Perfect for trying several varieties in a small plot

Sage with its lemony-camphor fragrance and delicate blue flowers is an important part of many fine recipes

Grows 6–8 feet tall

Underground its branching taproots can penetrate up to 18 inches in a mere 45 days to break up hard clay and greatly improve drainage

A must in the organic garden

Luther Burbank's Thornless Opuntia Prickly Pear Plant Type:PLANT Perfect for trying several varietiesA unique, cold hardy, and nearly spineless nopal cactus, colloquially referred to as prickly pear. Plants bear numerous oblong, bluish green, 1 foot long pads, known as nopales or nopalitos, that have long been a staple of Mexican, Central American, and Southwestern cuisine. Gardeners are rewarded with 4 inch orange yellow flowers at the tips of the pads, which will go on to bear fleshy, bottom heavy reddish purple fruit, or tuna, their taste often