PeaceTree Organix

Aloe vera

The aloe vera plant is an easy, attractive succulent that makes for a great indoor companion. Aloe vera plants are useful, too, as the juice from their leaves can be used to relieve pain from scrapes and burns when applied topically.

To grow, place in bright, indirect sunlight or artificial light. A western or southern window is ideal.

Water aloe vera plants deeply, but infrequently. To discourage rot, allow the soil to dry at least 1 to 2 inches deep between waterings. Don’t let your plant sit in water. Use your finger to test dryness before watering.

Aloe is an indoor plant.

1 gal tera cotta pot……….$10

Dark Purple Opal

This pretty-looking, aromatic basil grows as an upright bushy plant with edible purple leaves. Dark Purple Opal produces dark leaves with an intense sweet-spicy flavor and pretty pinkish flowers, which appear mid to late summer. The foliage has a much stronger flavor than more common green basil varieties.

Sweet Genovese

This is the classic Italian basil, and the crucial ingredient for pesto! Large, dark green leaves are tender, delicious, and aromatic. This plant loves warm weather, so be sure to wait until all danger of frost has passed before planting. Does beautifully in containers. Slow to bolt as long as you regularly pinch the blooms. Once it has bolted, use the flowers as garnish for salads, pasta, and drinks.

Cinnamon

This tall, fast-growing variety has distinctive violet stems, veining, and flower bracts with lavender-colored blooms and 2" long leaves. Use the flowers in any recipe that calls for basil, or to garnish drinks, salads, soups, pasta, and desserts. Flavor is of intense basil with a note of mint, anise, and cinnamon. If you don’t want to eat the plant, mix it into flower bouquets for a sweet, cinnamon aroma.

Thai

A stronger-flavored basil than sweet basil, Thai Basil also has a hint of licorice flavor. The leaves, which are about half the size of sweet basil, have purple stems and make pretty garnishes. They are added by the handful to Thai cuisines and also dishes of Southeast Asia. A slightly smaller plant than Sweet Basil, it is perfectly suited for containers.

4” pots………$5

Aquilegia canadensis

This perennial is an airy plant whose attractive foliage and flowers resemble a jester’s caps as well as attracting hummingbirds.

The flowers come in many colors and most have spurs, which are long, narrow strips streaming horizontally out of the back of the flower. Once established, columbine plants are drought-tolerant and self-seed. This makes them perfect for rock gardens, woodland gardens, and edging plants.

On average, columbines reach around two feet in height (taller when in full bloom) and by a similar width. They bloom in late spring to early summer and prefer partial shade.

We grow the Colorado native variety as well as a red variety.

1 gallon pot……..$12

Pickling

These varieties grow compact and are popular for pickling. Vines produce blocky, slightly tapered, medium-green cucumbers with white spines. Harvest fruits when they are 3-5”.

Slicing

This heirloom variety is named for its perfectly straight, 8-inch long fruit. This slicing cucumber has long been prized for its high quality, flavor, and even, deep green color. Vigorous, productive vines that benefit from trellising.

1 gallon pot……..$10

Allium x proliferum

Unlike most onion varieties, Egyptian walking onions set bulbs at the top of the plant – each with numerous small onions that you can harvest for planting or eating.

Egyptian walking onions taste much like shallots, although slightly more pungent. When the bluish-green stalk gets top-heavy, it falls over, creating new roots and a new plant where the bulbs touch the ground. One Egyptian walking onion plant can travel 24 inches (61 cm.) each year, resulting in up to six new plants

Egyptian onions are perennials and they will eventually walk across your garden even though they aren’t considered invasive. Leave a few plants in your garden every year if you want the plants to keep walking for decades to come, but pull any that walk where they aren’t welcome.

1 gal pot……….$12

Lavandula augustifolia

Lavender is an outstanding perennial flower and a great plant to attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators to your garden.

Grow them alongside your herb garden, in a perennial flower bed, or in containers where you can enjoy their fragrance up-close.

Lavender plants range from 1 to 3 feet tall and wide and do not require staking. Lavender flowers in summer and the flower stalks can be harvested and used fresh or dried.

Water young plants well. Once established, lavender is drought tolerant and doesn't need frequent watering.

1 gal pot……….$12

Petroselinum crispum

Parsley is a biennial plant with bright green, feather-like leaves and is in the same family as dill. This popular herb is used in sauces, salads, and especially soups, as it lessens the need for salt. Not only is parsley the perfect garnish, it’s also good for you; it’s rich in iron and vitamins A and C.

Parsley prefers partial shade and moist soil. Harvest leaves by cutting the outer portions of the plant leaving the inner, young leaves to grow and mature.

If you want fresh parsley throughout the winter, replant one in a pot and keep it in a sunny window.

We carry Italian Flat Leaf Parsley and Moss Curled Parsley.

½ gal pot……….$10

**Mild Peppers**

Green Bell

This early maturing plant produces heavy yields of sweet bell peppers. Peppers turn from green to glossy red when mature, but can be used when green. The flesh is thick and sweet. Perfect for salads, frying, grilling, roasting, and stuffing.

Nardello Sweet

Nardellos are a mild, banana pepper that produces many 8-10” long and slender peppers. This variety is an heirloom that was grown in Italy almost 200 years ago. Fruits get glossy red and are excellent roasted or fried.

Shishito

Grow the pepper that’s long been prized by restaurants and is a favorite among chefs. Shishito is a Japanese sweet pepper that produces handfuls of finger-long fruits. Usually used when green (though also fine to eat when red), the peppers are thin-walled, making them ideal for tempura and stir fries. On this side of the Pacific, it’s wildly popular as an appetizer—tossed with oil, then char-grilled or pan-seared to a blackened, blistered state and salted. Plants are compact and perfect for containers.

**Medium Peppers**

Ancho Poblano Pepper

Mexico’s favorite chile pepper! When traditionally ripened to red and dried, this pepper is known as an ‘Ancho’; it is also used green, as a ‘Poblano’, for making chiles rellenos. The thick-walled, mildly hot fruit have a rich, mellow flavor. The name Poblano comes from the valley of Puebla, south of Mexico City, where the peppers were first cultivated. This pepper produces continuously through the summer in climates with warm days and cool nights. This is a big plant, so give it the space it needs when planting: Set it at least 3 to 4 feet from other plants.

**Hot Peppers**

Cayenne

This heirloom variety produces heavy yields of finger-width peppers. The thin-walled peppers grow to a bright red color and are great fresh or dried. Cayenne plants prefer full sun with adequate watering in regular intervals.

Jalapeno

Choose a location with full sunlight for growing peppers, as jalapenos LOVE the sun. Mix in some compost or other material to make the soil fertile and moist. Space the jalapeno pepper plants 14 - 16 inches apart. The plants will eventually grow to nearly 3 feet high.

1/2 gallon pot…….$10

If you are interested in an electronic copy of our perennial catalog reach out to me directly.

Rheum rhabarbarum

Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable used as a fruit in desserts and jams.

The stalks are the only part of the plant eaten and have a rich, tart flavor. Harvest the stalks when they are 12 to 18 inches long. Usually after 3 years, the harvest period runs 8 to 10 weeks long.

Rhubarb does best where the average temperature falls below 40ºF in the winter and below 75ºF in the summer. It requires very little effort to grow once established but needs cool weather in the winter/spring months to thrive.

1 gal pot……….$12

Salvia rosmarinus

Rosemary is a perennial evergreen shrub with blue flowers. It is an aromatic and distinctive herb with a sweet, resinous flavor.

This herb can be grown outdoors as a perennial shrub in Zones 5 and warmer. In colder areas, it should be kept in a pot and brought indoors for the winter.

Rosemary is ideal for rock gardens or the top of a dry, stone wall. It requires full sun and water the plants evenly (but not too much) throughout the growing season. Prune regularly so that the plant won’t get lanky by snipping off stems to use fresh, or hang them in the kitchen for dried rosemary.

Rosemary is often used for seasoning poultry, lamb, stews, and soups.

1/2 gal pot……….$12

**Cherry Tomatoes**

Atomic Brad (black cherry)

Heirloom cherry tomato with a rich mahogany-purple color and sweetly complex flavor. The round, 1-inch fruits grow in abundant heavy clusters on vigorous, fast growing indeterminate plants.

Red Pear (red cherry)

The Red Pear Tomato is an old time favorite heirloom that always pleases everybody! This variety is a bright red, pear-shaped tomato with a history dating back to Colonial times. The Red Pear's plants are very prolific and are producers of 1-2″ long tomatoes that are great on salads, sauces or roasted in the oven.

Sungold (gold cherry)

One of the most popular varieties of cherry tomatoes, Sungold ripens early to a golden orange, ready to harvest throughout the summer. These extra-sweet tomatoes stay firmer longer than other cherry varieties and will be ready to harvest twice a week once they begin producing fruit.

Yellow Pear (yellow cherry)

Possibly the most popular yellow heirloom variety of tomato, the Yellow Pear gets its name from its color and shape. This variety dates back to the 1800s and is a vigorous indeterminate. It produces generously with an abundance of small, yellow pear-shaped tomatoes that are sweet, but mild in flavor.

**Medium-Size Tomatoes**

Roma

If you're in the hunt for a high-yielding heirloom tomato plant, then look no further. This heirloom tomato variety has origins dating back to 18th century Italy. These squat, indeterminate plants grow rather dense and to a height of 5–6 feet. They produce an almost endless supply of oblong-shaped fruit that weigh roughly 4–6 ounces each and contain few seeds. Growing in clusters of six to eight, the medium-sized tomatoes are great for eating fresh or for use in canning. They're perfect for gardeners that are looking to make the most out of a small space.

Tigerella

These unique fruits are noted for their stripes. When immature they are a light green with dark green stripes. When mature the stripes alternate between red and a yellow orange. Two inch fruit have a very tangy flavor, yields are very heavy, and quite early.

Zebra, Purple

The top ranked heirloom tomato in our trials with round fruits that are one of the first to set fruit with heavy yields through late summer. Thin, striped skin; pick early to avoid cracking.

**Large-Size Tomatoes**

Better Boy

Huge heirloom beefsteak tomato that produces big, regular leaf plants that produce above average amounts of beautiful pink/red, irregular shaped (fluted) heirloom tomatoes that can grow to 2 pounds or more, with an average diameter of 5 inches. Excellent sweet, almost tropical fruit flavors. A winner!

Big Beef (Beefsteak)

Grow Big Beef tomatoes is the perfect variety to slice for your sandwiches or salads throughout the summer. This large red hybrid, 4 to 6 inches in diameter and up to 12 ounces, is ready for harvest in 70 days. The Big Beef variety features a long, bountiful harvest period and a sweet flavor. Noted for its firmness and resistance to splitting and disease, this is an ideal choice for a home gardener and for a beginner to growing tomatoes.

Brandywine

One of the most flavorful tomatoes.

Brandywine's luscious, heirloom flavor can be described as "very rich, loud, and distinctively spicy." The large fruits, often over 1 lb., have a deep pink skin and smooth, red flesh. The medium-tall, potato-leaf plant is best staked or caged.

Cherokee Purple

An heirloom, reportedly of Cherokee Indian origin. Large, smooth fruits (10-12 oz) with slightly ridged shoulders. Ripens to a unique dark, dusky pink/purple color. Sometimes called a black tomato, the color carries through to the flesh, especially at the stem end. A shorter indeterminate, plants average 5 ft. tall.

1 gallon pot……..$10

2 gallon pot……..$13