconsin. This indeterminate variety produces large, meaty, red fruits weighing 8-12 oz that are ideal for sauces, pastes, and canning due to their low moisture content and rich flavor. The plants are highly productive and disease-resistant, making them a favorite among home gardeners.
Tomato
Anna's Forgotten is an accidental cross between Lithium Sunset and Roma tomatoes created at Sweet Farm in 2025. This variety combines the classic Roma paste tomato shape and size with the striking multicolored appearance of Lithium Sunset, producing very prolific yields. The unique coloration makes it both a productive and visually stunning addition to the garden.
Tomato
Antho Pink Panther is a compact dwarf tomato variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, featuring attractive pink fruits with purple-red anthocyanin coloring on the shoulders. This determinate plant grows 3-4 feet tall, making it ideal for containers and small gardens, producing flavorful 4-6 oz tomatoes with excellent color and taste.

Tomato
Antico Ravenna is a beautiful Italian heirloom tomato that produces medium-sized fruits with distinctive red bottoms and green-to-yellow shoulders, creating a stunning bicolor appearance. The fruits are meaty with excellent sweet-tart flavor, perfect for fresh eating and salads. This productive variety is well-suited for container growing and performs reliably in various growing conditions.

Cosmos
Apricot Lemonade Cosmos is a stunning, sought-after variety featuring unique blooms in buttery lemon, soft pink, and apricot shades—each flower with its own personality. This easy-to-grow annual reaches 3-4 feet tall and is beloved by home gardeners and flower farmers for its long blooming season and exceptional cut flower qualities. An excellent pollinator magnet that attracts honeybees and native pollinators throughout the summer and fall.
Statice
Apricot Shades Statice (Limonium sinuatum) produces beautiful clusters of papery flowers in soft apricot, peach, and cream tones. This excellent cut flower and everlasting is highly valued for fresh bouquets and dried arrangements, maintaining its color well when dried. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in well-drained soil and makes an outstanding addition to cottage gardens and cutting gardens.

Cucumber
Armenian Yard-Long Cucumber, also known as Snake Melon or Serpent Cucumber, is actually a type of muskmelon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus) that tastes like a mild, sweet cucumber. The fruits can grow 24-36 inches long with light green, ribbed skin and are best harvested at 12-15 inches for optimal flavor and tenderness. This vigorous vining plant is heat-tolerant, productive, and rarely bitter, making it excellent for fresh eating, salads, and pickling.
Lettuce
Astro Arugula is a fast-growing, slow-bolting variety with smooth, deeply lobed dark green leaves and a distinctive peppery flavor. This popular cultivar is known for its excellent uniformity, vigorous growth, and improved heat tolerance compared to wild arugula. It's perfect for salad mixes, sandwiches, and can be harvested as baby greens or full-sized leaves.

Tomatoes
Atomic Sunset is a stunning indeterminate tomato variety developed by Wild Boar Farms, featuring sweet and fruity orange flesh with occasional red marbling and purple shoulders that develop in full sun. This variety is exceptionally hardy with remarkable shelf life - fruits can hang on the vine for weeks when fully ripe and last several weeks after harvest at room temperature. The regular-leaf plants grow 4-6 feet tall with excellent production of flavorful, colorful tomatoes perfect for fresh eating.

Gomphrena
Audray White is a stunning globe amaranth variety that produces pristine white, clover-like flower heads on strong stems. This heat and drought-tolerant annual is excellent for cutting, drying, and attracting pollinators. The flowers maintain their color beautifully when dried, making them perfect for everlasting arrangements.

Tomato
Aunt Ruby's German Green is a large beefsteak-type heirloom tomato that remains green when ripe, with a sweet, fruity flavor and minimal acidity. This indeterminate variety produces 1-2 pound fruits with a yellow-green flesh that has excellent taste and texture. The tomatoes develop a slight yellowish blush when fully ripe and are prized by tomato enthusiasts for their unique color and exceptional flavor.

Zinnia
Aurora Zinnia is a vibrant, colorful variety that produces large, dahlia-like blooms in shades of pink, coral, and orange. This variety is excellent for cut flowers and attracts butterflies and pollinators to the garden. Zinnias are heat-tolerant, easy to grow annuals that bloom prolifically throughout summer and into fall.
Squash
Ayote Green Flesh is a traditional Central American winter squash variety with beautiful mottled green and cream striped skin and sweet, dense green flesh. This productive heirloom produces large fruits (10-15 lbs) that store well and are excellent for baking, roasting, or making into traditional dishes. The vigorous vines require ample space but reward gardeners with unique, flavorful squash.

Zinnia
Ballerina Zinnia is a stunning heirloom variety featuring large, semi-double to fully double blooms in a beautiful mix of colors including pink, salmon, orange, red, and yellow, often with contrasting centers. These vigorous plants grow 24-36 inches tall and are excellent for cut flowers, lasting well in arrangements. They are heat and drought tolerant once established, making them ideal for summer gardens, and they attract butterflies and pollinators throughout the growing season.
Marigold
Bambino is a compact, dwarf French marigold variety that produces abundant 2-inch bright orange and yellow bicolor blooms on neat, uniform plants reaching only 6-8 inches tall. This early-flowering hybrid is perfect for edging, containers, and mass plantings, offering excellent disease resistance and continuous blooms throughout the growing season. The petite size makes it ideal for small spaces while still providing the pest-repelling benefits marigolds are known for.

Melon
A remarkable New York heirloom melon dating back to the 1880s, producing distinctive banana-shaped fruits 16-24 inches long weighing 5-12 lbs with smooth yellow skin and sweet, spicy salmon-colored flesh. This variety caused a sensation when exhibited by James J.H. Gregory in 1883 and remains prized for its unique appearance and exceptional flavor. Requires warm soil and full sun to produce its impressive elongated fruits.

Peppers
Banana peppers are sweet, mild peppers that turn from yellow to orange to red as they mature, with a distinctive elongated banana-like shape. They grow 6-8 inches long and are excellent for fresh eating, pickling, or stuffing. These productive plants typically reach 18-24 inches tall and produce abundantly throughout the growing season.

Peppers
Banana Sweet Peppers are mild, sweet peppers that grow 6-8 inches long with a distinctive pale yellow color that matures to orange-red. These productive plants produce tapered, waxy fruits perfect for fresh eating, pickling, frying, or stuffing. They thrive in warm weather and benefit from consistent moisture and well-drained soil.

Dahlia
Bee's Choice is a stunning dahlia variety known for its excellent cut flower qualities and pollinator appeal. This variety produces beautiful blooms on strong stems, making it ideal for bouquets and flower arrangements. Dahlias prefer well-drained soil rich in organic matter and benefit from regular deadheading to encourage continuous blooming throughout the season.
Forget-Me-Not
Bellamy White is a pure white variety of Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis sylvatica) that produces masses of delicate white flowers with yellow centers. This cool-season biennial or short-lived perennial thrives in moist, woodland conditions and is excellent for naturalizing in shaded areas, containers, or as an underplanting for spring bulbs. The compact plants create a charming carpet of blooms in spring and early summer.

Broccoli
Belstar is a popular hybrid broccoli variety known for producing large, uniform dome-shaped heads with excellent heat tolerance and good side shoot production after the main head is harvested. This reliable performer produces 6-8 inch blue-green heads and is widely adapted to various growing conditions, making it a favorite among both home gardeners and commercial growers. It performs well in both spring and fall plantings and shows good resistance to downy mildew.
Aster
Benary's Princess Bright Red is a premium hybrid China Aster (Callistephus chinensis) featuring vibrant red, fully double blooms on sturdy, well-branched plants reaching 24-30 inches tall. This award-winning series is prized for its exceptional vase life (10-14 days), disease resistance, and prolific flowering from summer through fall. Excellent for cut flower production and garden borders, these asters thrive in well-drained soil and benefit from regular deadheading to encourage continuous blooms.
Tomato
Berkeley Tie Dye Green is a stunning heirloom tomato developed by Wild Boar Farms, featuring green and yellow striped fruits with a metallic sheen when ripe. This indeterminate variety produces medium-sized tomatoes (6-10 oz) with exceptional sweet, fruity flavor and a beautiful marbled interior. The plants are vigorous and productive, making them an eye-catching addition to any garden or farmers market display.

Tomatoes
Big Bunch is a hybrid determinate tomato that produces large clusters of medium-sized, flavorful red fruits. This variety is known for its heavy yields and concentrated fruit set, making it ideal for fresh eating and preserving. The compact plants are well-suited for container growing and smaller garden spaces.
Tomato
Big Gizmos is a large, productive tomato variety known for producing hefty fruits with excellent flavor. This variety is well-suited for slicing and fresh eating, with plants that benefit from staking or caging due to the weight of the fruit. As a saved seed variety, it represents locally adapted genetics that perform well in the grower's specific climate conditions.

Pumpkin
Big Max is a giant exhibition pumpkin variety that can produce massive fruits weighing 100+ pounds, with some reaching over 300 pounds under ideal conditions. The bright orange-red pumpkins have thick flesh suitable for pies and canning, though they're primarily grown for their impressive size. This vigorous grower needs plenty of space, rich soil, and consistent moisture to reach maximum size.

Tomatoes
Big Yellow Zebra is a stunning bi-colored heirloom beefsteak tomato with bright yellow fruits featuring orange and white stripes, weighing 10-20 ounces each. This indeterminate variety produces abundant fruits on tall vines with a sweet, rich tomato flavor that's perfect for fresh eating, sauces, and cooking. The plants require staking and produce colorful, market-quality fruits ideal for sandwiches and specialty sales.
Tomato
Big Zack 5lb+ is a prize-winning heirloom tomato bred by New Jersey gardener Minnie Zaccaria, producing enormous beefsteak tomatoes that regularly weigh 4-6 lbs. This indeterminate variety is meaty, delicious, and breeds true from seed, combining the best traits of a red beefsteak heirloom and a large pink open-pollinated beefsteak. Excellent for slicing and fresh eating with exceptional flavor and reliability.

Tomatoes
Big Zarro is an indeterminate beefsteak tomato that consistently produces enormous fruits weighing 1-2 pounds, with some reaching up to 2.5 pounds. The red fruits have clear skin, dense and delicious flesh with old-fashioned flavor perfect for sandwiches, and may be irregularly shaped. Plants require early staking due to heavy fruit production and begin ripening around 85 days after transplant.
Pepper
Bishop's Crown is a unique heirloom pepper from Barbados with distinctive bell-shaped fruits that resemble a bishop's crown or hat. The peppers are mildly hot (5,000-30,000 Scoville units) with a fruity, sweet flavor, making them excellent for fresh eating, pickling, or stuffing. Plants are productive and grow 3-4 feet tall, producing abundant yields of red peppers that ripen from green.

Snapdragon
Bizarre Mix Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) features uniquely twisted and ruffled double flowers in a stunning array of colors including pink, yellow, orange, red, and white. These striking snapdragons grow 24-36 inches tall with unusual, azalea-like blooms that make exceptional cut flowers. They prefer cool weather and will bloom from spring through fall in mild climates, attracting bees and hummingbirds to the garden.

Bachelor' Button
Black Ball is a striking heirloom variety of Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus) featuring deep burgundy-black double blooms that appear almost black in certain light. This hardy annual is easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, and makes an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms. The plants grow 24-36 inches tall and attract butterflies while being deer resistant.

Dahlia
Black Beauty Dahlia is a striking decorative dahlia featuring deep burgundy to near-black blooms that create dramatic contrast in the garden. This compact variety produces abundant 3-4 inch flowers on sturdy stems, making it excellent for borders, containers, and cut flower arrangements. The dark foliage complements the rich, velvety blooms beautifully.

Eggplant
Black Beauty is a classic heirloom eggplant variety producing large, glossy, deep purple-black fruits with excellent flavor and tender white flesh. This reliable producer thrives in warm weather and full sun, yielding 4-6 fruits per plant that are perfect for grilling, roasting, or traditional eggplant dishes. Plants grow 24-30 inches tall and benefit from staking as fruits develop.
Tomato
Black Krim is a beloved heirloom tomato from the Isle of Krim in the Black Sea, known for its distinctive dark purple-brown shoulders and deep, rich flavor with a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity. These large beefsteak-type tomatoes typically weigh 10-16 ounces and are excellent for fresh eating and slicing. The indeterminate plants are vigorous and productive, requiring staking or caging for best results.
Snapdragon
Black Prince Snapdragon is a striking heirloom variety featuring deep crimson-black velvety blooms on sturdy 18-24 inch stems. This dramatic cultivar produces abundant flowers perfect for cutting and attracts pollinators to the garden. Snapdragons prefer cool weather and will often rebloom in fall if spent flowers are removed.
Watermelon
Blacktail Mountain is an early-maturing heirloom watermelon developed for short-season climates, producing 8-12 lb round fruits with sweet red flesh and dark green rinds. Developed in Idaho, this variety is exceptionally cold-tolerant and reliable in northern gardens. The compact vines are productive and the melons have excellent flavor with good disease resistance.
Nasturtium
Bloody Mary is a stunning nasturtium variety featuring deep crimson-red to burgundy blooms with a velvety texture. This compact, bushy plant produces edible flowers and leaves with a peppery flavor, perfect for salads and garnishes. It's easy to grow, attracts pollinators, and thrives in poor to average soil without requiring fertilization.

Tomatoes
Blue Berries is a prolific cherry tomato variety bred by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms, producing abundant 1/2-inch fruits with stunning dark purple-black coloring where exposed to sunlight and red coloring in shaded areas. The fruits are rich in anthocyanins and offer an intensely fruity, sugar-sweet flavor. The sprawling, vigorous plants are heavy producers, making this an excellent choice for gardeners seeking both visual appeal and exceptional taste in a small cherry tomato.
Borage
Borage is an easy-to-grow annual herb with stunning star-shaped blue flowers that are edible and attract pollinators. The cucumber-flavored leaves and flowers are used in salads, drinks, and as garnishes. This self-seeding plant thrives in well-drained soil and is drought-tolerant once established, making it an excellent companion plant for tomatoes and squash.
Tomato
Blue Clementine is a very rare variety producing small to medium-sized (3-5oz) round tomatoes with striking yellow-orange skin and purple anthocyanin coloring on sun-exposed areas. The bi-colored yellow and red flesh is exceptionally sweet and flavorful with distinctive citrus notes. These vigorous plants demonstrate excellent disease resistance and produce prolifically throughout the season.
Salvia
Blue Monday Sage is a striking ornamental salvia variety featuring vibrant deep blue flower spikes that bloom profusely from summer through fall. This compact, bushy plant grows 12-18 inches tall and attracts pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it's excellent for borders, containers, and mass plantings in sunny locations.

Basil
Bonsai Basil is a compact, dwarf basil variety that forms tight, rounded bushes 8-12 inches tall, making it perfect for containers and small spaces. This miniature Greek-type basil has tiny leaves with excellent flavor and requires minimal pruning to maintain its naturally dense, globe-shaped habit. The plant produces abundant small leaves ideal for fresh use in cooking and makes an attractive ornamental addition to herb gardens.

Dill
Bouquet Dill is an early-flowering variety prized for its large seed umbels and long stems, making it ideal for cut flowers, pickling, and baby-leaf production. This fast-growing, economical herb produces edible seeds, flowers, and aromatic foliage (dill weed) that add distinctive flavor to pickles, sauces, salads, and soups. Its compact growth habit and quick maturity make it excellent for both ornamental and culinary gardens.
Pepper
Brazilian Starfish is a unique heirloom pepper variety from Brazil featuring distinctive flattened, red fruits with a star-like shape and ribbed edges. The peppers have medium heat (approximately 5,000-30,000 Scoville units) with a fruity, slightly sweet flavor perfect for fresh eating, salsas, or pickling. Plants are productive and grow 2-3 feet tall, producing abundant unusual-looking peppers that are both ornamental and culinary.
Swiss Chard
Bright Lights is an award-winning Swiss chard variety featuring vibrant, multicolored stems in shades of red, pink, orange, yellow, and white with dark green leaves. This cold-hardy, nutritious leafy green is easy to grow and highly productive, providing continuous harvests when leaves are cut regularly. The colorful stems make it both an edible and ornamental addition to gardens.

Pansy
A stunning re-selection of striped pansies and violas with unique painted brush stroke markings on each bloom. This cool-weather loving annual produces edible flowers perfect for salads, desserts, and garnishes, making it both ornamental and culinary. Thrives in pots, borders, and beds with vibrant, eye-catching blooms that bring back a classic color scheme to modern gardens.
Pepper
Bulgarian Carrot is a striking heirloom hot pepper from Bulgaria that produces bright orange-yellow, carrot-shaped fruits about 3-4 inches long. The peppers are quite hot (around 5,000-30,000 Scoville units) with a fruity, citrus-like flavor that makes them excellent for hot sauces and pickling. Plants are productive and grow 18-24 inches tall, producing prolifically throughout the season.
Toothache Plant
Bull's Eye Toothache Plant is a striking variety of Spilanthes with unique bicolor flowers featuring burgundy-red centers and bright yellow edges. The flowers and leaves contain spilanthol, which creates a tingling, numbing sensation when chewed, traditionally used for toothaches and as a culinary novelty. This fast-growing annual thrives in warm weather and attracts pollinators while providing both ornamental beauty and medicinal properties.
Ornamental Grass
Bunny Tails (Lagurus ovatus) is a delightful annual ornamental grass featuring soft, fluffy, oval-shaped seed heads that resemble rabbit tails. Growing 12-18 inches tall, this low-maintenance grass is perfect for borders, containers, and cut or dried flower arrangements. It thrives in well-drained soil and is drought-tolerant once established, making it an excellent choice for xeriscaping and cottage gardens.

Cucumber
Bush Pickle is a compact cucumber variety perfect for containers and small gardens, with vines spreading only 24-30 inches compared to traditional 5-foot sprawling varieties. This prolific producer yields abundant early pickling cucumbers, with plants capable of bearing 60+ fruits, best harvested under 5 inches for optimal flavor in both fresh eating and pickling. The compact bush habit makes it ideal for urban gardeners and those with limited space.
Squash
Waltham Butternut is a classic winter squash variety developed at Waltham Field Station in Massachusetts in the 1970s. This improved butternut produces uniform, 4-5 pound tan-skinned fruits with sweet, smooth orange flesh and small seed cavities, making them excellent for baking, roasting, and soups. The vigorous vines are productive and the fruits store exceptionally well for months in cool, dry conditions.
Pepper
Canary Bell is a bright yellow F1 hybrid bell pepper that produces sweet, crisp, blocky fruits. The peppers mature from green to a vibrant canary yellow color and have thick walls making them excellent for fresh eating, stuffing, or grilling. Plants are productive and show good disease resistance, performing well in various growing conditions.

Dahlia
Cancan Girls is a stunning dahlia variety featuring vibrant, ruffled blooms with multi-colored petals in shades of pink, coral, and cream. This variety produces prolific 3-4 inch flowers on strong stems, making them excellent for cutting and bouquets. Dahlias thrive in well-drained soil and benefit from regular deadheading to encourage continuous blooming throughout summer and fall.

Peppers
Candy Cane pepper is a uniquely striped ornamental pepper that produces elongated 3-5" fruits with stunning red and white stripes resembling candy canes. Starting green with white stripes and maturing to full red, these peppers offer beautiful variegated foliage and make excellent container plants. Despite their ornamental appearance, they are fully edible with a sweet, mild flavor perfect for fresh snacking, making them both decorative and delicious.

Tomatoes
An old Italian heirloom tomato from the Tuscany region, grown for over 100 years in the Province of Lucca. This vigorous and productive variety produces large, pear or sack-shaped red tomatoes with slightly ribbed shoulders, meaty firm flesh, and small seed cavities. The fruits have a rich, sweet old-fashioned tomato flavor and are ideal for sauces, drying, stuffing, and coulis, with excellent disease resistance.
Cabbage
Caraflex is a unique F1 hybrid pointed cabbage with a distinctive conical shape and sweet, tender flavor. This early-maturing variety produces compact, dense heads weighing 2-3 pounds with excellent uniformity and shelf life. Known for its exceptional taste and versatility in both raw and cooked applications, Caraflex has become increasingly popular in farmers markets and restaurants.
Tomato
Carbon is an award-winning heirloom tomato that won the 2005 "Heirloom Garden Show" best-tasting tomato award and has continued to win taste awards across the country. This indeterminate variety produces large, smooth, beautiful fruit that is one of the darkest and prettiest of the purple/black tomato types, with an extra dose of the complex, rich flavor that makes dark tomatoes famous. The plants are vigorous and productive, requiring staking or caging for support.
Gomphrena
Carmine Gomphrena is a vibrant, globe amaranth variety producing striking magenta-pink clover-like flowers that are excellent for fresh cuts and dried arrangements. This heat and drought-tolerant annual thrives in hot summer conditions and blooms prolifically from summer through frost. The papery flowers retain their brilliant color when dried, making them popular for everlasting bouquets and crafts.
Zinnia
Carmine Rose Gigantica is a stunning heirloom zinnia variety producing large, dahlia-like blooms in rich carmine-rose pink shades on sturdy stems reaching 3-4 feet tall. This old-fashioned favorite is excellent for cutting gardens and makes a bold statement in borders, attracting butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer. Heat and drought tolerant once established, these vigorous plants bloom profusely from mid-summer until frost.

Pumpkin
Carnival is a beautiful hybrid pumpkin featuring patches and flecks of dark green, light green, orange, and yellow on its skin, making it popular for specialty markets and fall decorations. The semi-bush plants produce 1.5 lb fruits that are perfect for ornamental use. Note that hot weather during growing promotes more green tones while cooler conditions enhance yellow and orange coloration.

Tomatoes
Cascade Lava is a stunning indeterminate tomato variety with distinctive red coloring overlaid with orange spots and streaks visible through clear skin, plus white freckling. This one-of-a-kind heirloom produces full-flavored, visually striking fruits that are both beautiful and delicious. Developed by Wild Boar Farms, it's a vigorous grower that produces abundantly throughout the season.
Tomato
Cascade Village Blue is a striking heirloom tomato variety known for its unique blue-purple shoulders and brick-red flesh. This indeterminate variety produces medium-sized fruits (4-8 oz) with excellent flavor, combining sweetness with complex, rich taste. The anthocyanin pigments that create the blue coloring are the same antioxidants found in blueberries, making this both a beautiful and nutritious tomato choice.
Eggplant
Casper White is an heirloom eggplant variety producing creamy white, cylindrical fruits 5-6 inches long with a mild, mushroom-like flavor and tender, non-bitter flesh. The plants are productive and the fruits maintain their quality even when fully mature. This variety is excellent for grilling, roasting, or sautéing and the white color makes a striking presentation in dishes.

Herb
Catnip (Nepeta cataria) is a hardy perennial herb in the mint family known for its intoxicating effect on cats and its calming properties for humans when brewed as tea. The plant grows 2-3 feet tall with gray-green aromatic leaves and small white or lavender flowers that attract pollinators. Easy to grow and drought-tolerant once established, catnip can become invasive if not contained, and self-seeds readily.

Squash
Centercut is a modern breeding achievement from Row 7 Seeds that reimagines the heirloom tromboncino squash. Selected specifically for superior flavor, young green squash have a sweet, nutty taste and dense, meaty texture that surpasses typical zucchini. The vining plants are productive and the squash maintain excellent eating quality, making them ideal for grilling, roasting, and fresh preparations.

Carnation
Chabaud Benigna is an old-fashioned carnation with stunning white petals edged in boysenberry pink, creating a picoted effect. This highly fragrant variety produces clove-scented blooms on tall stems throughout summer, making it exceptional for cutting with extraordinary vase life. Best grown as an annual from early spring sowings, flowers are borne in sprays perfect for bouquets.
Chamomile
Annual chamomile produces abundant small, daisy-like white flowers with yellow centers that are sweetly fragrant and perfect for making calming herbal tea. This prolific bloomer thrives in cool weather and self-sows readily. Seeds should be surface sown and pressed lightly into soil rather than buried, as they need light to germinate.

Tomatoes
Champagne Bubbles (also known as White Currant) is an exceptionally sweet cherry tomato variety that produces abundant clusters of small, 3/4-1 inch round fruits with a pale yellow champagne color. This vigorous indeterminate variety requires sturdy trellising and is renowned for producing what many consider to be one of the sweetest cherry tomatoes available, with a flavor that amazes all who taste it.

Cabbage
Chateaurenard is a rare heirloom cabbage cultivated in southern France since the mid-1800s, producing tender green-white conical heads. This early-maturing, open-pollinated variety thrives in cool spring weather and tolerates summer heat better than many cabbages. Sweet and versatile, it's excellent fresh in salads and slaws, as well as cooked in stir-fries and quick ferments.
Pepper
Cheiro Roxa is a Brazilian Capsicum chinense pepper variety known for its beautiful purple pods that ripen to red and its intense fruity aroma and fragrance. These hot peppers have a unique sweet, floral perfume-like scent with moderate to high heat levels, making them excellent for fresh salsas and hot sauces. The compact, productive plants produce abundant 1-2 inch tapered peppers that are visually stunning in the garden.
Rudbeckia
Cherokee Sunset is an award-winning F1 hybrid Rudbeckia that produces abundant 4-6 inch blooms in a stunning array of warm sunset colors including gold, bronze, mahogany, and russet shades. The flowers range from single to fully double forms, creating a spectacular display that blooms continuously from summer through fall. This heat and drought-tolerant perennial (often grown as an annual) is excellent for cutting gardens, borders, and attracts butterflies and other beneficial pollinators while being deer resistant.
Zinnia
Cherry and Ivory Swizzle is a stunning bicolor zinnia variety featuring cherry-red and cream striped petals that create a distinctive candy-cane or swizzle stick appearance. These showy, long-lasting blooms reach 2-3 inches across on sturdy stems that are excellent for cutting gardens and attract butterflies and pollinators. A heat-tolerant, easy-to-grow annual that blooms prolifically from summer through frost.
Rudbeckia
Cherry Brandy is a stunning annual rudbeckia variety featuring unique cherry-rose colored petals surrounding dark centers. Plants grow 18-20 inches tall with large 3-4 inch blooms that attract pollinators and make excellent cut flowers. This long-blooming, compact variety is perfect for containers, borders, and pollinator gardens.
Zinnia
Cherry Gigantica is a stunning heirloom zinnia variety producing massive 4-6 inch dahlia-like blooms in rich cherry-red colors. This vigorous grower reaches 3-4 feet tall and blooms profusely throughout summer until frost, making it excellent for cutting gardens and pollinator support. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in hot summer conditions and attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Nasturtium
Cherry Rose Jewel is a stunning nasturtium variety featuring large, double, rose-like blooms in vibrant rose-pink color. This annual is completely edible - flowers, leaves, and immature seeds all have a peppery, piquant flavor perfect for salads, pesto, and pasta, while providing excellent nutrition including vitamin A and calcium. The eye-catching blooms make it ideal for garden beds, borders, containers, and as an edible garnish, though a small percentage of plants may produce flowers in other colors.

Forget-Me-Not
Chinese Forget-Me-Not (Cynoglossum amabile) produces impossibly blue, true-blue blossoms on elegant 18-24" stems that make excellent cut flowers with long vase life. This easy-to-grow annual blooms profusely from mid-June through August, self-sows readily, and attracts a spectacular diversity of pollinators and beneficial insects. Harvest stems as blossoms open for optimum vase life in bouquets.
Amaranth
Chinese Multicolor Spinach Amaranth is a beautiful and nutritious leafy green with stunning variegated foliage displaying splashes of red, pink, yellow, and green colors. The young tender leaves can be harvested continuously for use in salads or cooking, with a mild spinach-like flavor. This heat-loving plant thrives in warm weather when traditional spinach would bolt, making it an excellent summer green.

Laceflower
Chocolate Laceflower (Daucus carota) is a stunning burgundy-chocolate-colored variety of Queen Anne's lace with large, lacy umbels that bloom throughout summer from a single planting. This dramatic cut flower adds an airy, romantic quality to arrangements and pairs beautifully with almost any color palette. The flowers come in a range of sizes and shades from deep burgundy to chocolate brown, making it a versatile and long-blooming addition to the cutting garden.
Tomato
A true showstopper, Chocolate Stripes is an heirloom tomato featuring mahogany colored flesh with distinctive olive green striping and complex, rich, earthy flavors. This indeterminate variety produces a plentiful crop of large 3-6 inch beefsteak-type fruits that are excellent for fresh eating, salads, and sandwiches. Plants are vigorous and productive, requiring staking or caging for best results.
Tomatillo
Chupon de Malinalco is a rare heirloom tomatillo variety from the town of Malinalco in central Mexico. This variety produces medium to large-sized fruits with excellent flavor, traditionally used in Mexican cuisine for salsas and sauces. The vigorous plants are productive and adapt well to various growing conditions, producing fruit within papery husks that split when ripe.
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Basil
Cinnamon Basil (Ocimum basilicum 'Cinnamon') is an attractive variety with a distinct cinnamon-spicy flavor and beautiful purple-pink flowers. The dark green leaves have purple veining and are excellent for both culinary use and ornamental purposes. This aromatic herb is perfect for teas, desserts, and Asian cuisine, and attracts beneficial pollinators to the garden.

Peppers
Circus is a compact, highly productive sweet pepper variety perfect for small gardens and containers, growing only 12-18 inches tall with striking variegated foliage. The peppers ripen through a beautiful color progression from lemon-lime stripes through orange to fire engine red, with plants producing 25+ peppers that are crunchy and sweet at every stage. This miniature variety is both ornamental and delicious, making it ideal for patios, small spaces, and edible landscaping.

Tomatoes
Classic Beefsteak is a popular hybrid tomato variety that produces large, meaty fruits weighing 10-16 ounces with excellent flavor and low acidity. These indeterminate plants are vigorous and productive, ideal for slicing, sandwiches, and fresh eating. They perform well in various climates and are disease-resistant, making them a reliable choice for home gardeners.

Gourd
Cluster Ridge Luffa is a vigorous vining gourd that produces heavily ridged fruits in clusters, typically used as a vegetable when young and tender or dried for natural sponges. This tropical plant requires warm temperatures, strong support structures for climbing, and consistent moisture throughout the growing season. The angular, ridged fruits are highly productive and can be harvested at 6-8 inches for eating or left to mature and dry for bath sponges.
Squash
Cocozelle is an Italian heirloom summer squash with attractive dark green striped fruits that are best harvested at 6-8 inches long. This productive bush-type plant produces cylindrical zucchini-style squash with pale green stripes and excellent flavor. A classic variety dating back to the 1880s, it's perfect for slicing, grilling, or using fresh in summer dishes.
Yarrow
Colorado Mix Yarrow is a stunning perennial featuring vibrant mixed colors including red, pink, yellow, orange, and white flat-topped flower clusters on sturdy stems. This drought-tolerant, deer-resistant plant attracts butterflies and beneficial insects, making it excellent for pollinator gardens, cut flowers, and xeriscaping. The fern-like aromatic foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season.

Chive
Common Chive is a versatile perennial herb with hollow, grass-like leaves and attractive purple-pink edible flowers. The mild onion-flavored foliage can be harvested continuously throughout the growing season by cutting leaves 2 inches above the soil. Hardy and easy to grow, chives are excellent for container gardens, herb beds, and as companion plants that help deter pests.

Watermelon
Congo is a gigantic heirloom watermelon that produces long, oblong fruits with deep green stripes on a medium green background, reaching up to 50 lbs and over 2 feet in length. The firm, sweet flesh has an excellent sugar content of 9.4%, making it a favorite for fresh eating. This variety requires plenty of space, consistent watering, and warm conditions to produce its impressive melons.
Pumpkin
Connecticut Field is a classic American heirloom pumpkin dating back to the 1700s, producing large 15-25 pound orange fruits that are ideal for jack-o'-lanterns, pies, and livestock feed. This vigorous variety produces long vines and is known for its reliability, heavy yields, and excellent storage qualities. The smooth, moderately ribbed fruits have thick, sweet flesh perfect for traditional pumpkin uses.

Peppers
Corbaci is a rare Turkish heirloom pepper known for exceptional productivity, producing abundant long, slender fruits up to 12 inches in length. These early-producing peppers ripen from yellow-green to bright red with sweet, fruity flavor and mild heat, featuring thick walls perfect for fresh eating, roasting, pickling, or drying into powder. The compact plants are prolific bearers with fruits that may grow straight or develop attractive curves and spirals.
Safflower
Corrales Azafran is a traditional New Mexican safflower variety historically grown for its orange-red dye and edible seeds. This drought-tolerant annual produces thistle-like flowers and thrives in hot, dry conditions. The flowers can be used as a saffron substitute for coloring foods, and the seeds are edible and nutritious.
Tomato
Cosmic Eclipse is a stunning bicolor cherry tomato with unique purple and red coloring that creates an eclipse-like appearance. This productive indeterminate variety produces abundant 1-2 inch fruits with excellent sweet-tart flavor, perfect for fresh eating and salads. The vigorous plants benefit from staking or caging and will produce continuously throughout the growing season.

Tomatoes
Coyote is an incredibly prolific cherry tomato variety that produces thousands of nickel to dime-sized sweet yellow tomatoes perfect for snacking in the garden. This sprawling, vigorous plant shows exceptional blight resistance even when fruits touch the ground, making it an easy-care choice for home gardeners. The tiny, sweet fruits are ideal for salads, garnishes, and continuous harvesting throughout the season.
Cosmos
Crest Red is a striking cosmos variety featuring unique crested or semi-double blooms in deep red to cranberry shades. This vigorous, drought-tolerant annual produces abundant flowers on strong stems, making it excellent for cutting gardens and attracting pollinators. It thrives in poor to average soil and blooms prolifically from summer through fall.

Zinnia
Crested Mix Color Zinnias, also known as Scabiosa Flowered Zinnias, produce unusual fully double 3-inch flowers with crested, quilled petals on tall 30-inch stems. These vigorous, heat-loving annuals are excellent for cutting gardens and attract butterflies and pollinators. They thrive in hot summer weather and provide continuous blooms from summer through first frost with deadheading.

Peppers
The Cubanelle pepper is a sweet Italian frying pepper that grows 4-6 inches long with a distinctive banana-like shape and charming twisted appearance. Plants reach 3 feet tall and produce glossy peppers that ripen from light green through yellow-green and orange to red, with mild honey-sweet flavor and minimal heat (0-1,000 SHUs). Popular in Latin American cuisine, especially for sofrito, these versatile peppers are excellent for frying, stuffing, salads, and as toppings.
Cucumber
Cucamelon (Melothria scabra), also known as Mexican sour gherkin or mouse melon, produces grape-sized fruits that look like miniature watermelons with a cucumber-lime flavor. This vigorous vining plant is native to Mexico and Central America, growing 6-10 feet long and producing abundant fruits throughout the summer. The small fruits are excellent for snacking fresh, pickling, or adding to salads, and the plants are quite drought-tolerant once established.
Campanula
Cup N' Saucer Mix Campanula (Canterbury Bells) is a stunning biennial that produces bell-shaped flowers in purple and white, both single and double forms, sitting upon broad cupped discs. Growing to 36 inches tall, these majestic spires bloom in May-June and readily self-sow, making them excellent for early summer borders and cut flower arrangements. Sow seed in late summer to overwinter (hardy to Zone 5) for next season's blooms.

Cosmos
Cupcake Blush Cosmos features novel, light-colored blooms with finely pleated petals that resemble fluted cupcake wrappers or ballerina tutus. The lightweight, showy flowers are held upright on strong stems and float gracefully above the delicate foliage. A small percentage of blooms display charming tufted centers, adding extra visual interest to this unique cottage garden favorite.
Pepper
Dancing Spirits is an ornamental pepper variety that produces striking upright fruits that change colors as they mature, transitioning from purple through cream, yellow, orange, and finally red. These colorful peppers create a beautiful display in the garden and are mildly hot with a sweet flavor. The compact plants are productive and make excellent additions to containers or ornamental borders.
Safflower
Dark Orange-Red Safflower is a striking annual that produces vibrant dark orange-red thistle-like flowers atop sturdy stems reaching 2-3 feet tall. This ancient crop is drought-tolerant once established and attracts beneficial pollinators while serving multiple purposes - the flowers are excellent for cutting and drying, the petals can be used as a saffron substitute for coloring foods, and the seeds yield valuable oil. Safflower thrives in hot, dry conditions and poor soils, making it an ideal low-maintenance addition to xeriscapes and cottage gardens.
Cosmos
Daydream Cosmos produces unique pale pink to white flowers with delicate, fluffy blooms that fade to white as they age, creating a soft, dreamy appearance. This variety grows 3-4 feet tall and blooms prolifically from summer to frost, attracting butterflies and pollinators. Heat and drought tolerant once established, making it an excellent low-maintenance choice for cutting gardens and borders.

Lisianthus
Deep Rose Lisianthus is a stunning F1 hybrid cut flower variety featuring elegant double blooms in rich rose-pink tones. This Japanese-bred prairie gentian produces long, sturdy stems ideal for bouquets and arrangements, with flowers that last exceptionally well both in the garden and as cut flowers. Lisianthus requires a long growing season and performs best when started indoors 10-12 weeks before the last frost.

Cilantro
Delfino is a unique cilantro variety with finely divided, feathery, fern-like foliage that resembles dill. This distinctive appearance makes it attractive for garnishes while maintaining the classic cilantro flavor. It is slower to bolt than standard cilantro varieties, providing a longer harvest period, and thrives in cool weather conditions.

Tomatoes
Delicious is a legendary beefsteak tomato variety famous for producing enormous fruits, with one specimen weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces earning a Guinness World Record. These indeterminate plants produce sweet, meaty, red tomatoes with excellent flavor and few seeds, though fruits typically weigh 1-2 pounds in home gardens. The vigorous vines require sturdy staking and benefit from regular pruning to support the heavy fruit load.
Tomato
Developmental Cross is an experimental heirloom tomato variety that produces medium to large-sized fruits with unique characteristics developed through natural cross-pollination. This open-pollinated variety is known for its vigorous growth habit and reliable production. Plant in well-drained soil after all danger of frost has passed and provide support with stakes or cages.

Dahlia
Diablo Dahlia is a stunning compact variety featuring deep burgundy-bronze foliage with vibrant orange-red single flowers that create a dramatic contrast. This dwarf bedding dahlia grows 12-15 inches tall, making it perfect for borders, containers, and mass plantings. The dark foliage and bright blooms attract pollinators and provide continuous color from summer through fall frost.
Lettuce
Dino is a robust romaine lettuce variety developed by Row 7 Seeds, known for its dark green, crisp leaves and excellent flavor. This variety offers good heat tolerance and disease resistance, making it a reliable choice for home gardeners. It forms attractive upright heads with crunchy texture perfect for salads and Caesar preparations.
Marigold
Disco Mix Marigold (Tagetes patula) is a vibrant French marigold variety featuring a stunning mix of colors including yellow, orange, red, and bi-color blooms on compact 10-12 inch plants. These cheerful, long-blooming annuals are excellent for borders, containers, and companion planting in vegetable gardens as they help deter pests. Heat and drought tolerant once established, they provide continuous color from early summer until frost.
Watermelon
Dixie Queen is a classic heirloom watermelon variety introduced in 1935, producing oblong fruits weighing 25-35 pounds with light green striped rinds and sweet, bright red flesh. This reliable Southern favorite is known for its excellent flavor, fine texture, and good disease resistance. Plants are vigorous and productive, requiring warm soil temperatures above 70°F for best germination and a long growing season.

Tomatoes
Domingo 5lb+ is an exceptional multi-generational family heirloom from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy, producing extra large tomatoes ranging from 2-6+ pounds with red flesh, clear skin, and balanced, pleasant flavor. The indeterminate vines are large, healthy, and surprisingly early-producing for such a giant-fruited variety, with documented harvests at 71 days. This variety was introduced to North America by Vincenzo Domingo and is known for producing multiple massive fruits per truss, with specimens often resulting from fused ovaries creating less pronounced lobing than other giant varieties.

Tomatoes
Domingo is an exceptional indeterminate tomato variety renowned for producing extra-large fruits weighing 2-6+ pounds, with larger specimens resulting from multiple tightly fused ovaries. The tomatoes feature red flesh and clear skin with a well-balanced, pleasant flavor that has earned highly positive customer reviews. This vigorous variety is surprisingly early-maturing for such a giant-fruited tomato (71 days), with large healthy vines that are prolific producers throughout the season.
Cosmos
Double Click Bicolor Violet Cosmos produces stunning double and semi-double flowers with vibrant violet-pink petals edged in white, creating a striking bicolor effect. These bushy plants grow 3-4 feet tall and bloom profusely from summer through frost, making them excellent for cut flowers and pollinator gardens. Heat and drought tolerant once established, they thrive in poor to average soil and require minimal maintenance.
Cosmos
Double Click Cranberries is a stunning double-flowered cosmos with deep cranberry-red blooms that are fuller and more ruffled than single varieties. This vigorous annual grows 3-4 feet tall and produces abundant flowers excellent for cutting and attracting pollinators. Easy to grow from seed, it thrives in average to poor soil and blooms continuously from mid-summer until frost.
Cosmos
Double Click Snowpuff Cosmos produces stunning, fully double white flowers that resemble fluffy pompoms, reaching 3-4 feet tall. This vigorous annual bloomer is excellent for cutting gardens and attracts butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer and fall. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in poor to average soils and blooms prolifically with regular deadheading.
Pepper
Doux D'Espagne (meaning "Sweet from Spain") is a French heirloom sweet pepper variety producing large, blocky fruits that ripen from green to red. The thick-walled peppers are excellent for fresh eating, stuffing, or roasting, with a mild, sweet flavor. This productive variety is well-adapted to various growing conditions and produces abundantly throughout the season.

Cucumber
Dragon's Egg is an heirloom cucumber variety from Croatia with unique, oval-shaped fruits that are cream to golden-yellow in color. The fruits are crisp, juicy, and prolific, with the best flavor when harvested young at 3-4 inches when they have the sweetest taste and smallest seeds. This unusual and aptly-named variety is both ornamental and delicious, making it a favorite for fresh eating and adding visual interest to the garden.
Tomato
Dragon's Eye is a striking heirloom tomato variety featuring unique deep purple-red fruits with distinctive green striping that resembles a dragon's eye. These medium-sized tomatoes (4-6 oz) have excellent flavor with a good balance of sweet and acidic notes, and the plants are productive and vigorous. This rare variety is both beautiful and delicious, making it perfect for fresh eating and adding visual interest to salads.
Amaranth
Dreadlock Amaranth is a stunning ornamental variety featuring unique weeping magenta-burgundy flower tassels that cascade down in a fountain-like habit, sometimes reaching the ground. Growing 3-4 feet tall, this compact amaranth produces edible, nutritious seeds and young leaves. It's drought-tolerant once established and makes an excellent cutting flower, adding dramatic visual interest to beds, borders, and floral arrangements.
Celosia
Dusty Rose Cockscomb Celosia produces stunning crested, brain-like flower heads in beautiful dusty rose and mauve shades. This heat-loving annual thrives in hot weather and makes an excellent cut or dried flower, maintaining its color and form for months. The unusual velvety blooms sit atop sturdy stems and attract butterflies while being deer resistant.
Cilantro
Dwarf Lemon is a compact cilantro variety that grows only 12-18 inches tall with a distinctive citrus fragrance and flavor. This variety is slower to bolt than standard cilantro, making it excellent for leaf production in warmer weather. The leaves have a unique lemon-lime taste that adds brightness to salsas, salads, and Asian cuisine.
Tomato
Dwarf Rebela is a compact determinate tomato variety from the Dwarf Tomato Project, producing medium-sized red tomatoes on plants that reach 3-4 feet tall with sturdy, rugose foliage. The variety offers excellent flavor with a good balance of sweet and acid, making it ideal for small gardens and container growing. Its dwarf stature eliminates the need for extensive staking while still producing generous yields.
Coreopsis
Dwarf Red Plains Coreopsis is a compact native wildflower that produces vibrant red-mahogany flowers with yellow-tipped petals atop neat, low-growing foliage. This drought-tolerant perennial is perfect for borders, rock gardens, and naturalized areas, blooming profusely from late spring through summer. It attracts butterflies and pollinators while requiring minimal maintenance once established.
Squash
Early Prolific Straightneck is a classic summer squash variety producing abundant yields of smooth, golden-yellow fruits with straight necks and creamy white flesh. This reliable, open-pollinated cultivar is known for its early production and compact bush habit, making it ideal for home gardens. Harvest fruits when 6-8 inches long for best flavor and tenderness.
Broccoli
Early Purple is an heirloom broccoli variety known for its distinctive purple-tinged heads and cold-hardy nature. This Italian heirloom produces medium-sized heads with excellent flavor, particularly sweet after frost exposure. It performs well in both spring and fall plantings and is more tolerant of temperature fluctuations than many modern varieties.
Celosia
Early Rose is a stunning cockscomb-type celosia featuring beautifully crested, hot magenta flower heads that can measure up to 6 inches across. Plants grow 3-4 feet tall with vibrant, eye-catching blooms perfect for cottage gardens, cutting gardens, containers, and borders. This heat-loving annual thrives in warm weather and makes an excellent fresh or dried cut flower.
Amaranth
Elena's Rojo is a stunning red-flowering grain-type amaranth from Guatemala with deep cultural significance in Maya communities of Baja Verapaz. This heirloom variety produces dramatic burgundy-red flower plumes and nutritious grain that can be popped, ground into flour, or cooked like rice. Heat and drought tolerant, it thrives in warm weather and poor soils where other crops struggle, making it an excellent choice for sustainable gardens.
Eggplant
Ensoro Ewia is a rare African heirloom eggplant variety from Uganda, producing beautiful, elongated fruits with attractive green and white striping. This productive plant yields tender, mild-flavored eggplants that are excellent for grilling, roasting, or traditional African dishes. The plants are vigorous and heat-tolerant, making them well-suited for warm-season gardens.

Basil
Everleaf Lemon Basil is a hybrid variety bred for exceptional vigor, uniformity, and slow bolting characteristics. This citrus-scented basil features bright green leaves with a refreshing lemon flavor, making it ideal for culinary use in Asian dishes, teas, and desserts. The compact, bushy plants produce abundant foliage throughout the growing season with excellent disease resistance.
Cabbage
Farao F1 OG is an organic hybrid green cabbage variety known for its dense, round heads with excellent uniformity and disease resistance. This variety produces medium-sized heads (3-4 lbs) with good internal quality and holding ability in the field. It's well-suited for both fresh market and storage, offering reliable performance in organic production systems.
Pepper
Fish Pepper is a historic African-American heirloom pepper with striking variegated foliage featuring green and white patterns. The peppers ripen from cream with green stripes to orange with brown stripes, and finally to red, offering medium heat similar to a jalapeño. Traditionally used in seafood dishes and popular in Chesapeake Bay cuisine, this beautiful ornamental and culinary pepper is both productive and visually stunning in the garden.
Cosmos
Fizzy White is a unique semi-double Cosmos bipinnatus variety featuring pure white petals with delicate, fringed edges that give the blooms a soft, fizzy appearance. This vigorous grower produces abundant 3-4 inch flowers on strong stems ideal for cutting, and attracts pollinators throughout the growing season. Easy to grow and heat tolerant, it thrives in average to poor soil and blooms continuously from summer to frost.
Snapdragon
Flames is a striking snapdragon variety featuring vibrant, warm-toned flowers in shades of red, orange, and yellow that resemble flickering flames. This hardy annual produces tall spikes of densely-packed blooms that are excellent for cut flowers and attract pollinators. Snapdragons prefer cool weather and can tolerate light frost, making them ideal for spring and fall gardens.
Tomato
Flame is a beautiful bi-colored heirloom tomato producing small beefsteak fruits that are distinctively red on the bottom and yellow/orange on top. This variety features low acidity for a mild, sweet flavor and develops strong, vigorous plants that are reliable producers. The unique coloring and excellent taste make it a favorite for fresh eating and salads.
Celosia
Flamingo Feather Celosia is a stunning plumose variety featuring vibrant pink to coral plume-like flowers that resemble feathers, growing on strong stems that reach 2-3 feet tall. This heat-loving annual thrives in warm weather and produces long-lasting blooms that are excellent for fresh cut flowers and dried arrangements. The plant prefers well-drained soil and becomes more drought-tolerant once established, making it a reliable performer in summer gardens.
Tomato
Flavor Grenade is an elongated paste-type hybrid tomato with exceptional sweet flavor and meaty texture. These torpedo-shaped fruits are productive, averaging 3-4 inches long, with few seeds and thick walls, making them ideal for fresh eating, sauces, and canning. The vigorous indeterminate plants produce heavy yields throughout the season and show good disease resistance.
Fennel
Florence Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum) is a bulbing fennel variety prized for its sweet, anise-flavored white bulb that forms at the base of the plant. The feathery foliage and crunchy bulb are both edible and excellent raw in salads or cooked in various dishes. Best grown in cool weather as heat can cause bolting; keep soil consistently moist and harvest when bulbs reach 3-4 inches in diameter.
Pepper
Fooled You is a hybrid jalapeño pepper that looks exactly like a traditional hot jalapeño but contains virtually no heat (0-100 Scoville units). This innovative variety offers the classic jalapeño flavor and crisp texture without any spiciness, making it perfect for those who want to enjoy peppers in fresh salsas, stuffed recipes, or grilled dishes without the burn. Plants are productive and produce abundant 3-inch elongated peppers that ripen from green to red.
Zucchini
Fordhook Zucchini is a classic heirloom variety introduced by Burpee in 1957, producing cylindrical, dark green fruits with light green striping. This bush-type plant yields abundantly and is best harvested when fruits are 6-8 inches long for optimal tenderness and flavor. It's a reliable, vigorous grower that performs well in home gardens and has excellent disease resistance.
Tomato
Fred's Tie Dye is a stunning heirloom beefsteak tomato featuring unique multicolored striping with red, yellow, and green marbling throughout the fruit. This indeterminate variety produces large 1-2 pound fruits with exceptional sweet-tart flavor and beautiful aesthetics that make them perfect for slicing and fresh eating. The plants are vigorous growers that benefit from staking or caging for support.
Pepper
Fresh Bites Orange is a compact, snack-sized sweet pepper variety that produces bright orange, bite-sized fruits perfect for fresh eating and containers. This early-maturing hybrid produces sweet, crunchy peppers on compact plants that are ideal for small gardens, patios, or even indoor growing. The peppers are approximately 1-2 inches in size and have excellent flavor with no bitterness.
Pepper
Fresh Bites Yellow is a compact, hybrid sweet pepper variety that produces abundant bite-sized yellow peppers perfect for snacking. The plants are naturally dwarf and bushy, making them ideal for container gardens and small spaces. Peppers are sweet, crunchy, and turn from green to bright yellow when mature, offering excellent flavor for fresh eating.

Celosia
This early-flowering celosia produces abundant fan-shaped blooms in soft blush pink with a rose wash and silvery-green undertone. Features rich garnet-red stems and slender green leaves with cranberry veining, creating an antique, sun-bleached velvet appearance. Excellent for cutting and dries beautifully for arrangements.
Celosia
Fruit Sorbet Mix Celosia is a stunning plumosa-type celosia featuring vibrant, feathery plumes in a range of sorbet colors including pink, red, orange, yellow, and cream. This heat-loving annual thrives in hot weather and makes an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms that also dry beautifully for arrangements. Plants grow 24-36 inches tall with strong stems and attract butterflies while being deer resistant.
Cucumber
Gagon is a hybrid slicing cucumber variety known for its excellent disease resistance and consistent production. This variety produces smooth, dark green fruits that are crisp and flavorful, making it ideal for fresh eating. It performs well in various growing conditions and is particularly valued for its reliability and high yields throughout the growing season.

Huckleberry
Garden Huckleberry (Solanum melanocerasum) is an annual plant in the nightshade family that produces small, dark purple to black berries in clusters. Despite its name, it's not a true huckleberry but produces abundant berries that must be fully ripe and cooked before eating, as unripe berries are toxic. The berries are excellent for pies, jams, and preserves, with a unique tart flavor that sweetens when cooked with sugar.
Tomato
Garden Peach is a unique heirloom tomato variety with fuzzy, peach-colored skin and a sweet, mild flavor. The 2-3 inch fruits have a distinctive downy texture similar to an actual peach, and the pale yellow-pink flesh is low in acid, making it excellent for fresh eating. This indeterminate variety produces prolifically throughout the season and is known for its unusual appearance and delicious taste.
Squash
Gelber Englischer Custard is a beautiful German heirloom pattypan squash with distinctive scalloped edges and bright yellow color. The fruits have a mild, sweet flavor and tender texture when harvested young at 3-4 inches diameter, making them excellent for grilling, stuffing, or sautéing. This productive variety is both ornamental and delicious, thriving in warm weather with consistent moisture.
Cucumber
Gele Tros is a rare Dutch heirloom cucumber that produces clusters of small, lemon-yellow fruits with crisp, mild flesh. The compact vines are productive and the unique yellow cucumbers are best harvested at 3-4 inches long for optimal flavor and texture. This unusual variety is excellent for fresh eating, pickling, and adds visual interest to salads.

Basil
Genovese Basil is the classic Italian basil variety, prized for making authentic pesto with its large, glossy dark green leaves and intense sweet flavor. This vigorous plant grows 18-24 inches tall and produces abundant harvests throughout the growing season. Regular harvesting and pinching back flower buds encourages bushier growth and prolongs leaf production for multiple cuttings from the same plant.
Zinnia
Giant Carmine Rose Zinnia is a stunning heirloom variety producing large, dahlia-like blooms in vibrant carmine-rose pink shades on tall stems reaching 3-4 feet. These long-lasting cut flowers are excellent for bouquets and attract butterflies and pollinators to the garden. Heat and drought tolerant once established, zinnias are among the easiest and most rewarding annual flowers for summer gardens.
Tomato
Giant Domingo is an exceptional beefsteak-type tomato that produces massive fruits averaging 2-3 pounds each with sweet, meaty flesh and few seeds. This vigorous indeterminate variety from Spain produces pink-red fruits with excellent flavor and is ideal for slicing and fresh eating. The plants are productive and disease-resistant, making them a favorite among gardeners seeking giant tomatoes.
Pepper
Giant Jalapeño is a hybrid pepper variety that produces extra-large jalapeño peppers, typically 3.5-4 inches long, which are significantly larger than standard jalapeños. These peppers have thick walls, medium heat (2,500-10,000 Scoville units), and are excellent for stuffing, grilling, or fresh use. The plants are productive and vigorous, producing heavy yields of peppers that mature from green to red.

Parsley
Giant of Italy is a flat-leaf Italian parsley variety producing large, dark green, heavily serrated leaves with excellent flavor. This vigorous grower reaches 24-36 inches tall and is prized for its robust stems and abundant foliage, making it ideal for fresh use in cooking or as a garnish. It's more cold-tolerant than curly parsley varieties and provides continuous harvests throughout the season.
Zinnia
Gigantica Lavender Zinnia produces stunning 4-6 inch dahlia-like blooms in soft lavender shades on sturdy stems reaching 3-4 feet tall. This heirloom variety is excellent for cutting gardens and attracts butterflies and pollinators throughout the growing season. Heat and drought tolerant once established, these impressive flowers bloom continuously from summer until frost.
Gomphrena
Globe Amaranth is a beloved old-fashioned annual that produces abundant thimble-shaped, papery flower heads in shades of white, pink, and rosy red on compact plants up to 2 feet tall. This heat and drought-tolerant plant is exceptional for cut flowers, drying, and containers, providing an unusually long-lasting display throughout the summer. The papery blooms retain their vibrant colors when dried, making them perfect for everlasting arrangements.
Tomato
Gold Currant is an indeterminate currant tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium) that produces clusters of bright yellow, berry-sized fruits about 1" in diameter with intense, zesty flavor perfect for snacking and salads. These vigorous vines can grow over 8 feet tall and are known for exceptional disease resistance and prolific production throughout the season. The currant tomato species is wild-type and offers more concentrated flavor than common tomatoes.
Amaranth
Golden Giant Amaranth is a stunning dual-purpose variety that grows to 6 feet tall with attractive golden flower heads producing up to 1 pound of protein-rich white seeds per plant. The seeds can be popped like popcorn, ground into flour, or cooked as porridge, while young leaves make excellent cooked greens. This vigorous, easy-to-grow heirloom is both ornamental and highly productive for grain harvest.
Tomato
Gondwana Moon is a stunning heirloom tomato variety that produces medium-sized fruits with beautiful yellow-gold coloring and distinctive purple-maroon shoulders. The tomatoes have excellent sweet flavor with a good balance of acidity, and the plants are productive mid-season producers. This variety originated from Australia and is named after the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.

Cauliflower
Graffiti Purple is a stunning F1 hybrid cauliflower with vibrant purple heads that retain their color when cooked. The colorful heads are packed with anthocyanin antioxidants and have a mild, sweet flavor. This variety produces uniform, 2-pound heads with excellent heat tolerance and is easier to grow than white cauliflower varieties.
Gomphrena
Grape Fritz is a striking Gomphrena variety featuring unique grape-purple, cylindrical flower heads that are excellent for fresh cuts and dried arrangements. This heat and drought-tolerant annual produces abundant blooms on strong stems throughout summer and fall, making it a favorite for bouquets and garden borders. The flowers retain their vibrant color when dried, making them perfect for everlasting arrangements.
Zucchini
Gray Zucchini is a unique Italian heirloom variety that produces cylindrical fruits with distinctive mottled gray-green skin and creamy white flesh. The fruits are best harvested when 6-8 inches long for optimal tenderness and flavor, though they can grow much larger. This productive plant has a compact bush habit and is prized for its nutty, slightly sweet flavor that's excellent for both raw and cooked preparations.
Lettuce
Great Lakes 118 is a classic crisphead (iceberg-type) lettuce variety that forms large, firm heads with crisp, sweet leaves. This heat-tolerant heirloom variety was introduced in the 1940s and remains popular for its ability to withstand warm weather better than most head lettuces. It produces 6-8 inch heads with excellent flavor and texture, making it ideal for fresh salads and sandwiches.
Lettuce
Great Lakes Mesa is an improved crisphead lettuce variety with excellent heat tolerance and tip-burn resistance. This variety produces large, dense heads with crisp, sweet leaves and is particularly well-suited for warmer climates and summer production. It performs reliably in conditions where other crisphead lettuces may bolt prematurely.
Tomato
Green Sausage (originally bred by Tom Wagner as "Green Sleeves") is a determinate tomato variety producing abundant crops of unique 2-3 oz., 3-4 inch long, sausage-shaped fruits with yellow-green coloring and distinctive darker green vertical striping. This compact, bushy plant yields sweet and tangy flavored tomatoes that are excellent fresh in salads, creating a colorful display alongside other tomato varieties, or for making wonderfully flavored sauces.

Amaranth
Green Tails is a striking ornamental amaranth featuring long, cascading chartreuse tassels that add dramatic texture to garden beds and floral arrangements. This vigorous variety grows 4-5 feet tall and produces abundant lime-green flower plumes that are excellent for fresh or dried use. Easy to grow and heat-tolerant, it's perfect for beginning gardeners and thrives in warm weather, combining beautifully with both bright and pastel flowers.
Echinacea
Green Twister Echinacea is a stunning ornamental coneflower featuring electrifying green and magenta petals that attract butterflies, birds, and bees. This drought-tolerant perennial offers medicinal immune-boosting properties while serving as a pollinator magnet. Easy to grow and long-lived, it provides years of beauty and beneficial garden support with minimal care requirements.

Tomatoes
Green Zebra Cherry is a delightful cherry tomato variant of the popular Green Zebra, producing large cherry-sized fruits with distinctive green and yellow striped coloration. The flavor profile is uniquely sweet and tart, offering a wonderful taste experience. This very productive variety bears fruits in healthy clusters throughout the season, making it both ornamental and delicious for fresh eating and salads.

Brussel Sprout
Groninger is a Dutch heirloom Brussels sprouts variety known for producing medium-sized, firm sprouts with excellent flavor, especially after frost. This cold-hardy variety is particularly well-suited for fall and winter harvests, producing abundant yields on sturdy stalks. The sprouts develop uniformly along the stem and have a sweet, nutty flavor that intensifies with cold weather.

Peppers
Habanada is a revolutionary open-pollinated sweet pepper developed by Cornell University with all the fruity, tropical flavor of a habanero but absolutely no heat. The compact, productive plants bear abundant 2-inch orange peppers that are perfect for fresh eating, salads, and salsas. This heatless habanero offers exceptional flavor and is ideal for gardeners who love pepper taste without the spice.
Pumpkin
Halloween is a classic jack-o'-lantern pumpkin variety producing medium to large, 8-12 pound bright orange fruits with sturdy handles perfect for carving. This reliable variety has uniform round shape, smooth skin, and is excellent for decorative purposes as well as pies and cooking. The vigorous vines produce multiple fruits per plant and the pumpkins store well after harvest.
Pepper
Hatch peppers are mild to medium-hot chile peppers originating from the Hatch Valley region of New Mexico, known for their distinctive earthy, sweet flavor with a hint of smokiness. These peppers typically grow 6-8 inches long, changing from green to red as they mature, and are excellent for roasting, stuffing, or making salsas. They thrive in hot, dry climates with well-drained soil and require consistent watering during fruit development.
Tomato
Hillbilly is a beautiful beefsteak heirloom tomato with stunning yellow-orange skin marbled with red streaks and a sweet, fruity flavor with low acidity. This variety originates from West Virginia and produces large, meaty fruits weighing 1-2 pounds that are excellent for slicing and fresh eating. The plants are indeterminate and benefit from staking or caging for support.
Melon
Honeydew Orange Flesh is an heirloom melon variety with smooth, pale green skin and sweet, vibrant orange flesh that offers a unique twist on traditional honeydew. The melons typically weigh 4-6 pounds and have exceptional sweetness with a rich, aromatic flavor. This variety thrives in warm climates with consistent moisture during fruit development and requires a long growing season.
Squash
Honeypatch is a butternut-type winter squash bred by Row 7 Seeds, known for its exceptional sweetness and smooth texture. This variety produces 2-3 lb fruits with deep orange flesh that's perfect for roasting, soups, and purees. The compact vines make it suitable for smaller gardens while still producing high-quality, flavorful squash with excellent storage capabilities.
Amaranth
Hopi Red Dye Amaranth is a stunning ornamental variety reaching 4-6 feet with the reddest seedlings of any known amaranth. Originally cultivated by the Hopi Nation of the American Southwest, this plant produces deep red flower bracts used traditionally as a natural dye for piki bread and craft projects. The young leaves are edible and excellent when sautéed, making this a beautiful dual-purpose variety with rich cultural heritage.

Peppers
Hungarian Hot Wax is a compact, productive pepper plant growing to 2 feet tall that produces bright yellow, 5-inch long conical peppers with smooth, waxy skin. The peppers ripen from yellow to orange to red and offer a sweet, tangy flavor with heat about 4 times hotter than jalapeños (5,000-15,000 Scoville units). These versatile peppers are excellent for pickling when light green, and can be used for stuffing, frying, roasting, salsas, and processing; they perform well even in northern and short-season climates.
Tomato
Indigo Apple is a beautiful bi-colored tomato featuring deep purple-blue shoulders where exposed to sunlight over a creamy yellow-green base, maturing to golden yellow. This compact determinate variety produces 2-4 oz round fruits with excellent sweet-tart flavor and is part of the "indigo" breeding series that contains anthocyanins. The plants are productive and well-suited for containers or small garden spaces.
Tomato
Jaded is a striking bi-colored heirloom tomato featuring green and red striping with a jade-green interior when ripe. This medium-sized slicer produces flavorful, sweet fruits with complex taste and beautiful presentation. The productive plants yield continuously throughout the growing season and are excellent for fresh eating and market sales.
Cosmos
Japanese Kiiro is a stunning heirloom variety of Cosmos sulphureus featuring bright yellow to golden-orange semi-double blooms on compact 2-3 foot plants. This drought-tolerant annual thrives in hot weather and poor soils, making it an excellent choice for low-maintenance gardens. The profuse blooms attract butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer and are excellent for cutting.
Eggplant
Jewel Marble is a stunning Italian heirloom eggplant variety producing small, round fruits with beautiful marbled purple and white striping. The compact plants yield abundantly with fruits that are tender, mild-flavored, and best harvested when 2-3 inches in diameter. This decorative variety is both ornamental and delicious, perfect for grilling, roasting, or using in Mediterranean dishes.
Tomato
Jolie Coeur is a stunning French heirloom tomato that produces heart-shaped, rose-pink fruits weighing 6-10 ounces with excellent sweet flavor and few seeds. The indeterminate plants are productive and vigorous, producing clusters of beautiful fruits that are perfect for fresh eating and make an eye-catching addition to salads. This variety is prized for both its unique appearance and delicious taste.
Tomato
Justin's Fire Opal is a stunning heirloom tomato variety featuring beautiful, uniquely colored fruits with orange-red streaks and marbling. This indeterminate variety produces medium-sized fruits (4-8 oz) with excellent sweet-tart flavor and attractive appearance that makes them perfect for fresh eating and specialty markets. The vigorous plants are productive and the fruits have good crack resistance.
Chamomile
Kelway Golden is a unique golden-leaved chamomile variety (Chamaemelum nobile) prized for its bright chartreuse to golden foliage that creates stunning ground cover. This low-growing perennial herb produces white daisy-like flowers with yellow centers and retains the classic apple-scented fragrance of chamomile. Excellent for ornamental use in herb gardens, borders, or as a fragrant lawn alternative.
Marigold
Kilimanjaro White is a stunning F1 hybrid African marigold (Tagetes erecta) producing large, creamy-white 3-4 inch double blooms on robust plants reaching 14-16 inches tall. This award-winning variety is prized for its unusual white color in marigolds, excellent heat tolerance, and long blooming period from summer through frost. Perfect for borders, containers, and cut flower arrangements, it's also valued for its ability to deter garden pests.
Strawflower
King Size Golden is a stunning strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) variety producing large, papery golden-yellow blooms that are perfect for fresh arrangements and dried flowers. This heat and drought-tolerant annual reaches 24-36 inches tall and produces abundant flowers throughout summer. The blooms retain their vibrant color when dried, making them ideal for everlasting bouquets and crafts.
Strawflower
King Size Orange is a stunning strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) variety that produces large, vibrant orange blooms with papery, everlasting petals perfect for fresh or dried arrangements. This annual grows 24-36 inches tall and thrives in hot, dry conditions, making it an excellent choice for xeriscaping and low-maintenance gardens. The flowers retain their brilliant color when dried, making them ideal for crafts and long-lasting bouquets.
Strawflower
King Size Red is a stunning strawflower (Helichrysum bracteatum) variety producing large, vibrant red papery blooms that are perfect for fresh cuts and dried arrangements. This heat and drought-tolerant annual grows 30-36 inches tall with sturdy stems and retains its brilliant color when dried. Excellent for cutting gardens, attracts pollinators, and thrives in hot, dry conditions with well-drained soil.

Strawflower
King Size Silvery Rose is a stunning strawflower variety producing tall, well-branched plants with double blooms 2-2.5" across. The flowers feature pure to creamy white petals beautifully frosted with rose coloring at the tips, which subtly intensifies as blooms mature. Excellent as a profuse bloomer for both fresh cut flower arrangements and dried everlasting bouquets, also known as bracted strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum).
Lion' Ear
Klip Dagga (Leonotis nepetifolia) is a dramatic tropical plant native to South Africa that grows 4-6 feet tall with striking orange tubular flowers arranged in dense whorls around the stems. The plant is grown as an annual in most climates and attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Note that this plant has mild narcotic properties and should be grown with awareness of its traditional medicinal uses.
Tomato
Kozula 137 is a rare Polish heirloom tomato variety known for producing medium-sized, flavorful fruits with excellent taste. This open-pollinated variety is well-suited for fresh eating and has good disease resistance. It thrives in warm conditions with consistent moisture and benefits from staking or caging for support.

Peppers
Kristian Thai Pepper is a compact 2-foot tall pepper plant producing high yields of slender, curling 2-3" pods with a distorted conical shape. These peppers mature earlier than similar varieties, ripening from green to bright yellow at maturity with a spicy flavor measuring around 76,000 SHUs. The unique curling pods emerge from the foliage in various directions, creating an ornamental appearance along with excellent heat and productivity.

Gourd
Krobonko Luffa is a vigorous climbing gourd variety from Ghana that produces cylindrical fruits used both as a vegetable when young and as natural sponges when mature and dried. The plant requires warm temperatures and a long growing season, producing yellow flowers followed by fibrous fruits that can grow 12-18 inches long. Best grown on sturdy trellises or supports to keep fruits straight and allow proper air circulation.
Zinnia
La Petite Mix is a compact, dwarf zinnia variety growing 8-12 inches tall with colorful 1.5-2 inch double blooms in shades of pink, red, yellow, orange, and white. Perfect for borders, containers, and small spaces, this variety produces abundant flowers throughout summer and is excellent for cutting. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it attracts butterflies and is resistant to powdery mildew.

Kale
Lacinato Kale, also known as Dinosaur Kale or Tuscan Kale, features stunning dark blue-green leaves that are deeply savoyed (wrinkled) with a tender texture and exceptional flavor. This Italian heirloom is prized for summer production when it remains more tender than other kale varieties, though it's slightly less cold-hardy. The narrow, bumpy leaves grow 2-3 feet tall and are sweeter after light frost, making them ideal for salads, sautés, and soups.
Pansy
Lake of Thun (also known as Ullswater) is a stunning heirloom pansy featuring deep blue flowers reminiscent of the sparkling Alpine waters of Lake Thun in Switzerland. This edible variety is perfect for fresh bouquets and can be used in syrups, jellies, and as an elegant garnish. Pansies are cool-season annuals that thrive in spring and fall, tolerating light frosts and providing cheerful color when many other flowers have faded.
Tomato
Large Barred Boar is a striking heirloom beefsteak tomato featuring flattened fruits with distinctive pink and brown coloring accented by metallic green stripes, weighing 8-12 ounces. This early-maturing variety (65-75 days) produces very meaty, flavorful pink flesh and grows in a relatively compact, stocky form compared to most tomatoes. An excellent choice for cooler or marginal tomato-growing climates, it's known for being one of the first dark tomatoes to ripen each season.
Basil
Large Leaf Italian Basil is a classic culinary herb with large, glossy green leaves that are highly aromatic and perfect for pesto, caprese salad, and Italian dishes. This vigorous grower produces abundant foliage throughout the summer and is one of the most popular basil varieties for both home gardeners and commercial growers. Pinch back flowers regularly to encourage bushier growth and continuous leaf production.
Bee Balm
Lemon Bee Balm (Monarda citriodora), also known as Lemon Bergamot, is an aromatic annual or short-lived perennial herb with a distinct lemony fragrance. It produces beautiful whorls of pink to purple tubular flowers that are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The leaves and flowers are excellent for making tea, drying for potpourri, and the plant hang-dries beautifully while retaining its fragrance and color.
Cucumber
Lemon Cucumber is an heirloom variety producing round, yellow fruits about the size of a tennis ball with a mild, sweet flavor and tender skin. The fruits are best harvested when 2-3 inches in diameter and do not need peeling. This productive variety is excellent for fresh eating, salads, and pickling, and the unique appearance makes it a conversation starter in the garden.
Pepper
Lemon Spice Jalapeno is a unique heirloom pepper that ripens from green to bright lemon yellow, offering a citrusy, fruity flavor with moderate heat (2,500-5,000 Scoville units). The compact plants produce abundant 2-3 inch peppers that are excellent fresh in salsas, pickled, or used in any recipe calling for jalapenos. This variety is prized for its beautiful color and distinctive flavor that sets it apart from traditional green jalapenos.
Cosmos
Cosmos 'Lemonade' is a charming variety featuring soft lemon-yellow blooms that add a cheerful, light color to gardens. These easy-to-grow annual flowers are drought-tolerant and attract butterflies and pollinators. They thrive in poor to average soil and make excellent cut flowers with their delicate, daisy-like petals.

Basil
Lime Basil is an aromatic herb with small, bright green leaves and an intense lime-citrus fragrance and flavor. This compact variety grows 12-18 inches tall and is excellent for culinary use in Asian and Thai dishes, teas, and desserts. The plant produces small white flowers that should be pinched back regularly to encourage bushy growth and延 leaf production.
Mint
Limoncello Lemon Balm is a fragrant herb in the mint family (Lamiaceae) with intense lemon-scented leaves perfect for teas, cocktails, and culinary use. This compact, bushy perennial grows 12-24 inches tall with variegated gold and green foliage. Attracts pollinators and is known for its calming properties and resistance to pests.
Gourd
Luffa Ridge Gourd (Luffa acutangula) is a vigorous climbing vine that produces long, ridged cylindrical fruits with distinctive angular ridges running lengthwise. When young and tender (6-8 inches), the fruits are edible and popular in Asian cuisine with a mild, slightly sweet flavor. The vines require sturdy trellising and warm growing conditions, thriving in hot summers with consistent moisture and excellent drainage.

Peppers
Mad Hatter is a unique sweet pepper variety that produces whimsical hat-shaped pods up to 2.5" long with a distinctive balloon-knot bottom. Despite their hot pepper appearance, these peppers are surprisingly sweet with mild heat (around 1,000 Scoville units), ripening from green to bright red with smooth skin and crisp texture. Plants grow 4 feet tall and are highly productive, making them both ornamental and delicious for fresh eating or cooking.
Tomato
Madam Forier is a beautiful French heirloom tomato that produces large, deep red beefsteak-type fruits with distinctive purple shoulders at the top. The fruits are prized for their excellent flavor, combining sweetness with rich tomato taste, and typically weigh 8-16 ounces. This indeterminate variety produces prolifically throughout the season and is ideal for slicing fresh or using in gourmet dishes.
Pepper
Magnum Orange Habanero is a hybrid pepper variety producing large, intensely hot habanero peppers with vibrant orange color. These peppers typically rate 100,000-350,000 Scoville Heat Units and are prized for their fruity flavor combined with extreme heat. Plants are productive and perform well in warm climates, producing abundant harvests of thick-walled peppers ideal for hot sauces and salsas.

Mint
Mandarina Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial herb in the mint family with bright citrus-scented leaves that have a distinctive mandarin orange and lemon aroma. This bushy plant grows 12-24 inches tall with serrated leaves and small white flowers that attract bees and beneficial insects. Excellent for teas, culinary uses, and as a calming herb, it thrives in cooler climates and can spread vigorously like other mints.
Pepper
Manzano Orange is a rare Capsicum pubescens variety with thick-walled, apple-shaped fruits that ripen to a vibrant orange color. These peppers have black seeds (unlike most peppers), fuzzy leaves, and a fruity heat ranging from 12,000-30,000 Scoville units. They prefer cooler growing conditions than most peppers and are excellent for salsas and fresh eating.
Pepper
Marconi Red is a popular Italian heirloom sweet pepper that produces long, tapered fruits 6-8 inches in length. The peppers mature from green to bright red and have thick, sweet walls perfect for frying, roasting, or fresh eating. Plants are productive and well-adapted to various growing conditions, making them a favorite for home gardeners and market growers alike.

Cucumber
Marketmore 76 is a reliable, open-pollinated slicing cucumber known for exceptional crispness and productivity even in challenging growing conditions. This variety features excellent disease resistance including scab, cucumber mosaic virus, and downy mildew, allowing for extended harvests well into fall. The dark green, 8-9 inch fruits are smooth, uniform, and perfect for fresh eating with consistently good flavor.
Cucumber
Marketmore 97 is an improved open-pollinated slicing cucumber known for its excellent disease resistance, particularly to cucumber mosaic virus and scab. This reliable variety produces dark green, straight, 8-9 inch fruits with crisp, non-bitter flesh and minimal seeds, making it ideal for fresh eating and market sales. Plants are vigorous and productive throughout the season.

Squash
Mashed Potatoes is a unique pure white acorn squash with ivory flesh that's exceptionally sweet and silky. The compact vines are incredibly productive, yielding 8-10 fruits per plant averaging 2¾ pounds each. This variety offers a delightful twist on traditional green acorn squash with superior flavor and texture perfect for baking, roasting, or mashing.
Tomato
Matt's Wild Cherry is a vigorous, wild tomato variety from Mexico that produces abundant clusters of tiny, intensely sweet cherry tomatoes about the size of a currant. This highly disease-resistant heirloom is extremely prolific and heat-tolerant, often producing thousands of fruits per plant throughout the season. The sprawling vines can grow 8-10 feet and are perfect for gardeners in hot, humid climates where other tomatoes struggle.
Zinnia
Mazurkia is a striking heirloom zinnia variety featuring unique bicolor blooms with mahogany-red petals tipped in golden yellow, creating a stunning two-tone effect. This Polish heirloom grows 24-30 inches tall and produces abundant 2-3 inch dahlia-type flowers that are excellent for cutting and attract butterflies. Heat and drought tolerant once established, Mazurkia thrives in hot summer weather and blooms prolifically from mid-summer until frost.
Tomato
MegaMarv is a large beefsteak tomato variety that produces hefty, meaty fruits with excellent flavor. This vigorous indeterminate plant yields generously throughout the season with fruits that can reach impressive sizes. Known for its reliability and disease resistance, it's an excellent choice for slicing and fresh eating.
Eggplant
This stunning Italian heirloom eggplant from Rotonda, Italy produces round, red-orange fruits with beautiful striping. The fruits have a mild, sweet flavor with fewer seeds than typical eggplants and are excellent for grilling, stuffing, or roasting. This unique variety is prized for both its ornamental beauty and culinary versatility.
Echinacea
Mellow Yellow is a unique Echinacea variety featuring soft yellow petals surrounding a prominent cone center, blooming from mid-summer through fall. This hardy perennial attracts butterflies and pollinators while being drought-tolerant once established. Excellent for cutting gardens and naturalized plantings, it thrives in well-drained soil and requires minimal maintenance.
Marigold
Mexican Mint Marigold (Tagetes lucida) is a perennial herb with a strong anise-tarragon flavor, making it an excellent culinary substitute for French tarragon in hot climates. This fragrant plant produces bright golden-yellow flowers in late summer and fall, attracts pollinators, and is heat and drought tolerant once established. The aromatic leaves can be harvested throughout the growing season for use in cooking, teas, and as a garnish.

Nigella
Midnight Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist) produces stunning deep burgundy to nearly black flowers with delicate, thread-like foliage that creates a misty appearance. This hardy annual is prized for both its ornamental blooms and attractive seed pods, making it excellent for cottage gardens, cut flowers, and dried arrangements. It self-sows readily and thrives in cool weather, tolerating both full sun and partial shade.
Tomato
Midnight Roma is a stunning indigo-pigmented Roma tomato developed by Row 7 Seeds, featuring dark purple-black shoulders that transition to red undersides. This paste-type tomato produces 2-3 oz fruits with rich, complex flavor enhanced by anthocyanin pigments, excellent for fresh eating and cooking. The determinate plants are productive and disease-resistant, making them ideal for container growing or small gardens.
Pepper
Mini Yellow Bell peppers are compact, sweet bell peppers that produce bite-sized yellow fruits perfect for snacking, salads, and appetizers. These plants are productive and produce abundant small peppers (typically 1.5-2 inches) with thick walls and crisp, sweet flavor. They perform well in containers and small gardens, requiring consistent moisture and warm temperatures for best fruit production.
Pansy
Miniola Heart Aqua Viola is a unique F1 hybrid pansy featuring distinctive heart-shaped aqua blue and white blooms with delicate markings. This compact, early-flowering variety is known for its exceptional cold tolerance and uniform habit, making it ideal for cool-season bedding, containers, and mass plantings. The Miniola series produces abundant 2-3 inch flowers on well-branched plants that perform beautifully in spring and fall gardens.

Tomatoes
Mint Julep is a unique plum/pear-shaped tomato developed by Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms from a Green Zebra mutant. The indeterminate plants produce 3-4" long, green fruits with vertical yellow stripes and bright lime-colored flesh with a tangy-tannic flavor. This multiflora variety yields extremely high production (up to 5 gallons per plant) with 10-20 tomatoes per cluster, though the odd branching pattern makes staking more challenging.
Celosia
Mixed Pastel Celosia produces stunning feathery plume flowers in soft shades of pink, peach, cream, and yellow. This heat-loving annual thrives in warm weather and makes an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms. The plants grow 2-3 feet tall and are drought-tolerant once established, making them ideal for summer gardens and dried flower arrangements.
Statice
Statice (Limonium sinuatum) Mixture produces beautiful papery flowers in a range of colors including purple, pink, white, yellow, and blue. Excellent for fresh cuts and dried flower arrangements, retaining its vibrant colors when dried. This heat and drought-tolerant annual thrives in well-drained soil and is perfect for xeriscaping or coastal gardens.
Spinach
Monstreux de Viroflay is a classic French heirloom spinach variety dating back to the 1860s, known for producing very large, smooth, dark green leaves with excellent flavor. This vigorous grower is more heat-tolerant than many spinach varieties and is ideal for both fresh eating and cooking. The thick, succulent leaves are highly productive and can be harvested multiple times throughout the growing season.
Zinnia
Moody Mix Zinnia is a stunning variety featuring rich, deep-toned flowers in shades of burgundy, wine, rose, and pink with semi-double to double blooms on strong stems. This cut flower zinnia grows 30-40 inches tall and is excellent for fresh bouquets, lasting well in the vase. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it attracts butterflies and makes a dramatic statement in garden borders.

Tomatoes
Mortgage Lifter is a legendary heirloom beefsteak tomato developed in the 1940s by M.C. Byles in West Virginia, who reportedly paid off his mortgage by selling the plants. These indeterminate plants produce heavy yields of large (1-2 lb), dark pink fruits with excellent sweet flavor, meaty texture, and few seeds—perfect for slicing on sandwiches. Known for reliable production and disease resistance, this variety thrives with staking or caging support.
Parsley
Moss Green Curled is an exceptionally decorative heirloom parsley with tightly curled, deep green foliage that forms compact, upright plants. The dense, frilly leaves provide intense parsley flavor perfect for tabouleh, soups, stews, and fresh garnishes. This variety's upright growth habit keeps leaves clean and off the ground, making harvest easier and reducing soil contamination.
Pepper
Mucho Nacho is an improved hybrid jalapeño pepper that produces large, 4-inch long peppers with thick walls and a classic medium heat level (2,500-5,000 Scoville units). This vigorous, high-yielding plant is excellent for fresh eating, pickling, and stuffing, offering better disease resistance and larger fruits than standard jalapeños. The peppers mature from green to red and are typically harvested at the green stage.
Pepper
Mulato peppers are a traditional Mexican variety producing large, 4-5 inch long chocolate brown to dark brown chiles with mild to medium heat (2,500-3,000 Scoville units). These poblano-type peppers are essential for authentic mole sauce and are excellent for drying, developing a rich, smoky-sweet flavor with hints of chocolate and coffee. Plants are productive and grow 24-30 inches tall.
Nigella
Mulberry Rose Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist) is a stunning heirloom variety featuring unique mulberry-rose colored blooms surrounded by delicate, feathery foliage. This easy-to-grow annual produces both beautiful cut flowers and ornamental seed pods, making it perfect for cottage gardens and fresh or dried arrangements. Prefers cool weather and will self-sow readily in favorable conditions.
Cucumber
Muncher is a classic slicing cucumber variety developed at Cornell University, known for its crisp texture, mild flavor, and excellent disease resistance. The fruits grow 6-9 inches long with dark green skin and white spines, perfect for fresh eating and making crisp, never-bitter slices. This vigorous, productive variety can be grown on trellises to save space and produces consistently throughout the season.
Pumpkin
Musquee de Provence is a stunning French heirloom pumpkin with deeply ribbed, flattened fruits that can weigh 10-20 pounds and feature beautiful deep orange skin. The dense, dark orange flesh is exceptionally sweet and flavorful, making it ideal for soups, pies, and roasting. This variety stores exceptionally well and actually improves in flavor after a few months of storage.
Tomato
Nepal OG is a unique heirloom tomato variety originally from Nepal, producing medium to large, slightly flattened fruits with excellent flavor and good yields. The plants are indeterminate and vigorous, producing tomatoes with a rich, complex taste that's both sweet and tangy. This variety is well-adapted to various growing conditions and is prized by tomato enthusiasts for its exceptional flavor profile.
Eggplant
Nigral is a productive Italian hybrid eggplant producing glossy, dark purple-black fruits with excellent uniformity and quality. This variety is known for its early maturity, strong plant vigor, and resistance to common eggplant diseases. The fruits are typically oval to elongated in shape with tender, mild-flavored flesh perfect for Italian cooking.
Zucchini
Nimba is a high-yielding F1 hybrid zucchini known for its excellent disease resistance, particularly to powdery mildew and other common squash diseases. This dark green zucchini produces uniform, cylindrical fruits with a smooth texture and is well-suited for both home gardens and commercial production. The plants have an open growth habit that makes harvesting easy and maintains good air circulation.
Spinach
Noble Giant is a high-yielding hybrid spinach variety known for its large, thick, dark green leaves and excellent bolt resistance. This vigorous grower produces smooth, semi-savoyed leaves that are perfect for fresh eating or cooking. It performs well in both cool spring and fall conditions and shows good disease resistance to downy mildew.
Tomato
Oaxacan Pink is a beautiful heirloom tomato from Mexico that produces large, ribbed pink fruits weighing 1-2 pounds with excellent sweet flavor and meaty texture. The indeterminate vines are vigorous and productive, yielding stunning beefsteak-type tomatoes that are perfect for slicing and fresh eating. This variety is well-adapted to hot climates and produces reliably throughout the growing season.
Zinnia
Oklahoma Pink is a beautiful heirloom zinnia variety that produces large, double pink blooms on sturdy stems reaching 24-36 inches tall. This heat-tolerant cultivar is an excellent choice for cut flowers and attracts butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer. It thrives in warm weather and performs exceptionally well in hot, dry conditions, making it ideal for Southern gardens.
Zinnia
Oklahoma Salmon is a stunning heirloom zinnia variety featuring unique salmon-peach colored blooms that are 3-4 inches across on plants reaching 30-36 inches tall. This heat-tolerant variety is excellent for cut flowers and attracts butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer. The flowers have a vintage charm with their warm peachy-salmon tones that blend beautifully in cottage-style gardens.
Tomato
Old German is a stunning heirloom beefsteak tomato with beautiful bi-colored fruits featuring yellow skin with red marbling and red interior flesh. This German variety produces large, meaty fruits weighing 1-2 pounds with excellent sweet, fruity flavor and low acidity. The indeterminate vines are vigorous and productive, making this a favorite among heirloom tomato enthusiasts.
Tomato
Olive Copper is a striking heirloom tomato variety producing small to medium-sized, olive-shaped fruits with a beautiful copper-bronze coloration. The fruits have excellent sweet-tart flavor and are perfect for fresh eating, salads, and preserving. This productive indeterminate variety performs well in various growing conditions and produces uniquely colored fruits throughout the season.

Tomatoes
Orange Cherry is a delightful heirloom tomato variety that produces abundant clusters of sweet, juicy, orange-colored cherry tomatoes perfect for snacking fresh from the vine. These bite-sized fruits are exceptionally flavorful with a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, ripening in 75-80 days. The vigorous indeterminate vines continue producing throughout the season and benefit from staking or caging for support.

Marigold
Orange Flame is a stunning dwarf French marigold featuring unique blooms with bronzy red to orange single petals surrounding a bright orange plume of petals at the center. This compact variety grows 8-12 inches tall and is naturally pest resistant, making it an excellent companion plant for vegetables like squash and tomatoes. Plant en masse or along borders for a dramatic flaming effect in the garden.
Tomato
Orange Jubilee is a beautiful heirloom tomato variety producing medium to large, bright orange fruits with excellent sweet flavor and low acidity. The indeterminate vines are productive and disease-resistant, yielding smooth, round tomatoes that are perfect for fresh eating and salads. This variety is prized for its vibrant color and delicious, mild taste that appeals to those who prefer less acidic tomatoes.
Calendula
Orange King Calendula is a classic heirloom variety producing vibrant orange double flowers that are 3-4 inches across. This easy-to-grow annual blooms prolifically throughout cool seasons and is valued for cut flowers, companion planting, and medicinal/culinary uses. It tolerates light frost and self-sows readily, making it ideal for cottage gardens.
Pepper
Orange Spice Jalapeno is a beautiful heirloom pepper that ripens from green to a vibrant orange color with a fruity, citrus-like flavor and moderate heat (2,500-5,000 Scoville units). The compact plants produce abundant 2-3 inch peppers that are perfect for fresh eating, pickling, or drying. This variety is known for its excellent flavor profile that combines traditional jalapeno heat with a sweet, tangy taste.
Thyme
Orangelo Thyme (Thymus 'Orangelo') is a fragrant culinary herb with a delightful citrus-orange scent and compact, spreading growth habit. This ornamental thyme variety features small green leaves and produces delicate flowers, making it excellent for edging, containers, and herb gardens. It's drought-tolerant once established and can be harvested continuously throughout the growing season for culinary use in teas, marinades, and Mediterranean dishes.
Pepper
Ozark Giant is a large, productive heirloom bell pepper variety that produces massive, blocky fruits that can grow up to 8 inches long and 4 inches wide. The peppers start green and ripen to red, with thick, sweet walls perfect for stuffing, grilling, or fresh eating. This variety is well-adapted to various growing conditions and produces reliably throughout the season.
Pepper
Padron peppers are a famous Spanish heirloom variety traditionally harvested small (1-2 inches) and fried in olive oil as tapas. Most are mild and sweet, but occasionally one in ten will be spicy hot, making them a fun culinary surprise. Plants are productive and should be picked frequently when young and green for the best traditional flavor.
Ornamental Grass
Pampas Pink (Cortaderia selloana) is a stunning ornamental grass featuring large, feathery pink plumes that rise 8-12 feet tall in late summer and fall. This dramatic perennial grass forms dense clumps of arching, narrow leaves and creates an impressive focal point in landscapes. Prefers well-drained soil and is drought-tolerant once established, though it may be invasive in some regions.
Bee Balm
Panorama Red is a vibrant bee balm variety featuring brilliant scarlet-red flowers that bloom from mid-summer to early fall, attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. This hardy perennial grows 2-3 feet tall with aromatic foliage and is more mildew-resistant than older varieties. Excellent for pollinator gardens, herb gardens, and naturalized areas, with flowers also suitable for cutting.
Scabiosa
Paper Moon Scabiosa (Scabiosa stellata) is a unique ornamental flower producing distinctive papery, silvery-bronze seed heads that are excellent for fresh or dried arrangements. The blooms start as delicate blue flowers before transforming into the characteristic spherical seed pods with star-like patterns. This cut flower variety thrives in well-drained soil and is drought-tolerant once established, making it a favorite for cottage gardens and floral designers.
Echinacea
Paradiso Super-Duper is a compact hybrid Echinacea (coneflower) featuring large, vibrant coral-pink flowers with prominent orange cones. This improved variety produces an abundance of blooms from summer through fall, attracts pollinators like butterflies and bees, and is drought-tolerant once established. It's an excellent choice for borders, containers, and cut flower gardens.
Zinnia
Pastel Lilac Zinnia produces stunning soft lavender-pink blooms that are perfect for cutting gardens and pollinator attraction. This variety grows 24-36 inches tall with fully double flowers reaching 3-4 inches across. Zinnias are heat-loving annuals that bloom prolifically from summer until frost, requiring minimal maintenance once established.
Aster
Pastel Mix Aster is a beautiful blend of China Aster varieties featuring soft, romantic colors including pale pink, lavender, cream, and white. These stunning cut flowers produce large, double blooms on sturdy stems reaching 24-30 inches tall, making them excellent for fresh bouquets and garden borders. They bloom from mid-summer through fall and attract butterflies while being relatively easy to grow from seed.
Zinnia
Pastel Tufted Zinnia is a charming heirloom variety featuring soft, pastel-colored blooms in shades of pink, peach, cream, and lavender with unique quilled or tufted petals. This vigorous grower produces abundant 2-3 inch flowers on sturdy stems, making it excellent for cut flower arrangements and attracting pollinators. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in warm weather and blooms continuously from summer until frost.
Squash
Patisson Golden Marble is a stunning French heirloom scallop squash with attractive golden-yellow skin with green mottling. The small, flying saucer-shaped fruits are best harvested when 2-4 inches in diameter for tender texture and delicate, sweet flavor. This productive bush-type plant produces prolifically throughout the summer and the young fruits can be eaten raw, grilled, or sautéed.
Squash
Patisson Stripe Melange is a beautiful French heirloom summer squash variety featuring distinctive scalloped, UFO-shaped fruits with vibrant stripes in shades of green, yellow, and white. This productive variety is best harvested when young (2-4 inches) for tender texture and delicate flavor, and can be enjoyed raw, grilled, or sautéed. The compact bush plants are easy to grow and produce prolifically throughout the summer season.
Zinnia
Peaches and Cream Zinnia is a stunning variety featuring unique bicolor blooms in soft peachy-pink and creamy white tones that blend beautifully together. These vigorous plants grow 24-36 inches tall and produce abundant 3-4 inch double flowers that are excellent for cutting and attract butterflies. They are heat and drought tolerant once established, making them ideal for summer gardens.
Pepper
Pepperoncini is a sweet, mild Italian pepper variety that produces 2-3 inch long, wrinkled, golden-yellow to red fruits with a slightly tangy flavor. These prolific plants are commonly used for pickling and are popular in Italian and Greek cuisine. They grow well in warm conditions and produce abundant harvests throughout the growing season.

Fennel
Perfection Fennel is a Florence-type fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum) that produces crisp, sweet, licorice-flavored bulbs excellent for fresh eating or grilling. The wispy, aromatic fronds are edible and prized for salads, pestos, and garnishes. This variety is known for its reliable bulb formation and bolt resistance, making it ideal for summer gardens when grown in cool weather conditions.
Tomato
Peron (also known as Peron Sprayless) is an Argentine heirloom tomato developed before 1954 by Prof. Abelardo Piovano. This semi-determinate variety features deep-red, dual-purpose fruits weighing 3-6 ounces with very dense, meaty flesh and thick, tough skins that make it excellent for both canning and fresh eating. The variety is fairly disease resistant and crack-resistant, with fruits that keep extremely well and offer very good, sweet flavor.

Zinnia
Persian Carpet Zinnia is a stunning heirloom variety featuring vibrant 2-inch double pom-pom blooms in shades of gold, saffron, and crimson on compact 2-3 foot plants. These heat-tolerant zinnias are exceptional for cut flowers with long, strong stems that hold up well in summer weather. The more you cut, the more profusely they bloom, making them perfect for continuous bouquets throughout the season.
Zinnia
Zinnia 'Peruviana' is a unique heirloom variety featuring small, bicolor flowers in warm shades of red, orange, and yellow, often with striking color combinations on the same bloom. This compact zinnia grows 18-24 inches tall and produces abundant flowers that are perfect for cutting and attracting butterflies. It thrives in hot weather and is drought-tolerant once established, making it an excellent choice for summer gardens.
Melon
Petit Gris de Rennes is a classic French heirloom melon from Brittany with small, 1-2 pound gray-green skinned fruits that have exceptionally sweet, deep orange flesh. This cold-tolerant variety was traditionally grown in the cooler climate of northern France and is prized for its intense flavor and aromatic qualities. The compact vines are productive and well-suited to shorter growing seasons.

Dahlia
Petite Florets is a charming dwarf dahlia variety producing an abundance of small, delicate blooms perfect for bouquets and borders. These compact plants reach 18-24 inches tall and produce masses of 2-3 inch flowers in various colors throughout the growing season. Excellent for cutting gardens and containers, they bloom prolifically from mid-summer until frost with regular deadheading.
Pumpkin
Phantomita F1 is a unique hybrid pumpkin variety that produces distinctive white-skinned, 8-10 lb fruits with excellent eating quality. This semi-bush variety features powdery mildew resistance and strong handles, making it ideal for both ornamental fall displays and cooking. The plants are vigorous and productive, yielding attractive pale pumpkins with smooth, creamy-white skin.

Tomatoes
Phil's Two is a remarkable green-when-ripe tomato developed by Philippe Rommens from an accidental cross of the famous 'Reisentomate (Voyage)'. This unusual variety produces deeply ribbed, medium-sized fruits (4 oz) with separated seed locules that give each tomato the appearance of multiple fruits fused together, featuring green flesh and yellow skin with sweet flavor and pleasant acidity. Compact determinate plants grow to about 4.3 feet tall with average yield and midseason production.
Nasturtium
Phoenix is a semi-trailing dwarf nasturtium variety that produces vibrant mixed colors of red, orange, yellow, and cream flowers with a compact habit reaching 10-12 inches tall. The edible flowers and leaves have a peppery taste perfect for salads and garnishes, while the plants are excellent for containers, borders, and companion planting as they help deter aphids and other pests. This easy-to-grow annual thrives in poor to moderate soil and blooms prolifically from summer through fall.
Squash
Pineapple Squash is a striking heirloom winter squash variety with creamy white skin streaked with orange and gold, resembling a pineapple's coloring. The fruits are oblong and can weigh 10-15 pounds, with sweet, smooth, golden-orange flesh that's excellent for baking, soups, and pies. This vigorous vine produces reliably and stores well through winter months.

Eggplant
Ping Tung Long is a beloved Asian heirloom eggplant variety from Taiwan that produces abundant yields of slender, glossy purple fruits 10-12 inches long on beautiful purple-stemmed plants. Earlier and more productive than Italian types, these tender, mild-flavored eggplants have very few seeds and are perfect for grilling, broiling, pickling, or enjoying with peanut sauce. The plants are heat-tolerant and continue producing throughout the growing season.
Basketflower
Pink Basketflower (Centaurea americana) is a stunning native North American annual that produces large 4-5 inch pink to lavender blooms with distinctive fringed petals resembling a basket weave. This drought-tolerant wildflower thrives in hot, dry conditions and attracts butterflies and beneficial insects. Direct sow in spring after last frost or in fall; plants grow 3-5 feet tall and make excellent cut flowers with long vase life.
Celosia
Pink Champagne Celosia is a specially bred mix from Floret Flowers featuring unique textural blooms in a range of shapes including fans, brains, and plumes in soft shades of champagne, peach, and buttercream. This vigorous, free-flowering variety thrives in hot and dry conditions, producing buckets of velvety flower heads throughout summer. An excellent cutting garden workhorse, it's particularly prized for wedding work and floral arrangements.

Celery
Pink Plume is a beautiful and easier-to-grow alternative to traditional celery, producing an abundance of slender stems with vivid pink to burgundy coloring. The flavor is distinctly celery with delightful notes of sweet anise, making it versatile for salads, soups, and roasted vegetables. Rather than focusing on large stem growth, this variety thrives in cooler climates like the Northeast and is more forgiving than standard celery varieties.
Cosmos
Pink Popsocks is a delightful Cosmos bipinnatus variety featuring vibrant pink-rose flowers with distinctive striped or picotee petals that create a whimsical, candy-striped appearance. This reliable bloomer produces abundant flowers on sturdy stems perfect for cutting gardens, attracting pollinators including butterflies and bees. The plants grow 3-4 feet tall with feathery, fern-like foliage and thrive in poor to average soil with minimal care, making them ideal for cottage gardens and naturalistic plantings.
Calendula
Pink Surprise is a unique calendula variety featuring beautiful apricot-colored flowers delicately tinged with pink and frilly petals. This hardy annual blooms prolifically over an extended season, making it excellent for cut flowers, edible petals, and attracting beneficial pollinators. Easy to grow and self-sows readily in cool weather, thriving in spring and fall gardens.

Peppers
Pinot Noir is a stunning ornamental bell pepper that produces blocky, thick-walled fruits in a spectacular array of colors including light green, citrus, berry purple, and cherry red - all on the same compact 2-foot plant. This highly adaptable hybrid performs well in both hot and cold conditions, producing heavy yields of exceptionally sweet, crispy peppers that are sweeter than standard bells. Excellent for fresh eating, salads, stuffing, grilling, roasting, and stir-frying.

Bachelor's Buttons
Polka Dots Bachelor's Buttons is a colorful blend of vivid blue, pink, purple and white flowers that are among the easiest annuals to grow from seed. This resilient flower prefers full sun and well-drained soil, can be fall planted in zones 7-10, and performs best when direct seeded outdoors. An excellent cut flower that provides long-lasting blooms and attracts pollinators to the garden.

Dahlia
Pompon Dahlias are charming varieties producing perfectly spherical, ball-shaped blooms typically 2 inches or smaller in diameter with tightly packed, rounded petals. These compact, formal flowers come in a wide array of colors and are excellent for cutting gardens, borders, and adding cheerful pops of color to the landscape. They bloom prolifically from mid-summer through fall frost and are relatively easy to grow when provided with rich, well-drained soil.
Calendula
Porcupine Yellow is a unique calendula variety featuring bright yellow-orange blooms with distinctive quilled or spiky petals that give it its porcupine-like appearance. This hardy annual is excellent for cut flowers, attracts pollinators, and has edible petals traditionally used in salads and for medicinal purposes. Calendulas are easy to grow, cold-tolerant, and will self-sow readily in the garden.
Pepper
Pot-A-Peno is a compact, container-friendly jalapeño pepper variety that produces medium-hot peppers perfect for small spaces and patio gardens. This dwarf plant reaches only 10-12 inches tall but produces abundant 3-inch long jalapeño peppers with classic flavor and heat. Ideal for containers, raised beds, or small garden spaces, making fresh jalapeños accessible to gardeners with limited room.
Zinnia
Profusion Double Deep Salmon is an award-winning F1 hybrid zinnia featuring fully double, coral-salmon colored blooms on compact, disease-resistant plants that grow 12-18 inches tall. This variety is exceptionally vigorous with excellent heat and humidity tolerance, producing abundant flowers throughout the summer with minimal maintenance. The Profusion series is renowned for its resistance to powdery mildew and leaf spot diseases that commonly affect zinnias.
Zinnia
Profusion Single Cherry is an award-winning F1 hybrid zinnia featuring vibrant cherry-red single flowers with bright yellow centers. This compact, disease-resistant variety grows 12-18 inches tall and blooms profusely from early summer until frost with excellent tolerance to powdery mildew and leaf spot. It's perfect for borders, containers, and mass plantings, attracting butterflies while requiring minimal maintenance.
Pepper
Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno is a beautiful and unique jalapeno variety that ripens from green to a vibrant orange color, resembling pumpkin spice tones. This pepper offers the classic jalapeno flavor and medium heat level (2,500-8,000 Scoville units) with a slightly sweeter profile when fully ripened to orange. The compact plants are productive and the colorful peppers are excellent for fresh eating, pickling, or adding festive color to autumn dishes.

Peppers
Purple Beauty is a stunning open-pollinated sweet bell pepper with blocky fruits that start green, transition to a luminous purple, and mature to red. The peppers are succulent, sweet, and incredibly productive, perfect for fresh eating, stuffing, or cooking. The purple skin reveals green flesh underneath that turns green when cooked, making it both beautiful and delicious.
Tomatillo
Purple Coban is a stunning heirloom tomatillo from Guatemala that produces large, deep purple fruits with excellent sweet-tart flavor. The 2-3 inch fruits are enclosed in papery husks and turn from green to purple when ripe, making them perfect for fresh salsas, cooking, or eating raw. Plants are vigorous and productive, requiring staking or caging, and benefit from having at least two plants for cross-pollination.
Nasturtium
Purple Emperor is a stunning semi-trailing nasturtium with unique burgundy-purple blooms that fade to dusty lavender-rose, creating a captivating color display throughout the season. The compact vines reach 18-24 inches, making them perfect for containers, borders, or cascading over edges. Both the peppery flowers and leaves are edible and add a spicy kick to salads, while the green seed pods can be pickled as capers.

Carrot
Purple Sun F1 is a striking hybrid carrot variety with deep purple exterior and orange interior that creates a beautiful bi-color effect when sliced. This Imperator-type carrot produces 10-12 inch long, smooth roots with excellent flavor and high anthocyanin content. It performs well in a variety of soil conditions and maintains its vibrant color when cooked.
Pepper
Purple Thai is an ornamental hot pepper variety that produces striking purple fruits that mature to red. The compact plants grow 18-24 inches tall with dark purple foliage and stems, making them excellent for containers and ornamental gardens. The small, upright-facing peppers are quite hot (similar to Thai chilis) and are perfect for Asian cuisine, drying, or adding heat to dishes.
Tomatillo
Purple Tomatillo produces stunning electric violet fruits with sweet, fruity flavor - much sweeter than traditional green tomatillos. This prolific variety yields large glowing orbs that are predominantly purple (more sunlight produces purer purple coloration), with bright violet color often throughout the flesh. Perfect for sweet and spicy salsas or eating fresh off the plant, this nutrient-rich heirloom is both beautiful and delicious.
Pepper
Purple UFO is a striking ornamental pepper with unique flying saucer-shaped fruits that start purple and ripen to red. The 2-3 inch wide, flat, scalloped pods grow upright on compact 18-24 inch plants with attractive purple-tinged foliage. These mildly hot peppers (similar to jalapeño heat) are both beautiful and edible, making them perfect for containers, ornamental gardens, or culinary use.
Zinnia
Queen Lime Orange is a stunning zinnia variety featuring unique bicolor blooms with lime green centers that gradually transition to peachy-orange outer petals. This tall, elegant zinnia grows 30-40 inches high and produces excellent long-lasting cut flowers. The variety is heat and drought tolerant once established, making it perfect for summer gardens and attracting butterflies and pollinators.
Zinnia
Queeny Lemon Peach is a stunning hybrid zinnia from the Queeny series, featuring unique bicolor blooms in soft peachy-lemon tones with a dahlia-like form. This compact variety grows 24-30 inches tall with excellent branching, making it ideal for cut flowers and garden borders. The disease-resistant plants produce abundant 3-4 inch flowers throughout summer into fall with minimal maintenance.
Tomato
Raspberry Burst is an F1 hybrid cherry tomato that produces abundant clusters of small, sweet, pink-red fruits with excellent flavor. This vigorous indeterminate variety is highly productive and disease-resistant, making it ideal for fresh eating and market sales. The fruits are borne in long trusses and have good crack resistance.

Gomphrena
Raspberry Cream Gomphrena (globe amaranth) produces stunning 1.5" globe-shaped blooms in a glowing, creamy raspberry color that's richer and darker than standard pink varieties. This uniform, productive annual thrives in heat and drought, making it excellent for cutting gardens, dried arrangements, and pollinator-friendly borders. The clover-like flowers bloom profusely from summer through frost and retain their vibrant color when dried.
Tomato
Rebel Beefsteak is a late blight-resistant hybrid tomato producing large, flavorful beefsteak-style fruits averaging 8-12 ounces. This variety offers excellent disease resistance including resistance to late blight (Phytophthora infestans), making it a reliable choice for home gardeners and market growers in areas prone to tomato diseases. The vigorous, indeterminate plants produce a steady supply of meaty, red tomatoes perfect for slicing and fresh eating throughout the growing season.
Tomato
Rebel Blaines Moonlight is a striking heirloom tomato featuring deep red fruits with distinctive pink and purple stripes, producing round, medium-sized fruits with exceptional flavor. This indeterminate variety offers reliable yields of beautifully colored tomatoes that are perfect for fresh eating and adding visual interest to salads. The plants are vigorous growers that benefit from staking or caging for support.
Tomato
Rebel Dippers Delight is a stunning striped tomato featuring red, yellow, and purple streaks on its skin and flesh. This medium-sized variety from Wild Boar Farms produces beautiful, colorful fruits that are excellent for fresh eating and adding visual appeal to salads. The plants are vigorous and productive, requiring staking or caging for best results.
Tomato
Rebel Starfighter Prime is a unique open-pollinated tomato variety known for its striking metallic purple-brown coloring with green striping. This indeterminate variety produces medium-sized fruits with excellent flavor, combining sweetness with rich, complex notes. Developed through natural breeding, it's a vigorous grower that performs well in various climates and is resistant to many common tomato diseases.
Tomato
Rebel Starfighter VT-16 is a stunning heirloom tomato that produces heart-shaped fruits with a unique green and purple bi-color pattern. This indeterminate variety yields medium-sized tomatoes with excellent flavor, combining sweet and tangy notes. The fruits are not only visually striking but also offer complex flavors that make them perfect for fresh eating and salads.
Tomato
Red Dwarf Romanian is a rare, compact determinate tomato originating from Romania that produces spectacular multiflora trusses with 30-50 small pear-shaped fruits per cluster. The plants reach about 3 feet tall, making them perfect for containers, though the heavy fruit clusters require sturdy support. The red-orange, elongated fruits (0.3 oz each) offer delicious, balanced tomato flavor and are excellent for snacking and salads.
Amaranth
Red Garnet Amaranth is a stunning variety with vibrant fuchsia-red leaves packed with antioxidants, making it ideal for microgreens, sprouts, and baby greens. This fast-growing, heat-tolerant plant thrives in warm weather and can reach 4-6 feet at maturity, producing edible leaves, stems, and nutritious grain seeds. Extremely versatile and easy to grow, it's perfect for both ornamental and culinary purposes, with leaves that can be harvested continuously or the plant can be left to mature for grain production.
Celosia
Red Raven is a stunning hybrid celosia featuring deep burgundy-red plumes that create dramatic vertical interest in gardens and arrangements. This compact, well-branched variety produces abundant feathery flower spikes on strong stems, making it excellent for cutting and bedding. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it thrives in warm weather and maintains its vibrant color throughout the season.
Lettuce
Red Romaine is a beautiful open-pollinated lettuce variety with upright, elongated leaves that feature deep red to burgundy coloring on the outer leaves and crisp, pale green inner ribs. This cold-hardy romaine type produces sweet, crunchy heads that are excellent for fresh salads and Caesar preparations. It performs well in cool weather and can tolerate light frosts, making it ideal for spring and fall planting.
Kale
Red Ursa is a beautiful open-pollinated kale variety developed by Wild Garden Seed, featuring deeply savoyed leaves with stunning red-purple coloration that intensifies in cold weather. This cold-hardy kale is extremely productive and sweet, making it excellent for fresh salads, cooking, or as an ornamental edible. The plant is vigorous and can withstand frost, actually improving in flavor after exposure to cold temperatures.
Pepper
Relleno is a hybrid poblano-type pepper with large, thick-walled fruits ideal for stuffing and making traditional chile rellenos. The peppers are mildly hot (1,000-2,000 Scoville units), measuring 6-7 inches long and 2-3 inches wide with a rich flavor. Plants are productive and adaptable, producing dark green fruits that ripen to red, with excellent disease resistance.
Scabiosa
Ritz Blue is a stunning F1 hybrid scabiosa (pincushion flower) producing large, 2-3 inch lavender-blue blooms on long, sturdy stems ideal for cutting. This vigorous variety blooms prolifically from summer through fall, attracting butterflies and bees while making excellent fresh or dried arrangements. Prefers well-drained soil and benefits from deadheading to promote continuous flowering.
Scabiosa
Ritz Rose is a stunning Scabiosa variety featuring soft, rose-pink pincushion flowers that bloom prolifically throughout the summer. This excellent cut flower has long, sturdy stems ideal for bouquets and attracts butterflies and beneficial insects to the garden. It performs well in both borders and cutting gardens, offering continuous blooms with regular deadheading.
Strawflower
Roggli Riesen (also known as Roggli Swiss Giants) is a classic heirloom strawflower variety producing large, vibrant papery blooms in shades of red, pink, orange, yellow, and white on sturdy 3-4 foot stems. Excellent for fresh cutting and drying, these everlasting flowers retain their color beautifully when dried. Heat and drought tolerant once established, making them ideal for xeriscaping and low-water gardens.
Cauliflower
Romanesco Italia is a stunning heirloom cauliflower variety known for its mesmerizing lime-green, spiral fractals that form geometric pointed pinnacles. This Italian heritage variety produces chartreuse heads that are sweeter and nuttier than standard cauliflower, with a tender texture. Best grown in cool weather, it requires consistent moisture and performs excellently as a fall crop.
Pepper
Romanian Sweet is an heirloom sweet pepper variety that produces elongated, tapered fruits that ripen from green to bright red. The peppers are thick-walled, very sweet, and excellent for fresh eating, roasting, or frying. Plants are productive and adaptable to various growing conditions, making them a reliable choice for home gardeners.
Eggplant
Rosa Bianca is a stunning Italian heirloom eggplant with beautiful lavender-pink and white streaked skin and a mild, creamy, non-bitter flesh. The fruits are large, round to teardrop-shaped, typically weighing 1-2 pounds, and are excellent for grilling, roasting, or making baba ganoush. This variety is prized by chefs for its delicate flavor and creamy texture with very few seeds.
Celosia
Rose Gold is a stunning celosia variety featuring beautiful plumes in warm rose-gold and peachy-pink tones. This vigorous plant produces excellent cut flowers with long, sturdy stems perfect for fresh arrangements and dries beautifully for everlasting bouquets. Heat-loving and drought-tolerant once established, it thrives in warm weather and blooms continuously throughout summer.
Rosemary
Rosy Rosemary is a beautiful ornamental and culinary herb variety featuring pink to rosy-purple flowers, unlike the typical blue rosemary blooms. This evergreen perennial shrub grows 2-4 feet tall with aromatic needle-like foliage perfect for cooking, and thrives in well-drained soil with minimal water once established. The fragrant flowers attract pollinators while the plant provides year-round interest in herb gardens and Mediterranean-style landscapes.
Watermelon
Royal Golden is a unique heirloom watermelon with bright golden-yellow flesh that is exceptionally sweet and tender. The 20-25 pound oblong fruits have a light green rind with darker green stripes and produce well even in cooler climates. This rare variety dates back to the early 1900s and is prized for its beautiful color and excellent flavor.
Cosmos
Rubinato is a stunning cosmos variety featuring deep ruby-red, semi-double to double blooms that create a rich, velvety appearance in the garden. This beautiful cultivar produces abundant flowers on sturdy stems, making it excellent for cut flower arrangements and attracting pollinators. Easy to grow from seed, it thrives in average to poor soil and is drought-tolerant once established.

Swiss Chard
Ruby Red Swiss Chard is a beautiful, cold-hardy leafy green featuring stunning deep ruby-red stems and dark green, savoyed leaves. This reliable heirloom variety has been selected for resistance to early bolting and produces wide, tender petioles perfect for cooking or using young leaves in salad mixes. The colorful stems add visual appeal to gardens and plates alike, with a mild, slightly earthy flavor that pairs wonderfully with balsamic vinegar and sweet onions.
Rudbeckia
Sahara Rudbeckia is a stunning hybrid black-eyed Susan that produces large 5-6 inch flowers in warm shades of gold, orange, bronze, and mahogany, often with multiple colors on a single bloom. This compact variety grows 18-24 inches tall and blooms prolifically from summer through fall, making it excellent for borders, containers, and cut flower arrangements. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it attracts butterflies and pollinators while being deer resistant.
Pepper
Sailfish F1 is a high-performing hybrid bell pepper that produces large, blocky, thick-walled fruits that mature to a vibrant red color. Known for its early maturity, excellent disease resistance, and high yields, this variety is popular with both home gardeners and commercial growers. The plants are vigorous and well-suited for various growing conditions.
Tomato
Sailor's Luck is a unique heirloom tomato variety producing medium-sized fruits with striking deep red skin adorned with distinctive green stripes. This indeterminate variety yields flavorful, beautiful tomatoes perfect for slicing and fresh eating. The plants are vigorous growers and benefit from staking or caging for support.
Gomphrena
Gomphrena 'Salmon' is a beautiful globe amaranth variety featuring unique salmon-pink to peachy-orange clover-like flower heads. This heat-loving annual produces long-lasting blooms that are excellent for cutting, drying, and attracting butterflies. It's drought-tolerant once established and thrives in hot summer weather, making it ideal for borders, containers, and cutting gardens.
Tomato
San Marzano is a prized Italian heirloom paste tomato known for its elongated shape, thick flesh, and few seeds, making it ideal for sauces and canning. These indeterminate plants produce 4-6 inch oblong fruits with rich, sweet flavor and low acidity. Originally from the Campania region of Italy, San Marzano tomatoes thrive in warm climates and require staking or caging for support.
Cilantro
Santo Cilantro is a slow-bolting, heat-tolerant cilantro variety that's ideal for extending the harvest season. It produces abundant, flavorful foliage with the classic cilantro taste and is notably more resistant to premature flowering than standard varieties. This variety is excellent for successive plantings and performs well in warmer conditions where traditional cilantro typically bolts quickly.
Kale
Scarlet Kale is a stunning heirloom variety with deeply curled blue-green leaves featuring vibrant purple-red stems and veining that intensifies in cool weather. This cold-hardy kale becomes sweeter after frost and is both ornamental and delicious, making it perfect for fall and winter gardens. The colorful leaves are excellent for fresh salads when young or cooked in soups and stir-fries when mature.
Huckleberry
Schwartzenbeeren is a European heritage huckleberry variety producing small, dark blue-black berries with excellent flavor. This perennial shrub grows 12-18 inches tall and prefers acidic, well-drained soil with partial shade. The berries are prized for fresh eating, preserves, and baking, and the plant is cold-hardy and long-lived once established.
Cosmos
Seashells Mix Cosmos is a unique variety featuring tubular, fluted petals that resemble seashells in shades of pink, white, rose, and carmine. These drought-tolerant annuals grow 3-4 feet tall and bloom prolifically from summer to frost, attracting butterflies and pollinators. They are excellent for cutting gardens and require minimal care once established.

Strawflower
Seashells Mix Strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) is an exclusive Johnny's variety featuring a beautiful beachy color blend of pastel hues including light pink, apricot, pale yellow, and ivory. These tall, well-branched plants produce profuse double blooms 2-2.5 inches across with papery, everlasting petals perfect for fresh bouquets or dried arrangements. Also known as bracted strawflower, these heat-tolerant annuals are excellent for cutting gardens and retain their vivid colors when dried.
Baby's Breath
Baby's Breath (Gypsophila) is a delicate, airy flowering plant that produces masses of tiny white or pink flowers on branching stems, creating a cloud-like appearance. It's a popular cut flower and filler in bouquets, known for its long vase life and drought tolerance once established. This variety thrives in well-drained, alkaline soil and is relatively low-maintenance, making it ideal for cottage gardens and dried flower arrangements.
Tomato
Shadow Boxing is a dwarf tomato variety developed through the Dwarf Tomato Project, producing compact plants with sturdy stems and dark foliage that reach 3-4 feet tall. The variety produces flavorful, medium-sized tomatoes with excellent taste and requires minimal staking. Its compact growth habit makes it ideal for container gardening and small spaces while maintaining full-sized tomato flavor.

Cucumber
Shintokiwa is a Japanese heirloom cucumber prized for its exceptionally sweet flavor, smooth dark green skin, and remarkably small seed cavity. The fruits are long and slender, reaching 12+ inches but best harvested at 6-8 inches for optimal sweetness. This variety is outrageously crunchy with plenty of juice and resists bitterness even when allowed to grow longer, making it excellent for fresh eating and can be grown vertically on a trellis or allowed to sprawl on the ground.

Peppers
Shishito peppers, also known as Lion peppers or "Wrinkled Old Man" peppers, are compact Japanese peppers reaching 2 feet tall and perfect for container growing. These prolific early producers yield 3-4" long wrinkled pods with thin walls that mature from green to red, offering mild, sweet, citrusy, and slightly smoky flavors. Famously, about 1 in 10-20 peppers will surprise you with intense heat in a "Russian Roulette" effect, making them a popular restaurant appetizer when blistered in olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt.

Dahlia
Shooting Stars is a stunning single-flowered dahlia variety featuring white petals with vibrant magenta-pink centers and dark foliage. This prolific bloomer produces elegant 3-4 inch flowers on strong stems, making it exceptional for cutting and garden displays. The open-centered flowers are beloved by pollinators and continue blooming from mid-summer until frost.
Tomato
Show Stopper is a hybrid determinate tomato that produces abundant clusters of medium-sized, firm red fruits perfect for fresh eating and salads. This compact variety is ideal for containers and small gardens, offering excellent disease resistance and reliable yields throughout the growing season. The plants have a bushy growth habit and don't require extensive staking.
Kale
Siber Frills is a stunning ornamental and edible kale variety featuring deeply frilled, lacy blue-green leaves with purple stems and veining. This cold-hardy Russian-type kale is exceptionally frost tolerant, becoming sweeter after exposure to cold weather. The tender, flavorful leaves are excellent for fresh salads when young or cooked in soups and stir-fries when mature.
Strawflower
Silvery Rose Strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) produces stunning silvery-pink papery blooms that are perfect for fresh arrangements and dried flowers. This heat and drought-tolerant annual grows 24-36 inches tall with sturdy stems that hold their vibrant color even when dried. Strawflowers are easy to grow, long-blooming, and attract pollinators while being deer resistant.

Salvia
Sirius Blue Sage (Salvia farinacea) is a stunning ornamental annual with vibrant deep blue flower spikes that bloom profusely from summer until frost. This compact, heat-tolerant variety grows 12-18 inches tall and attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial pollinators to the garden. Excellent for borders, containers, and cut flower arrangements, it thrives in hot weather and requires minimal maintenance once established.
Cilantro
Slo-Bolt Cilantro is a slow-bolting variety specifically bred to resist premature flowering in warm weather, extending the harvest period for fresh leaves. This popular culinary herb produces flavorful, aromatic foliage used in Mexican, Asian, and Latin American cuisines. For continuous harvest, succession plant every 2-3 weeks throughout the growing season.
Cauliflower
Snowball is a classic heirloom cauliflower variety dating back to the 1880s, producing compact, pure white, 6-8 inch heads with excellent flavor and texture. This reliable variety thrives in cool weather and benefits from tying outer leaves over the developing head to maintain the pristine white color. Best grown as a spring or fall crop in most regions, with consistent moisture and fertile soil for optimal head development.
Tomato
Solar Vortex is a stunning bi-colored heirloom tomato featuring beautiful red and yellow striped fruits that weigh 8-12 ounces. This indeterminate variety produces eye-catching tomatoes with excellent sweet-tart flavor and smooth texture, making them perfect for fresh eating and salads. The vigorous plants are productive and continue bearing throughout the season.
Zinnia
Sombrero is a vibrant hybrid zinnia variety known for its large, colorful blooms that resemble traditional Mexican sombreros. These heat-tolerant annuals produce abundant flowers throughout summer and are excellent for cutting gardens, attracting butterflies and pollinators. They are disease-resistant and thrive in hot, sunny conditions with well-drained soil.
Zinnia
Sorbet Zinnia is a compact, dwarf hybrid variety that produces abundant bicolor blooms in shades of pink, coral, and white with stunning color patterns. This disease-resistant variety grows 12-18 inches tall and is perfect for borders, containers, and mass plantings. The flowers are excellent for cutting and attract butterflies throughout the growing season.
Mint
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) is a vigorous perennial herb with bright green, pointed leaves and a sweet, refreshing flavor perfect for teas, mojitos, and culinary use. This aromatic mint spreads readily through underground runners and can become invasive, so it's best grown in containers or confined spaces. Harvest leaves regularly throughout the growing season to encourage bushy growth and prevent flowering.
Pumpkin
Speckled Hound is a unique heirloom pumpkin variety featuring distinctive cream-colored skin speckled with green spots and splashes, resembling a hound dog's coat. These medium-sized pumpkins (8-12 lbs) have sweet, flavorful orange flesh that's excellent for cooking and baking. The vigorous vines produce reliably and the pumpkins store well, making them both decorative and culinary favorites.

Basil
Spice Boys Globe is a compact, highly uniform globe basil hybrid with excellent vigor and disease resistance. It forms tight, rounded mounds of small aromatic leaves perfect for containers, borders, or culinary use. This variety offers consistent performance with good tolerance to downy mildew and maintains its compact habit throughout the season.
Pepper
Spinning Top Piaozinho is a unique Brazilian heirloom pepper known for its distinctive conical, spinning-top shape and vibrant colors that ripen from green to red. These small, ornamental peppers are both beautiful and flavorful, with a mild to medium heat level, making them excellent for fresh eating, pickling, or adding visual appeal to gardens. The compact plants are highly productive and make attractive container specimens.
Bee Balm
Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata) is a native North American perennial with distinctive spotted, tubular flowers in shades of yellow, pink, and purple with purple-spotted bracts. This drought-tolerant variety is highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, and has aromatic foliage with medicinal properties. It thrives in well-drained soil and is more heat and drought tolerant than other bee balm varieties.
Zinnia
Spun Sugar Mix Zinnia is a charming variety producing delicate, semi-double to double flowers in soft pastel shades of pink, salmon, peach, and cream on compact 18-24 inch plants. These easy-to-grow flowers are excellent for cutting gardens and attract butterflies and pollinators throughout the summer. They are heat and drought tolerant once established, making them ideal for summer gardens.
Zinnia
Strawberry Bon Bon is a stunning zinnia variety featuring unique bicolor blooms with strawberry-pink petals tipped in creamy white, creating a frosted appearance. These compact plants grow 24-30 inches tall and produce abundant 3-4 inch double flowers that are excellent for cutting and attract butterflies. Heat and drought tolerant once established, they bloom continuously from summer through frost with minimal care.
Gomphrena
Strawberry Fields Gomphrena is a stunning annual globe amaranth that produces vibrant, lipstick-red, clover-like flower heads on sturdy 18-24" stems throughout the summer. This heat and drought-tolerant plant is exceptional for cutting gardens, providing long-lasting fresh and dried flowers, and creates spectacular mass plantings with its continuous blooms. The flowers retain their vivid scarlet color when dried, making them ideal for everlasting bouquets and arrangements.
Zinnia
Strawberry Swirl is a stunning zinnia variety featuring unique bicolor flowers with swirled patterns of pink, red, and cream that resemble strawberry ice cream. These cheerful blooms grow on sturdy stems reaching 24-36 inches tall, making them excellent for cut flower arrangements and pollinator gardens. They are heat-tolerant, disease-resistant, and bloom prolifically from summer through fall frost.
Watermelon
Strawberry Watermelon is a rare heirloom variety with small, round fruits weighing 6-12 pounds featuring a light green rind and distinctive pink-red flesh that's exceptionally sweet with a unique strawberry-like flavor. This compact variety is perfect for smaller gardens and produces reliably even in shorter growing seasons. The fruits have thin rinds and are best enjoyed fresh, making them a delightful conversation piece at summer gatherings.
Pepper
Stromboli is an F1 hybrid Italian sweet pepper that produces long, tapered, cone-shaped fruits typically 6-8 inches long. The peppers mature from green to brilliant red and are known for their sweet flavor, thick walls, and excellent productivity. This variety is popular for fresh eating, roasting, and grilling, with good disease resistance and adaptability to various growing conditions.
Marigold
Sugar and Spice is a unique bicolor marigold featuring cream and maroon petals that create a striking vanilla-and-spice color combination. This compact, bushy plant produces abundant 2-inch blooms throughout the summer and is excellent for borders, containers, and cutting gardens. Heat and drought tolerant once established, it attracts pollinators while deterring garden pests.
Melon
Sugar Dew is an heirloom honeydew-type melon with smooth, cream-colored skin and exceptionally sweet, pale green flesh. This productive variety produces 4-6 pound fruits with excellent sugar content and a smooth texture, making it a favorite for fresh eating. Plant in warm soil after all danger of frost has passed, and provide consistent moisture during fruit development.
Pepper
Sugar Rush Peach is a stunning pepper variety from Capsicum baccatum species, producing abundant elongated peach-colored fruits that ripen from green to a beautiful peachy-apricot color. These peppers offer a fruity, sweet flavor with medium heat (around 50,000-100,000 Scoville units) and are excellent fresh, dried, or in hot sauces. The prolific plants grow 3-4 feet tall and produce hundreds of peppers per plant in ideal conditions.
Yarrow
Summer Berries is a stunning hybrid yarrow cultivar featuring vibrant rose-pink to red flowers that fade to soft peachy tones, creating a beautiful multicolored display throughout summer. This drought-tolerant perennial grows 24-30 inches tall with ferny, aromatic foliage and attracts butterflies and pollinators while being deer resistant. Excellent for cut flowers, cottage gardens, and naturalizing in well-drained soils.

Craspedia
Craspedia 'Sunball', also known as Billy Buttons or Drumstick Flower, produces charming inch-wide golden spherical blossoms on tall 20+ inch silver stems, making it perfect for fresh and dried flower arrangements. Native to Australia, this low-maintenance perennial (zones 9-12) thrives as an annual in cooler climates, tolerating poor soil and drought conditions while producing attractive 2-foot silvery foliage tufts. Easy to grow and highly distinctive, Craspedia adds unique texture and long-lasting color to any cutting garden.
Tomato
Sunrise Bumblebee is a beautiful cherry tomato with oval, slightly pointed fruits featuring orange-yellow skin with pinkish-red marbling stripes. Bred by Fred Hempel at Baia Nicchia Farm as part of the Artisan Seeds Bumblebee series, this variety produces abundantly on shorter, determinate-type vines from early summer until frost. The fruits have a tropical, sweet flavor that improves as the season progresses, firm skin, and excellent disease resistance, making them perfect for home gardens and farmer's markets alike.
Celosia
Supercrest Mix is an early-flowering celosia variety producing massive, velvety crested flower heads in a stunning range of colors including pale lemon, apricot, cream, cranberry, and soft orange. This productive variety is excellent for cut flower production, providing continuous blooms throughout summer and making exceptional fresh or dried arrangements with its unique brain-like flower structure.
Herb
Sweet Annie is a fast-growing annual herb with fine, feathery foliage and a sweet, fruity fragrance. It grows 4-6 feet tall and is excellent for dried arrangements, wreaths, and crafts. This drought-tolerant herb self-sows readily and has been used traditionally for medicinal purposes, particularly in Asian medicine.
Squash
Sweet Dumpling is a delightful winter squash variety featuring small, 4-inch cream-colored fruits with distinctive green stripes and fluted edges. The sweet, tender flesh has a delicate flavor reminiscent of sweet potato and corn, making it perfect for stuffing or baking whole. This productive heirloom vine produces 6-8 fruits per plant and stores well for several months.
Tomato
Sweet Prince is a high-yielding cherry tomato bred by Row 7 Seeds, known for its exceptional sweetness and productivity. This variety produces abundant clusters of small, flavorful red cherry tomatoes on vigorous indeterminate vines that continue producing throughout the season. The tomatoes have an excellent sugar-to-acid balance making them perfect for fresh eating, salads, and snacking straight from the vine.
Pepper
Sweet White Cloud is a unique heirloom pepper variety that produces beautiful cream to white colored bell-shaped fruits with thick, sweet flesh. The peppers mature from white to pale yellow and have a mild, sweet flavor perfect for fresh eating, stuffing, or grilling. Plants are productive and grow 24-30 inches tall, producing an abundance of 3-4 inch fruits throughout the growing season.
Bachelor' Button
Bachelor's Buttons 'Tall Pink' (Centaurea cyanus) is a charming heirloom annual that produces lovely soft pink blooms on sturdy stems reaching 24-36 inches tall, making them excellent for cut flower arrangements. This easy-to-grow cottage garden favorite attracts butterflies and beneficial insects, thrives in poor to average soil, and self-seeds readily for future seasons. Direct sow seeds in early spring or fall for best results, and deadhead regularly to encourage continuous blooming throughout the growing season.
Bachelor' Button
Tall Red Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus) is a beautiful heirloom variety producing vibrant red blooms on tall stems reaching 24-36 inches. This easy-to-grow annual is excellent for cutting gardens, attracts butterflies and bees, and thrives in cooler weather. Self-sows readily and is drought-tolerant once established, making it a low-maintenance addition to cottage gardens.
Onion
Talon F1 is a hybrid storage onion producing large, firm bulbs with white flesh and attractive tan-colored skin. This variety excels in storage capability, maintaining quality for several months in proper conditions. Known for its mild flavor and excellent keeping qualities, it's ideal for gardeners seeking a reliable long-term storage onion with good disease resistance.

Lettuce
Teagan Lettuce is a stunning semi-heading lettuce variety with succulent, maroon-painted leaves that offer exceptional flavor and delightful crunch. This resilient variety is bred for both beauty and performance, making it ideal for salads and sandwiches. For best results, allow this lettuce to reach full maturity to develop its characteristic rich color and superior taste.
Snapdragon
Tetra Mix Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) is a tall, colorful variety featuring extra-large tetraploid blooms in a vibrant mix of colors including pink, red, yellow, white, and bronze. These classic cottage garden flowers grow 24-36 inches tall with sturdy stems perfect for cutting, and they attract pollinators while providing excellent vertical interest in borders and beds. They prefer cool weather and can tolerate light frost.

Squash
Tetra Squash is an innovative multipurpose delicata squash bred by Row 7 Seeds for zero-waste growing and exceptional flavor at four stages: immature fruit (50 days), young tender stems, edible blossoms, and mature squash (100 days). This variety offers continuous harvesting opportunities throughout the season, with sweet, nutty flavored mature squash featuring the classic delicata striping and creamy flesh.

Gourd
Thai Extra Long Luffa is a vigorous vining gourd that produces extremely long cylindrical fruits, often reaching 24-36 inches or more in length. When young and tender (6-12 inches), the fruits are edible and have a mild, slightly sweet flavor similar to zucchini; when mature and dried, they make excellent natural sponges and scrubbers. This heat-loving tropical plant requires a long growing season, strong trellising support, and consistent moisture to produce its impressive fruits.
Tomato
Thai Pink Egg is a unique heirloom tomato variety from Thailand that produces beautiful pink, egg-shaped fruits averaging 2-3 inches long. The plants are indeterminate and very productive, bearing clusters of sweet, meaty tomatoes with few seeds that are excellent for fresh eating, salads, and cooking. This variety is heat-tolerant and performs well in hot, humid climates.
Dill
Thalia Dill is a compact, dwarf dill variety that grows 18-24 inches tall, making it ideal for container gardening and small spaces. This European variety produces abundant dark blue-green foliage with excellent flavor for both fresh and dried use. It's slower to bolt than standard dill varieties, providing a longer harvest window for fresh leaves.
Cabbage
Tiara is an early-maturing F1 hybrid cabbage that produces compact, uniform heads ideal for small gardens and market growers. This variety features excellent holding ability in the field and resistance to splitting, making it reliable for consistent harvests. The dense, round heads typically weigh 2-3 pounds and have good interior quality with minimal waste.

Melon
Tigger melon is a stunning heirloom variety featuring distinctive golden fruit with rusty-red tiger-like striping. Each fragrant, baseball-sized melon weighs about 1 pound with white flesh that offers rich, balanced melon flavor without excessive sweetness. The large, sprawling vines are prolific producers, making this an excellent choice for gardeners seeking both visual appeal and heavy yields of single-serving melons.
Tomato
Tiny Tim is a compact dwarf tomato variety perfect for containers and small spaces, growing only 12-18 inches tall. This heirloom produces abundant clusters of cherry-sized, bright red tomatoes that are sweet and flavorful. Ideal for patios, balconies, and windowsills, it requires no staking and produces continuously throughout the growing season.
Nasturtium
Tip Top Alaska Salmon is a compact, bushy nasturtium variety featuring beautiful salmon-pink blooms above variegated cream and green marbled foliage. This dwarf variety grows 8-10 inches tall, making it perfect for containers, borders, and edging. Both the flowers and leaves are edible with a peppery flavor, excellent for salads and garnishes.
Nasturtium
Tip Top Pink Blush is a stunning nasturtium variety featuring unique soft peachy-pink blooms with delicate coloring that adds a romantic touch to gardens. This compact, bushy variety grows 10-12 inches tall and produces edible flowers and leaves with a peppery flavor perfect for salads and garnishes. Easy to grow and drought-tolerant once established, it thrives in poor to average soil and blooms prolifically from summer through fall frost.
Impatiens
Tom Thumb Impatiens is a compact, dwarf variety of Impatiens walleriana that produces abundant colorful blooms throughout the summer until frost. This low-growing annual reaches only 6-8 inches tall, making it perfect for edging, containers, and small garden spaces. It thrives in shade to partial shade and requires consistent moisture to maintain continuous flowering in areas with hot summers.
Tomatillo
Toma Verde is a highly productive open-pollinated tomatillo variety that produces large, 2-3 inch green fruits enclosed in papery husks. The fruits are ready to harvest when they fill out the husk and have a tangy, citrus-like flavor perfect for salsa verde and Mexican cuisine. Plants grow 3-4 feet tall and require staking; plant at least two for cross-pollination to ensure good fruit set.
Melon
Tommy Apple Melon is a unique heirloom variety from the Ozark Mountains producing small, 4-6 inch round fruits with pale yellow skin and crisp, white flesh that tastes similar to a combination of melon and apple. The fruits are highly fragrant and aromatic, perfect for fresh eating, and the vines are productive throughout the season. This variety is well-suited to shorter growing seasons and performs reliably in various climates.
Calendula
Touch of Red Mix is a stunning calendula variety featuring cheerful flowers in warm shades of yellow, orange, and cream with distinctive red-burgundy undersides and backs to the petals. This easy-to-grow annual is perfect for cottage gardens, attracts beneficial insects, and the edible flowers can be used fresh in salads or dried for teas. Calendula thrives in cool weather and deadheading encourages continuous blooming.
Lettuce
Valmaine is a classic open-pollinated Romaine (Cos) lettuce known for its tall, upright growth habit and dark green, crisp leaves. This reliable variety produces uniform heads with excellent flavor and texture, making it ideal for Caesar salads and other culinary uses. It shows good heat tolerance and resistance to tipburn, performing well in both spring and fall plantings.
Cosmos
Vanilla Popsock Cosmos is a unique heirloom variety producing creamy white to pale vanilla-colored blooms with delicate, feathery foliage. This reliable and easy-to-grow annual flower attracts pollinators and makes excellent cut flowers, blooming profusely from summer through fall. The plant grows 3-4 feet tall and thrives in poor to average soil, making it perfect for cottage gardens and wildflower meadows.
Celosia
Variegated Celosia is a stunning ornamental variety featuring vibrant plume-like flowers in shades of red, pink, orange, and yellow, combined with attractive variegated foliage that adds multi-colored interest to the garden. This heat-loving annual thrives in warm weather and makes an excellent cut flower with long-lasting blooms. The plant is drought-tolerant once established and attracts butterflies while being relatively pest-free.
Tomatillo
Verde Tomatillo is a classic Mexican heirloom that produces tangy, green fruits enclosed in papery husks, essential for authentic salsa verde. Plants are vigorous and productive, growing 3-4 feet tall and requiring at least two plants for cross-pollination. Fruits are ready when they fill out their husks and the husks begin to split.
Celosia
Vintage Rose Plume Celosia produces stunning feathery plumes in soft vintage rose-pink tones, making it an exceptional cut flower and garden specimen. This plume-type celosia grows 3-4 feet tall with strong stems perfect for bouquets, and the flowers retain their color beautifully when dried. Heat-loving and drought-tolerant once established, it blooms continuously from summer through frost.

Strawflower
Vintage White Strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) is a tall, well-branched annual that produces profuse pure white, double flowers 2-2.5 inches across. Excellent for both fresh cut flower arrangements and dried flowers, as the papery bracts retain their color and shape beautifully when dried. These heat-tolerant plants are prolific bloomers throughout the summer and make exceptional everlasting flowers.

Peppers
Violet Sparkle is a stunning compact sweet pepper variety ideal for short, cool seasons. The 4-inch chartreuse fruits transform through a beautiful color progression, blushing burgundy-lavender before ripening to red. With thick, succulent flesh and exceptional sweetness, these peppers are versatile for fresh eating, grilling, sautéing, pickling, and stuffing, producing continuously from midsummer to frost.

Pepper
Violet Sparkle is a stunning ornamental and edible pepper variety featuring deep purple foliage, purple flowers, and small conical fruits that ripen from purple to red. The compact plants reach 12-18 inches tall and are highly decorative, making them perfect for containers or garden borders. The peppers have a mild heat level and the striking purple coloration makes them a favorite for both culinary and ornamental purposes.
Lettuce
Vulcan is a red oak leaf lettuce hybrid known for its excellent heat tolerance and disease resistance. This variety produces attractive, deeply lobed red-bronze leaves with good texture and mild flavor. It's particularly valued for its ability to maintain quality in warm weather without bolting quickly, making it ideal for extended spring and summer harvests.
Oregano
Oregano Vulgare (Origanum vulgare) is the classic Greek or common oregano, a hardy perennial herb with aromatic leaves prized for Mediterranean cuisine. This vigorous plant grows 12-24 inches tall with small white or pink flowers that attract pollinators, and thrives in well-drained soil with minimal care once established. Highly drought-tolerant and deer-resistant, it's an excellent choice for herb gardens, containers, and borders.

Fennel
Wadenroman is a traditional European heirloom fennel variety known for producing medium-sized, flavorful bulbs with a sweet, anise-like flavor. This open-pollinated variety is excellent for both the bulb and foliage, which can be used fresh in salads or cooked. It performs best in cool weather and benefits from consistent moisture and rich, well-drained soil.

Broccoli
Waltham 29 is a cold-hardy, open-pollinated broccoli variety developed at Waltham Field Station in Massachusetts. It produces large, blue-green heads 4-8 inches across with excellent side shoot production after the main head is harvested. This reliable heirloom performs well in cool weather and is known for its tolerance to frost, making it ideal for fall and overwintering crops.
Squash
Warsaw Pasta is a rare Polish heirloom winter squash that produces elongated, buff-colored fruits weighing 8-12 pounds. The flesh is sweet, dense, and stringy when cooked, making it perfect for use as a spaghetti squash alternative or in traditional Polish pasta dishes. This productive variety stores exceptionally well through winter and has excellent disease resistance.
Cucumber
West Indian Burr Gherkin (Cucumis anguria) is a unique, spiny cucumber relative that produces small, oval fruits covered in soft spines. The fruits are typically 1-2 inches long and are best harvested when young and tender for pickling or fresh eating. This vigorous, sprawling vine is heat and drought tolerant, making it an excellent choice for warm climates and a reliable producer throughout the summer.
Celosia
Wheat Mix Celosia (Celosia spicata) produces elegant, wheat-like plumes in a mix of colors including pink, purple, cream, and gold. This heat and drought-tolerant annual grows 3-4 feet tall with upright spikes that make excellent cut flowers and dry beautifully for arrangements. Prefers well-drained soil and thrives in hot summer conditions with minimal care once established.
Nasturtium
Whirlybird Gold is a compact, semi-trailing nasturtium variety with bright golden-yellow spurless flowers that sit upright above rounded blue-green foliage. This hardy annual blooms prolifically throughout summer, attracting pollinators and hummingbirds while also serving as an edible ornamental—both flowers and leaves have a peppery flavor perfect for salads. It thrives in poor to average soil and is relatively drought-tolerant once established.
Nasturtium
Whirlybird Rose is a popular hybrid nasturtium featuring spurless, rose-pink flowers that face upward for maximum visual impact. This compact, semi-trailing variety grows 10-12 inches tall and produces both edible flowers and leaves with a peppery flavor, making it excellent for gardens, containers, and culinary use. The bushy plants bloom prolifically from summer through fall and are easy to grow, tolerating poor soil conditions.
Borage
White Borage is a rare variant of the traditional blue-flowered borage, producing beautiful white star-shaped flowers on vigorous, hairy plants that grow 2-3 feet tall. This edible herb attracts pollinators and beneficial insects, with cucumber-flavored leaves and flowers that are excellent for salads, drinks, and garnishes. It self-seeds readily and is drought-tolerant once established, making it a valuable companion plant in the garden.
Zinnia
White Gigantica Zinnia is a stunning heirloom variety producing large, fully double white blooms that can reach 4-5 inches across on plants growing 3-4 feet tall. These long-lasting flowers are excellent for cutting gardens and make dramatic focal points in borders, attracting butterflies and other pollinators. The vigorous plants are heat and drought tolerant once established, thriving in hot summer conditions and blooming prolifically from mid-summer until frost.
Kale
White Russian Kale is a beautiful heirloom variety with distinctive red-purple stems and veins contrasting against gray-green leaves. This cold-hardy kale is known for its tender, sweet flavor that improves after frost, making it an excellent choice for fall and winter gardens. The leaves are frilly and attractive, and can be harvested continuously throughout the growing season.
Echinacea
White Swan Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan') is a stunning white-flowered coneflower with drooping white petals surrounding an orange-bronze central cone. This drought-tolerant perennial grows 24-36 inches tall, blooms from mid-summer to fall, and attracts butterflies and pollinators while being deer-resistant. Excellent for cut flowers and naturalizing in meadow gardens.
Cucumber
White Wonder is an heirloom cucumber variety dating back to 1893, producing creamy-white skinned fruits that are 6-8 inches long with crisp, mild-flavored flesh. The unusual ivory color remains even when fully mature, making it easy to spot among the foliage. This variety is excellent for fresh eating and pickling, and performs well in hot weather conditions.

Herb
Feverfew 'White Wonder' is a tender perennial herb native to Eurasia, producing abundant daisy-like white flowers with yellow centers atop deep-green aromatic foliage. Growing 24-30 inches tall, this medicinal herb has been used since ancient times to treat inflammation and headaches, and makes an excellent addition to cottage gardens and medicinal herb gardens. The flowers are long-lasting in cut arrangements and the plant self-sows readily in favorable conditions.
Yarrow
White Yarrow is a hardy perennial herb with feathery, fern-like foliage and flat-topped clusters of small white flowers that bloom throughout summer. This drought-tolerant plant is excellent for xeriscaping, attracts beneficial insects and pollinators, and has been used medicinally for centuries. It naturalizes easily and makes an excellent addition to wildflower gardens, borders, and meadows.

Oregano
Wild Zaatar (Origanum syriacum) is a traditional Middle Eastern oregano variety with a bold, complex flavor used in the famous za'atar spice blend. This aromatic perennial herb has fuzzy gray-green leaves and white to pink flowers that attract pollinators. It thrives in hot, dry conditions and is drought-tolerant once established, making it ideal for Mediterranean-style gardens and containers.
Tomato
Wine Jug is a striking heirloom tomato developed by Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms, featuring unique purple/black, pear-shaped fruits weighing 3-9 oz with distinctive bronze streaks and spots. This productive variety offers rich, full tomato flavor and is highly versatile for fresh eating, salads, pastes, and sauces. The fruits are crack-resistant and store well, making them an excellent choice for both home gardeners and market growers.

Ammobium
Ammobium alatum 'Winged Everlasting' is a charming heirloom flower featuring distinctive winged stems of bright green that emerge from a low rosette and curve gracefully upward. Small papery white bracts surround golden centers, with each flower remaining attractive for 1-2 weeks and attracting bees throughout summer. This everlasting flower is excellent for fresh or dried arrangements and thrives in fertile, well-drained soils, though it adapts well to various loam conditions.
Tomato
Wooly Kate Yellow is a rare blue woolly tomato variety developed from L. hirsutum genetics, featuring fuzzy branches and fruits (like peach fuzz) with natural pest and disease resistance. This indeterminate, regular leaf plant produces abundant crops of 1-1.5 inch cocktail-sized round fruits with distinctive blue/purple shoulders and a balanced tart-sweet flavor. Exceptionally well-suited for hot, humid climates like Hawaii, making it ideal for challenging growing conditions where other tomatoes struggle.
Tomato
This rare South American heirloom tomato, also known as "Spoon Tomato," produces extraordinarily vigorous vines with huge branches that yield thousands of tiny 1/4" to 3/8" red currant tomatoes. The fruits are fruity-sweet with a slight tartness, perfect for fresh snacking, adding to salads, or using as edible garnishes in culinary dishes. Despite their miniature size, these prolific plants deliver outstanding flavor and decorative appeal.

Cosmos
Cosmos 'Xsenia' is a stunning 2018 Fleuroselect Novelty Award winner featuring unique multicolored blooms with rose-colored edges and centers, terracotta orange mid-petals that fade to warm antique rose as they mature. This compact variety grows 24-28" tall with tightly packed 2.5" single flowers perfect for short bouquets (10-14" stems). More compact than traditional cut-flower cosmos, it produces abundant blooms and benefits from pinching when seedlings reach 8-10" tall to encourage branching and more stems.
Pepper
The Yellow Brazilian Starfish is a unique and striking heirloom pepper from Brazil featuring unusual ribbed, flattened fruits that resemble a starfish when viewed from the stem end. The peppers ripen from green to bright yellow and have a mild, sweet flavor with fruity undertones, making them excellent for fresh eating, stuffing, or pickling. Plants are productive and ornamental, reaching 3-4 feet tall with abundant colorful fruits.
Pepper
The Yellow Lemon Drop (Aji Limon) is a Peruvian heirloom pepper known for its bright yellow, teardrop-shaped fruits and distinctive citrusy, lemony flavor with medium heat (15,000-30,000 Scoville units). These prolific plants grow 3-4 feet tall and produce abundant thin-walled peppers perfect for hot sauces, salsas, and fresh eating. The peppers mature from green to bright yellow and are best harvested when fully colored for optimal flavor.
Tomato
Yellow Pear is an extremely old heirloom tomato variety that produces abundant, tiny pear-shaped yellow fruits with a deliciously tangy flavor. This vigorous indeterminate plant grows fairly tall and requires staking or caging for support. The prolific tomatoes are rich in vitamins and perfect for salads, garnishes, and preserves, adding both flavor and a pop of bright color to any dish.
Celosia
Yellow Queen Celosia is a stunning heirloom variety producing bright golden-yellow plumed flower heads that resemble flames or feathers. This heat-loving annual grows 2-3 feet tall and makes excellent cut flowers that can be dried for long-lasting arrangements. The vibrant blooms attract butterflies and pollinators while providing continuous color from summer through fall.
Pepper
Yellow Rocoto is a rare heirloom pepper from the Capsicum pubescens species, native to the Andes mountains. These unique peppers have distinctive black seeds (unlike most peppers), thick walls, and a fruity, citrus-like heat ranging from 30,000-100,000 Scoville units. The plants prefer cooler temperatures than typical peppers and feature fuzzy leaves, making them ideal for temperate climates and high-altitude growing.
Toothache Plant
Yellow Toothache Plant (Acmella oleracea) produces stunning canary-yellow flowers with a unique numbing sensation when chewed, traditionally used for dental pain relief. These compact, stocky plants are highly productive and produce a profusion of bright yellow button-shaped flowers throughout the growing season. The flowers retain their potent numbing properties when dried or made into tinctures, making them excellent for medicinal use and culinary experimentation.
Pepper
Yolo Wonder is a classic heirloom sweet bell pepper that produces large, blocky 4-lobed fruits that ripen from green to red. Developed in California in the 1940s, this variety is known for its disease resistance, particularly to tobacco mosaic virus, and reliable production in warm climates. The thick-walled peppers have excellent sweet flavor and are perfect for fresh eating, stuffing, or roasting.
Zinnia
Zinderlla Lilac is a premium hybrid zinnia featuring large, fully double dahlia-type blooms in a soft lilac-purple color. This variety produces strong, long stems (24-36 inches) making it excellent for cut flower production and garden displays. Known for exceptional disease resistance and prolific blooming throughout summer until frost.

Daisy
Zulu Prince Daisy produces dramatic 2-3 inch flowers with striking jet-black centers surrounded by white petals featuring distinctive rings of orange and purple. This South African native forms a compact mound of grayish-green hairy foliage and thrives in hot, dry conditions. Extremely heat and drought tolerant, it's an easy-to-grow annual that performs best when started as transplants and planted out after frost danger has passed.