(Creeping Cucumber, Drooping Melonette)

A fast-growing vine with small, ivy-like leaves and curly tendrils, the creeping cucumber or drooping melonette produces very small fruits that look like jelly bean-size watermelons. This perennial deciduous vine (although evergreen where frost never occurs) is native from the southern half of the United States to northern Argentina. The weedy vines will ramble across the soil like a groundcover, or quickly climb upward on a trellis, fence, shrub or tree.

The plants are frost-tender and need...

(Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber, Mouse Melon)

Widely grown and eaten across Central America before the arrive of Christopher Columbus, mouse melons are an intriguing New World "cucumber" with miniature, tasty and ornamental fruits. They are small, 1-inch (2.5 cm) ovals: about the size of pigeon eggs, cherry tomatoes or American quarter coins. The fruit skin is deep green and silvery-green mottled, resembling Liliputian-size watermelons. Perfect for fresh snacking, adding to salads or pickling, mouse melons have a sweet cucumber-like taste that...

(Pennyroyal)

This aromatic member of the mint family has long been known as fleabane because the its oils repel these age-old pests. It is a species native to the Old World from Europe to Iran where it grows in a wide range of conditions. It is a low-growing, spreading perennial with soft light-green leaves that are slightly hairy and serrated. When crushed they emit a peppermint-like fragrance. The plant is vigorous and once established may naturalize where conditions are right.

Pennyroyal blooms in summer...

(Peppermint)

European in origin, peppermint is probably the best known of all herbs. Its smell and flavor permeates our world; it is in our toothpaste, mouthwash, gum, tea, candy and pairs particularly well with chocolate. Peppermint has been with us for a long time. Its leaves were used for food and medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

The clump-forming herbaceous perennial is an aggressive plant that spreads quickly by underground creeping stems called rhizomes. So, plant it only where you want it...

(Lavender Mint, Peppermint)

European in origin, peppermint is probably the best known of all herbs. Its smell and flavor permeates our world; it is in our toothpaste, mouthwash, gum, tea, candy and pairs particularly well with chocolate. Peppermint has been with us for a long time. Its leaves were used for food and medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

The clump-forming herbaceous perennial is an aggressive plant that spreads quickly by underground creeping stems called rhizomes. So, plant it only where you want it...

(Magic Mix Monkey-flower, Monkey-flower)

The Magic monkeyflower hybrids offer an enormous range of color and large flower size for exceptional summer bedding plants. The monkeyflowers are a large group with many species native to the west coast of North America. These wildflowers, though finicky and often short lived in cultivation have proven quite garden worthy and have yielded this exquisite series of hybrids. The primary parents are the Pacific Coast Mimulus guttatus and a Chilean native, Mimulus luteus. This small...

(Monkey-flower)

Extensive Dutch breeding to increase flower size and color intensity while promoting a more compact habit has yielded the Bounty hybrid monkeyflowers. These are lovely large flowered tender perennial bedding plants typically grown in pots. The monkeyflower genus is composed of many species native to the west coast of North America. These perennial wildflowers, though finicky and often short lived in cultivation have proven quite garden worthy. Their primary parents are the Pacific Coast Mimulus...