Use baby leaves raw in salad, or steam older leaves, lightly if you want the colors to hold. Hmmm, I could plant this as an ornamental in containers, if not the flower beds. If you grow from transplants, as the catalog suggests, you can pre-sort by color. Green beans, pole beans, shell beans Italian, American and French, beans for drying. Specialty greens from arugala and calaloo, mesclun greens that include red orach, miner's lettuce, minutina and more.
Lilies are the hardy ones that stay in the ground all year round.
Consider these tender beauties for the herbaceous border, the cutting garden, even containers. Perhaps the most diverse selection is available from The Daffodil Mart, a branch of White Flower Farm, at 30 Irene Street, Torrington, Connecticut 06790. They offer the familiar favorites already mentioned to less common offerings of achimines, alstroemeria, crinums, crocosmia, through sparaxis and spreklia to zephyranthes. This pamphlet of summer flowering bulbs offers good text descriptions and suggestions for use, but the illustrations are an occasional line drawing. I hauled mine home from Holland.