Berberis 'Sunjoy Neo'
- Bright color
- Dense, rounded habit
Buddleia 'Lo' Behold Ruby Chip'
- Big flowers
- Dwarf habit
- Fragrant
Clematis 'Sparky Blue'
- Early blooming
- Unique, pinwheel-like shaped blooms
- Vigorous and durable
- Reblooming/long blooming
Clematis 'Sparky Pink'
- Early blooming
- Unique, pinwheel-like shaped blooms
- Vigorous and durable
- Reblooming/long blooming
Clematis 'Sparky Purple'
- Early blooming
- Unique, pinwheel-like shaped blooms
- Vigorous and durable
- Reblooming/long blooming
Hydrangea arborescens 'Invincibelle Garnetta'
- Deep pink flowers
- Season extending - later to bloom
- Native
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Let's Dance Big Band'
- Extra-large flowers
- Outstanding rebloomer, with ability to create new wood flower buds more rapidly than other macrophyllas
- Glossy foliage
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Wee Bit Giddy'
- Saturated, colorful blooms
- Cross between H. 'Let's Dance Rave' and H. 'Cityline Paris'
- Reblooming
- Dwarf
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Wee Bit Grumpy'
- Saturated, colorful blooms
- Reblooming
- Mophead
- Dwarf
Hydrangea serrata 'Let's Dance Cancan'
- Breeding breakthrough
- Showy lacecap
- Non-stop blooming
- Technically an H. serrata, but looks like a bigleaf hydrangea with its full, big blooms
- Requires only a short period of vegetative growth to create new wood blooms
- Sets flower buds along the entire length of the stem
Lagerstroemia 'Center Stage Red'
- Cerise-colored flowers
- Disease-resistant
- Heat tolerant
Nerium 'Austin Pretty Limits'
- Very floriferous
- Disease-resistant
- Rounded habit
Rhamnus 'Fine Line Improved'
- Unique texture
- Dense foliage
- Non-invasive
Rhododendron 'Perfecto Mundo Double Purple'
- Reblooming
- Lacebug resistant
Rosa 'Ringo All-Star'
- Distinctive color - melon-orange and pink blooms that age to lavender for a multi-colored effect
- Disease resistant
- Long blooming
Syringa 'Baby Kim'
- Fragrant
- Compact
- Improved S. ‘Miss Kim’
Spring Meadow Nursery has 27 new Proven Winners ColorChoice shrub varieties available for the 2020 season.
Highlights of the new offerings include
- Two heat tolerant selections, ‘Austin Pretty Limits’ Oleander and ‘Center Stage’ Red Crapemyrtle.
- Improvements on existing cultivars: Syringa ‘Baby Kim’ is a compact version of S. ‘Miss Kim’ and ‘Fine Line Improved,’ a non-invasive buckthorn cultivar, which has fuller, thicker foliage that stays full to the ground
- New colors: Sunjoy Neo adds a bright neon color to Spring Meadow’s barberry series; Double Purple, a new add-on to the Perfecto Mundo series of reblooming, lacebug-resistant azaleas; All-Star, with its melon-orange and pink blooms that age to lavender for a multi-colored effect joins the Rosa Ringo Series
- Five new cultivars of hydrangea: Dwarf big leaf hydrangeas ‘Wee Bit Grumpy’ and ‘Wee Bit Giddy’; Cancan and Big Band, both new to the Let’s Dance series
- New Clematis Sparky series with three colors – Paraplu, Pink Ink, and Paraplu Violet
A brochure with images and descriptions of the complete line of new varieties can be downloaded here, along with a press release about the new selections from Spring Meadow Nursery.
In addition to the new varieties mentioned here and shown in the slideshow, Public Relations Specialist Natalie Carmolli has created a series of seven short videos to highlight 11 of its new introductions. For information on all the new Proven Winners ColorChoice shrubs available for this year, visit SpringMeadowNursery.com.
Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.