‘Brown Cos’ is an heirloom variety with cool grey-green leaves tinged with red on fringes, veins, and stems. Well-grown heads measure 14 inches in diameter. In Southern states this variety can overwinter, but it is generally planted in the late […]

‘Boston Market’ is an heirloom variety, with white seed. A popular grocery lettuce. Start from seed 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost date. Sow seeds 1/4 inch deep in wide rows and thin to 8 to 12 inches […]

‘Black-Seeded Simpson’, also known as ‘First Early’, ‘Earliest Cutting’, and ‘Carter’s Long Stander’ is one of the most famous American lettuces, an heirloom introduced in the late 1800’s. It is difficult to keep this type true through seed saving. This […]

‘Big Boston’, also known as ‘Trocadero’, ‘Tate’s Forcing White’, and ‘Giant White Forcing’ is a white-seeded heirloom variety introduced in America in the late 1800’s. The lettuce produces medium-large heads, globular in shape. The leaves are light green with brown […]

‘All-Year-Round’, a white-seeded heirloom variety also known as ‘Hubbard’s Market’, ‘White Summer’, and ‘Top Notch’, is a butterhead or cabbaging lettuce with dark green, crinkled leaves whose edges are straight. This is an excellent variety to grow farther North. In […]

‘Aleppo’, also known as ‘Spotted Cos’ is an heirloom variety of lettuce dating back to the 17th century. It is a short romaine lettuce with bright green leaves which have a slightly floppy habit. The leaves are savoyed and speckled […]

Bulbous herbaceous perennial native to South Africa. Flowers vary from green tipped cream, to pink, lilac, blue, or purple with dark tips. The light to dark green leaves are strap-like, often with maroon warts. Can be planted in the border […]

Bulbous herbaceous perennial native to South Africa. Fragrant white, cream or greenish yellow flowers are oblong-cylindrical-shaped. Usually bears only one to two mid-green strap-like leaves, sometimes with a pretty brown mottled pattern. Can be planted in the border in warm […]

Bulbous herbaceous perennial native to South Africa. Slightly scented white flowers are bell-shaped, tipped and striped with maroon. Mid- to deep green leaves are erect, narrow, grass-like. Can be planted in the border in warm climates, or in containers. Frost […]

Bulbous herbaceous perennial native to South Africa. Yellow flowers with scarlet tipped inner tepals. Mid-green leaves are strap-like, semi-erect and spotted with purple. Can be planted in the border in warm climates, or in containers. Frost tender, requiring minimum temperatures […]