(Carrot, Romeo Carrot)

The roots of ‘Romeo’ are miniature and bulbous. Though cute, they are not the sweetest carrots. Instead they tend to be starchy, especially if grown in hotter weather. They mature in 55 days, so they are fast-growing and early. Sometimes they are called 'Round Romeo.' Grow short-rooted cultivars like this were soils are shallow.

The cultivated carrot is a hardy, herbaceous, biennial of European and Asian origin. It is grown for its crisp, sweet, tasty tap roots. Often called Daucus carota...

(Carrot, Scarlet Nantes Carrot)

This French heirloom variety yields cylindrical, blunt-tipped, bright orange carrots that are renowned for their sweet, crisp, nearly coreless flesh. It is also known as 'Early Coreless'. Plants grow from seed to maturity in about 70 days, or they can be harvested earlier for "baby carrots."

The cultivated carrot is a hardy herbaceous biennial of Eurasian and North African origin. It is grown for its crisp, sweet, tasty taproot. If its roots are not harvested, it produces lacy, white, umbrella-shaped...

(Carrot, St. Valery Carrot)

This heirloom variety yields long, thick carrots that are renowned for their robust flavor. The bright, medium red-orange carrots are fine-grained, sweet, and small-cored. Plants grow from seed to maturity in 70 to 90 days, or they can be harvested earlier for "baby carrots." Sometimes going by the name 'James Scarlet', 'Saint Valery' orginated in France before 1885.

The cultivated carrot is a hardy herbaceous biennial of Eurasian and North African origin. It is grown for its crisp, sweet, tasty...

(Carrot, Thumbelina Carrot)

The roots of ‘Thumbelina’ are miniature and perfectly round. The cute carrots are sweet, crunchy and perfect for children to grow. They mature in 60 days, so they are fast-growing and early. Grow short-rooted cultivars like this were soils are shallow.

The cultivated carrot is a hardy, herbaceous, biennial of European and Asian origin. It is grown for its crisp, sweet, tasty tap roots. Often called Daucus carota ssp. sativus, it is a biennial but rarely gets the chance to flower...

(Rabbit's Foot Fern)

Deriving their common name from their fuzzy creeping rhizomes, these evergreen or semi-evergreen ferns are found throughout the Old World tropics. Many are epiphytic or lithophytic, forming large clumps on trees or rocks. The lacy, glossy, often triangular fronds vary widely in size. Popular hare's-foot ferns include the rabbit’s-foot (Davallia fejeensis), with relatively tall, finely divided fronds; deer’s-foot fern (Davallia canariensis), with downy brown rhizomes and knee-high,...

(Rabbit's Foot Fern)

Given their common name for their fuzzy creeping rhizomes (ground-level stems), hare’s-foot ferns are evergreen or semi-evergreen perennials found throughout the Asian tropics. Many are epiphytic or lithophytic, forming large clumps on trees or rocks. This species, Davallia sinensis has the typical much-divided, soft fronds, gathered in a nodding clump.

In frost-free areas, give it bright shade and moist, highly organic, well-drained soil. Like most Hare's-foot ferns, it is an excellent...

(Squirrel's Foot Fern)

Squirrel's foot fern is a finely textured evergreen fern with green fronds growing from attractive fuzzy, red-brown creeping rhizomes.

Grow this fern in average to fertile, moist but well-drained soil with humus in shade or part shade. Since the rhizomes are so interesting and textural, an excellent application is in a large hanging basket or growing on a tree trunk at eye level. Be careful not to overwater or allow soil to become bone dry, as both will lead to leaf drop.

(White Rabbit's Foot Fern)

This evergreen to semi-evergreen fern derives its common name from its fuzzy exposed rhizomes (creeping stems), which anchor it to trees and rocks in its native Indochina.

The leathery, dark green, narrowly triangular fronds of this tender fern arise from a slowly expanding network of silver-furred rhizomes. The upright to arching, pinnately compound (feather-shaped) fronds have about a dozen pinnate segments.

This fern likes bright shade, high humidity, even moisture, and frost-free temperatures,...

(Dovetree)

Large white flower bracts flutter from the branches of this medium-sized deciduous tree in spring, suggesting a flock of doves. Davidia involucrata is native to forests of central and western China.

The rather large, heart-shaped leaves of this hardy tree are bright green with fuzzy undersides. The leaves of variety vilmoriniana have little or no fuzz. Small, spherical, brush-like flower clusters nestle between pairs of drooping, porcelain-white, leaf-shaped bracts in mid to...

(African Ivy, Cape Ivy, Climbing Groundsel, German Ivy)

Lustrous, angular leaves that grow from sprawling and twining burgundy-violet stems makes the cape ivy alluring year round. However, the rampant growth rate, rooting stems and high production of seeds usually finds this perennial vine from South Africa considered a noxious environmental weed. Cape ivy has been naturalized across various continents, especially in Mediterranean climates throughout coastal forests.

The leaves are rounded with six large blunt lobes or massive teeth, always mimicking...