(Cilantro, Coriander, Slow Bolt Cilantro)

Cilantro / coriander is an annual or biennial herb native to Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. It is related to and resembles parsley but is often grown for its aromatic seeds which are used as culinary spice in Eastern World cuisine. Interestingly enough, the leaves are used in Latin American cuisine and called cilantro.

Slow-bolt cilantro, is just as its name suggests: that it goes to seed more slowly, allowing more time to harvest an enjoy the leaves.

Cilantro prefers a fertile well...

(Ivory Halo® Dogwood, Tatarian Dogwood)

A selection of Tatarian dogwood, which is native from northern Russia to Korea, ‘Bailhalo’ is prized for its leaves outlined with white, the bright red color of its stems and branches in winter, and its year-round toughness. It is a multi-stemmed, spreading, compact, deciduous shrub with clusters of small white flowers in spring followed by clusters of small white fruits, often tinged blue. It has dark green tapered leaves that turn red or orange in autumn. Though this northern species may scorch...

(Alternate-leaved Dogwood, Variegated Pagoda Dogwood)

With a handsomely structured, tiered branching habit, variegated pagoda dogwood is also well-known for its clusters of tiny white flowers that yield purple fruits on pink-red stalks upon its cream and green foliage. A deciduous very small tree or often multistemmed large shrub, it hails from eastern North America from New Brunswick and Minnesota southward to Alabama. With a smooth gray trunk, it has much showier deep purple-brown young twigs and branches.

The glossy leaves are rounded oval with...

(Flowering Dogwood, Pygmy Flowering Dogwood)

Pygmy flowering dogwood is a true harbinger of spring. A tree native to eastern North America, this dwarf selection has an elegant spreading canopy. In mid-spring it presents small clusters of green flowers surrounded by four large creamy white bracts. These are followed by clusters of bright red berry-like fruits, which are eaten by birds. The green leaves of this fine ornamental turn purple-red in fall.

Though shade tolerant, flowering dogwood looks best when grown in a full to part sun and...

(Arctic Sun™ Dogwood, Bloodtwig Dogwood)

The Arctic Sun™ bloodtwig dogwood is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub with upright yellow branches with intense red blush. Tri-colored winter twigs of gold, orange and red are the highlight of the exceptional bloodtwig dogwood, 'Winter Flame.' New growth is most brightly colored. Vibrant yellow and orange fall foliage color is an added bonus. This moderately compact cultivar was hybridized by noted Cornus breeder, Andre van Nijnatten of Zundert, Netherlands.

Bloodtwig dogwood is European...

(Hollow Wort)

Eurasian in origin, this low herbaceous perennial has dainty leaves and showy pink, purple, red, white, or yellow flowers that light up the shade garden in spring. The conical clusters of two-lipped, long-spurred flowers are borne atop one to several compact stems that arise from a large hollow perennial tuber in early or mid-spring. Ferny, deeply cleft, compound leaves clothe the lower reaches of the stems. A few forms have shallowly lobed leaflets. The flowers give rise to elongated capsules filled...

(Blue Corydalis, Blue Fumewort)

Hauntingly beautiful in flower but often balky in cultivation, this hardy herbaceous perennial comes from high altitudes in central Sichuan. Growing from a network of scaly rhizomes, it forms clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by conical clusters of 10 to 20 pale- to dark-blue flowers. The two-lipped, long-spurred, fragrant flowers appear through much of spring. The green to blue-green leaves sometimes have red blotches. Plants go dormant in the heat of summer and push up new leaves in...

(Blue Corydalis, Blue Fumewort, Blue Panda Corydalis)

Hauntingly beautiful in flower but often balky in cultivation, Corydalis flexuosa is an herbaceous perennial from high altitudes in central Sichuan. The cultivar 'Blue Panda' has sky-blue flowers with curved spurs. Growing from a network of scaly rhizomes, it forms non-running clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by conical clusters of 10 to 20 flowers. The two-lipped, long-spurred, fragrant flowers appear through much of spring. The blue-green leaves are unmarked. Plants go dormant...

(Blue Corydalis, Blue Fumewort, China Blue Fumewort)

Hauntingly beautiful in flower but often balky in cultivation, Corydalis flexuosa is an herbaceous perennial from high altitudes in central Sichuan. The cultivar 'China Blue' has luminous greenish-blue to sky-blue flowers. Growing from a network of scaly rhizomes, it forms spreading clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by conical clusters of 10 to 20 flowers. The two-lipped, long-spurred, fragrant flowers appear through much of spring. The bright green leaves have a red central...

(Blue Fumewort, Golden Panda Fumewort)

Hauntingly beautiful in flower but often balky in cultivation, Corydalis flexuosa is an herbaceous perennial from high altitudes in central Sichuan. A mutation of 'Blue Panda,' 'Golden Panda' has sky-blue flowers and yellow-suffused foliage. Growing from a network of scaly rhizomes, it forms non-running clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by conical clusters of 10 to 20 flowers. The two-lipped, long-spurred, fragrant flowers appear through much of spring. The leaves emerge yellowish...