Virtues: We love ‘Lizzano’ and ‘Terenzo’ tomatoes for their tasty fruit, high yield, disease resistance and their growing habit. Both are cherry tomatoes with a compact size that makes them perfect for containers or small …

We love ‘Fat Albert’ spruce (Picea pungens ‘Fat Albert’) for its short, wide stature and its blue needles.

We love winter heath (Erica carnea) for its early bloom and evergreen presence. Deer resistant.

We love dwarf sweetbox (Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis) for its very fragrant late winter flowers and its evergreen foliage.

We love spider agave (Agave bracteosa) for its drought tolerance and striking architecture. A great choice for hot, dry climates and a fine container specimen elsewhere.

We love Japanese snowball bush (Viburnum plicatum) for its lovely white spring flowers, reddish fall foliage and lovely branch structure. A beautiful viburnum that stands out among shrubs.

We love lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana) because it is an evergreen pine tree with beautiful exfoliating bark, and because it is a deer resistant plant.

We love Clivia miniata because it is a stunning blooming houseplant that doesn’t mind the dry air typically found in the home in winter.

We love Red Beauty holly (Ilex Red Beauty) for its impressive show of bright red fall/winter fruits and its impressive size and shape.

We love ‘Sky Blue Martien’ viola (Viola cornuta ‘Endurio Sky Blue Martien’) for its beautiful pale purple-blue flowers and the way it stands up to winter.

Virtues: We love ‘Rheingold’ arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis ‘Rheingold’) because it is a dwarf evergreen shrub with gold-green foliage that turns bronze-yellow in winter.