California Spring Trials: 20 Potted Plants For 2015 [Slideshow]
With plants for every use from decorating the kitchen table to gifts to patio containers, breeders are honing in on consumer demand for more variety in potted plant options. Here are 20 new varieties to integrate into your crop mix.
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Alstromeria Inticancha Series (Bartels)
Gorgeous for pot production and for inclusion in combinations, these alstromeria varieties offer two beautiful colors — Sunshine and Indigo. Upright, full-bodied growth offers a multitude of large, bright-colored flowers.
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Calla Callafornia Series (Golden State Bulb Growers)
Four colors in this calla lily series provide compact, colorful impact with high bloom count. Great as a stand-alone variety or mixed with annuals in small to large-size pots, flowers measure up to two-inches.
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CannaSol Canna Series (Dümmen Group)
A new tissue culture canna series from Greenworks, CannaSol is compact with a long bloom time. The large color range includes nine varieties in bright tropical colors. Great for containers and Red Fox Tropix Garden Party mixes.
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Cannova Series Canna (Ball Ingenuity)
The first F1 seed series offers an easy, economical option to grow, with three distinct and attractive colors. Versatile when grown in a variety of pot sizes, they are ideal for cart program shipping.
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Clematis 'Sweet Summer Love' (Proven Winners ColorChoice)
A breakthrough color in Sweet Autumn clematis, ‘Sweet Summer Love’ offers the same easy growth and sweet cherry-vanilla fragrance, with cranberry-violet flowers that start blooming earlier than the standard.
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Cyclamen Halios HD Series (Ch. Morel)
HALIOS HD stands for high density and combines the Halios features of a new genetic line with short, central stems and more contained growth. The compact habit of the plants allows a higher culture density with long-lasting, intensely colored, large flowers.
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Cyclamen Rembrandt Series (Schoneveld Breeding)
The newest F1 cyclamen series from Schoneveld, Rembrandt is a medium-sized, silverleaf plant with midi flowers that bloom in six colors.
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Dipladenia Sundenia Series (Suntory Flowers)
Enjoy large mandevilla flowers with a compact dipladenia habit in the Sundenia series. Available in three colors, flowers are twice the size as traditional dipladenia, yet plants are well-branched, compact and bushy, making them a great crop for pots and hanging baskets.
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Freesia Series (Flamingo Holland)
Six new potted freesia varieties will charm customers with their quirky names, inspired from the Dutch version of the Seven Dwarfs fairytale. Fragrantly sweet, each plant has its own character for strong sales.
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Garvinea 'Sweet Surprise' (Florist Holland)
The Sweet range of Garvinea offers super-sized flowers in bright colors for instant fun and captivating color displays. ‘Sweet Surprise’ captures the Pantone color of the year, Radiant Orchid, ideal for impulse sales. Sweets bloom continuously from early spring until the first frost.
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Gerbera 'Midi Revolution Strawberry Shortcake' (Kieft Seed)
The novelty Strawberry Shortcake offers a unique, segregating mixture of rose, pink, red and magenta, most with bicolor petals or rings around the eye. This intermediate type has slightly smaller flower and plant size than Revolution for easy, high-density production.
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Hydrangea 'L.A. Dreamin' (Ball Ornamentals)
This Hydrangea macrophylla shows blue, pink and color variation on the same plant without any aluminum sulfate of special fertilizer. Its reblooming power packs a 5-foot by 6-foot punch.
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Hydrangea 'Showstopper Double Hot Pink' (HGTV HOME Plant Collection)
‘Showstopper Double Hot Pink’ mophead hydrangea prefers full to part sun and works in Zones 5 to 9. This hydrangea has upright stems during blooming, flowers in late spring until frost and matures to 2- to 3-feet high by 3- to 5-feet wide.
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Kalanchoe Calandiva (Fides-Oro)
Calandiva introduces new colors in its line of double-flowered kalanchoe featuring uniform flowering and good branching. Vega is a tropical coral color, Theron is a bright yellow, Seymour is a pink variety and Ewbank is a bright white.
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Kalanchoe Queen Series (Greenex)
Superb breeding in kalanchoes including both single- and double-flowered varieties, Queen kalanchoes are compact and come in vibrant eye-catching colors. The display of mini-kalanchoes, gift-wrapped in attractive sleeves and boxes could be displayed in any
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Mandevilla Bella Series (Cultivaris)
The Bella series comes in Compact Red, Pink, Red and White. Compact, bushy, non-trailing plants with healthy foliage have medium to large flowers all season long.
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Jasmoda Family Belgian Mums (GroLink)
The new Jasmoda series is a true series with a full range of colors. The mum family’s uniformity and 6 ½-week response time offers a pot-tight production and fast turnaround for early sales.
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Primula Danessa Series (Sakata)
This new series of Primula vulgaris (syn. acaulis) offers nine colors and a mix. Early blooming with a compact habit for pot-tight production, the Danessa series requires no cold for flower initiation.
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Primula Party Girl Series (Hort Culture)
These outrageous primula are all dressed up with their frilly flowers and bright colors. Available in five distinct varieties — Cocktail Swirl, Valentine’s Day, Rave Orange, Surprise Rainbow and Bachelorette Button — Party Girl is perfect for holidays and gift-giving to light up your potted plant production.
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Rhodochiton Belle Vine (Thompson & Morgan)
This eye-catcher offers plentiful, deep burgundy flowers on an eye-catching vine that would look beautiful in a mixed container or as a stand-alone item for the garden.
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Alstromeria Inticancha Series (Bartels)
Calla Callafornia Series (Golden State Bulb Growers)
CannaSol Canna Series (Dümmen Group)
Cannova Series Canna (Ball Ingenuity)
Clematis 'Sweet Summer Love' (Proven Winners ColorChoice)
Cyclamen Halios HD Series (Ch. Morel)
Cyclamen Rembrandt Series (Schoneveld Breeding)
Dipladenia Sundenia Series (Suntory Flowers)
Freesia Series (Flamingo Holland)
Garvinea 'Sweet Surprise' (Florist Holland)
Gerbera 'Midi Revolution Strawberry Shortcake' (Kieft Seed)
Hydrangea 'L.A. Dreamin' (Ball Ornamentals)
Hydrangea 'Showstopper Double Hot Pink' (HGTV HOME Plant Collection)
Kalanchoe Calandiva (Fides-Oro)
Kalanchoe Queen Series (Greenex)
Mandevilla Bella Series (Cultivaris)
Jasmoda Family Belgian Mums (GroLink)
Primula Danessa Series (Sakata)
Primula Party Girl Series (Hort Culture)
Rhodochiton Belle Vine (Thompson & Morgan)
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Laura Drotleff is editor of Greenhouse Grower. See all author stories here.