(Cherry Tomato, Sweet Treats Tomato)

Nothing epitomizes summer eating like cherry tomatoes. These short-lived tender perennials are usually grown as annuals. Their medium green, hairy, compound leaves have a strong fragrance and are not to be eaten. Yellow flowers are followed by small, succulent fruits ideal for salads or eating straight off the vine.

Tomatoes require full sun and perfectly drained, slightly acid garden loam. The vines root along the stems and should be planted deep for better establishment. They are cold sensitive,...

(Cherry Tomato, Tomatoberry Tomato)

These bright red, persimmon-shaped cherry tomatoes are super sweet! They are produced in long clusters on indeterminate vines. Fruit is produced only 60 days after planting.

Nothing epitomizes summer eating like cherry tomatoes. These short-lived tender perennials are usually grown as annuals. Their medium green, hairy, compound leaves have a strong fragrance and are not to be eaten. Yellow flowers are followed by succulent round berry fruits.

Tomatoes require full sun and perfectly drained,...

(Pear Cherry Tomato, Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato)

Beautiful pear shaped cherry tomatoes of lemon yellow are produced in profusion by this classic heirloom. The mild fruits of ‘Yellow Pear’ are produced in long clusters on indeterminate vines, which bear fruit 70 to 80 days after planting. They make a colorful addition to salads and children love their fun look.

Nothing epitomizes summer eating like cherry tomatoes. These short-lived tender perennials are usually grown as annuals. Their medium green, hairy, compound leaves have a strong fragrance...

(Tomato)

Probably the most popular garden vegetable grown, tomatoes come in all shapes, colors and sizes and make our summers a little brighter and sweeter.

These new world plants were domesticated, cultivated and enjoyed by Native Americans, from North to South America, but did not make it into European until the mid 1500s where it was primarily grown as an ornamental. Think of southern Italian cooking without the tomato! It’s hard to imagine, but these fruits did not enter the Italian diet until around...

(Currant Tomato)

A productive vining plant that produces scores of fingernail-sized red fruits, the currant tomato is a closely related, better-tasting cousin to modern-day cultivated tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum). The two species interbreed readily, and the currant tomato historically has provided many new traits for cherry-type tomato varieties grown in modern gardens. While the wild form of the currant tomato isn't commonly grown today, it is considered a heirloom tomato in the United States, as...

(Cat's Claw)

Large yellow trumpet-like blooms make this an outstanding vine for tropical gardens. Cat's claw is naturally distributed across a huge area of the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, including the West Indies. It thrives in warm coastal climates as well as the desert, where frost is rare and fleeting.

Its small lush evergreen leaves are borne on woody stems that cling to surfaces with unusual three pronged claw-like tendrils. These allow them to climb onto buildings, fences and walls with a...

(Acerola, Barbados Cherry, West Indian Cherry)

Small red fruits that are rich in vitamin C, but usually quite tart, appear on the branches of the West Indian cherry in summer and fall. Often confused with and called the Barbados cherry (Malphigia glabra), this species' leaves, flowers and fruits are smaller in size, and the branches carry long spur-like branchlets. West Indian cherry's native range is much larger: the West Indies, Central America and northern South America to Peru and Venezuela.

West Indian cherry's evergreen leaves...

(Acerola, Barbados Cherry)

Small red, cherry-like fruits develop on the Barbados cherry tree across summer and early fall, but their flavor is more sour and considerably higher in vitamin C. This small evergreen tropical tree hails from the West Indies and Central America, where it is an important native fruit tree.

Smooth light brown bark lines the spreading branches of the Barbados cherry, which attains a spreading, wide V-shaped silhouette. The small oval leaves most heavily occur on branch tips. Anytime the weather...

(Turk's-cap)

This huge, fast-growing red-flowered shrub offers a unique form of hibiscus blossom that never completely opens, hanging instead like a tiny lantern. For that reason it is commonly known as sleeping hibiscus. This is a native from Mexico south into Brazil and Peru, but has also naturalized in parts of Texas and Florida. It is capable of withstanding periodic drought but thrives on regular water too. This shrub produces masses of unbranched stems bearing soft, velvety yellow green leaves all the...

(Drummond's Wax Mallow, Texas Mallow, Turk's-cap)

This huge, fast-growing, red flowered shrub offers a unique form of hibiscus blossom that never opens completely. Its curling, clasped petals give it one of its common names, Turk’s-cap. For the same reason, another common name for it is sleepy hibiscus. This is a native from subtropical Mexico south into Brazil and Peru, but has also naturalized in parts of Texas and Florida. It is an evergreen in frost-free regions, deciduous in cool climates. This shrub makes a forest of upright, unbranched stems...