Southern Exposure Seeds

This variety produces attractive 6–12 inch light green, banana-shaped fruits on spineless plants that average 4 feet tall. Its mild flavor and appe...

Burgundy Okra is an All-America Selections winner with deep red-maroon stems, leaf veins, and pods on 4–6 foot plants. The spineless pods grow up t...

Gold Rush Yellow Wax bush beans are easy to pick and hold well on the plants, offering excellent disease resistance alongside fine flavor and garde...

Aster Powder Puff Mixed Colors (Callistephus chinensis) bears fully double blooms in seven colors — white, pink, rose, peach, crimson red, sky blue...

Queen Mix cleome (Cleome spinosa) produces pink, rose, and purple flowers with many side blooms, attracting bumblebees and hummingbirds throughout ...

Sugar Drip is one of the earliest-maturing sorghum varieties for the South and one of the most widely grown in the southern mountains. Growing 6–8 ...

Red Salad Bowl produces big, beautiful wine-red leaves in the same open rosette form as Salad Bowl, making it an excellent fall variety for a color...

West Virginia 63 (Centennial) was released in 1963 by West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station and produces 6–8 oz red fruits with ...

Yellow Pear is an heirloom dating to before 1800, producing pear-shaped yellow tomatoes about 1½ by ¾ inches with a mild flavor. Plants are very pr...

Dating to before 1880, this classic round white turnip grows to about 5 inches in diameter with bright purple coloring around the top where it is e...

A Vates-type collard developed by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Champion features increased bolt-resistance, darker blue-green foli...

An heirloom fava bean well suited to the Mid-Atlantic and further south, Broad Windsor grows on 2 to 3 foot tall plants that yield 6 to 8 inch pods...

Love-in-a-Mist Mixed Colors Nigella offers a charming blend of blue, pink, white, and purple flowers averaging 1½ inches in diameter, nestled in a ...

Four O'Clocks Don Pedros Mixed Colors is a heirloom brought back from a mother's hometown in Spain, where the flower is locally known as Don Pedro'...

Sweet Annie (Artemisia annua) is an easy-to-grow annual featuring tall, aromatic plants with fern-like, silvery foliage that emits a sweet fragranc...

Developed in 1917 from a cross between Marvel and Globe and released by the USDA in 1925, Marglobe has remained in demand for generations while oth...

This striking orach variety offers the deepest, darkest red leaves available, adding lively color to any salad. When picked young, the tender leave...

Bowling Red Okra has been grown by the Bowling family of Virginia since the 1920s and was rated one of the best varieties in the Kerr Center's tria...

Eden Gem (Rocky Ford) is a classic muskmelon derived from the old 'Netted Gem' variety, which itself came from a chance seedling of 'Nutmeg.' The 4...

Autumn Beauty Sunflower bears 3–5 inch blooms in soft fall colors on poly-headed stalks reaching 5–7 feet tall. It makes an excellent tall screen a...

Elephant Head Amaranth is an heirloom variety producing giant, deep red blossoms topped by massive 16-inch trunks that brighten the late summer gar...

Tithonia Red Torch (Mexican Sunflower; Tithonia rotundifolia), an All-America Selections winner in 1951, is a member of the sunflower family bearin...

Edmonson is a family heirloom from Kansas dating to 1913, and one of the hardiest cucumbers available, with good resistance to disease, insects, an...

German Johnson is a popular heirloom from Virginia and North Carolina, long a favorite at farmers markets, and is one of the four parent lines of t...

This Italian heirloom, known in France since around 1850, produces egg-shaped fruits 5 to 7 inches long in purple with irregular white stripes — a ...

Dating to before 1865, White Icicle produces mild-flavored, white, carrot-shaped roots up to 4 to 5 inches long. It remains milder than other radis...

A beautiful mustard from Japan, Red Giant has well-savoyed leaves that are predominantly reddish-purple with an undercoat of deep green. It has goo...

Beautiful plants grow 2 feet tall with mild, tender leaves featuring purple-pink veins lightly tinged with purple on the margins. In cold weather t...

Rouge Vif d'Etampes — French for "deep red" — has been available in the United States since 1883 and is prized for its beautiful, rich orange color...

Lemon Cucumber produces crunchy, round yellow fruits on vigorous 7-foot vines, with a flavor that is excellent, never bitter, and old-fashioned wit...

Introduced by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in 2010, genetic analysis shows this variety is descended from Bloody Butcher. Tall, hardy stalks rea...

A beautiful addition to any garden, Ruby Red is worth growing for its color alone — dark green foliage on striking ruby-red stalks. It is more fros...

Brussels Winter Chervil loses its flavor when dried, but that flavor can be preserved in chervil butter. Best quality comes from plants grown in pa...

Velvet Queen Sunflower produces 4–6 inch flowers in a rich palette of gold, brown, cream, orange, muted reds, and violets, including bicolor blooms...

The Burgess strain of Buttercup, dating to 1932, is noted for its thick, fine-grained flesh and excellent flavor, producing flattened turban-shaped...

Tropic VFN was developed by the University of Florida and is exceptionally well suited to hot, humid, disease-prone areas, particularly where bligh...

Sparkler White Tip produces attractive bicolored globes with bright scarlet on the upper portion and white on the lower third. Medium tops compleme...

The purple-black seeds of this sunflower are traditionally used by the Hopi people as a natural dye source, especially for coloring baskets, and th...

Long Purple produces long, slender fruits about 2 by 10 inches that are slightly bulbous on the blossom end. The dark-purple fruits are best harves...

Ageratum Dondo Blue (Floss Flower, Bluemink; Ageratum houstonianum) is native to Mexico and produces prolific clusters of blue flowers with long st...

Tithonia Yellow Torch (Mexican Sunflower; Tithonia rotundifolia) represents a color breakthrough as the first yellow-flowered Tithonia, bearing 3-i...

Green Zebra was developed in 1985 by Tom Wagner and chosen by Alice Waters for the famous California restaurant Chez Panisse. The 3–5 oz fruits rip...