New Varieties:
Verbena Firehouse from Ball FloraPlant is the perfect medium-mounded basket verbena. Firehouse launches with nine colors in the series. Each has excellent powdery mildew resistance and makes a great combo component.
Dianthus Corona from PanAmerican Seed has some of the biggest blooms for a dianthus of this type. Exceptional flower form and a palette of show-stopping color choices makes Corona a regal choice for cool-season landscapes, gardens and patio planters. It features uniform flowering time and habit.
The Calibrachoa MiniFamous Uno Double from Selecta One series is an early-to-finish, medium-compact calibrachoa with uniform flower timing across the series. Pinktastic, pictured here, features heavily contrasted double flowers and a ball-shaped habit that is half trailing. A Fleuroselect winner for 2017!
Salvia Sky Blue Marvel from Darwin Perennials is a light-blue addition to the Marvel family, with the same great habit as Blue and Rose Marvel. It has the largest flowers of any Salvia nemorosa on the market. Little to no maintenance required in the garden. Hardy in zones 4-9.
Bushel and Berry Southern Bluebelle from Star Roses and Plants is a petite, low-water and low-chill blueberry plant that displays bright red foliage that turns emerald green as it matures. Perfect for small-space gardens or patios in warmer climates zones 6-10. Plant grows 2-3’ high with a mounded habit. Offers medium-sized berries in the Summer with a mild, sweet flavor.
Beefsteak Tomato Atlas from Burpee lets you pick big, tasty beefsteak flavor right outside your door. The plant’s bushy, compact habit easily shoulders bountiful loads of 1-lb. tomatoes. Atlas is vigorous but grows neatly in patio containers — it has modern performance with old-time flavor.
Hydrangea Kanmara from Ball Ingenuity is a new generation of hydrangea with large, majestic blooms in unique shades and elegant foliage. Kanmara is ideal for the terrace, doorstep or balcony. The beautiful colors of this pot hydrangea guarantee an unrivaled display until well into late Summer or Fall.
Spreading Petunia Easy Wave Red Improved from Wave gets a big-time upgrade for 2019, which moves six eye-catching mixes to the next level, too! Always a standout in the petunia market, bold and creative Easy Wave lets you bring in a wide array of decorator colors. Upgrades include improved seed quality, a denser plant with more branching and shorter peduncles for a more controlled, holdable plant structure.
A bright newcomer, Coreopsis Double the Sun from Kieft Seed is two to three weeks earlier than our Early Sunrise and other comparable varieties. Get this favorite perennial class into the store before any other compact, semi-double yellow coreopsis. Clear, golden yellow flowers are large. Ideal for quart and 1-gallon production in Spring and Summer with 13-hour critical daylength.
Halios Select Victoria 50 Rose With Eye from Morel Diffusion is the crowned flower! Large pink-to-pale-pink petals with eye feature a prominent ruffle effect and contrasting deep magenta edges. Compact growth with abundant highly centered blooms, these varieties have 50 percent fringed and 50 percent standard blooms.
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