Baptisia ‘Decadence Pink Truffles’ is new this year from Proven Winners, and will be popular with gardeners since this is an unusual color for baptisia. Pink Truffles will reach a height of 3 feet in the landscape. It is hardy to Zone 4.
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Delphinium Planet Series (Sakata Ornamentals)
Planet is a versatile new series that is great as a cut, bedding, or potted crop. It is early blooming and is available in two striking colors. Delicate star-shaped flowers make Planet a perfect bouquet component.
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Petunia ‘Headliner Sky Blue’ (Selecta)
This compact, mounded petunia boasts early flowering for a fast finish and a dramatic color range, resulting in eye-catching finished baskets and pots with large blooms.
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Hydrangea Everlasting Series (Plants Nouveau)
The Everlasting series has a variety of colors, handsome foliage, and long-lasting flowers. As the flowers age, they change from one exciting color to the next. Each stem is a bouquet, and even a young plant will give months of blooming enjoyment.
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Lobelia ‘Early Springs Sky Blue Lobelia’ (Ball FloraPlant)
Formerly known as ‘Hot Springs,’ ‘Early Springs’ is a series of highly uniform Lobelia. Try mixing colors for a great-looking monoculture basket. Its compact habit allows for pot-tight production with minimal plant growth regulators and easy shipping.
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Interspecific Impatiens ‘Bounce Lilac’ (Selecta)
Exciting new shade alternatives offer the habit and flower count of Impatiens walleriana, but they’re resistant to downy mildew and thrive in sun and shade. Even better, the well-branched plants bounce back like magic after wilt.
SunPatiens offer unrivaled three-season flower power, and increasing consumer brand preference creates pull-through demand at retail. These robust, sun-loving, heat-loving impatiens thrive in full sun or part shade and deliver continuous color from spring through hard frost. SunPatiens are an excellent alternative to seed impatiens, offering non-stop color and impressive coverage in the garden.
Angelonia ‘Archangel Light Pink’ blooms three times larger than other varieties. Well-branched plants ship with less breakage, shrinkage, and tangling. ‘Archangel Light Pink’ has a uniform habit and flowering time for easy, high-density production, and thrives in extreme heat, humidity, and drought.
From First Editions Plants, Magnolia ‘Centennial Blush Star’ is a reflection of Rose Quartz. The delicate blush-pink color is a welcome addition to the spring landscape, and Bailey Nurseries will be promoting it through social media in the coming year.
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Hibiscus ‘Blushing Bride’ (Monrovia)
This is an outstanding flowering shrub that provides welcome color in the summer, with large double flowers displayed on upright slender branches. It is a deciduous, showy specimen.
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Hibiscus ‘Blue Chiffon’ (Proven Winners)
Hibiscus ‘Blue Chiffon’ is a Proven Winners ColorChoice flowering shrub that can easily reach up to 12 feet in the landscape — an easy way for a homeowner to add colorful privacy to their landscape. The flowers appear in late summer, and will attract butterflies and hummingbirds, while the deer seem to just walk on by. Hardy to Zone 5.
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Agapanthus ‘Baby Pete’ (Monrovia)
‘Baby Pete’ is a new dwarf variety of agapanthus, or Lily of the Nile. It has shorter, wider leaves as well as an abundance of attractive blue flowers held just above the foliage. Baby Pete does not set unsightly seed pods, freeing it up for a much longer blooming season.
With vivid red stems accenting intense rose-pink or blue-purple flowers, ‘Endless Summer’ is a showstopper in the landscape. It it also heat tolerant and highly disease resistant.
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Heracleum ‘Pink Cloud’ (Jelitto Perennial Seeds)
‘Pink Cloud’ is a selected pink flowering seed strain of the native cow parsnip. It is a wonderful rare pink umbellifer suited for use in natural gardens everywhere.
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Hydrangea L.A. Dreamin' (Star Roses And Plants)
The 'L.A. Dreamin’ Hydrangea is the first H. macrophylla to show both pink and blue on the same plant at the same time. It measures 5 feet by 5 feet and has great reblooming power up to Zone 5.
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Verbena ‘Lanai Blue Eyes’ (Syngenta Flowers)
The Lanai verbena series features the most innovative colors on the market, including the eye-catching Lanai Blue Eyes, which matches the Pantone Color of the Year, Serenity. This rich and vibrant blue verbena performs extremely well under a variety of stresses and is ideal for pot and basket programs.
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Pansy ‘Delta Cotton Candy Mix’ (Syngenta Flowers)
Delta Cotton Candy Mix matches both Pantone Colors of the Year. The Delta pansy series comes in the full spectrum of colors, which are perfect when growers need high-demand colors like yellow and white, or specialty colors to fit spur-of-the-moment consumer trends like the Pantone Colors of the Year.
The Pantone website lists suggested color pairings for Rose Quartz and Serenity in combination with others.
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At the same time, a number of plant breeders are featuring varieties that they say fit in well with Pantone’s colors of the year. Check out the photo gallery for a close look at some of these offerings.
December 14, 2015 
