(Route 66 Coreopsis, Threadleaf Coreopsis, Threadleaf Tickseed)

This popular perennial is widely planted for a reason; it's easy to grow, colorful and draws many pollinators to the garden. Threadleaf tickseed is a clump-forming plant that slowly spreads by rhizomes. It is native to eastern North America and has very fine, threadlike foliage of medium green. Throughout summer, it puts forth many daisies of golden yellow that draw butterflies.

This sun-loving, heat-tolerant, hardy perennial prefers well drained, average soil. Threadleaf tickseed will continue...

(Threadleaf Coreopsis, Threadleaf Tickseed, Zagreb Threadleaf Coreopsis)

This popular perennial is widely planted for a reason; it's easy to grow, colorful and draws many pollinators to the garden.

Zagreb threadleaf coreopsis is a clump-forming plant that slowly spreads by rhizomes. It is native to eastern North America and has very fine, threadlike foliage of medium green. Throughout summer, it puts forth many daisies of rich gold that draw bees and butterflies. Plants will continue blooming into fall if occasionally sheared back to remove spent flowers.

Sun-loving,...

(Cilantro, Coriander)

A fast-growing annual from the eastern Mediterranean, cilantro (or coriander) is used as both an herb and spice. It has long been favored as a culinary plant throughout Eurasia and is now a vital flavor in Latin American cuisines. Its leaves have a strong taste that people either love or hate. Some believe this is attributable to the sensitivity of a person’s taste buds. “Supertasters” tend to dislike cilantro while coriander is generally liked by most.

Typically sown in spring, this herb forms...

(Cilantro, Coriander)

This annual from the eastern Mediterranean is used as an herb, spice, and medicinal plant. Growing rapidly from a spring sowing, 'Delfino' forms a clump of pungent lobed dill-like leaves (cilantro) that add zest to soups, salads, beans, and other foods. Leaves are ready for harvest seven to eight weeks after sowing. Flat clusters of pinkish-white flowers appear on branching ferny-leaved stems in summer, followed by spherical ribbed fruits. The fragrant fruits (known as coriander seeds) are used ground...

(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...

(Aurora® Dogwood, Dogwood)

An upright, small, deciduous tree, Aurora® dogwood is one of a series of sterile Rutgers hybrids that are crosses between the North American native Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) and the Asian Cornus kousa (Korean dogwood). As with all of the Rutgers hybrids, it is notable for its floriferous nature and large, white, bracted flowers that appear in late spring, after those of the native flowering dogwood. This selection is markedly resistant to anthracnose and dogwood borer....

(Celestial® Dogwood, Dogwood)

A profusely flowering, small deciduous tree, ‘Rutdan’ is a hybrid dogwood that combines the best features of its parents: hardiness, resistance to diseases and pests, and eye-catching white flowers. It is one of several dogwoods in the Stellar Series, bred at Rutgers University by crossing the American-native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) with the kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), a native of Korea and Japan. The "flowers" are composed of four almost-touching white bracts (petal-like...

(Dogwood, Stellar Pink® Dogwood)

An upright, small, deciduous tree, Stellar Pink® dogwood is one of a series of sterile Rutgers hybrids that are crosses between the North American native Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) and the Asian Cornus kousa (Korean dogwood). As with all of the Rutgers hybrids, it is notable for its floriferous nature and large, pale-pink bracts that appear in late spring, after those of the native flowering dogwood. This selection is markedly resistant to anthracnose and dogwood borer....

(Tatarian Dogwood)

Tatarian dogwood is broad, bushy shrub with upright to arching branches. This native of northern China, Siberia and Korea is very hardy in the northern part of its range but may suffer from leaf scorch in its southernmost range if planted in full sun. Its most ornamental characteristic is its red-green stems that turn blood red in winter. In the summer, flattened cymes of yellow-green flowers appear followed by small, white to blue, berry-like fruits. Top pruning or shearing is not recommended as...

(Golden Prairie Fire Dogwood, Tatarian Dogwood)

A selection of Tatarian dogwood, native from northern Russia to Korea, ‘Aurea’ is prized for the glowing chartreuse-gold color of its leaves and the bright red color of its stems and branches in winter. It is a multi-stemmed, spreading, 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 in hot climates, it has some tolerance...