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I purchased Going Bananas in bloom in a pot in the summer of 2020 because of its potential for rebloom. It did not bloom in 2021, so I cannot comment on its long-term performance. Based on the comments of others, I am hopeful for its recovery in 2022.

Fabulous plant for lighting up a shady area! Very easy to grow and propagate by rooting in water; easy to keep indoors over the winter and re-plant in the spring.

Impatiens SunPatiens® Compact Orchid Blush has been a beautiful, trouble-free plant in my part-shade garden and has grown very large with almost no attention all season. I have found the SunPatiens series to be far superior to New Guinea impatiens in requiring much less attention to keep the plants from wilting in the garden.

Impatiens SunPatiens® Compact Royal Magenta has been a beautiful, trouble-free plant in my part-shade hillside garden and has grown very large with almost no attention all season. I have found the SunPatiens series to be far superior to New Guinea impatiens in requiring far less attention to keep the plants from wilting in the garden.

Fabulous SunPatiens cultivar! Robust, beautiful, very floriferous and tall.

Desirable because it does not go to seed!

Inferior to Bright Lights and Fresh Fire, other cultivars of Swiss chard that I have grown. Ruby Red went to seed much too early.

Aglaonema Osaka is a naturally occurring form of A. costatum with highly variegated foliage.

This is a fabulous plant that cascades over rocks and adds contrasting light blue green foliage to my sunny hillside garden. A single tiny plant from a small pot has grown to occupy a space about four by three feet over the three months it has been growing in my garden.

I bought one Butterfly Bush (Buddleja 'Wisteria Lane') because I could not find Butterfly Bush (Buddleja Buzz™ Sky Blue) in the spring of 2019. In previous springs, it was readily available, so I am curious as to why it disappeared in 2019. I used to have many Buzz Sky Blue plants at the small farm where I used to live until about four months ago. I loved this cultivar because of its lovely intensely blue flowers, its relatively small size, its tendency not to produce seedlings, and its strong attraction for butterflies.

Butterfly Bush (Buddleja 'Wisteria Lane') Is very disappointing. Its flower color is an unattractive washed-out light blue; also the plant sprawls too much and is much too flat to be attractive.

Multiflora Spreading/Trailing Petunia (Petunia Supertunia® Vista Bubblegum) Is AMAZING! I have seven interspersed among the numerous other plants in my sunny hillside garden. Each Bubblegum plant has been blooming non-stop for two and a half months (mid-May through late July) and has formed a large, floriferous mound (36" x 48" or larger). According to a knowledgeable Amish greenhouse owner near my home, Bubblegum is the most floriferous of the Supertunias—in a class by itself. My experience with Bubblegum confirms that description. For color and impact, it is stunning.

Impatiens SunPatiens® Compact Blush Pink grows both in shade and in part sun in my garden and is lovely in both spots. Its color transitions from a deep and vibrant pink to pale pink as the flowers age, and this adds interest. Each plant has formed a large, attractive mound, has been blooming non-stop for two and a half months (mid May through late July) and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Osmocote in the hole at planting time was the only fertilized I have used.

Impatiens SunPatiens® Compact Royal Magenta Is a star in my shade garden. Its flowers are a deep, saturated magenta, and the leaves are untouched by disease and hungry insects. I also have it growing in a sunny spot next to the door to my glass porch, but here it is less striking because the flowers tend to develop unsightly white spots as they age. Farther away in the landscape, this would not be as noticeable. In both shade and sun, the plants are very floriferous and nicely mound-shaped. They have been blooming non-stop for two and a half months so far (Mid-May through late July) and are not showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon. When I planted them, I put Osmocote slow-release fertilizer in the hole.

New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri Divine™ Pink) has not been particularly floriferous in its shady spot in my garden. Compared to the three cultivars of SunPatiens growing nearby (Compact Blush Pink, Compact Pink, and Compact Royal Magenta), Divine Pink is disappointing.

In zone 6B, Paul's Glory is a beautiful and reliable hosta in shade or part sun, but it burns when grown in too sunny a location.

Allium senescens Blue Eddy was featured in the November/December 2018 issue of "Horticulture" magazine in a full-column section of the article "Plamts We Love." This cultivar was bred by NGA member and allium expert Mark McDonough, @AntMan01, who also bred Allium Millenium, Perennial Plant of the Year for 2018, and a favorite of mine.

Allium Millenium is featured in a list of the top ten perennials recommended for 2018:

http://www.perennials.com/cont...

Poor performer in my garden. Clump has shrunk over the years.

In its first season in my garden, Third Witch bloomed from June 26 through August 14. It is lovely, especially planted near yellow-green daylilies that complement its green throat.

Muskogee has proved to be a fast-growing and tough tree in my zone 6b windy hilltop garden. Newly planted in fall, 2014, Muskogee survived the unusually cold 2014-2015 winter with ease, in contrast to crape myrtle cultivars Hopi, which died, and Velour, which is usually a winter survivor here but which died to the ground that winter. Muskogee is a very pretty tree, with its lovely light pink/purple flowers. I have five Muskogee crape myrtles, and all are doing very well.