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FlowersNew Varieties For 2012
AGASTACHE ‘SUMMER SUNSET’
Terra Nova Nurseries
•Perennial Zone 6, blooms all summer
•Warm, sunset-orange hues brighten
summer borders and containers
•Upright, compact habit
•Grow in full sun
•Loved by hummingbirds
•Heat and Drought tolerant
•Agastache hybrid
ALSTROEMERIA ‘BUTTERFLY HYBRIDS’
•Perennial Zone 5
•Grow in full to part sun beds and
containers
•Suitable for indoor houseplants
•Continues to flower all season in cooler
climates
•Bright bicolor rose blooms
•Alstroemeria var.
Pro-Veg Seeds
ANGELONIA ‘ARCHANGEL PURPLE’•Full sun annual
•Largest flowers of any Angelonia
•Perfect combination of delicate mini-
orchid looking flowers
•Tough as nails, heat and drought
tolerant
•Containers, low edging, water garden
•Blooms late spring through summer
•Angelonia angustifolia
PanAmerican Seed
ANGELONIA ‘SERENA BLUE’•Full sun annual
•Fresh color addition to Serena series
•Performs beautifully in both single and
mixed containers
•Mid-blue flower spikes are prolific
•Continues to flower all summer
•Complements red and yellow annuals
•Angelonia angustifolia
Harris seeds
Harris Seeds
BEGONIA ‘AMOUR’•Most vigorous trailing begonia
•Perfect for large patio pots and hanging
baskets
•Grows quickly and trails from any
container
•Dark foliage makes vivid red flowers
really pop
•Blooms late spring through fall
•Begonia boliviensisBall Horticultural Co.
BEGONIA ‘FAIRYLAND’
Floranova Ltd.
•Attractive compact fibrous begonia
•1-inch blooms are consistently double
•Adds season long color to combination
pots, as a patio specimen, or as a low
edging in landscape plantings
•Grow in sun or shade
•Heat, drought and rain tolerant
•Begonia semperflorens
BEGONIA ‘SANTA CRUZ SUNSET’•Annual for full to partial sun
•Super heat tolerant
•Fiery red-orange blooms cover the
plant from late spring until frost
•Well branched plant looks full and lush
in a pot or hanging basket or in a
garden with a rainbow of other colors
•Begonia boliviensisErnst Benary of America Inc.
BEGONIA ‘WHOPPER RED WITH BRONZE LEAF’
•Shade loving annual
•Huge mounded plant with shiny bronze foliage
•Large 3-inch red blooms
•Makes a bold statement in all garden settings,
containers and baskets
•Blooms late spring through fall
•Begonia hybrid
Ball Horticultural co.
CISTUS ‘MICKIE’•Full sun Perennial Zone 7
•Low, mounding habit hugs the ground
•Creates a colorful evergreen color spot
•Charming 1½ inch white flowers
punctuate flashy variegated foliage in
May and June
•Has survived some brutal winters
•Cistus x hybridus
Terra Nova Nurseries
COLEUS FUSEABLES ‘UNDER THE SUN’
•Annual for part sun to shade
•Great blend of ‘Versa Crimson Gold’
and ‘Versa Lime’ where the maroon red
and gold contrast with chartreuse
•Attractively fills out containers to
accent any patio or deck
•Blooms summer to frost
•Solenostemon scutellariodesHarris Seeds
COLEUS ‘WASABI’•Durable and rugged annual
•Brilliant trendy chartreuse color and
serrated leaves hold up in sun or shade
without fading or spotting
•Tall, bushy, mounded upright habit
•Perfect background for hot pinks and
intense purples in gardens and
containers
•Solenostemon scutellarioidesBall FloraPlant
COSMOS‘DOUBLE CLICK BICOLOR PINK’
•Full sun drought tolerant annual
•Very rare and unique – one of the few
double bicolor Cosmos varieties
•Showy pink and white double blooms
turn every cottage garden into paradise
•Free flowering, blooms all summer long
producing plenty of bouquets
•Cosmos bipinnatusW. Atlee Burpee Co.
CYCLAMEN ‘SWEETHEART SENSATION’
•Perennial Zone 4
•Vigorous, fast growing and hardy
•Hexagonal to octagonal leaves are
silver centered with a dark ring around
the edge
•Lovely large pink flowers on short
stalks from August to November
•Cyclamen hederifolium
Terra Nova Nurseries
DAHLIA ‘DAHLINOVA HYPNOTICA® CHERISH PINK’
•Annual for sun, partial sun or shade
•Large 3-5 inch pink bicolor blooms
•Excellent branching upright habit
•Long flowering from early spring to
frost with great garden performance
•Deadhead for added blooms
• Dahlia hybridFides North America
DAHLIA ‘XXL VERACRUZ’•Full sun annual for patio and garden
•Boasts dramatic 6-inch bicolor blooms
•Tremendous flowers grow on a plant that
doesn’t require staking or extra care
•Strong performer no matter where you
live – cold, heat, drought, rain and wind
tolerant
•Dahlia hybridDummen USA
ECHINACEA ‘ALOHA’•Full sun Perennial Zone 4
•Wide melon-yellow petals surround
orange cones on this summer to frost
bloomer
•Fragrant and elegant welcoming plant
•Use in mass for the border, in a mixed
bed or for a cut flower
•Echinacea hybrid
Terra Nova Nurseries
ECHINACEA‘DOUBLE SCOOP BUBBLE GUM’
•Full sun Perennial Zone 5
•Eye-catching double flower power
•Very hardy and branches well for years of
enjoyment
•Gardeners will love the clean foliage and
brilliantly colored blooms
•Available in Orangeberry and Raspberry
•Echinacea purpurea
Ball Horticultural Co.
ECHINACEA ‘SOMBRERO SALSA RED’•Full sun Perennial Zone 5
•Bright, rich color and long bloom time
•Excellent branching and sturdy stems
•Proven hardiness for years of enjoyment
•Drought tolerant and very floriferous
•Also available in ‘Hot Coral’ and ‘Sandy
Yellow’
•Echinacea purpureaBall Horticultural Co.
GAILLARDIA ‘RED SUN’
•Full sun Perennial Zone 3
•Broad petaled “suns” of hot orange-red
float over the mounded foliage
•Blooms spring, summer and fall
•10 inches tall and 20 inches wide
•Multitude of uses: borders, containers,
mixed bed, mass.
•Gaillardia x grandiflora
Terra Nova Nurseries
GAILLARDIA ‘SUNDANCE RED’•Full sun to partial sun annual
•Deer resistant bushy compact plants
bloom from summer to fall
•Red, puffball blossoms held high above
the foliage create a blaze of color
•Ideal for containers, flower beds and
wildflower patches
•Long lasting cut flower
•Gaillardia pulchellaBotanical Interests
GERANIUM POP IDOLS® LILAC EYE’
•Annual for full to part sun containers,
hanging baskets or low edging
•Enjoy bright eyed lilac blooms from
summer to frost
•Small dark green leaves contrast nicely
with the bright colored blooms
•Compact upright plants
•Pop Idols series available in five colors
•Pelargonium zonaleFides North America
GERBERA ‘JAGUAR
TANGERINE DARK CENTER’•Full sun annual
•Huge 4-inch orange colored blooms
•Displays up to 5 blooms at once
•Expect color all season long with this
beauty
•Upright green plant perfect for garden
edging and containers
•Gerbera jamesoniiSyngenta Flowers
GEUM ‘FIRE STORM’•Full to part sun Perennial Zone 5
•Improved version of ‘Fireball’ with twice
the flower power and half the plant size
•Vigorous, compact and long blooming
•Easy to grow in almost any garden
•Attractive mounded habit
•Geum hybrid
Terra Nova Nurseries
HEUCHERA ‘APPLE CRISP’•Sun or shade Perennial Zone 4
•Tolerant of cold, heat, drought, rain, frost
•Blessed with seriously crisped green
leaves with a white veil
•Attractive combination of tight, compact
habit and short white flower stalks
•Tons of uses - container, low edging,
ground cover or houseplant
•Heuchera hybrid
Terra Nova Nurseries
HEUCHERELLA ‘SOLAR ECLIPSE’•Partial sun Perennial Zone 4
•Leaves of red brown bordered in
lime green
•Broadly scalloped leaf edges
•Vigorous mound of dense crowns
•Beautiful habit ideal for container,
low edging and ground cover
•Heucherella
Terra Nova Nurseries
HIBISCUS ‘MAHOGANY SPLENDOR’
•Full to part sun annual
•Attention grabbing beautiful maple-
leaved deep burgundy foliage
•Shiny tall plants glow in the sun
•Add beautiful color, texture and
height to your landscape
•Does well in very wet conditions
•Hibiscus acetosella
W. Atlee Burpee Co.
IMPATIENS ‘ACCENT PREMIUM RED’
•Shade annual hardy to Zone 11
•Bright red, large 2-inch blooms
provide instant color
•Blooms early spring to frost
•Strong garden performance
•Containers, hanging baskets, and
low edging
•Impatiens wallerianaSyngenta Flowers
IMPATIENS ‘SUNPATIENS® SPREADING CARMINE’
•Annual for full sun to shade
•Brightens your porch or patio from
spring through a light frost
•Outstanding in hot and humid
conditions – it takes the heat!
•Holds up well in wind and rain
•Impatiens x hybrid hortSakata Seed America, Inc.
IMPATIENS NEW GUINEA‘SUPER SONIC® ORANGE ICE’
•Annual for part sun to shade
•Ideal choice for busy home gardeners
•Full-bodied growth habit is well suited to
garden beds and large containers
•Huge flowers up to 3 inches across
provide a high-impact color show all
spring and summer
•Impatiens hawkeriiSyngenta Flowers
LEUCANTHEMUM ‘BRIDAL BOUQUET’
•Full sun Perennial Zone 5
•Lightly ruffled, double, broad-petaled
white flowers are bright yellow when
they first emerge
•No unpleasant “Shasta smell”
•Butterflies and bees love them
•Leucanthemum x superbumTerra Nova Nurseries
LEYCESTERIA ‘JEALOUSY’•Annual for full and partial sun
•Big bushy shape over 24 inches tall
•Purple fruit appear in the fall and
attracts pheasants
•Pairs well with other vigorous plants in
large-size container and performs well
in wetlands
•Leycesteria formosaPanAmerican Seed
LINARIA ‘FANTASY APRICOT’
•Full to partial sun annual
•Flowers look like miniature snapdragons
•Ideal for mass color in the cool times of
the year - spring and fall
•Great color in mixed containers
•10 to 15” plants bloom in profusion
•Linaria maroccana
American Takii, Inc.
MARIGOLD ‘BONANZA DEEP ORANGE’
•Full sun annual
•Double crested flowers are the largest of
this type of French marigold
•Plants are excellent performers under a
wide range of conditions
•Fragrant blooms and foliage attract bees
•You’ll love its low maintenance appeal
•Tagetes patulaPanAmerican Seed
MARIGOLD ‘LOFTY LADY’ F1
•Full sun annual
•Towering 4 foot tall Thai marigold
•Explodes with dazzling yellow 4-inch
blooms on very long stems
•Ideal for vases, blooms impart
distinctively sweet marigold fragrance
•Tagetes erecta
W. Atlee Burpee Co.
NEPETA ‘PURPLE HAZE’•Full sun Perennial Zone 6
•Fabulous addition to rock gardens,
mixed beds, or ground cover on banks
•Versatile plant forms a silver mat with
purple blue flower spikes
•Plants bloom all season long without
maintenance - it never gets messy!
•Nepeta hybridTerra Nova Nurseries
ORNAMENTAL CORN ‘FIELD OF DREAMS’
•Highly variegated green and white
foliage with touches of rose
•Exciting new accent for large
combination pots and landscape
•Grow in sun or shade
•Plants can reach four to five feet tall
•Attractive corn ears have dark kernels
that can be popped
•Zea maysFloranova Ltd.
ORNAMENTAL KALE ‘SONGBIRD’ F1
•Full sun annual
•Colorful rosettes of leaves look like a
large, exotic flower
•Adds color to fall and winter gardens
or containers when temperatures fall
below 55F to 60F degrees
•8-12 inch plants make great edging
•Brassica oleraceaAmerican Takii, Inc.
OSTEOSPERMUM ‘FIRE BURST’
Sakata Seed America Inc.
•Full to part sun annual
•This cape daisy offers an incredibly
unique color bloom to gardeners
•Rust colored blooms contain a hint
of purple with a dark eye
•Wonderful in containers
•Osteospermum hybrid
OSTEOSPERMUM ‘3D PINK’
Ball FloraPlant
•Full to part sun annual
•This osteo doesn’t close! It’s double
blooms stay open all day and night
for high-impact garden appeal
•Perfect for cool-season decorating
•3D available in pink, silver or purple
•Osteospermum ecklonis
OSTEOSPERMUM ‘MARGARITA NANO’
Fides North America
•Full to part sun annual
•Provides continuous color to your
garden, containers and hanging baskets
•Create a stunning centerpiece by
grouping 5 plants in a low container
•Cold, rain and wind tolerant ground
cover or at the front of your flower beds
•Osteospermum ecklonis
PANSY ‘COLOSSUS FIRE’
Syngenta Flowers
•Full sun annual
•Huge, upward-facing blooms cover the
neat and tidy plants
•Bicolor flowers add pizzazz to gardens
•Great for spring and fall patio
containers and entryway displays
•Pansy wittrockiana
PANSY ‘COOL WAVE YELLOW’
PanAmerican Seed
•Annual proven hardy to Zone 5
•Easy spreading color spring and fall
•Incredibly unique cool-season baskets
trail up to 30 inches
•Quick, high-impact groundcover
spreads up to 24 inches
•Superior overwintering
•Viola x wittrockiana
PANSY ‘FREEFALL’
Floranova Ltd./Vegetalis
•Plants are covered with 1.5-inch flowers
•‘Freefall’ begins as a low mounding plant
that develops into a full spreading
cascading habit as it grows
•Covers an area with fewer plants per
square yard or fewer per basket or pot
•Early flowering biennial for sun or shade
•Viola sp.
PANSY ‘IONA
FROSTY BLUE IMPROVED’ F1
American Takii, Inc.
•Full sun annual
•Blooms profusely giving gardens and
containers lots of color in the cool
season, both spring and fall
•Large flowers 3-3 1/2 inches are held
just above compact plants
•Edible ornamental
•Viola wittrockiana
PANSY ‘NATURE ROSE PICOTEE’ F1
American Takii, Inc.
•Full sun annual
•Nature series is widely touted for its
outstanding ability to bounce back
after rain and freezes
•Tidy, compact plants cover
themselves in upright facing blooms
giving solid cover wherever they are
planted
•Viola wittrockiana
PETCHOA SUPERCAL ‘PINK ICE’
Sakata Seed America, Inc.
•Full to partial sun annual
•Offers gardeners the best of both
the calibrachoa and petunia worlds
•Strong, large blooms promise true
garden performance
•More tolerant of high pH, so less
prone to chlorosis and iron deficiency
•Holds up well in all types of weather
•Petchoa hybrid
PETUNIA ‘WHISPERS STAR ROSE’
Syngenta Flowers
•Full sun annual
•Star-patterned rose blooms explode
with color all season long
•Strong trailing habit perfect for
hanging baskets and combination
planters
•Exceptional cold and frost tolerance
•Petunia hybrida
PETUNIA ‘SHOCK WAVE CORAL CRUSH’
PanAmerican Seed
•Full sun annual
•Mounded, spreading plant is easy to
grow and maintain
•Bright, petite coral blooms with a
creamy throat for added interest
•Performs equally well in small spaces,
hanging baskets and containers
•Petunia x hybrida
SWEET PEA ‘SPANISH DANCER’
Thompson & Morgan
•Full sun annual hardy to Zone 5
•Delightfully scented flowers
averaging 4 blooms per stem
•Never-before-seen tricolor
snapdragon with unusual veining
•Ideal cut flower
•Climbing habit requires staking
•Lathyrus odoratus
TIARELLA ‘SUNSET RIDGE’
Terra Nova Nurseries
•Part sun to shade Perennial Zone 4
•Will please you with its vigor,
glossiness and beautifully marked
heart shaped leaves
•Trailing habit great for hanging basket,
ground cover, or low edging
•Small white blooms in early spring
•Tiarella hybrid
VERBENA ‘LANAI® TWISTER PINK’
Syngenta Flowers
•Annual for full sun
•Unique pink-and-white bicolor flower
heads contrast with rich green foliage
•A heat lover that thrives throughout
summer’s heat and humidity
•Ideal trailing habit for containers and
hanging baskets
•Deadhead for non-stop blooms
•Verbena hybrida
VIOLA ‘FLORAL POWER® PURPLE FACE’ F1
American Takii, Inc.
•Full sun annual
•Spring and fall bloomer
•Covers itself in blooms giving a solid
pop of color wherever it is planted
•Purple bicolor 1 to 1.5-inch blooms
•Edible ornamental
•Viola cornuta
VIOLA ‘GEM FROSTY BLUE IMPROVED’ F1
American Takii, Inc.
•Full sun annual
•Amazing flower power
•Frosty blue color 1 to 1.5-inch blooms
•Strong over-wintering ability
•Exceptional heat tolerance
•Lasts through sudden bursts of warmth
that can occur in spring
•Viola cornuta
VIOLA ‘GEM SCARLET’ F1
American Takii, Inc.
•Full sun annual
•Brilliant red flowers add a blast of
color to fall, winter and spring
gardens and containers
•Attracts butterflies and bees
•Edible ornamental
•Viola cornuta
VIOLA ‘SORBET DELFT BLUE’
PanAmerican Seed
•Full to partial sun annual
•Blooms early and is free-flowering
•Gorgeous novelty color
•Makes excellent groundcover or cool-
season containers
•Plants remain compact in heat and cold
•Excellent overwintering ability
•Viola cornuta