Fargesia scabrida has young culms with sheaths that are dark orange opening to reveal steel-blue and lavender culms aging to olive-green.

Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey' is the best brown-fruited fig for cool summer climates.

Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey' is the best brown-fruited fig for cool summer climates.

Ficus 'Chicago Hardy' is one of the most cold hardy figs with brown, medium-sized fruit in summer with a rich, sweet flavour.

Ficus carica 'Chicago Hardy' is one of the hardiest of all figs with tasty brown to purple fruit. Grow in zones 5 and 6!

Ficus carica 'Desert King' is very productive in cool summer climates producing tons of green figs with sweet, flavourful, pink flesh.

Ficus carica 'Desert King' is very productive in cool summer climates producing tons of green figs with sweet, flavourful, pink flesh.

Ficus carica 'Fignomenal' is a very small dwarf fig tree that produces medium-sized brown fruit with pink interiors.

Ficus carica 'Lattarula' is very productive and reliable especially in cool summer climates. The fruit tastes like honey.

Ficus carica 'Lattarula' is very productive and reliable especially in cool summer climates. The fruit tastes like honey.

Ficus carica 'LSU Purple' is a tasty fig with deep purple glossy skin and sweet strawberry-coloured flesh.

Ficus carica 'Neverella' is a great brown-fruited fig for cool summer climates with delicious nearly clear flesh that is sweet and honeyed.

Ficus carica 'Neverella' is a great brown-fruited fig for cool summer climates with delicious nearly clear flesh that is sweet and honeyed.

Ficus carica 'Panache' is known as the striped tiger fig. It is a rare novelty with beautiful green and yellow striped fruit.

Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey' is very productive and reliable with sweet and richly flavourful, dark amber flesh.

Ficus carica Stella has sweet, striking, purplish-red flesh, and ripens well in cooler climates like the West Coast.

Ficus carica 'Violette de Bordeaux' is a compact tree great for containers hardy to zone 6 with luscious purple-black fruit.

Fritillaria acmopetala has pendulous, broadly bell-shaped, green flowers with reflexed tips and burgundy streaks.

Fritillaria bucharica has beautiful, pure white, bell-shaped flowers with green centres.

With its pendulous green and burgundy bells Fritillaria elwesii is for sophisticated gardeners who like cool flowers.

Fritillaria hermonis ssp. amana has unusual and sophisticated yellow green bells etched in red at the edges.

Fritillaria persica 'Ivory Bells' sports creamy white and pale green bells for a sophisticated and subtle display.

Fritillaria persica 'Alba' is not white but sports chartreuse green bells that will light up the darkest spring day.