New Cool Season, Vegetable, And Foliage Crops For Fall Sales
Whether you’re providing pansies and violas to the garden center for fall color or decorative edibles to grace patio containers, these crops are ideally suited for everything from containers to fall combos to mass plantings in the landscape. Fall flowers and striking autumn-hued foliage help them stand out when other plants are done performing for the year. When considering your mix for fall, check out these 16 varieties for fall crop sales, newly introduced for 2016 and hitting retail in 2017.
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'Osaka' Flowering Cabbage (Sakata Ornamentals)
‘Osaka’ flowering cabbage produces colorful, wavy-edged leaves on tightly-packed, compact heads. ‘Osaka’ plants are vigorous and uniform, producing layers of leaves. This colorful flowering cabbage is perfect for autumn sales and is recommended for 6- to 8-inch pots.
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Antirrhinum Antiquity Series (Floranova)
A unique open-flowered series, which is ideally suited to larger containers and garden plantings. Antiquity antirrhinums have extremely robust foliage and great branching, resulting in outstanding garden performance. It works well for summer and fall production, where it fills the pot for better branching. New colors include: Purple, Orange Bicolor, Red Bicolor, Lemon, and Red.
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Antrrhinum 'Snaptastic Red' (Syngenta Flowers)
Snaptastic Snapdragon is a new series that can be produced for spring or fall. It has a strong root system, which makes it more resilient to heat, and it is less daylength sensitive than other snapdragons on the market. Snaptastic is available in Pink, Magenta, Red, Orange Flame, and Yellow.
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Caladium ‘Berries n’ Burgundy’ (Abbott-Ipco)
Caladium ‘Berries N’ Burgundy’ is a fancy-leaved variety with a very distinctive look, bronze background, pink and white center, and bright-pink primary veins. It is an intermediate to tall variety that tolerates full sun. Its habit is improved with de-eyeing for smaller pots. In southern climates, caladiums can be planted in August for color in beds through October, depending on the weather conditions.
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Caladium ‘Southern Charm’ (Abbott-Ipco)
Caladium ‘Southern Charm’ is a fancy-leaved introduction with a grayed white background and burgundy-red veins. It has unusually thick leaves for a fancy leaved variety, and therefore tolerates full sun. ‘Southern Charm’ is a great specimen plant or works well in combination/patio containers. De-eye tubers for better pot habit. In southern climates, caladiums can be planted in August for color in beds through October, depending on the weather conditions.
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Calibrachoa ‘Superbells Tropical Sunrise’ (Proven Winners/Four Star Greenhouse)
Tropical Sunrise is a perfect pick for fall, generating masses of orange-colored flowers. It is a strong performer that loves the sun and can withstand frost. Plant it with other medium-vigor varieties in hanging baskets and upright containers.
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Calibrachoa 'Chameleon Sunshine Berry' (Westflowers)
Chameleon marks an industry first for calibrachoa breeding with ever-changing colors. The plants continually change throughout the season, reacting to light levels, daylength, and other seasonal factors. Chameleon provides consumers with a unique blend of colors on a single plant. As the daylength and temperatures have dramatic changes from day to day in the fall season, consumers will be greeted with a basket that also changes color on a daily basis with the weather.
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Heuchera ‘Primo Black Pearl Coral Bells’ (Proven Winners/Four Star Greenhouse)
This heuchera hybrid is a stunning black-foliage plant that works well in shade and sun and is ideal for extending the season into autumn. It has a dense habit of shiny, jet-black leaves with ruffled edges and rosy-purple undersides, along with white flowers that have pink calyxes. This is a hardy plant for all seasons, but particularly for late season.
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‘Kosmic’ Kale (Plug Connection)
This unusual ornamental edible has out-of-this-world coloring, with blue-green leaves edged in cream. It is easy to grow in a mixed fall container with pansies or ornamental cabbage. These upright plants taste as good as they look, producing a continuous harvest of tasty, eye-catching greens for garnish, salads, or steaming. It is available as rooted liners.
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'Nagoya' Flowering Kale (Sakata Ornamentals)
‘Nagoya’ flowering kale has a uniform plant habit and produces colorful, attractive fringed leaves. Reducing temperature to promote leaf color is not required on the same scale as with other cultivars. ‘Nagoya’ is a long-lasting, cool season bedding plant that adds interest to fall containers and color bowls.
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Pansy 'Cello Scarlet' (Hem Genetics)
The Cello series of large-flowered pansies has a non-stretching, well-branched habit and great uniformity between the color range. Flowers stand solidly upright on short, strong flower stems. Two new color additions for 2016-2017 include ‘Cello Scarlet’ and ‘Cello Neon Purple.’ This series is excellent for Spring and Fall production, available as both raw and primed seed.
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Pansy 'XTrada Mid Blue' (Hem Genetics)
The Xtrada series combines compactness and heat and cold tolerance with early flowering and huge flower size. Strong stems hold flowers erect for a great garden presentation. New for this Fall are Violet Face and Mid Blue to complement the other nine colors. This series is excellent for Spring and Fall production, available as both raw and primed seed.
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Stachys × ‘Lilac Falls’ (Westflowers)
‘Lilac Falls’ is a new hybrid of Stachys and Lamium, offering growers a durable component plant to hanging baskets and combination containers. It is a tough plant, providing easy consumer success, and blooms continuously from spring through autumn. In the garden, ‘Lilac Falls’ becomes a colorful groundcover and can be used both in sun or part shade locations. The lilac-purple blooms offer a beautiful contrasting color to fall tones of oranges and yellows for rich autumn combinations.
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Viola 'Corina Terracotta' (Hem Genetics)
Beautifully mounded, free-branching plants covered in flowers characterize this outstanding series of F1 violas. Recovering fast from frosts and freezes, they often pop back into growth and flower during warm spells even in winter. New for this Fall 2016 are ‘Corina Terracotta’ and the unusual Black and White mix.
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Viola cornuta 'Bel Viso Pineapple Crush' (Floranova)
Bel Viso is a new series selected for precision performance in autumn and spring. Earlier and more uniform in spring than other varieties, these violas produce large showy blooms on a compact, tidy branching habit. In autumn, Bel Viso is very uniform in flowering time and habit and easy to control, even in warm conditions. It works well for pot and pack production and is available in a wide range of unique colors.
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Viola cornuta Tiger Eye Mix (Floranova)
Floranova has markedly improved the performance of this novel color pattern and added a new color and a striking mix. Earlier flowering, much improved plant habit, and better seed quality now means this unique color can be grown alongside mainstream viola and pansy crops. It’s an absolute must for any Halloween promotion.
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'Osaka' Flowering Cabbage (Sakata Ornamentals)
Antirrhinum Antiquity Series (Floranova)
Antrrhinum 'Snaptastic Red' (Syngenta Flowers)
Caladium ‘Berries n’ Burgundy’ (Abbott-Ipco)
Caladium ‘Southern Charm’ (Abbott-Ipco)
Calibrachoa ‘Superbells Tropical Sunrise’ (Proven Winners/Four Star Greenhouse)
Calibrachoa 'Chameleon Sunshine Berry' (Westflowers)
Heuchera ‘Primo Black Pearl Coral Bells’ (Proven Winners/Four Star Greenhouse)
‘Kosmic’ Kale (Plug Connection)
'Nagoya' Flowering Kale (Sakata Ornamentals)
Pansy 'Cello Scarlet' (Hem Genetics)
Pansy 'XTrada Mid Blue' (Hem Genetics)
Stachys × ‘Lilac Falls’ (Westflowers)
Viola 'Corina Terracotta' (Hem Genetics)
Viola cornuta 'Bel Viso Pineapple Crush' (Floranova)
Viola cornuta Tiger Eye Mix (Floranova)
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Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.