Dependability is without question on this easy to grow vine that will give you gobs of deep purple, sweet Grapes that have the added pleasure of being seedless. There may be no other Grape as multi-purpose for you to grow in your edible garden as it’s spectacular for fresh eating when harvest time rolls around in early to mid-Spetember or can be used in jellies and preserves with equal success. Like all heavy, woody vines, be sure to grow this selection with a strong wooded trellis or arbor for support in order to assure the best fruiting and health of the plant.

It’s hard to beat this grape for taste and ease of growth. You’ll love its productivity in your backyard garden with compact clusters of large, seedless red grapes ripening in early to mid September. While they are incredible tasting eating them as you are picking them, ‘Canadice’ is versatile enough to be a tasty treat even in jams and jellies. Easy to grow, ‘Canadice’, like all grape vines, can get big and it could use a supporting, heavy duty trellis or pergola for best production and ease of care.

Developed at Cornell University, this white Grape is perfect for growing in the northern home orchard and an incredibly heavy producer. This selection is widely used for producing a number of different white wines and is one of the easiest Grapes to grow with good disease resistance.

Flip Side® is cloaked in 8-inch, fragrant, deep purple flowers that attract a nonstop parade of pollinators. It’s also a strong rebloomer. Flip Side® got its name because the greyish olive-green leaves are dusky purple on the lower surface. Great for containers and a cool plant for warmer regions.

Blue Diddley® Vitex makes the plant even better with its dwarf stature that is about half the size of typical vitex. In the north, zones 5-6, this plant acts like a perennial and dies back to the ground, but regrows and flowers much like a butterfly bush (buddleia). It is slow to break bud in the spring, so do not panic if the plant looks dead, it will sprout new shoots and make a fine specimen in due time. It is a shrub or small tree in the south. This dwarf chastetree is a fun little ball of lavender-blue flower spikes in mid-summer. Its compact size fits nicely into perennial gardens and mixed borders.

Silver variegated, tiny reddish-green foliage forms a cute little mound that is covered with delicate violet blooms from early spring and sporadically through the rest of the year. Attractive but not invasive, it is proven quite drought tolerant once established and is happiest in full to part shade.

Cream-colored flowers, with purple striations on the lower petal. Don’t worry if you see some holes from caterpillars on the lush deep green leaves. Many moths and the Fritillary butterflies feed on the foliage. Grows best in moist to wet humusy soils in part shade, creating a dense ground cover.

White or blue flowers can be found scattered among the dense deep green foliage. Don’t worry if you see some holes from caterpillars on the lush deep green leaves. Many moths and the Fritillary butterflies feed on the foliage. Grows best in moist to well-drained soils in part shade, creating a dense ground cover.

Can plants be described as cute? If you are willing to make that concession, Viola pedata is one of the plants that is most likely to fit this description. With its small stature, highly cut foliage that actually resembles a bird’s foot and a long blooming profusion of flowers that look just a little too big and showy for this plant’s stature, this Violet has a high cute factor. It blooms without a break from April to early June featuring 5 lobed Violet flowers held above the foliage singly on naked stalks that have a deeper purple shade on the top petals with a lighter purple on the bottom petals all of which surround a distinctive orange stamen. This early season butterfly attractor thrives in full sun and partial shade and is native to many open meadow and woodland sitiuations making it a perfect plant to mass in a number of spots in your native landscape. Bird’s Foot Violet is easy to grow and your landscape with certainly have a much higher ‘cute factor’ if you use it!

This little gem looks dainty but it hides incredible toughness behind this veneer of small size and delicate beauty. Small, round foliage emerges in early spring, purplish-green and showy forming a small, dense, spreading mound that is attractive without flowers. Combine the foliage color with the small, lavender violet flowers that begin to appear in early May and you have a colorful little package that butterflies love and that tolerates partial to full shade without missing a beat. This plant loves to be planted in groups toward the front of landscape areas or in small spaces, and even provides some fireworks when grown in a mixed container on a deck, and is an essential element to any American Beauties shade garden.