6 Breeding Companies Serve Up New Varieties At Pacific Plug & Liner
Pacific Plug & Liner’s theme this year, Labyrinth, a conservatory of the world’s most captivating plants, was perfectly topped off (pun intended) with fascinators for the women and newsboy caps for the men. The PP&L team dressed their part to act out the gothic “conservatory of the world’s most captivating plants.” Truly, the displays looked like they practically popped out of a catalog, and the costumes were a nice touch. Retailers take heed, the fully merchandised displays at Pacific Plug & Liner are worthy of emulating.
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Pacific Plug & Liner's Labyrinth theme included cool uses of black cinder blocks and other gothic-looking vignettes throughout its trial.
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Cohen Nurseries
Petunia 'Happy Magic' provides sweet, bicolor blooms in contrasting yellow and purple.
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Petunia 'Happy Classic Marble Yellow' is a nice, clear yellow with large flowers and a great habit.
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Petunia 'Happy Magic Giant Dijon' was introduced in 2015, but this fabulous color didn't get enough press.
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Fuchsia 'Eruption' was introduced last year, but it's still an eye-catcher.
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Calibrachoa 'Caloha Hot Pink with Yellow Eye' is part of Cohen's new Caloha series.
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Hishtil Nurseries
Scabiosa 'Kudo Pink' provides a compact habit with many blooms and buds.
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Hishtil Nurseries
The campanula Garden Star series has a vigorous, trailing habit and comes in three colors.
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Hishtil Nurseries
Santolina viritis, also known as the olive plant, offers dark green, fine foliage that smells like olives, ideal for drinks and cooking.
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Hishtil Nurseries
This artemesia 'Cola Plant' smells like Coke and can be used for tea, sauces, salads and roasts.
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Hishtil Nurseries
The mushroom plant, Rugia klossil, smells just like mushrooms!
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Jaldety Nurseries
Jaldety Nurseries propagates many breeder genetics, including Westhoff and its newly available stachys hybrid 'Lilac Falls.'
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Jaldety Nurseries
The flowers of this Thunbergia alata 'Yellow Stripes' has picotee flowers with centers that look like little houses.
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The flowers of this Thunbergia alata 'Yellow Stripes' has picotee flowers with centers that look like little houses.
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Jaldety Nurseries
Introduced last year, this clerodendrum vine is too pretty to pass up.
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Iberis 'Masterpiece'
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Westhoff's gaura 'Gaurellia Bicolor'
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Fun combinations using salvia and moss plant.
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Salvia greggii 'Joy'
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Jaldety Nurseries used these utensil containers to hang plants off the sides of containers. They can be added or taken off to change up the look of the planter.
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Cultivaris
Basil 'Herbalea Snow White'
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Basil 'Herbalea 'Green Fortune'
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Basil 'Herbalea Green Ball'
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Basil 'Herbalea Wild Red'
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Cultivaris
The Illumination digitalis/digiplexis series has added new colors and improved its habit, with better branching and more blooms.
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Cultivaris
Josh Schneider of Cultivaris won't let the success of the Illumination series go to his head.
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Cultivaris
Gazania 'Amber Ice' was introduced last year under the name 'Amber Alert,' but that was just one of the things that made it memorable. Check out the big, plentiful blooms.
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Cultivaris
Verbena bonariensis 'Cloud Eight'
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Pelargonium cordifolium 'Donn's Goldstrike'
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Pelargonium cordifolium 'Caroline's Citrine'
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This Buddleia davidii 'Buzz Hot Raspberry' caught a lot of attention from growers and retailers.
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This new Salvia microphylla series has a super strong habit. Pictured is 'Killer Cranberry.'
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Pacific Plug & Liner
Every year, PP&L trials a different species. This year it was coreopsis.
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Every year, PP&L trials a different species. This year it was coreopsis.
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PP&L's Hula Berry, the pineapple-flavored strawberry, was introduced in 2015, but it's hitting retail stores this year with all-new packaging. Plants are sold in threes, with a fourth red strawberry plant as a pollinator. Plants need a pollinator to produce fruit.
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These pretty pink pots match the Hula Berry tag, and can be hung up.
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Signage, bench cards and rack/bench tape will be available for Hula Berry retail shipments.
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PP&L offered great merchandising ideas for Hula Berry.
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PP&L introduced 'Double Whammy' helianthus, a double-flowered sunflower, with this great display.
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'Double Whammy' helianthus has large, bright yellow, double flowers.
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The Digitalis/digiplexis Illumination series is doing well and was well-merchandised at PP&L.
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The Digitalis/digiplexis Illumination series is doing well and was well-merchandised at PP&L.
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Echibeckia, the intergeneric cross between echinacea and rudbeckia, was introduced last year, but has some new colors coming. And the merchandising display was terrific!
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The Summerina Echibeckia series, the intergeneric cross between echinacea and rudbeckia, was introduced last year, but has some new colors coming. And the merchandising display was terrific!
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PP&L promoted its Frost Kiss helleborus series, which has some new colors on the way. Again, excellent merchandising display.
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Frost Kiss helleborus
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Southern Living/Sunset Western Collection
'Meerlo' lavender
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'Meerlo' lavender in a container
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Ligustrum 'Sunshine'
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Agapanthus 'Blue Fountain'
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Lomandra 'Platinum Beauty'
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Agapanthus 'Indigo Frost'
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Dr. Allan Armitage and Plant Development's Janet Sluis talk about the Sunset Western and Southern Living Collections.
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Check out the striking purple of the flowers, coupled with the bright purple of the container. That would certainly catch a consumer's eye at retail.
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PP&L showed off its new Adansa and Ambella campanulas. These hardy, outdoor perennials also do well indoors and make a great gift idea.
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Adansa campanula is longer, with protruding tendrils, with star-shaped flowers, and is available in blue, pink and white. Ambella is more compact with bell-shaped flowers, available in lavender and white.
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Adansa campanula is longer, with protruding tendrils, with star-shaped flowers, and is available in blue, pink and white. Ambella is more compact with bell-shaped flowers, available in lavender and white.
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We’ll let the pictures tell the story of all the fabulous variety introductions presented at Pacific Plug & Liner’s 2015 California Spring Trials, where Cultivaris, Cohen Nurseries, Histil Nurseries, Jaldety Nurseries, Southern Living/Sunset Collection and Pacific Plug & Liner all highlighted their 2016 introductions.
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Laura Drotleff is a former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. See all author stories here.