landscaping

Salvia - Mixed Colors

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The Mixed Colors Salvia, 'Salvia splendens', has very unusual intensely colored spikes on dense, deep green plants. This plant has a dramatic appearance in mass plantings, border, and pots. The Mixed Colors Salvia have 6 to 8 inch tall spikes of salmon, rose, scarlet, and violet flowers. This plant will do best in full sun, but will thrive and bloom in partial shade. Mixed Color Salvias will do well in in ordinary well-drained garden soil. They should be watered regularly but not to the point of soggy soil conditions. Plant in the spring after the last killing frost date. This Salvia is easy to grow and makes an excellent border plant and is great in containers or planters. ... find out more

Tomato - Amish Paste The Tomato Pole Amish Paste, 'Lycopersicon lycopersicum', is one of those old, wonderfully flavored paste tomato varieties from years past. Amish Paste has few seeds, solid flesh, and is large for a paste tomato. If you are making a tomato sauce or canning tomatoes, do not use a regular tomato! Amish Paste is the tomato to use. Amish Paste cooks down to a thick, creamy tomato sauce but also has a surprisingly sweet flavor that can be used for slicing also. Amish Paste tomatoes are acorn shaped, deep red fruits with thick flesh. Amish Paste is an intermediate tomato which means they continue to grow indefinitely until frost. Lycopersicon lycopersicum (Hybrid) Prune the intermediate tomatoes in order to keep a single stem.