Popular BiColor Varieties for Spring from Proven Winners [Sponsor Content]
Capitalize on recent trends by offering a range of annuals, perennials and shrubs with bicolor flowers in 2015. Today’s consumers have more sophisticated taste in flowers that goes beyond purple and pink. They’re looking for striking bicolors to use in smartly designed combinations for their patios and borders. Here are a few of the very best.
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1. SUPERBELLS® Apricot Punch and Blackberry Punch Calibrachoa
Pair these contrasting golden orange and violet purple SUPERBELLS® together for unstoppable impulse appeal. With superior disease resistance across the series, they are season-long performers.
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2. SUPERBELLS® Coralberry Punch and Grape Punch Calibrachoa
Boasting greater thielaviopsis resistance, these SUPERBELLS® will perform all summer and deep into fall where their warm coral and deep purple flowers will look right at home.
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3. SUPERBELLS® Pomegranate Punch and Strawberry Punch Calibrachoa
This fruity combination of red and pink blooms offers more than just pretty plants on the bench. They are rock star performers all season long due to their superior disease resistance.
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4. SUMMERIFIC® ‘Cherry Cheesecake’ PPAF Hibiscus
A high margin, fast growing perennial for sun, ‘Cherry Cheesecake’ is best grown from bare root in spring for summer sales. Its unique bicolor white and magenta blooms measure up to 8 inches across!
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5. SUPERBELLS® Cherry Star Calibrachoa
A member of the prestigious Top 50 Collection of best-selling Proven Winners®, Cherry Star has marked a revolution in bicolors with its signature star-like markings.
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6. FRUIT PUNCH® ‘Apple Slice’ PP21842 and ‘Coconut Punch’ PP21876 Dianthus
Fruit Punch® Dianthus offer fragrant, double flowers in spring and fall, powering through the heat and humidity with ease. Perfect for both quart and trade gallon production.
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7. SUPERTUNIA® Raspberry Blast™ Petunia
For a blast of two-toned pink on your bench, you can’t beat Raspberry Blast™. Its low maintenance, trailing habit makes it perfect as a spiller in hanging baskets and uprights.
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8. SUPERTUNIA® Picasso in Pink™ and Pretty Much Picasso® Petunia
Ideal for reaching the customer who is looking for something different, this is not your average petunia! The artistic bicolor patterns of the Picasso Supertunias are one of a kind and easy to grow too.
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9. SUPERBELLS® Lemon Slice Calibrachoa
An absolute must-grow, never-out item for growers and retailers alike, Lemon Slice is one of the Top 5 selling Proven Winners®. Your customers WILL BE asking you for this one next spring, so be sure to stock up!
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10. INTENSIA® Star Brite Phlox
Heat, drought, and humidity tolerant Intensia® Phlox need high light and heat for optimal growth, so start them in mid-spring. Try this cute bicolor selection in combination containers where it will mingle nicely with Supertunias and Diamond Frost®.
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11. Sunny Anniversary™ Abelia
A color breakthrough for Abelia, this beautiful bicolor produces loads of soft yellow blossoms marked with splashes of pink and orange. Its cascading branches are lined with flowers from midsummer into early fall.
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12. Pinky Winky® Hydrangea paniculata
The incredible flower power of this top seller makes Pinky Winky easily stand out from the crowd. White flower panicles appear in mid to late summer, then turn deep pink while continuing to develop new white florets at the tips.
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13. CITYLINE® Mars Hydrangea macrophylla
Noted for its excellent mildew resistance and super compact form, Mars makes a full, tight plant for 1-gal containers. Its bicolor magenta pink and white florets age to an attractive green.
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14. Azurri Blue Satin® Hibiscus syriacus
Grow this improved Rose of Sharon for its seedless, large, single blue flowers with a magenta eye. Sterile flowers translate to non-invasiveness and a longer season of bloom.
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15. OSO EASY® Italian Ice® Rosa
Italian Ice® offers the popular color pattern of the famous ‘Peace’ rose, but on nicely shaped, extremely disease resistant plants with self-cleaning flowers. Its dark green, glossy foliage sets off the orange buds which open to semi-double, soft yellow and pink blushed blossoms.
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1. SUPERBELLS® Apricot Punch and Blackberry Punch Calibrachoa
2. SUPERBELLS® Coralberry Punch and Grape Punch Calibrachoa
3. SUPERBELLS® Pomegranate Punch and Strawberry Punch Calibrachoa
4. SUMMERIFIC® ‘Cherry Cheesecake’ PPAF Hibiscus
5. SUPERBELLS® Cherry Star Calibrachoa
6. FRUIT PUNCH® ‘Apple Slice’ PP21842 and ‘Coconut Punch’ PP21876 Dianthus
7. SUPERTUNIA® Raspberry Blast™ Petunia
8. SUPERTUNIA® Picasso in Pink™ and Pretty Much Picasso® Petunia
9. SUPERBELLS® Lemon Slice Calibrachoa
10. INTENSIA® Star Brite Phlox
11. Sunny Anniversary™ Abelia
12. Pinky Winky® Hydrangea paniculata
13. CITYLINE® Mars Hydrangea macrophylla
14. Azurri Blue Satin® Hibiscus syriacus
15. OSO EASY® Italian Ice® Rosa
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