(Potato, Yellow Finn Potato, Yellow Potato)

Naturally sweet and deliciously buttery in flavor, 'Yellow Finn' is renowned across Europe as a gourmet potato. It is a scab-resistant, midseason-maturing potato that produces stubby pear-shaped tubers with yellowish tan skins and light yellow flesh. Tubers are ready for harvest 80 to 100 days after planting. Compared to other potato varieties, 'Yellow Finn' plants spread their stems out over a much broader area.

Potatoes are tender perennials widely cultivated as seasonal annual crops. They...

(Potato, Yellow Potato, Yukon Gold Potato)

The buttery flavor and smooth texture of this exemplary thin-skinned, yellow-fleshed potato have helped make it one of the most popular cultivars available today. The vigorous and flavorful 'Yukon Gold' is a hybrid potato jointly released in 1981 by Agriculture Canada and the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is a medium early potato that was developed primarily as a table and French fry potato. Tubers are ready for harvest 71 to 80 days after planting.

Potatoes are tender...

(False Spirea)

(False Spirea)

Providing spring to fall interest with its handsome ferny leaves, the Ural falsespirea is particularly arresting in midsummer when covered with frothy white flowerheads. An upright, suckering, thicketing shrub, it is native to northern Asia eastward to Japan.

Emerging very early in spring, the long frond-like compound leaves comprise numerous narrow leaflets. Young leaves are glossy light green with blushes of coppery red. In summer, upright astilbe-like clusters of tiny white flowers adorn...

(Mountain Ash)

(Hybrid Mountain Ash)

Named for the color of its showy berry-like fruits, this hybrid of European mountain ash grows into a handsome small deciduous tree. Its lush ferny bright green leaves turn orange and red tones in fall. Musky-scented dull white flowers in late spring, clusters of apricot-yellow fruits in late summer and fall, and cherry-like gray-brown bark with conspicuous horizontal pores give it further multi-seasonal interest. The berries are favored by birds.

Grow ‘Apricot Lady' in almost any moist, well-drained,...

(Hybrid Mountain Ash)

(Hybrid Mountain Ash)

Named for the color of its showy berry-like fruits, this hybrid of European mountain ash grows into a handsome small deciduous tree. Its lush ferny bright green leaves turn orange and red tones in fall. Musky-scented dull white flowers in late spring, clusters of pale pink fruits in late summer and fall, and cherry-like gray-brown bark with conspicuous horizontal pores give it further multi-seasonal interest. The berries are favored by birds.

Grow ‘Kirsten Pink' in almost any moist, well-drained,...

(Hybrid Mountain Ash)

Named for the color of its showy berry-like fruits, this hybrid of European mountain ash grows into a handsome small deciduous tree. Its lush ferny bright green leaves turn orange and red tones in fall. Musky-scented dull white flowers in late spring, clusters of coral-pink fruits in late summer and fall, and cherry-like gray-brown bark with conspicuous horizontal pores give it further multi-seasonal interest. The berries are favored by birds.

Grow ‘Rowancroft Coral Pink' in almost any moist,...

(Alder-leaved Whitebeam, Korean Mountain Ash, Korean Whitebeam)

Glossy, simple, Alnus-like leaves make this Asian native an unusual mountain ash species relative to most others which have pinnately compound leaves. Alder-leaved whitebeam is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree that originates from the slopes, mixed forests and thickets of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. It is a handsome landscape tree that maintains a pyramidal habit when young and rounded canopy when older. Like most ash trees, it offers multi-seasonal interest with attractive spring...