I have a bunch, but I'll start with two:

Rose of Sharon Lil Kim. I received this as a mistake but I really like it. I've never seen a rose of sharon start so early and bloom so long. It's still blooming. The flowers are huge and each one lasts three days. I hope it prove winter hardy:

Hardy geranium Sweet Heidy. The flowers on this seem to glow. It's a sprawler, so I planted it near other things that it can grow through rather than sit alone as a specimen plant, but it has bloomed pretty much continuously, just as advertised, even though it only gets partial morning sun.

I also have a nice new Hibiscus. This one is a Hibiscus moscheutos variety. I got it from a seed trade off the GW perennials forum, and he thought it would be 'Blue River II' but that variety doesn't have a red eye -- it's supposed to be pure white. But it does have the petal form of Blue River II. It's some new hybrid that formed from Blue River II and something else.

I also got seeds for these Dianthus deltioides 'Brilliancy' from that same trade. I've been very happy with these babies. They flowered in early June and have kept it up most of the summer. Not that many perennials seem to flower the first year from seed.

I just posted this in another thread, but this has been another great find from that seed trade. It's Delosperma cooperi -- hardy iceplant. I've noticed from a neighbor's garden that her yellow ones don't flower very long at all, but these purples ones are top performers, flowering all summer and still now into the fall. They also flowered first year from seed, which was a nice treat.

Since Sweet Heidy is a hybrid, I doubt the offspring would bloom true anyway.

Here's another first for me this year that I plan on repeating next year. Japanese Morning Glories:

And I've mentioned it before, but this year #3 I'm getting decent, well established stands of Salvia Grandiflora; its flowering now 4 weeks and going strong. It needs support unless its in full sun. Deep intense blue, 3 - 4' high, and it looks pretty cool with Russian Sage.

And mine never reblooms in the fall.

Deep intense blue sounds gorgeous - much prettier than mine.

Its just hard to describe the blue, their pic doesn't do it, and the photos I take don't seem to go from stunning beauty onto the internet very well.

I really like that colour.

The plants were healthier. My planters filled in quickly. I had a great blooming right up to today.

These were planted very late. I planted them where I had my peas, after the peas were done for the year, just to give that garden row something to do. They were the only bush type bean seed left at the garden center at that point, so I tried them.

I didn't think they had bloomed well, so didn't bother looking for beans until today, when I was poking around the garden looking for gourds. These bean plants hide their beans well.

That said, the beans are quite mild and tender. We'll eat them raw tonight and cook the rest later. They are Romas - an Italian flat bean.

I tried a new corn this year that is a keeper for me. It's Burpee's Ruby Queen.

This corn stays sweet on the stalk for weeks - longer than any other I've grown. And produces almost two ears per stalk. I don't think any of it was eaten cooked, and some was very deep red by the time it was picked.