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CAST20 The California SpringTrials is the annual weeklong event held at various locations along the California coastline. CAST is the industry’s premier launching ground for the newest plant varieties, signage, packaging products, merchandising programs and concepts. Our team of buyers, product managers and sales representatives take part each year in this tour in search of the latest and greatest products and programs to offer our customers. THE BEST OF
The following pages of this book will give you our highlights of what we found to be the best opportunities for your business in the coming year. We hope you enjoy!
Ameriseed Mega Bloom Series Vinca
An undisputable breeding advancement, these F1 hybrid vinca have the largest flowers we’ve ever seen. More than 3-inches across, these blooms absolutely stopped us in our tracks. The series contains 13 different colors and all of the plants exhibit exceptional disease resistance for summer-long flower power that will certainly stand apart from anything else currently on the market.
Mega Bloom Pink Halo
Mega Bloom Pink Halo
Mega Bloom Orchid Halo
Mega Flow Series Vinca Another mega-sized series of vinca, but designed for hanging baskets with their flowing habits. Mega Flow varieties have excellent basal branching, creating a full display of massive, brightly colored blooms that are incredibly resistant to hot summer conditions.
Mega Flow Peach
Beekenkamp LaBella Maggiore Series Dahlia
Maggiore is the fourth subseries to the LaBella dahlias and by far the most impressive in our opinion.This line boasts massive flower sizes on very sturdy, well rounded plants.These varieties have exceptional branching and a single cutting can fill out a 10-inch patio container. There are 7 colors in the Maggiore line, all with flowers between 5- and 7-inches across.
Labella Maggiore White
Labella Maggiore Yellow Red
Labella Maggiore Rose Bicolor
Solenia Yellow
Solenia Apricot
Solenia Series Begonia Solenia begonias have been breakthroughs for the hiemalis type flowers with a faster finish and the most durable heat and sun tolerance around. More drought tolerant than new guinea impatiens, Solenia are great choices for both baskets and landscape plantings, especially in the hottest of southern summers.The fully double flowers give consumers a real premium look in baskets and containers. New this year from Beekenkamp is Solenia Chloe, a bright coral tangerine, yellow and apricot. All 3 of these are fantastic tropical summer colors.
Danziger Scopia Gulliver Pink Bacopa
Danziger surely sets the bar for bacopa breeding. Scopia varieties are bred for heat tolerance, durability and continuous flowering.They have some of the largest flowering varieties in the industry and with unbelievable flower count. The new Gulliver Pink really grabbed our attention with loads of massive, bright pink blooms on a habit that will blend in well in combinations.
Capella Series Petunia The Capella lineup from Danziger is a new series of ultra-compact plants with early, uniform flowering across all varieties. This series is ideal for retailing in packs, but also provides gardeners a nice mounded plant that holds up in summer weather.
Scopia Gulliver Pink
Capella Purple Veins
Capella White
Capella Indigo
Capella Burgundy
Capella Pink Lace
Capella Red
Cascadia Purple Gem Petunia This plant has an absolutely awesome display of eye-catching color. We first came across this plant in the Costa trials in south Florida this year, so we’re already confident of its landscape durability, but seeing it at the trials just reinforced the incredible retail appeal this plant has as well.
Cascadia Purple Gem
Darwin Perennials Dreameria™ Series Armeria
The Dreameria series of armeria is a game changing interspecific hybrid that takes a once, cool-season- only, flowering perennial and gives it all-season-long performance.These new heat tolerant hybrids will flower consistently from frost-to-frost with an abundance of ball shaped inflorescences on tidy green foliage. Great in the ground or in containers, the Dreameria can also be used in annual combination containers. Zone 6. Mountain Frost™ Dianthus The Mountain Frost series of dianthus is a new lineup that includes both single and double-flowering varieties. The plants require no vernalization to flower and the new heat tolerant breeding keeps them re-blooming throughout the summer months. Zone 5A. Flutter™ Pure White Scabiosa The Flutter series of scabiosa are known for a much more compact habit and shorter stems, making them a tidier,more attractive perennial in the garden. This stunning new pure white addition is a unique color for the market. Zone 5A. Rose Marvel Salvia Rose Marvel is quite a marvel, indeed.This plant has the largest flowers of any rose or pink salvia nemorosa on the market today.This is definitely one to position as a premium perennial item, creating more opportunity for grower and retailer margin. The ultra large flowers provide more color and impact in the garden and they have a naturally long flowering window and rebloom on their own without being cut back.This is definitely a winning plant for stunning displays of summer color. Zone 4A.
Dreameria Daydream Sweet Dreams
Mountain Frost White Twinkle
Flutter Pure White
Rose Marvel
Dümmen Orange I’conia Series Begonia
I’conia is a new lineup featuring super-large flowering begonias selected from the most advanced pipeline in the industry.Two elegant cultivars are available for 2018: I’conia Miss Malibu, a vivid pink that won the prestigious FleuroStar award in 2016, and I’conia Miss Montreal, a creamy white flower edged with pink.The I’conia line is centered on remarkably large flowers that don’t shed, dark foliage and excellent branching. These enchanting begonias from Dümmen Orange are sure to turn heads at retail. Empress Sun Verbena Developed to fill the landscape verbena niche, these vigorous growers feature early flowering, near-perfect uniformity, a reduced cyclical blooming pattern, and impressive heat, humidity, and mildew tolerance.Trialed at over eight North American locations in 2016 with excellent results, this new verbena line is an unmistakable win for growers, retailers, and consumers alike. Main Street Series Coleus A grower favorite, Main Street coleus is bred for reliable uniformity across the series and strong color retention under even the highest light conditions.With a diverse color assortment, Main Street offers plenty of versatile options for standalone or combination applications in sun or shade. New for 2018 is Main Street Ruby Road, a vibrant mix of hot pink, burgundy and chartreuse, Main Street Chartres Street, a bright chartreuse-lime, and Main Street La Rambla, with a distinct netting pattern of lime and burgundy with a hint of hot pink. Great Falls Series Coleus Developed for a controlled trailing habit, this trailing coleus is remarkably versatile in application, well-suited for monoculture baskets, premium planters, or in quarts for the landscape.A great item to brighten shade programs, these innovative new coleus work well as a stand-alone retail item, or in multi-liner combinations. Enjoy a wide range of color options with new Great Falls Niagara, Great Falls Iguazu, Great Falls Angel and Great Falls Yosemite.They are all retail stand outs.
Emperess Sun Series
I’conia Miss Malibu
Main Street Ruby Road
Great Falls Iguazu
Bloomtastic Series Calibrachoa New for 2018, the Bloomtastic series was bred to be the most vigorous calibrachoa offered by Dümmen Orange, making it a great option for quick turn production in small pots or for irresistibly impressive planters and baskets. Both Bloomtastic Rose Quartz, a soft pink with a magenta eye, and Bloomtastic Serenity, a light lavender with an inky blue eye, feature remarkable heat tolerance, extra-large flowers and a spreading growth habit.These have been trial-proven for garden performance, making them one of the few calibrachoa on the market appropriate for landscape applications. Wild Romance New Guinea Impatiens An undeniable breeding innovation,Wild Romance from Dümmen Orange is a true shade item with premium appeal.Wild RomanceWhite andWild Romance Pink Blush have high vigor, well-suited to large container production, and unique blooms with an increased petal count as compared to standard New Guinea flowers. These unique semi-double flowers resemble a rose as the bud is opening and a gardenia when fully open, allowing Wild Romance to stand apart from other New Guineas currently available on the market. SpinTop Series Gaillardia Dümmen Orange is introducing two new SpinTop gaillardia cultivars for retail 2018. Both SpinTop Red Starburst, with a bold red center, and SpinTop Yellow Halo, showcasing sunny yellow petal tips, fit perfectly into the existing assortment with a matching habit and timing, with mature plants reaching 8- to 12-inches tall. Featuring excellent landscape performance in trials across the continent, these zone 5-9 perennials are a must-try new series. Sweet Daisy Series Leucanthemum With a notably extended blooming period and clear white, large flowers, the Sweet Daisy leucanthemum series from Dümmen Orange welcomes two new introductions. Sweet Daisy Cher features impressively large spider-type blooms and Sweet Daisy Sofie displays clear white spoon-type flowers. First-year flowering and hardy to zone 5, the Sweet Daisy series is a solid addition to perennial programs.
Wild Romance White
Bloomtastic Rose Quartz
SpinTop Red Starburst
Sweet Daisy Cher
Mix-and-Match Perennial Combinations Dümmen Orange continues to innovate with combination programs; this time around, it’s phenomenal first-year flowering perennial mixes. Comprised of their most advanced genetics, these combinations feature 21 interchangeable cultivars matched in blooming time, including Sweet Daisy leucanthemum, SpinTop gaillardia, Leading Lady coreopsis and Salute salvia.These combinations are not only spectacular at retail, they transition from striking patio planters into garden accents that bloom year after year.
Florist Holland Garvinea ® Sweet Love The Garvinea series of gerbera have become the industry favorite for summer-long performance of a heat tolerant gerbera with out- standing disease resistance and flower power, even through hot climates.The new Sweet Love is a vivid red color with a bright yellow center.
Garvenea Sweet Love
Patio ® Series Gerbera The Patio series of gerbera have been recognized as the largest flowering gerbera series available.As the name suggests though, these varieties are best suited to patio container gardens and as a centerpiece to combination planters.The three new colors are a full two weeks faster to finish than the original varieties, with fuller overall plant habits and an abundance of flower power. Sedona is an eye-catching deep red with black center and Capitol Reef andVolcanoes Improved are both stunning bicolor patterns.
Patio Gerbera Capitol Reef
Patio Gerbera Volcanoes Improved
Patio Gerbera Sedona
Gediflora Gediflora is a premium breeder of Belgian Mums worldwide.They breed in one class of plants and they do it to exceptional standards. For the North American market, Gediflora has relocated their stock base to Aris in South Florida.This farm has a long history of producing outstanding cuttings for theYoder brand and Gediflora believes it will deliver a better cutting of their genetics for North American growers.
TrioMix Combinations It takes a very detailed breeding effort to create so many varieties that are so perfectly matched for vigor, timing and flower power. Gediflora offers a full range of TrioMix combinations that do just that. These mixes create perfect spheres of color that will definitely add excitement to your autumn lineup. Jasoda Pink Improved Chrysanthemum This new addition to the Jasoda lineup is a rich dark pink that retains color well through the season.The Jasoda series is more restrained in vigor, allowing growers to produce in smaller quart containers without the use of chemical growth regulators. They make for great season extenders in the south and have been one of the best performing lines on the west coast. Vigorelli Red Chrysanthemum The Vigorelli family has medium vigor plants that offer great season extending and late autumn sales opportunities.The newVigorelli Red offers a third color, allowing for a mix between the Red, Orange and Violet. ZaZa Purple Chrysanthemum Striking dark purple, fully decorative flowers in the garden in mid to late September. The plants have a perfectly rounded shape and great flexibility for shipping. Livia Pink Chrysanthemum Livia Pink offers gardeners an elegant darker pink flower naturally flowering in late September and retaining that rich pink color well throughout the season. Venos Yellow Chrysanthemum This early September flowering variety is absolutely loaded with fully decorative, dark yellow blooms. This versatile variety is also suitable for indoor production.
TriMix Combinations
Jasoda Pink Improved
Vigorelli Red
ZaZa Purle
Livia Pink
Venos Yellow
Hort Couture Glitterati Diva Queen Geranium
Glitterati Diva Queen displays chartreuse leaves with deep purple- red zoning contrasted with a non-stop display of medium sized hot pink flowers that cannot be missed. It brings a new addition to one of Hort Couture’s current best sellers, Glitterati Ice Queen. Diva Queen has the tremendous garden performance and toughness that runs in the family. A Lil in Da Nile Cyperus A Lil in Da Nile has the graceful, architectural and dramatic look of cyperus but without the aggressive behavior. It reaches a manageable height of 12- to 18-inches. The attractive bloom texture, combined with the naturally compact habit makes this a fantastic item for mixed containers. Under the Sea Coleus Still a very popular part of the Hort Couture collection, the Under the Sea varieties have great display power in retail displays and in combination containers. Pink Reef and Yellowfin Tuna certainly grabbed our attention.
Glitterati Diva Queen
A Lil in Da Nile
Under the Sea Mixture
Israeli Group: Cohen, Hishtil and Jaldety Arizona Series Thunbergia
Undoubtedly the most exciting introduction of this site were the new colors in the Arizona series of thunbergia. These were not your typical colors (or flower sizes). These mega-sized blooms came in colors completely dif- ferent from anything we’ve ever seen before. Crystal clear whites and bright vivid pinks are certainly going to add some new life to the class. Fast growing with an abun- dance of flowers, these will be a great addition to vine programs next spring.The Arizona series now has a total of 8 varieties with the 3 new ones this year: Pink, Rose Sensation andWhite Halo. Crimson & Gold Oxalis What’s so cool about this? Typically we think of oxalis as being strictly an ornamental foliage crop, but this new oxalis tuberosum from Hishtil have these large edible tubers; about the size of fingerling potatoes.These tubers are full of Vitamin B, C and iron and make a great treat at the end of the season for the gardener. Glow Series Petunias This medium vigor series of petunias is well suited for gallon and larger containers, and is recognized by the bright eye- catching colors across the line. They are generally early varieties, performing in lower light and temperatures, for great first-to-market plants. Tropical Pink and Stardust were two colors in this year’s show that really grabbed our attention. Jessica’s Sweet Pear Mint No, this is not a pear-flavored mint, but rather pear shaped in habit. Unlike traditional mints that spread and invade an entire herb combination container, Jessica’s Sweet Pear has a most unique upright habit—one that we’ve never seen before in this genus.
Arizona Rose Sensation
Crimson and Gold
Glow Series
jessica’s Sweet Pear
Kientzler North America
Beezar Bidens We’re very excited about these new bidens hybrids because they’re bringing the innovative orange and red colors into a more manageable production plant. They have the same compact and rounded habit of Popstar, along with daylength neutrality, large flowers and fast flowering.The Beezar bidens will be suitable for anything from quarts to hanging baskets. Fire Wheel is the more compact selection with dark red and orange flowers, and Funny Honey is slightly more open with brighter orange and gold tones perfect for combination containers.
Beezer Fire Wheel
Beezer Funny Honey
Veranda Blue Picotee This was the most impressive new selection in the Veranda Series. The blue and white picotee is a striking pattern and the flowers change to various shades of blue as they age, adding further dimension to the plant. Very early to flower,Veranda Blue Picotee is a great early season starter and can be programmed for late February sales through the remainder of spring. The full plants have great weather tolerance and bounce back quickly from summer rains. They have a strong habit that will easily fill out hanging baskets and patio containers.
Veranda Blue Picotee
Veranda Compact Sugar Plum Petunia Veranda Compact Sugar Plum sets the standard for a new series being developed by Kientzler.The plant habit stays compact without chemical growth regulators and maintains tight density throughout the greenhouse production and throughout its life in the garden. Compact Sugar Plum is early to flower and can be scheduled with reliable natural flowering from late February though the spring. The compact nature makes them ideal for 4-inch containers, but they offer enough vigor to be used in hanging baskets and combination planters as well.
Veranda Compact Sugar Plum
PAC Impacio ® New Guinea Impatiens
We all know PAC for their world-class geranium breeding, but this new series of new guinea impatiens has some real potential to be an industry-leading line.The key messaging on these new guineas is that they do not require warmer temperatures like traditional new guinea crops.This means a grower can put these in side-by-side with their calibrachoas, petunias, lobelias and not have a longer crop time, but finish them on a standard new guinea schedule. That’s big news, especially for small to mid-sized growers that don’t want to break out too many different growing zones. Besides growing cooler than other new guineas, the Impacio line was trialed last summer in Australia with outstanding tolerance to heat and sun. The series is launched with 17 colors for a full spectrum of color. Cassiopeia ® Geranium This was an early release last year with limited availability, but Cassiopeia has made its mark as a strong candidate in the interspecific geranium market. The plants are much more well-branched than industry-standard type interspecifics with smaller leaves, so it can be done in smaller containers earlier in the season without the use of chemical growth regulators. There is still just 1 color available, but the rich velvety red is definitely in demand. Darko ® Geranium The Darko line from PAC has gained a lot of popularity in recent years, mainly due to the really dark green foliage that highlights the flower color better and the more compact habit that allows the plants to be produced in quart containers without chemical growth regulators.The 3 new varieties, Blue, Soft Pink and SpanishWine Rosé all have unique flower colors that contrast great against the foliage.
Impacio Melon Star
Impacio Soft Pink
Impacio Purple Star
Impacio White
Impacio Purple
Cassiopeia
Darko Spanish Wine Rosé
Summerina Electra Shock
Summerina Pumpernickel
Summerina Butterscotch
Feather Falls
Ribbon Falls
Frostkiss Anna’s Red
Pacific Plug & Liner Summerina ® Electra Shock Echibeckia ®
Electra Shock is a new selection with unique quill type flowers giving it a spider mum appearance. In cooler weather the flowers have a bronze tinge, in warmer weather the flowers will appear more yellow in color. With the mum-like appearance this variety is great for fall sales and because flowers can last up to 10 weeks it will have a much longer shelf life. Summerina ® Pumpernickel Echibeckia ® Pumpernickel is a new selection with two-toned toasted brown with espresso flowers that more closely matches the habit of the orange and yellow varieties vs. brown which has a more compact habit. In warmer climates, Pumpernickel will more closely resemble orange and deepen with cooling weather. Summerina ® Butterscotch Biscuit Echibeckia ® Butterscotch Biscuit has bold butter yellow and orange two-toned, flowers with a light colored eye, making this variety the brightest in the series. Flowers are giant-sized, even surpassingYellow, getting upwards of 6-inch in diameter, making Butterscotch Biscuit the largest flower size in the series. Feather Falls™ Carex A vigorous, super-sized variegated carex that will work in almost any landscape condition. Cold or hot, no problem! Feather Falls proves its toughness in the summer months by tolerating full sun conditions without burning. It also thrives in shady conditions. Ribbon Falls™ Carex Ribbon Falls is the green version of the super vigorous Feather Falls so you can expect the same vigor and plant performance. Ribbon Falls will do well in hot and cold climates and can be planted in shade to full sun. Great in containers, but also a great item for the landscape. Frostkiss ® Hellebore These hellebores are a unique group of hybrids that have both marbled foliage traditionally seen in ericsmithii types and rich colored blooms usually seen in orientalis types. After over a decade of meticulous breeding work, plus years of perfecting propagation practices, they were able to bring to the U.S. market the most exciting group of hellebores seen in years. Frostkiss varieties also bloom 1 year from planting, vs. the 2 years that traditional varieties take. And they flower later than most hellebores, so they’ll time in with other early spring flowering perennials, whereas traditional varieties typically flower before the gardening season begins.
PanAmerican Seed Purple Prince Alternanthera
PanAmerican Seed has developed the first-ever compact alternanthera from seed. Purple Prince offers gardeners and professional landscapers all-summer performance through any conditions, including drought and rain. These plants make a carpet of ruby/burgundy foliage, a unique color accent that is perfect for low-maintenance landscape installations and as a spiller in high-impact cityscape containers. Megawatt Red Bronze Leaf Begonia Megawatt debuted for 2017 as a fresh, high-energy option in begonias, pushing this must-have class to a whole new level with great timing benefits, a unique color, ultimate garden power and more. These bigger-than-life hybrids open the door to earlier spring sales for gardens, planters and baskets. Megawatt Red Bronze Leaf is the newest color in a series of 5. Kirigami Ornamental Oregano This plant was an absolute hit across the trials this spring.The perfect patio plant, this eye-catching, non-culinary oregano features large purple-green bracts, rose flowers and clear, light green foliage, with a delicious fragrance to attract pollinators. this dense, mounded, slightly trailing plant has a tighter and fuller habit than standard vegetative varieties, so it holds up better in shipping and on the retail bench. Higher light and cooler night temperatures accent the purple bract color. Akila ® Grand Canyon Mixture Osteospermum The most compact seed series matches or surpasses any vegetative series for easy, no-pinch production.The series has amazing uniformity across all colors and since each variety flowers within 10 days of the series, they can be mixed in the same container, making for a pretty cool spring product. The excellent branching assures full, well-rounded containers and great bench-to-garden performance. Lucky Star Pentas This new series of pentas is bred for the fastest follow-up blooming of any pentas on the market. Nonstop color means plants look better getting off the truck and they just keep getting better in the store. Plus, this color-rich series has a tight, compact habit that keeps them looking tidy with virtually no effort.These plants deliver continuous, showstopping color on full, lush plants all summer long.
Purple Prince
Megawatt Red Bronze
Kirigami Ornamental
Grand Canyon Mixture
Lucky Star White
PlantHaven Painter™ Romantic France Dahlia
All we can say is,“Wow!” to this new Painter dahlia line from PlantHaven. From the excessively large flower size to the most unique array of colors splashed across each individual petal, these dahlias are sure to be show-stoppers in summer gardens and containers. The 4-inch wide blooms of Romantic France boast a jaw-dropping display of burgundy, pink and copper hues on strong,sturdy upright stems. These tremendous flowers grow on medium vigor plants; excellent for gallon production or as a thriller in mixed containers.
Porcelain Blue
Hillier™ Porcelain Blue Corydalis Some people thought this plant had to be an April fool’s joke … surely there can’t be a plant this unique in color, this fragrant and this adaptable to sun or shade conditions. But it is!This new hybrid corydalis is nothing short of amazing. Compact and free flowering, it blooms nonstop from spring through autumn; not suffering from full sun or summer’s heat like traditional varieties. In addition to the bright, aqua blue fragrant flowers, the plant boasts very attractive foliage in blue-green hues along with bronze tones on dark stems. Porcelain Blue is sure to be one of the most attractive perennial plants for sun or shade gardens.
Painter Romantic France
Painter Pink Kisses
Bodacious Rhythm & Blues Salvia This striking salvia was the top pick from PlantHaven’s fall open house in 2016 and it certainly put on a springtime display every bit as impressive. This new x guaranitica hybrid from specialist salvia breeder Kermit Carter puts on an exceptional show.This new hybrid has medium sized dark green foliage, maintaining the dark color throughout the season. Plants are covered with long flowers stems, elegant black calyxes that carry the larger saturated dark blue flowers.These plants were real hummingbird magnets at the trials and displayed a rich color that really grabbed our eyes.
Cocktail
CULTURE
Cocktail Culture Also new this year at PlantHaven was their new Cocktail Culture Guide. It was certainly a fun way to present the cultural growing requirements of each of their signature plants for this season, as
each was paired along with a custom cocktail and recipe to enjoy after a long hard day in the nursery.
Bodacious Rythm & Blues
Proven Winners Annuals Superbells ® Double Flowering Calibrachoa
The industry has long waited for options on the double flowering calibrachoa. This year Proven Winners made a licensing agreement with Selecta, who owns the double-flowering utility patent, and is bringing some really great new Superbells to the market. Superbells Double Orchid and Superbells Double Ruby both present exquisite fully double flowers on bushy, cascading stems from spring into fall without deadheading. Superbells ® Blue Moon Punch Calibrachoa The arrestingly unique color of the new Blue Moon Punch stopped us in our tracks! Cool lavender blooms with a deep purple eye and black throat transition to silvery light purple as they age. Larger than typical Superbells, the flowers appear on cascading stems early in the season and continue to bloom into fall without deadheading. Bright Lights™ Double Moonglow Osteospermum This new look in osteospermum is perfect for your spring collection. Everyone loves daisies, and this double-flowered selection is twice as nice with its large, white flowers and showy yellow centers.The center petals pull double duty too by keeping the flowers open all day, unlike single cultivars, which tend to close in low light.This variety is cold tolerant but can take more heat than typical osteospermums, which helps to keep them in flower all season long. Supertunia ® Lovie Dovie Petunia Patterned petunias are definitely in style, a new novelty for gardeners young and old. Give them what they want with this ruffled, white-flowered selection bearing a magenta pink star pattern consistently on every petal.This variety stands up with the same durability as the rest of the Supertunia collection, with plenty of flower-power and all-summer garden performance. Grow it in hanging baskets with other medium vigor varieties or create an outstanding monoculture specimen in an equally showy upright container. Intensia ® Red Hot Phlox We’ve found the ideal plant to include in your patriot combinations in the new Intensia Red Hot phlox.True red flowers are produced prolifically from early spring through fall on mid-sized plants that make perfect fillers in hanging baskets, upright containers and landscapes.This species of phlox is extremely tolerant of sun, heat, humidity and drought, so it’s the perfect choice to showcase in your displays in the heat of summer when some other plants might be struggling.
Superbells Double Orchid
Superbells Blue Moon Punch
Bright Lights Double Moonglow
Supertnia Lovie Dovie
Intensia Red Hot
Proven Winners Perennials Fruit Punch ® Classic Coral Dianthus
Classic Coral brings a completely new color to the Fruit Punch series. These plants were putting on quite the show with striking double- coral blooms over a tight mound of blue-green foliage. The blooms were very fragrant, making them a great impulse buy at retail when displayed in a large mass. As with the rest of the Fruit Punch series, Classic Coral is heat and humidity tolerant, so plants will come into reflower through the summer if they are sheared back after the first bloom. The plants are reported to be hardy through Zone 4. Primo™ Wild Rose Heuchera This easily distinguishable heuchera stood out with its large leaves and bright, uniquely colored foliage.The plants form a dense habit of large, bright rosy-purple leaves with deep charcoal gray veining. The prominent dark veining really allows the foliage color to pop, making it a great choice for shade. Upright, dark burgundy-rose flower scapes have matching dark buds that open to rosy pink flowers. Primo is a new line from ProvenWinners, which are faster growing and more aggressive in the landscape than Dolce varieties. Winecraft Black™ Cotinus Winecraft Black is the first Proven Winners smokebush, so you know it must be special. In spring, round leaves emerge rich purple but as summer’s heat comes on, they turn a deep near-black tone and finally light up in an array of reds and oranges in fall. In early summer, large, soft panicles of bloom appear that become the misty “smoke” that makes this such a popular landscape plant. Unlike other smokebush varieties, it naturally has a rounded, dwarf habit, which allows it to fit in more tidy garden spaces. At Last ® Rose Proven Winners is very excited to introduce their new fragrant, disease free rose…At Last! This rose combines all the romance of a fragrant, fully-petaled tea rose with the no-nonsense practicality of a disease-resistant landscape rose. No spraying is required to enjoy a non-stop display of large, sweetly perfumed sunset-orange blossoms from late spring through frost.
Fruit Punch Classic Coral
PrimoWild Rose
Ketchup ’n’ Fries by TomTato ®
Winecraft Black
At Last
Plug Connection
Super Dwarfs Tomatoes This is a collection of sturdy dwarf tomatoes that combine the best characteristics of the determinate and indeterminate plant habit. The plants remain small but continue to fruit. The plants max out at 3-feet in height and there is a wide variety of fruit shapes and sizes offered in the collection, including fruits over 1 pound. These plants are easy to grow in containers on balconies or wherever space is limited. There are 8 varieties total in the collection, including varieties ‘Boronia’, ‘Geranium Kiss’, ‘INDIGO Dwarf Shadowboxing’, ‘Perth Pride’, ‘Sleeping Lady’,‘Iditarod Red’,‘Rosella Purple’ and ‘Tasmanian Chocolate’.
Tessera Succulents Plug Connection’s Tessera collection includes more than 125 varieties of high-demand succulents in 72 or 102 trays. With the acquisition of EuroAmerican, they are offering an expanded line which will leverage their now significant internal stock for better availabilities.Assortments will also be available with 6 options of Sempervivum, Echeveria, Sedum or Grower Choice mixed trays. Lime Sizzler Hamelia This tender heat-loving perennial grows into a woody shrub. Striking green and yellow foliage with sizzling red-orange flowers create a unique item for summer patio containers or mass plantings. It should be grown as an annual in colder climates. Pink Passion Cordyline This cultivar is a very showy sport of cordyline australis ‘Red Star’ with clusters of arching, sword-like leaves that are a startling dark grayish purple color with bold neon pink leaf margins.
Lime Sizzler
Pink Passion
Pink Zazzle Gomphrena Beautiful, jumbo sized, long-lasting pink flowers. These drought and heat tolerant plants excel in full sun and part shade. In addition to the unique magenta blooms, the foliage has extra wide fuzzy leaves.
After Glow
Pink Zazzle
Royal Van Zanten
Hot Topic Celosia With gently waving ‘plumes’ in fluorescent colors, RoyalVan Zanten’s celosia HotTopic has a unique flower and is suitable as an indoor plant as well as a garden plant planted in a pot, dish or in the flower border. Celosia demands little maintenance and will continue to flower beautifully for three months. The colors are unbelievably matched in timing and size and can be mixed from unrooted cuttings for vibrant mixes. Javalin Celosia This compact celosia has long purple spear- shaped flowers with excellent color retention and beautiful dark colored leaves.An exciting new variety that can be used in autumn mixes outside or as potted plant indoor. Showmakers Aster This beautiful 5-colored series is loaded with double flowers which extend shelf-life up to 10 – 14 days. The excellent branching, good growth habit and bright colors make these ideal for indoor pot crops or in fall combination planters. Tiara Aster These beautiful daisy flowers have a double or triple row of petals giving an abundance of color on every bloom. Excellent both indoors and out, they can be produced year- round with black out conditions for indoor sales or naturally outdoors for autumn.
Hot Topic Clown
Javalin
Showmakers Purple Delight
Tiara Amethyst
Bodacious Rhythm & Blues Salvia This striking salvia was the top pick from PlantHaven’s fall open house in 2016 and it certainly put on a springtime display every bit as impressive. This new x guaranitica hybrid from specialist salvia breeder Kermit Carter puts on an exceptional show.This new hybrid has medium sized dark green foliage, maintaining the dark color throughout the season. Plants are covered with long flowers stems, elegant black calyxes that carry the larger saturated dark blue flowers.These plants were real hummingbird magnets at the trials and displayed a rich color that really grabbed our eyes.
Cocktail
CULTURE
Cocktail Culture Also new this year at PlantHaven was their new Cocktail Culture Guide. It was certainly a fun way to present the cultural growing requirements of each of their signature plants for this season, as
each was paired along with a custom cocktail and recipe to enjoy after a long hard day in the nursery.
Bodacious Rythm & Blues
Proven Winners Annuals Superbells ® Double Flowering Calibrachoa
The industry has long waited for options on the double flowering calibrachoa. This year Proven Winners made a licensing agreement with Selecta, who owns the double-flowering utility patent, and is bringing some really great new Superbells to the market. Superbells Double Orchid and Superbells Double Ruby both present exquisite fully double flowers on bushy, cascading stems from spring into fall without deadheading. Superbells ® Blue Moon Punch Calibrachoa The arrestingly unique color of the new Blue Moon Punch stopped us in our tracks! Cool lavender blooms with a deep purple eye and black throat transition to silvery light purple as they age. Larger than typical Superbells, the flowers appear on cascading stems early in the season and continue to bloom into fall without deadheading. Bright Lights™ Double Moonglow Osteospermum This new look in osteospermum is perfect for your spring collection. Everyone loves daisies, and this double-flowered selection is twice as nice with its large, white flowers and showy yellow centers.The center petals pull double duty too by keeping the flowers open all day, unlike single cultivars, which tend to close in low light.This variety is cold tolerant but can take more heat than typical osteospermums, which helps to keep them in flower all season long. Supertunia ® Lovie Dovie Petunia Patterned petunias are definitely in style, a new novelty for gardeners young and old. Give them what they want with this ruffled, white-flowered selection bearing a magenta pink star pattern consistently on every petal.This variety stands up with the same durability as the rest of the Supertunia collection, with plenty of flower-power and all-summer garden performance. Grow it in hanging baskets with other medium vigor varieties or create an outstanding monoculture specimen in an equally showy upright container. Intensia ® Red Hot Phlox We’ve found the ideal plant to include in your patriot combinations in the new Intensia Red Hot phlox.True red flowers are produced prolifically from early spring through fall on mid-sized plants that make perfect fillers in hanging baskets, upright containers and landscapes.This species of phlox is extremely tolerant of sun, heat, humidity and drought, so it’s the perfect choice to showcase in your displays in the heat of summer when some other plants might be struggling.
Superbells Double Orchid
Superbells Blue Moon Punch
Bright Lights Double Moonglow
Supertnia Lovie Dovie
Intensia Red Hot
Proven Winners Perennials Fruit Punch ® Classic Coral Dianthus
Classic Coral brings a completely new color to the Fruit Punch series. These plants were putting on quite the show with striking double- coral blooms over a tight mound of blue-green foliage. The blooms were very fragrant, making them a great impulse buy at retail when displayed in a large mass. As with the rest of the Fruit Punch series, Classic Coral is heat and humidity tolerant, so plants will come into reflower through the summer if they are sheared back after the first bloom. The plants are reported to be hardy through Zone 4. Primo™ Wild Rose Heuchera This easily distinguishable heuchera stood out with its large leaves and bright, uniquely colored foliage.The plants form a dense habit of large, bright rosy-purple leaves with deep charcoal gray veining. The prominent dark veining really allows the foliage color to pop, making it a great choice for shade. Upright, dark burgundy-rose flower scapes have matching dark buds that open to rosy pink flowers. Primo is a new line from ProvenWinners, which are faster growing and more aggressive in the landscape than Dolce varieties. Winecraft Black™ Cotinus Winecraft Black is the first Proven Winners smokebush, so you know it must be special. In spring, round leaves emerge rich purple but as summer’s heat comes on, they turn a deep near-black tone and finally light up in an array of reds and oranges in fall. In early summer, large, soft panicles of bloom appear that become the misty “smoke” that makes this such a popular landscape plant. Unlike other smokebush varieties, it naturally has a rounded, dwarf habit, which allows it to fit in more tidy garden spaces. At Last ® Rose Proven Winners is very excited to introduce their new fragrant, disease free rose…At Last! This rose combines all the romance of a fragrant, fully-petaled tea rose with the no-nonsense practicality of a disease-resistant landscape rose. No spraying is required to enjoy a non-stop display of large, sweetly perfumed sunset-orange blossoms from late spring through frost.
Fruit Punch Classic Coral
PrimoWild Rose
Ketchup ’n’ Fries by TomTato ®
Winecraft Black
At Last
Plug Connection
Super Dwarfs Tomatoes This is a collection of sturdy dwarf tomatoes that combine the best characteristics of the determinate and indeterminate plant habit. The plants remain small but continue to fruit. The plants max out at 3-feet in height and there is a wide variety of fruit shapes and sizes offered in the collection, including fruits over 1 pound. These plants are easy to grow in containers on balconies or wherever space is limited. There are 8 varieties total in the collection, including varieties ‘Boronia’, ‘Geranium Kiss’, ‘INDIGO Dwarf Shadowboxing’, ‘Perth Pride’, ‘Sleeping Lady’,‘Iditarod Red’,‘Rosella Purple’ and ‘Tasmanian Chocolate’.
Tessera Succulents Plug Connection’s Tessera collection includes more than 125 varieties of high-demand succulents in 72 or 102 trays. With the acquisition of EuroAmerican, they are offering an expanded line which will leverage their now significant internal stock for better availabilities.Assortments will also be available with 6 options of Sempervivum, Echeveria, Sedum or Grower Choice mixed trays. Lime Sizzler Hamelia This tender heat-loving perennial grows into a woody shrub. Striking green and yellow foliage with sizzling red-orange flowers create a unique item for summer patio containers or mass plantings. It should be grown as an annual in colder climates. Pink Passion Cordyline This cultivar is a very showy sport of cordyline australis ‘Red Star’ with clusters of arching, sword-like leaves that are a startling dark grayish purple color with bold neon pink leaf margins.
Lime Sizzler
Pink Passion
Pink Zazzle Gomphrena Beautiful, jumbo sized, long-lasting pink flowers. These drought and heat tolerant plants excel in full sun and part shade. In addition to the unique magenta blooms, the foliage has extra wide fuzzy leaves.
After Glow
Pink Zazzle
Royal Van Zanten
Hot Topic Celosia With gently waving ‘plumes’ in fluorescent colors, RoyalVan Zanten’s celosia HotTopic has a unique flower and is suitable as an indoor plant as well as a garden plant planted in a pot, dish or in the flower border. Celosia demands little maintenance and will continue to flower beautifully for three months. The colors are unbelievably matched in timing and size and can be mixed from unrooted cuttings for vibrant mixes. Javalin Celosia This compact celosia has long purple spear- shaped flowers with excellent color retention and beautiful dark colored leaves.An exciting new variety that can be used in autumn mixes outside or as potted plant indoor. Showmakers Aster This beautiful 5-colored series is loaded with double flowers which extend shelf-life up to 10 – 14 days. The excellent branching, good growth habit and bright colors make these ideal for indoor pot crops or in fall combination planters. Tiara Aster These beautiful daisy flowers have a double or triple row of petals giving an abundance of color on every bloom. Excellent both indoors and out, they can be produced year- round with black out conditions for indoor sales or naturally outdoors for autumn.
Hot Topic Clown
Javalin
Showmakers Purple Delight
Tiara Amethyst
Sakata Candy Tops Snapdragon
This is a brand new series for Sakata this year and has been introduced with 5 colors and a mix.These plants definitely play well with others, making them an ideal choice as a thriller in combination planters. We were impressed by the overall stem strength, making them very shippable for better retail presentation.These plants all had loads of color and were surprisingly fragrant! SuperCal ® Buttercream and Crimson Red Petchoa These petchoa hybrids never seem to disappoint in the garden or containers. With perfect attributes from each parent, they have intense, bold colored blooms on vigorous, non-fussy plants for the garden with excellent mildew resistance and all-weather color. Two new colors this year include a beautiful Buttercream which will be stunning in combinations both spring and fall, and Crimson Red which is a deep, velvety color that definitely commands attention. Party Time™ Ruby Punch and Red Bolero Coleus The Party Time series is characterized by its full, yet compact habit and controlled growth in great contrasting colors. Sun and shade loving, this is a wonderful coleus for individual or mixed containers. Party Time now includes six festive colors including Ruby Punch and Red Bolero, both new this year. Petunia ColorWorks™ Ruby Star and Pink Star The ColorWorks series introduces two stunning new colors.Ruby Star is a beautiful burgundy with a great star pattern and Pink Star is bright, vibrant pink that really wowed us. Overall we’ve been very impressed with the vigor and habits of the previous ColorWorks introductions. The semi-upright and well-branched plants make superb quarts at retail and fill out nicely in the garden.
Candy Tops Mix
SuperCal Buttercream
Party Time Ruby Punch
ColorWorks Ruby Star
Schoneveld Allure Series Cyclamen
Allure is an intermediate sized line from seed that are best suited to 4- and 5-inch containers.They have become a very popular choice with growers because of their uniformity and overabundance of flowers across the series.
Sprinkles Series Ranunculus The Sprinkles series is a compact line of ranunculus, which flourishes at relatively cool temperatures. It’s one of the first crops in the garden center in early spring and they make a fantastic thriller to the center of early combination containers. The series now includes 8 bright colors:Yellow, Light Yellow, White, Red, Orange, Pink, Pink Bicolor andViolet Bicolor.
Selecta One 4D™ Sunburst Osteospermum
This bright and colorful osteo stays open 24/7 at retail to greet early shoppers, so it’s always ready to be sold. At home, 4D is the only osteo gardeners can enjoy before heading to work and again when they come home at night. New color addition Sunburst shines in two-tone style, with buttery yellow petals around a bold, yellow, crested center for crowd-pleasing color all day long.
Main Stage™ Violet Picotee Petunia Main Stage is a show-stopping new series for Selecta One. Bred for use in large baskets and window boxes, Main Stage makes a bravo-worthy impression with its cool, trailing look. With 10 popular colors, this stunning series includes a garden standout in Violet Picotee. Bright violet blooms with a clean white, consistent edge make this one pop. It was also trialed in the ground all over the U.S. and was found to be a star garden performer that stayed in color all summer long.
Main Stage Violet Picotee
4D Sunburst
Headliner™ Pink Sky Petunia Popular Night Sky now has a colorful companion! The new Pink Sky features a hot pink bloom sprinkled with white stars. Light years from usual, this stellar pair features the Headliner habit that’s ideal for 10- to 12-inch hanging baskets. This star-spattered pattern is lighting up social media! Leverage the trend and join the conversation with this electric duo.
Headliner Pink Sky
Headliner Night Sky
Marcada™ Magenta Interspecific Geranium Another option for interspecific geraniums, the Marcada Series features three vibrant colors: Pink, Dark Red and Magenta. This heat-tolerant geranium offers nonstop flowering for attention grabbing summer baskets. Pair striking Magenta’s rich, purple-red color with bold Pink for a magnificent basket mix.
Marcada Magenta
Syngenta Flowers Sunfinity™ Sunflowers
It took nearly 10 years to develop Sunfinity, Syngenta’s branded sunflower that offers nonstop blooming, multiple branches and more flowers all season long. Unlike traditional sunflowers that produce one flower late in the season and then die, Sunfinity will continually bloom, with an average of 50 blooms per plant from late spring through late summer or fall.These vigorous sunflowers will grow to garden heights of 36 to 48 inches and widths of 24 to 36 inches and are ideal for large garden spaces and patios. Obsession Cascade Verbena Another unique innovation in breeding, this is the first-ever trailing verbena offered from seed. Obsession Cascade will quickly fill pots and baskets with vibrant, one-of-a-kind flower patterns. Obsession Cascade is hearty and continues to perform and flower in the garden through summer conditions and makes a great value item for hanging baskets and combinations. Calliope Medium and Large Last year, Syngenta introduced the first Calliope Medium varieties, and renamed the existing varieties as Calliope Large.The new classification has definitely helped growers program these groups of very impressive interspecific geraniums.The medium varieties are better suited for quart and gallon containers and now come in three colors, including Deep Rose, Red and Violet. The large varieties that are stellar for hanging baskets and landscapes have two new additions;:Calliope Large Magenta and Calliope Large Salmon.
Sunfinity
Obession Cascade Purple Shades
Obession Cascade Pink Shaeds
Calliope Medium Deep Rose
Calliope Large White
Suntory Flowers Grandessa Argyranthemum
Suntory’s Grandessa argyranthemum are now available as unrooted cuttings and make an unbelievable statement in the garden center. What sets Grandessa apart from standard argyranthemums is its impressive flower size and vigor, achieved through an intergeneric hybrid cross protected by a utility patent. Highly advanced breeding has created a superior result. Grandessa’s flowers are more than twice the size of a standard argyranthemum and span 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Million Bells Butter Pop Calibrachoa This gorgeous new addition to the Million Bells mounding series is bursting with vibrant popcorn-colored blooms.Two-toned flowers are pale yellow with dark yellow centers.The habit is compact and early flowering compared to traditional Million Bells. Surfinia Trailing Red Petunia Surfinia is the flagship brand that launched Suntory Flowers, as well as a global revolution in vegetative annuals.And the new petunias are even better than ever. Enter the new SurfiniaTrailing Red. Plants offer a gorgeous trailing habit for premium baskets and planters and large, nonfading vibrant flowers. Habit is fuller than the top-selling Surfinia Deep Red, which is more compact. This essential color is perfect for patriotic combos.
Grandessa Series
Million Bells Butter Pop
Surfinia Trailing Red
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