10 Colorful Spring Plants For Sales In 2017
Trends with plants come and go, but color always sells. While there is no right or wrong to color choices when choosing spring plants for your product mix in 2017, you’ll want to offer a broad color selection to your customers to cover their varied tastes. These spring crops offer color choices ranging from bold and vibrant hues to understated, softer tones, and they’re versatile enough to be used in baskets, containers, beds, and borders.
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Begonia boliviensis ‘Santa Barbara’ (Benary)
Like ‘Santa Cruz,’ ‘Santa Barbara’ has huge, clean, white flowers that handle the heat and sun, and have extraordinary garden performance. It is ideal for premium baskets and containers and for extending summer sales.
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Begonia × hybrida ‘Funky Pink’ (Benary)
Begonia ‘Funky Pink’ is a breakthrough in begonia breeding from seed. The novelty flower form, bright color, and fun name are sure to get attention. It’s easy to grow and ship, and plays well in mixed containers.
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Calibrachoa Colibri (Danziger “Dan” Flower Farm)
The hybrid Colibri series produces a proliferation of large flowers on a compact, mounded growth habit. Flowering in short days (10 hours), it blooms from early spring until late autumn. Colibri is ideal for pots, compact baskets, and mixes.
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Gerbera Majorette Series (Sakata Ornamentals)
The Majorette Gerbera series has unparalleled uniformity, flower power, and controlled plant growth. The series features seven colors, including White and one bicolor and is ideal for quarts and larger containers with multiple plants. Majorette Gerbera varieties are offered as Slick Coat seed for streamlined sowing and singulation.
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Gomphrena Ping Pong Series (Sakata Ornamentals)
The drought-tolerant Gomphrena Ping Pong series works wonderfully in combos, especially with zinnias, providing a strong infusion of bright color. It comes in three new colors and works well in mass plantings.
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Pelargonium ‘Pinki Pinks’ (Jaldety Nurseries)
‘Pinki Pinks’ is an outstanding evergreen perennial with a long flowering season. It produces masses of pink flowers from early spring to late autumn. It is drought resistant and attracts butterflies. With its trailing habit, ‘Pinki Pinks’ offers a low maintenance solution ideal for hanging baskets, containers, small groundcover, rock gardens, and window and patio boxes.
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Petunia Amoré (Danziger “Dan” Flower Farm)
The Amoré series features a semi-trailing growth habit displaying an abundance of large, colorful flowers, decorated with contrasting stripes. Varieties bloom from early spring until late autumn. Colors include Fiesta, Joy, and Mio. Amoré is excellent for pots, baskets, and mixed containers.
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Petunia ‘Happy Classic Orange Stripes’ (Cohen Nurseries)
With crazy magical colors, this variety features large, single flowers in an attractive yellow color with orange stripes. Produced from clean certified stock, it is part of the wide petunia Happy range, which includes several types: Classic, Double, Giant, Mini, Miniature, and the Magic series, bred by Breier exclusively for Cohen.
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Petunia F1 ‘Trilogy Deep Purple’ (American Takii)
With the same outstanding habit as the other varieties in the Trilogy series, Deep Purple is a vibrantly lush, eye-catching color. It has the same dome-shaped, prolific blooming plant habit for which the Trilogy series is known.
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Impatiens ‘SunPatiens Compact Tropical Rose’ (Sakata Ornamentals)
SunPatiens offer unrivaled three-season flower power and good pull through demand at retail. These plants represent a breeding breakthrough: robust, sun-loving, heat-loving impatiens that thrive in full sun or part shade and deliver continuous color from spring through hard frost.
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Begonia boliviensis ‘Santa Barbara’ (Benary)
Begonia × hybrida ‘Funky Pink’ (Benary)
Calibrachoa Colibri (Danziger “Dan” Flower Farm)
Gerbera Majorette Series (Sakata Ornamentals)
Gomphrena Ping Pong Series (Sakata Ornamentals)
Pelargonium ‘Pinki Pinks’ (Jaldety Nurseries)
Petunia Amoré (Danziger “Dan” Flower Farm)
Petunia ‘Happy Classic Orange Stripes’ (Cohen Nurseries)
Petunia F1 ‘Trilogy Deep Purple’ (American Takii)
Impatiens ‘SunPatiens Compact Tropical Rose’ (Sakata Ornamentals)
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Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.