Spring Trials Slideshow: Ball Horticultural Co. including Ball FloraPlant, PanAmerican Seed, Kieft and Selecta
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Ball incorporated new product lines and divisions into its indoor and outdoor displays. These include Kieft, which was acquired© 2010 -
Black petunias were the rage at Ball FloraPlant and a consumer campaign is launching for 'Black Velvet' with the slogan, "Everyt© 2010 -
Proposed packaging with the new 'Black Velvet' petunia. Clear sleeves suggest mixing the variety with others in combos.© 2010 -
'Phantom,' one of the black petunias with yellow accents looked striking with this thunbergia topiary.© 2010 -
'Pinstripes' is a blackish purple petunia with designer stripes. I thought this one looked the best in combination plantings.© 2010 -
Patchwork is a new vegetative impatiens series from Ball FloraPlant. The defining characteristic is the center blotch.© 2010 -
Ball FloraPlant has rolled out its multi-liner program called Patio Ensembles. Multiple liners are rooted into a single liner an© 2010 -
Selecta continues to expand its Trixi Liner program with more varieties and genuses. Above are a beautiful 'Magadi Purple' lobel© 2010 -
One Selecta variety that caught a lot of attention is the new Bonfire begonia with bronze foliage called Choc Red.© 2010 -
Selecta continues to perfect its geranium lines. Pink is new to the dark-leaved Moonlight series.© 2010 -
Burpee Home Gardens To Go is a new option for growers and retailers to promote larger mixed containers of herbs and vegetables© 2010 -
PanAmerican Seed's Simply Salad concept also is being incorporated into the Burpee line.© 2010 -
PanAmerican's Simply Salad program fuses mixed lettuce seeds together in pellets and promotes beautifully uniform growth and mix© 2010 -
The same pelleted seed concept used in the mixed lettuces is being used for premium mixed flower varieties in PanAmerican's Fuse© 2010 -
PanAmerican presented the Ultimate Wave Garden Center with ways for growers and retailers to make the most of their Wave petunia© 2010 -
PanAmerican is promoting companion plants to Wave petunias to create a Wave container.© 2010 -
More than 1500 Wave fan club members will receive samples of Serena angelonia to try this season.© 2010 -
Plentifall trailing pansies are the big new series at PanAmerican this year. The trailing pansies come in three colors and a mix© 2010 -
Plentifall pansies cascading in a fountain.© 2010 -
PanAmerican's Echinacea 'Powwow Wild Berry' is an All-American Selections winner. White is an additional color.© 2010 -
Raspberry Lemonade is a refreshing mix in PanAmerican's Zahara zinnias.© 2010 -
'Gryphon' is a new begonia from seed selected more for its foliage than the copper-colored flowers that I saw in Costa's trials© 2010 -
Kieft's Revolution gerberas continue to be market leaders. New is Watermelon in the larger-flowered Mega Revolutions.© 2010 -
Known for innovative perennial genetics from seed, 'Blue Note' is a compact scabiosa from Kieft.© 2010 -
New Dimension is a perennial salvia series from Kieft in Rose and Blue.© 2010
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