(Broccoli)

Relatively early and heat-resistant, the broccoli variety 'Windsor' is an excellent choice for the garden. Typically grown as an annual, broccoli is a cool season vegetable that traces its ancestry to Brassica oleracea, a fleshy-leaved, short-lived perennial from coastal areas of western and southern Europe. It is grown for its fleshy heads of flower buds, which are harvested and eaten before the flowers open.

Approximately 75 days after sowing, 'Windsor' produces a large central head...

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. Selected in 1985 by the University of Minnesota, Itasca® bears early-ripening strawberries on exceptionally cold-hardy, disease-resistant plants. This "June-bearing" strawberry was developed from a 1983 cross between 'Seneca' and 'Allstar'.

Like most garden strawberries, Itasca® spreads by runners to form expanding mats of three-lobed leaves. Plants bear round white five-petaled flowers in spring that develop...

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. The cultivar 'Northeaster' produces flavorful, early-ripening, bright red berries on vigorous, disease-resistant plants. This "June-bearing" strawberry was developed from a 1974 cross made at the USDA Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland.

Like most garden strawberries, 'Northeaster' spreads by runners to form expanding mats of three-lobed leaves. Plants bear round white five-petaled flowers...

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. The "June-bearing" variety 'Cavendish' produces heavy yields of large, mildly flavored, dark-red berries in late spring and early summer, midway in the spring strawberry season. This hybrid of 'Glooscap' and 'Annapolis' was introduced in 1990 by Canada's AAFC Research Center in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

Like most garden strawberries, 'Cavendish' spreads by runners to form expanding mats of three-lobed leaves....

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are low-growing hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. Introduced in 1981 by the University of Maryland, 'Allstar' bears mild-flavored fruits midway through the spring strawberry season.

Garden strawberries vary greatly in the size and flavor of their fruits, but all bear three-lobed leaves and most form offsets via trailing stems known as stolons. This cultivar produces numerous stolons and offsets. The round white five-petaled flowers appear in mid-spring,...

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. The cultivar 'Sparkle' ripens its flavorful, soft-fleshed, medium-red berries in late spring and early summer, toward the end of the spring strawberry season. Introduced in 1942, this exceptionally cold-hardy "June-bearing" variety is still a backyard and farm-stand favorite in eastern Canada and the Northeast United States.

Like most garden strawberries, 'Sparkle' spreads by runners to form expanding mats of...

(Garden Strawberry, Strawberry)

Garden strawberries are low-growing hybrid perennials prized for their sweet, aromatic red fruit. A 1998 introduction from Canada's Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, 'Cabot' bears large flavorful fruits midway through the spring strawberry season on exceptionally cold-hardy plants.

This cultivar bears three-lobed leaves in clumps that form offsets via trailing stolons. The round white five-petaled flowers appear in mid-spring, followed by the cone-shaped fruits.

A reliable performer...

(Kohlrabi)

The dusty purple bulbs of 'Kolibri' kohlrabi are sweet and resist turning woody with age. The internal flesh of the medium-sized bulbs is crisp and lacks fibers. Bulbs mature quickly and are ready to harvest only 45 days after planting from transplants. This is an ideal kohlrabi for market because it's both beautiful and delicious. Plant when weather is cool, in spring, fall or winter where winters are mild and frost-free.

Grown for its sweet, crunchy, bulbous stems, kohlrabi is one of many...

(Groundcover Rose)

This subdued rose offers clusters of semi-double, soft pinkish amber yellow blooms that are soft red in bud. Derived from European hybrids, this fine selection was bred in Gutersloh, Germany by famed rose hybridizer Noack Rosen and introduced by Anthony Tesselaar International. Flower Carpet™ roses are tough, everblooming and have a low, spreading habit, so they are perfect for home gardens as well as larger public landscapes.

Fantastic disease resistance and excellent performance has skyrocketed...

(Herbaceous Peony)

This American Peony Society gold-medal winner bears large, pearly-pink, double blooms on medium-tall stems in late spring, midway through the peony season. It is one of hundreds of cultivars of Paeonia lactiflora, a large, bushy, tuberous perennial from East Asia that has been cultivated and treasured for thousands of years.

The highly fragrant, luminous pale-pink blooms of this 1943 introduction resemble an immense English rose. The flowers mature to ivory-white. Bees, ants, and the...