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Summer 2022 Plant List
Summer 2022 Plant List


Hi, it's Clara the Plant Lady. If any of you are interested, here's our Summer 2022 PLANT LIST. There's a bit of everything here, from Tomatoes to Fruit trees, Hostas, and exotic houseplants including some fairly rare Pothos, Philodendrons, and Bromeliads. A text version of our plant list is posted below. If you want to, you can bookmark this list on the web at this address: http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.us/interests/plants/trade/fs/2022/summer/
Summer Plant List 2022 


Perennials---------------------------------------------------------------------

1) Mediterranean Oregano ............ $7 each, 3 available
10" pots packed with herbs ready to drop into your garden or by your kitchen window.

2) Hosta Yellow-Green / Blueish Margins......$7 each, 3 available.
 Yellow-green with Blue Margins Hostas, white flowers. 


3) Hosta 'Ginko Craig' ..................... $10 / 7 for $55
 New hybrid variety Hosta from Japan, tiny (3" max height) lanceolate green leaves with white margins, purple flowers.   

 a) Single plant in 3" plastic pot. $10, 6 available

 b) 7-pack of small plants  $55, one available.


FRUIT BUSHES  -------------------------------------------------------------------

1) Gooseberry ..................... $7 ea. 2 available
Very fast growing plant. Has thorns! 3'-5' plant in 6" pot. 

2) Grape ........................... $6, 1 available 
Wild grape, 3 feet tall, small intense berries, a bit sour  for eating, but superb for jam, jellies or wine. 3' plant in 7" pot. 

3) Raspberry......................... $7 ea. 4 available
ever-blooming gold produces berries in the spring on last years growth and berries in the fall on this years growth, delicate golden
to pinkish yellow fruit. 2' plant in 7" pot. 

4) Red Currants....................... $7 ea.  2 available 
Large leafed, red fruit, productive. 8" plant in 6" pot.


TOMATOES ---------------------------------------------------------------
Its not too late to plant tomatoes. You may not get a full crop but you will get something!

1)  Cosmic Eclipse tomato plants 1' tall...... $5 1 available
One of the latest from Brad Gates, high anthocyanin medium to large size tomato with streaks and spots of many colours.
It's like looking into the stars at night.

$3 each:
2) Yellow cherry.............................$3 each, 1 available
 Makes hundreds of sweet yellow cherry tomatoes. 

3) Cosmic eclipse ........................... $3 each, 3 available
High anthocyanin purple blush, multicoloured salad type tomatoes. 

4 ) Black beauty ............................$3 each,  6 available
High anthocyanin purple blush, dark red sweet small beefsteak.

5) Berkeley tie-dye ..........................$3 each, 2 available
Beefsteak heirloom striped red and green. 

6) Pink tiger ...............................$3 each, 1 available
Roma cherry size, striped pink and yellow. 

7) Dark galaxy ..............................$3 each, 4 available
High anthocyanin purple blush, red fleshed salad size tomatoes.

8) Atomic grape .............................$3 each, 6 available 
High anthocyanin purple blush, multicolored grape tomato. 

9) Black trifele .............................$7 for 9 plants in one pot (1 available)
 beefsteak heirloom from Japan, unique pear shape. 

10) Tasmanian chocolate ......................$7 each, 3 plants in one pot (1 available)
 early beefsteak, dark chocolate red, sweet taste, determinate. 

11) Pink tiger ...............................$7 each, 5 plants in one pot (1 available)
 roma cherry size, striped pink and yellow. 

12) Black prince .............................$7 each, 4 plants in one pot (1 available)
 Ukrainian heirloom, dark red with black colour, smaller beefsteaks.  


POTHOS -----------------------------------------------------------

Available as cuttings or plants, cuttings are $4, potted plants $5-$10 and up.

1) Neon .............................$10, 2 available
Bright lime green leaves, fast growing.

2) Golden ............................$10, 2 available
Variegated emerald green and yellowish green leaves.

3) Snow Queen.........................$10, 3 available
White variegated.


PHILODENDRON ----------------------------------------------------------

1) Philodendron 'Brazil' .......................$15 in ceramic pot $10 in plastic pot, 2 available
Bicolour leaves of cream and dark green.

2) Philodendron brandtianum.....................$15, 1 available
Silvery heart shape pattern of greyish silver on a dark green leaf.


Coleus Indoor / Outdoor -----------------------------------------------------------------------

See photos of all the varieties on the website given above.

We stock over 20 varieties of Coleus. Grow in full sun or part shade, they do well in both. Easy to overwinter as cuttings in
bottles of water in a sunny window. With enough light it makes an elegant houseplant. Sold as cuttings or potted plants.
 
1) Cuttings - $3 each stem cutting or 2 for $5, 10 for $20, 20 for $30.

2) Potted plants - $5 to $10, 
 

Oxalis--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stunning year round perennial can be used as indoor houseplant year round also really good in the garden in summer.
Must have strong sunlight indoors. Outdoors will work in sun or shade but prefers sun.

1) Purple Oxalis ......................... $20, 1 available
Oxalis  triangularis - giant purple Oxalis 2 colored purple leaves, pink flowers

2) Iron Cross  ............................$15, 1 available
Oxalis tetraphylla -  bright red flowers


Bromeliads:  ----------------------------------------------------------------

CRYPTANTHUS

1) Pink Cryptanthus 'Starlight' .............. From $8, to $35 
Bright pink, white and green, looks like a tiny pineapple, to 9" across. Treat as per succulent.

Small plant $8, medium, $12, large $20

Also available in ceramic pots, one of each available

a) Large show plant 7" across, fresh from a pup cut in May.

b) 3 young plants 3" tall in a single pot, fresh from pups cut in May.

2) Cryptanthus 'Black Mystic'................. $15, 1 available
Green to brown, long strap-like leaves with bands of silver. Fast multiplier.

3) Cryptanthus 'Red Ruby'. Dark red. Prolific........... Small $9; Lg $15

NEOREGILIA

1) N. 'Casablanca' ......................................... $15
Medium sized Bromeliad. Showy white leaves with this green margins. Center turns red when blooming.

Banana Trees ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1) Musa "Super Dwarf Cavendish"
5 foot plant, 2 years old, will produce grocery store bananas next summer..........$100, 1 available

2) Musa zebrina
5 foot tree, 1 year old, to 15'+, red variegated leaves............................$65, 2 for $100, 4 available.