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Received this plant last year with pending blooms and it did fine in direct sun and Texas heat. Unfortunately, the hard freeze killed it and I had to replace with 2 smaller ones this year in the same spot. Worse, these have not yet bloomed at all...and my wife is very envious of others' prolific blooming.

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I planted this plant this spring in a bed that receives mostly shade. It has done great, blooming multiple times. I'm told the pollinators like it but I haven't yet seen any hummingbird or bee activity by it. I did take a cutting about a month ago, checked on it today and it has nice roots and looks great - so I am hoping to have a couple more next year!

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Monte Gusto is a yellow pole bean, very quick and easy to grow. I found the beans themselves a very nice size of about 6 inches. They held well and did not easily get to big and tough to pick. Nice flavor. The young beans taste great raw as I ate them from the plant as I was picking my harvest to bring inside and cook.

This is my second year growing Monte Gusto pole beans.

Rita from Long Island, Zone 6B

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Fushimi grow elongated to at least 6 inches and narrow at about half an inch. These are one of the Japanese peppers and I pick mine green. But if left on the plant longer they do turn red. They may look like a hot pepper but they have no heat, only flavor.

These are usually eaten whole, including the inside with seeds and all.

These are extremely productive plants.

Rita on Long Island, NY zone 6B

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Shishito peppers are one of the Japanese Peppers that are commonly picked green and eaten whole by grilling or roasting. They taste great green when raw but even better once grilled to a nice char. If left on the plant they will eventually turn red.

These plants set many, many peppers and just keep on producing fruit.

Rita on Long Island, NY zone 6B

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Nice red cherry tomato, delicious flavor, produced well. Love the name. I've only found this one year as a started plant, but always keep my eye out.

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This is a bicolor beefsteak, kind of orangy-red on the inside. It was not real large for me, but did have good rich flavor with deep ribbing that didn't get all discolored as some tomatoes will. Good name, fits in with my Irish-German heritage!

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This is a nice red salad tomato, with deep flavor. It was fairly productive for me in a short season region, had a bit of cracking, but not bad. I would grow this again. Love the name.

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Photos of this rare species can be found on the Trillium Facebook page.

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This particular plant is a known tetraploid and was one of NHO's breeding plants. Andy comments that it can bloom twice a year under the right conditions.

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Delairea odorata, possibly better known as Cape Ivy, is one of two trailing plants that give my green thumb grandmother a hard time. Since I've had D. odorata in my care, I've noticed that it likes a bit more water than many of my similarly-sized plants.

My research indicates that D. odorata "prefers to grow in wetter temperate regions, but will also occasionally be found in cooler sub-tropical environments" ( https://keyserver.lucidcentral... - Weeds of Australia, 2016), which is most aptly summed up by the quote provided, but is supported by both my observations and additional research I have done. Delairea odorata is, perhaps, more inclined to moist habitats than many other "ivy" plants.

I like to water relatively often and spritz the leaves of D. odorata between waterings. So far, my plants have been thriving under these conditions, and my grandmother's ailing cape ivy specimen has come back from the brink under similar care.

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After about 20 blooms, I feel I can say that this plant always seems to have an awkward petal that is larger or smaller than the other two. Not to any great extent, but just enough to affect the symmetry of the bloom so that it looks "off."

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Siloam Peony Display produces seeds that are white when mature. I've never got a black seed from this cultivar. The white seeds are viable. I've had a high germination percentage with SPD seeds, most sprout quickly with, or without cold stratification.
I've had 6 seedlings of Siloam Peony Display x Bear Claws bloom this year. All 6 seedlings look identical to SPD, this is the first year for them to bloom. The seedlings were planted winter of 2015, and planted outside Spring of 2016, and bloomed July 8 - 13 2017 , the same time frame SPD was in bloom in my garden.

I have 2 other crosses with SPD as the pod parent, but different pollen parents. I hope to see blooms next year from both of these crosses,, will update with results in 2018.

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Has always been quick to spread in our gardens. Helps keep out the weeds.

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In my garden, this daylily always has broken color on it. If it weren't SO PRETTY, I would seriously consider tossing it.... But it is impressive, blotchiness and all.

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I have been growing tomatoes here for 30 years. I have grown Garden Treasure (as I have Garden Gem) from the University of Florida here in Maryland for 2 years. I have grown it among heirlooms and the hybrids Big Beef and Celebrity. So it hasn't been in strange places or where other tomatoes didn't grow well.

For me, it's a dud. It tends to be a bit mealy and tasteless. And I wanted it to be a success. It is disease-resistant and moderately productive. And it isn't fair to compare it to an heirloom so I won't. But My Big Beef are better-tasting and Celebrity at least as good and both more productive.

This is nearly identical to my review of Garden Gem, but they are about the same to me.

Sorry, and keep working on it...

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I have been growing tomatoes here for 30 years. I have grown Garden Gem from the University of Florida here in Maryland for 2 years. I have grown it among heirlooms and the hybrids Big Beef and Celebrity. So it hasn't been in strange places or where other tomatoes didn't grow well.

For me, it's a dud. It tends to be a bit mealy and tasteless. And I wanted it to be a success. It is disease-resistant and moderately productive. And it isn't fair to compare it to an heirloom so I won't. But My Big Beef are better-tasting and Celebrity at least as good and both more productive.

Sorry, but keep working on it...

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It needs to be stated that this is registered as doubling only 40% of the time, hence the majority of images will likely show single form or a few double segments.

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I grow STAR CHILD in the UK (zone 8a)

It grows very well here and makes the 26inch scapes as registered. Due to the general lack of sunshine in summer in the UK it has a much bluer eye than on most of the pictures of it growing in the US and only occasionally gets the very pale eye. A very beautiful shade of soft grey-pink, looks quite vintage/antique. Slight ruffling with a faint lighter edge on the petals in the UK.

One of my absolute favourites (in fact probably THE favourite) in my whole collection--VERY fertile both ways too, my most used pollen parent in the dips.

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A 1967 introduction, this middle aged bi-color is still competitive. A midseason 80 day corn that produces well. I first grew in the 70's when it was the best. Some of the newer Se bi-colors have surpassed it in both flavor and tenderness but it is still quite good.

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