It’s almost Plant Sale week, but we’re still adding a few plants.

Shrubs

We just found out we can get Yellow Horn (Xanthoceras sorbifolia).

Yellow Horn (S068B) is an upright shrub from northern China with lustrous pinnate leaves that turn yellow in fall. Edible nuts. Glorious in May when it covers itself with racemes of white flowers. Watch their centers changes day by day from green through yellow to pink to red, all seen together at once on the panicles. Shrub-form, but can be pruned into a multi-stemmed tree, adaptable to many sites except wet ones. In a 2 gallon pot, $25 (Photo courtesy of mobot.org)

Vegetables

We’ve added six new heirloom tomatoes to help make up for the crop failure of six other varieties. All the tomatoes are in 3.5″ pots for $1.50. They are:

• Black Ethiopian V129B — An odd name for a tomato that was originally grown in the Ukraine. Very productive with brown-red-bronze, 5-ounce plum-shaped fruits. Exceptionallly rich, tangy taste. Indeterminate. 81 days.
• Chadwick Cherry V137B — Mouth-watering one-ounce red cherry selected by the late horticultural genius Alan Chadwick. Large for a cherry, with sparkling, full-bodied tomato flavor. Six-foot vines are vigorous and highly productive. Indeterminate. 90 days.
• Dad’s Sunset V142B — Fruits ripen to a uniform golden orange like the setting sun. Very attractive round, 12-ounce fruits with zesty sweet flavor. A mainstay garden variety with three-inch fruits. Indeterminate. 75 days.
• Northern Lights V157B — Set apart from other bicolored tomatoes by its smaller size (8 to 12 ounces), making it a great choice for gardeners who want a more modest sized bicolored fruit. Luscious, sweet flavor and beautiful golden yellow exterior with a red blush on the blossom end that radiates to the center. Indeterminate. 75 days.
• Hawaiian Pineapple V161B — Very large, meaty fruits (at least one pound) with very few seeds. Tangy when raw, becoming sweet and melon-like with a little salt. Great for spaghetti sauce. A fairly contained plant size, so good for a smaller garden. Indeterminate. 90 days.
• Red Zebra V166B — Plant yields huge amounts of two-inch red fruits with light yellow striping (or as some say, yellow fruit with red striping). Same shape as Green Zebra with red-yellow flesh. Indeterminate. 80 days.

Late Additions — Succulents

Aeonium ‘Garnet’ A655B– This relative of hens and chicks forms a rosette of succulent leaves on a basal stem, resembling a miniature palm tree. Rose to dark red rosettes with some green. Happy in a sunny window all winter. 4″ pot, $5.00

Echeveria nodulosa V666B — Flamboyantly painted foliage with maroon streaks and sharply defined delicate outlines at the edges of each leaf. Fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves form handsome rosettes on branching 8-12″ stems. 4.5″ pot, $5.00

Pink Echeveria — Ruffly looking. So irresistable that Henry had to buy it. In two sizes, a 6″ round pot for $14, A668B.

Assorted cool Echeverias — in a small 2″ pot for $2.50, A668C.

Golden Barrel Cactus A661B Echinocactus grusonii — Native to central Mexico, it is a popular landscape cactus in the southwestern U.S. Young plants are different in appearance than mature ones, which have golden spines and prominent vertically arranged ribs. 4″ pot, $4.00

Annuals

Gray Hair Grass A235B — Corynephorus canescens ‘Spiky Blue’. Attractive gray-green/silver foliage with wine-colored sheathes. Prefers well-drained soils. Drought tolerant. Tussock forming. Annual. 4.5″ pot, $5.00

Perennials

Daylily, Kwanso Variegata P263B — Hemerocallis ‘Kwanso variegata’. A variegated daylily! Forms a clump of large green and white striped leaves with double soft orange flowers from white striped stems. Rare, but. easy. Click here for a photo. In a 5.5″ pot, $8.00

European Ginger P316B — Asarum europeum. A beautiful evergreen groundcover for moist, woodland gardens. 2-3″ leaves are leathery and glossy. Bell-shaped greenish purple or brown flowers are hidden beneath foliage. Blooms in early spring. Prefers slightly acid soil. 3.5″ pot, $6.00

Snowdrop P641B — Galanthus nivalis. Earliest of spring bloomers, the small white flowers hang down from the stalks like drops. Good for dry partial shade, as under a deciduous tree (since they bloom before the leaves come out). In a 3.5″ pot, $5.00

Several lily bulbs have been added:

Acapulco (Asiatic lily) P748A — Dark pink, very fragrant with very long bloom time, produces four to six flowers per stem. 14/16 cm bulbs. 44″ Three bulbs for $3.00

Tom Pouce (Asiatic lily) P763B — Each petal is outlined with hot pink and has a golden yellow midrib. Colors are darker at the points and lighter toward the center. Three to four flowers per stem. Mid-season bloomer. 14/16 cm bulbs. 32″ Three bulbs for $5.00

Uchida (Oriental lily) P773B — Also called the Rose Red Lily of Japan. Brilliant, dark pink, recurved petals with white trim and light speckles. Easy to grow. Light fragrance. During the 1940s, this wild lily was common on the land of a Japanese farmer named Hirotaka Uchida. He noticed that most of the flowers were pinkish or white, but he also noticed that some were almost pure red. Before and during the World War II, he collected the reddest ones and continued his work for several years. At the end of the war, the Uchida family was able to export 60 bulbs. 48″ Three bulbs for $6.00