Easy to grow and so useful for literally hundreds of purposes! Spearmint’s attractive medium green foliage is perfect with foods like meats, fish, jams, and jellies but also makes a superb tea and even gives bath water an invigorating splash!! A vigorous grower, it’s best to grow spearmint in a sunken pot in the garden or in a container on the deck or patio where its runners can be cut and controlled. Perennial.

The most aromatic groundcover you’ll find, Corsican mint is a delight in the landscape with its amazing, ground hugging form and its ability to grow and thrive in the toughest of landscape areas. Perfect for grouping and placing between stones, this is a most fragrantly rewarding plant!

A delight for its ease of growth and remarkably strong chocolate scent and flavor, chocolate mint is the perfect herb for flavoring sweets and in a bracing, flavorful herb tea. Chocolate mint will take a licking and keep on growing due to its tough, aggressive growth characteristics and deserves constant pruning since the most pungent, flavorful leaves are its newest ones. Chocolate mint will grow well in the ground but might be best in a container where it can be used year round while controlling its most aggressive tendencies. Perennial.

The perfect herb for flavoring all kinds of food, especially desserts, with its delicious minty, citrusy taste and scent. Deep purplish-green foliage is very attractive and the plant is very easy to grow. Tolerating full sun and partial shade, orangemint is best suited to be grown in a sunken pot in the garden or in a container to contain its invasive nature. It even tolerates growing indoors on a sunny windowsill for a winter treat! Perennial.

Very few plants can bring a smile to who ever smells its leaves, Hillary Sweet Lemon Mint is one who draws a smile! Dark green, heart shaped leaves have the full strength flavor and aroma of spearmint with a hint of lemon. Lavender colored flower spikes rise above the foliage. The sweet lemon flavor is perfect for summer teas, both hot and cold, or add a few sprigs to lemonade or add a punch of flavor to ice water. Begin harvesting as soon as shoots appear in spring by cutting sprigs or leaves with scissors. Young, tender leaves are more flavorful than old, woody ones. It freezes and dries well.

‘Berries & Cream’ is just as delectable as it sounds! Its leaves have a fruity scent and taste, making it a wonderful garnish for summer drinks, fruit dishes, and some meat dishes. It has dark green leaves and mauve summer-to-fall flowers that grow in tight clusters, adorning the garden with more than just its sweet scent. This is a more compact mint than other varieties, so you’ll have plenty of space to fit this tasty treat. Begin harvesting as soon as shoots appear in spring by cutting sprigs or leaves with scissors. Young, tender leaves are more flavorful than old, woody ones. It freezes and dries well.

Regal in its upright, vase shaped form, Ostrich Fern provides a commanding presence in the American Beauties garden. With its soft, green-gray, delicate fronds, this plant also introduces a touchability factor to a wide range of landscape locations from shade to sun. It prefers moist well-drained soil and thrives in shade but will be equally stunning in a sunny location if given a lot of moisture, like that available from a pond side or water garden side planting. Ostrich Fern almost looks like a small palm tree at times and its vase forming stems provide needed bird cover whether planted in sun or shade.

One of the best cooking apples, Granny Smith has crisp, tart and juicy fruit with a good balance of acids and sugars. Medium-sized apples have pale to medium green skin with distinctive whitish dots. Requiring only 400 to 500 winter chill hours, and a longer season to ripen, this variety is favored in mild winter areas.

With upright branching and spreading form, this evergreen is distinctive for its Holly-like leaflets that populate its compound foliage, its showy yellow April bloom and its dark purple, edible beries in fall. Deer resistant. Will tolerate semi to full shade conditions and thrive. Attractive early bloom and late summer to fall fruit. Easy to grow and prune.

Attention!!! There’s an officer in the room! You will find yourself saluting this officer often once you see that this Major has earned his rank in the field with a stunning landscape presence that make all the other Honeysuckle look like mere recruits. Start with its foliage…’Major Wheeler’ seems to be immune to the foliage mildew that can adversely affect many other Honeysuckles. Even in the most humid conditions its foliage stays dark green, lustrous and mildew free. His foliage is great but it’s the bloom that ‘Major Wheeler’ brings to your yard that makes him such a landscape hero. Masses of long, tubular, bright red flowers cover the Major from late May through the summer in such numbers you’ll wonder where he gets his energy! You won’t be the only one that will salute this officer. Hummingbirds and butterflies anywhere in your neighborhood will find this Major to be a great source of flower fragrance and nectar and will faithfully visit him frequently. Yes, ‘Major Wheeler’ is a native landscape leader that we all will salute for meritorius service no matter if he is planted in full sun or shade!