Common name: Grosso Long Stemmed Lavender
Botanical name: Lavandula x intermedia 'Grosso'

Long Stemmed Lavender has beautiful lavender colored plumes in the summer, reaching 3' tall and wide. Fragrance from blooms attract bees. Dried flowers used for sachets, oils, medicinal and culinary uses. Foliage is gray green and thin. This perennial has "fatter" flower spikes than other lavenders. It prefers full sun in well draining soil with low fertilizer. Does not tolerate frost or humidity.

Common name: Blue Marguerite, Blue Felicia Daisy
Botanical name: Felicia amelloides

This shrubby perennial is grown mostly as a ground cover since it reaches 18" tall and spreads up to 5'. It has oval, hairy leaves that are 1" in length and dark green in color. It produces a variety of bright blue, 1 1/4" wide flowers with yellow centers, resembling daisies. In cool summer areas, this plant may act as an annual, blooming from spring through fall. In hot summer places, plant in full sun but with afternoon shade. It will only bloom from spring through midsummer. It does best in well draining soil. It does best with regular watering. It does not tolerate hot humid areas. It attracts butterflies.

Common name: Passion Fruit
Botanical name: Passiflora edulis

The Passion Fruit Vine is famous for producing the edible "passion fruit". A purplish, egg-shaped fruit with a leathery hide reveals inside, a pudding-like mass, with edible seeds. It can be scooped out or sucked out of the halved fruit. This vine is often invasive, easily growing 20' per year. It should be planted next to a chain link fence or in a container with a trellis, as it can be trained. Leaves are dark green and evergreen. Flowers are fragrant and multi-colored and layered, blooming in spring, followed by the fruit. This vine does best in full sun in frost-free areas that are not extremely hot in summer. It needs well draining, rich, sandy, loamy soil.

Common name: Yellow Lady Banks' Rose
Botanical name: Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'

This semi-evergreen rose can climb to 25 ft. and has double, non-scented yellow flowers.

Common name: Golden Currant
Botanical name: Ribes aureum var. gracillimum

This small shrub grows to 3'-5' high and 3'-5' wide; it has large, bright green leaves with clusters of small, yellow flowers followed by berries that turn from orange to blackish purple. Birds love the berries.

Common name: Rose Campion
Botanical name: Matthiola incana

Matthiola incana has long, narrow, gray green leaves and luxuriant, scented flowers in a erect, spike-like cluster. Flowers have a spicy-sweet scent. Colors include white, pink, red, purple, lavender, blue, yellow, and cream. In mild winter areas, plant in fall so blooms appear in winter and early spring.