Rosa 'Uptown Girl' is a wonderful English style rose with coral pink flowers with peach centres and delightful fragrance.

Roscoea auriculata 'Floriade' has larger flowers than the species.

Roscoea cautleyoides 'Jeffrey Thomas' has pale yellow flowers with a particularly large flower lip.

A Himalayan native, Roscoea purpurea, is a zone 6 ginger relative with orchid-like, light purple flowers.

Roscoea ‘Brown Peacock' has orchid-like, lavender flowers on top of purple-brown stalks with clasping green leaves that are red-flushed beneath.

Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Foxtail' is a hardy culinary rosemary with a semi-prostrate habit.

Rosmarinus ‘Hill Hardy’, aka 'Madeline Hill', is one of the hardiest culinary rosemaries able to withstand zone 6!

Rubus arcticus subsp. x stellarcticus 'Anna' is an extremely hardy plant in the raspberry family with pink blooms and red fruit in July.

Rubus idaeus 'Red River' is a dwarf cultivar to just 3 feet tall with sweet, juicy, red raspberries from mid to late summer.

Rubus occidentalis 'Jewel' is known as the black raspberry.

Rubus 'Hall's Beauty' is a thornless hybrid blackberry with ornamental flowers with numerous, large petals and tasty fruit.

Rubus 'Polar Berry' is an unusual blackberry with translucent, white fruit said to taste just like a black blackberry.

Rubus 'Youngberry' is a hybrid cross between a blackberry, raspberry, and dewberry with large, succulent reddish-black berries.

Rudbeckia 'American Gold Rush' is perhaps the best black-eyed Susan available with great habit and flower power.

Rudbeckia triloba is a Brown-eyed Susan with a bounty of bright yellow flowers and dark cones from mid-summer to frost.

Rudbeckia 'Blackjack Gold', a sweet coneflower, has small and plentiful yellow flowers with dark brown to black cones.