New Ornamental Varieties Guide: Several Plants to Consider for 2022
Your time is more valuable than ever before, which means now is the time to look ahead to 2022 and plan your variety mix for next year. In the slideshow above, you can take a closer look at just a few of the best new introductions from leading plant breeders. Some of them were seen for the first time at the 2021 California Summer Trials, but there’s also a lot more to check out. And be sure to watch for even more new ornamental varieties in the coming days!
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Strawberry Hybrid ‘Summer Breeze Cherry Blossom’ (ABZ Seeds)
After the very successful introduction of Summer Breeze Rose and Snow. a new Summer Breeze Cherry Blossom underlines the direction in the strawberry assortment of ABZ Seeds. These unique, semi-double flowers hold on to their petals quite long, which is a huge advantage to both trade and consumer. Because of the large amount of color on the plants, the eye-catching Summer Breeze Cherry Blossom performs well on consumers’ balconies all summer long.
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Rosa ‘True Bloom True Friendship’ (Altman Plants)
A classic, profusely blooming floribunda rose with shiny, glossy green foliage, remarkable beauty, and a sweet fragrance. Deep yellow in color. Mostly easy to grow on its own roots, exhibiting a compact 3-foot by 3-foot habit. Hardy to Zone 5.
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Tradewinds Hibiscus ‘White Treasure Wind’ (Aris Horticulture)
'White Treasure Wind' is one of six new varieties joining the Tradewinds Hibiscus Wind series. Boasting beautiful, clear-white flowers with a small dark-red colored center, the blooms simply pop against the dark green and glossy foliage. Immature flowers show slight pinking. Blooms measure 5 inches to 5½ inches and last two to two-and-a-half days. Flowers continue to develop throughout the season. ‘White Treasure Wind’ is a strong plant with a uniformly mounded and dense plant habit and has excellent container and landscape performance. It is available in a range of sizes from 4½ inches to 10 inches.
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Tropaeolum ‘Baby Rose’/’Baby Orange’ (American Takii/Sahin)
With its dark leaves, a compact habit, and eye-catching electric orange color, ‘Baby Orange’ will likely fly off retail shelves. ‘Baby Rose’ will make a wonderful combo or bedding plant, as well. Both are suitable for pot plant production.
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Hydrangea paniculata ‘First Editions Little Hottie’ (Bailey First Editions Shrubs & Trees)
With compact habit and fantastic heat tolerance, Little Hottie is a versatile panicle hydrangea that has full flower heads that open green and turn sparkling white. Little Hottie is covered in large blooms held up on strong stems. As evening temperatures drop in the fall, blooms turn antique shades of white and pink.
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Lantana ‘Shamrock’ (Ball FloraPlant)
A new, medium-vigor series of Lantana that works great in a wide-range of pot sizes – from quarts to hanging baskets. Series is uniform across all four colors, and the plants are well-branched with a mounded habit.
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Rex Begonia Jurassic Series (Ball Ingenuity)
There are now four exciting series of Rex Begonias from the Ball Ingenuity team. Jurassic is the original new take on a classic plant. ‘Jurassic Dino’ has a compact habit for 4- to 6-inch pots. ‘Jurassic Jr.’ has 40% smaller leaves than Jurassic for less breakage. ‘Jurassic Megalo’ is perfect for 10-inch pots and larger. Each offers a size and vigor to meet your customers' needs. They finish fast and uniform, and are a perfect addition to any indoor sales or shade container program.
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Begonia ‘Waterfall Bicolor’ (Beekenkamp Plants)
The new ‘Waterfall Bicolor’ is a favorite for garden performance. The ‘Waterfall Bicolor’ produces fully covered plant with countless blooms cascading in every direction. The Waterfall series is known for its elegant color with a continuous show all season long, and this new bicolor is no exception with its trendsetting coral and white bicolor blooms. It looks great in gallons, containers, and stunningly stylish hanging baskets.
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Begonia ‘Nonstop Joy Rose Picotee’ (Ernst Benary of America)
Nonstop Joy has excellent branching and continuous flowering all season long. It will actually finish five to seven days earlier than the other Nonstop series.
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Petunia ‘Capella Hello Yellow’ (Danziger)
‘Capella Hello Yellow’ Petunia features a bright, solid-yellow bloom that is unique to the market. It keeps its bold yellow throughout the entire flower. Hello Yellow is a Capella petunia, and it performs well in propagation, requires minimal plant growth regulator use, and blooms early enough for any program.
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Buddleia ‘Chrysalis’ (Darwin Perennials)
The compact Chrysalis series was bred and selected for its profusion of flowers that attract butterflies. Gardeners will enjoy continuous blooming from spring through late summer. Plants are root hardy in USDA zones 5a to 9a and stem hardy in warmer locations. Available in five colors for its 2022 debut: Blue, Cranberry, Pink, Purple, and White.
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Salvia ‘Hummingbird Falls’ (Dümmen Orange)
Salvia ‘Hummingbird Falls’ is the first Salvia guaranitica bred for hanging baskets or the very front of the flower border. Unique, compact mushroom habit. Large saturated dark blue blooms with striking black calyx.
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Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Shining Star’ (Emerald Coast Growers)
Little bluestem grass is a rising star in the native plant palette, and multicolored ‘Shining Star’ is the hottest new addition to growers’ choices. It produces unique green and creamy-white variegated basal foliage clumps. Tips blush pale pink with cooler temps, deepening to dark pink. Blades continue to darken to burgundy with deep green stripes in fall. Inflorescences are held upright and do not lodge. Hardy to Zone 4.
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Rudbeckia Sunbeckia Series (Flamingo Holland)
Rudbeckia Sunbeckia series is a hirta hybrid that was bred in Germany by Hartwig Bull and is known for its large flower size and long-lasting blooms. It is well-branching with strong, sturdy stems and is great for the garden or patio.
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Portulaca ‘24/7 Fuschia’ (Green Fuse Botanicals)
All new breeding in portulaca brings this revolutionary new series to the market. Like your neighborhood quick shop, a large percentage of the 24/7 flowers never close. This allows retail sales in the morning or evening hours. The 24/7 series not only boasts large, 2- to 3-inch fully double flowers but is also day length neutral. The five colors of fuchsia, orange, red, white, and yellow are perfect in quarts through basket production.
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Snapdragon ‘Snappy Rose Flame’ (Hem Genetics)
A new color to Hem’s Snappy series of dwarf snapdragon, Rose Flame is a beautiful candy pink color with deeper rose splashed on the lip and petal edges. Snappy provides color to the garden and landscape all season. This color brings the series to 20 colors.
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Echinacea MOOODZ Series (Hilverdaflorist)
Cheerful and Devotion are the new blooming introductions in the fastest Echinacea series from tissue culture in the market. Devotion is the intense red addition to the assortment. This variety is fast flowering and creates an impressive floral display. Cheerful is a true happy yellow with large flowers. Cheerful has an overwhelming first flush and is compact with a rich flourish. (use Devotion image)
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Campanula trachelium 'Flore Plena Mix' (Jelitto Perennial Seeds)
The double bellflower is simply a joy in the garden. It is sturdy and ideally adapted to all kinds of climatic conditions. It tolerates dry periods in summer and feels at home in partial shade. Up close, the lovely bell-shaped flowers look like porcelain in detail. The mix includes semi-double, violet, light blue, and white flowers blooming July to September.
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Leucanthemum ‘White Lion’ (Kieft Seed)
Complete your seed shasta daisy F1 package with new White Lion Leucanthemum. With a critical daylength of only 10 hours, it’s ideal for early spring sales from overwintered production (previously only possible with vegetative varieties) and for spring sales from annual production.
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Bidens ‘Spicy Electric White’ (Kientzler North America)
A new Bidens perfect for early season baskets and combinations. Strong bicolor appearance and compact habit makes this a perfect choice for retail appeal. The plant is daylength neutral, tolerant of cool early season temperatures, and self branching. As compared to other Bidens, ‘Spicy Electric White’ can have a bit of upright growth and remain an upright mounded plant. Expect good outdoor performance to last into July.
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Cyclamen ‘Latinia Success Light Pink With Eye’ (Morel Diffusion)
Early and sturdy; maximum consistency and big flowers; favorite for large-scale production
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Petunia ‘E3 Easy Wave’ (PanAmerican Seed)
It’s Early, it’s Efficient, it’s the Evolution of Easy Wave®. E3 is a brand-new Wave® series that flowers at 10 hours daylength so it’s ready to kick off spreading petunia sales even earlier at retail. It has a manageable, uniform shape and vigor, and offers simple production to save on labor costs. In the garden it fulfills the consumer Wave promise of easy, spreading color.
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Leucanthemum ‘Real Goldcup’ (Plant Development Services, Inc./Southern Living Plant Collection/Sunset Plant Collection)
This stunning new Shasta Daisy with long-lasting, bright yellow blooms is the yellowest Shasta on the market. Whether grown in cottage gardens, for cut flowers, or in borders, ‘Real Goldcup’ provides extraordinary color. A water-wise and deer-resistant plant suited to USDA Zones 5-9b, blooms emerge in late spring through fall.
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Petunia 'Supertunia Vista Jazzberry' (Proven Winners)Proven Winners
Proven Winners is excited to announce yet another color expansion to the very popular line of Supertunia Vistas, with a magenta purple flower color similar to the purple in ‘Supertunia Picasso in Purple.’ Vista Jazzberry is similar in size and habit to ‘Supertunia Vista Paradise’ yet with a more upright mounding habit versus the spreading habit of Bubblegum. Like all Supertunia Vista petunias, they are self-cleaning; no deadheading is required to keep them in flower from spring into fall. Supertunia Vistas are the best petunias for mass plantings in landscapes and make the biggest hanging baskets of all the Supertunias.
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Begonia ‘Viking Explorer Red on Green’ (Sakata Ornamentals)
This all-weather begonia has high impact color and a unique trailing habit with flowers covering tops and sides! This series is early flowering and matches the Viking and Viking XL series with an abundance of extra-large flowers. Viking Explorer is all-weather resistant and great for landscapes, containers, and hanging baskets. Series includes Red on Green and Rose on Green.
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Cyclamen ‘Super Serie Leopardo’ (Schoneveld)
‘Super Serie Leopardo’ is the latest addition to the cyclamen assortment from Schoneveld Breeding. Its heat-tolerant features make it the perfect large-flowered Cyclamen for warmer climates.
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Petunia ‘Headliner Enchanted Sky’ (Selecta)
The Sky Family of petunias continues to expand in 2022 with an exciting new pattern for the Sky assortment. ‘Enchanted Sky’ features both a hazy white star and sky pattern backed in a cheery pink flower color. The Headliner series is known for its mounded, medium vigor habit perfect for impactful hanging baskets and mixes.
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Hydrangea paniculata ‘Little Lime Punch’ (Spring Meadow Nursery/Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs)
‘Little Lime Punch’ will knock your socks off with extremely bright and vivid color on a very sturdy dwarf habit that is similar to Little Lime hydrangea. Plants will benefit from a dormant prune of a few inches off the top in early spring before sale. USDA Zones 3-8; 3 to 5 feet tall and wide.
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Rosa ‘Blushing Drift’ (Star Roses and Plants)
‘Blushing Drift’ displays attractive, double, pink flower clusters with a warm, yellow center. Its compact size, disease resistance, and heavy blooming make it a stunning and reliable landscape choice.
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Mandevilla ‘Sun Parasol Sunbeam’ (Suntory Flowers)
Sunbeam is the first yellow in Sun Parasol mandevillas. This new variety fits the original group. Plants have a bushy habit for hanging baskets and containers. Rich, buttery yellow blooms have darker throats. Sunbeam is loaded with buds that bloom two to three weeks earlier than older varieties.
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Interspecific Geranium ‘Calliope Medium Dark Red Dark Leaf’ (Syngenta Flowers)
Large double flowers and intense flowering all-season long creates an impact in the garden. Calliope Medium’s wide range of colors, including unique novelties, are a one-stop option for building the ideal geranium program.
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Echinacea 'Sweet Sandia' (Terra Nova Nurseries)
Echinacea require high light, moderate to low fertility, and moderate water. Echinacea 'Sweet Sandia’ offers better overall performance than Echinacea 'Green Twister', and it is more even flowering.
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Strawberry Hybrid ‘Summer Breeze Cherry Blossom’ (ABZ Seeds)
Rosa ‘True Bloom True Friendship’ (Altman Plants)
Tradewinds Hibiscus ‘White Treasure Wind’ (Aris Horticulture)
Tropaeolum ‘Baby Rose’/’Baby Orange’ (American Takii/Sahin)
Hydrangea paniculata ‘First Editions Little Hottie’ (Bailey First Editions Shrubs & Trees)
Lantana ‘Shamrock’ (Ball FloraPlant)
Rex Begonia Jurassic Series (Ball Ingenuity)
Begonia ‘Waterfall Bicolor’ (Beekenkamp Plants)
Begonia ‘Nonstop Joy Rose Picotee’ (Ernst Benary of America)
Petunia ‘Capella Hello Yellow’ (Danziger)
Buddleia ‘Chrysalis’ (Darwin Perennials)
Salvia ‘Hummingbird Falls’ (Dümmen Orange)
Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Shining Star’ (Emerald Coast Growers)
Rudbeckia Sunbeckia Series (Flamingo Holland)
Portulaca ‘24/7 Fuschia’ (Green Fuse Botanicals)
Snapdragon ‘Snappy Rose Flame’ (Hem Genetics)
Echinacea MOOODZ Series (Hilverdaflorist)
Campanula trachelium 'Flore Plena Mix' (Jelitto Perennial Seeds)
Leucanthemum ‘White Lion’ (Kieft Seed)
Bidens ‘Spicy Electric White’ (Kientzler North America)
Cyclamen ‘Latinia Success Light Pink With Eye’ (Morel Diffusion)
Petunia ‘E3 Easy Wave’ (PanAmerican Seed)
Leucanthemum ‘Real Goldcup’ (Plant Development Services, Inc./Southern Living Plant Collection/Sunset Plant Collection)
Petunia 'Supertunia Vista Jazzberry' (Proven Winners)Proven Winners
Begonia ‘Viking Explorer Red on Green’ (Sakata Ornamentals)
Cyclamen ‘Super Serie Leopardo’ (Schoneveld)
Petunia ‘Headliner Enchanted Sky’ (Selecta)
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Little Lime Punch’ (Spring Meadow Nursery/Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs)
Rosa ‘Blushing Drift’ (Star Roses and Plants)
Mandevilla ‘Sun Parasol Sunbeam’ (Suntory Flowers)
Interspecific Geranium ‘Calliope Medium Dark Red Dark Leaf’ (Syngenta Flowers)
Echinacea 'Sweet Sandia' (Terra Nova Nurseries)
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Brian Sparks is senior editor of Greenhouse Grower and editor of Greenhouse Grower Technology. See all author stories here.