19 New Combos for Containers Big and Small
Today’s gardeners don’t fit easily into one category and neither do their gardens. When it comes to containers, customers’ needs vary, whether it’s filling a small pot for an apartment balcony, brightening up a large patio container with some color, or dressing up a city street with oversize baskets. Check out 19 combos and mixes new for the retail marketplace in 2017. They are versatile enough that they offer something for every size and type of combination container.
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Cities of Fashion Bangkok (Hort Couture)
Bangkok is a multi-genera liner with a vibrant color combination in hues of purple with Bacopa ‘Boutique Blue,’ Calibrachoa ‘Catwalk Perfect Purple,’ and Petunia ‘Panache Purple Panda.’
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Color My Sunset Kwik Kombos Mix (Syngenta Flowers)
Kwik Kombos are formulated mixes tested for consumer performance in a range of climates. Designed to provide retail color during the spring months, Kwik Kombos are optimized to continually bloom in temperate spring climates. They consist of maintenance-free plants for the consumer that cover up to 36 inches in the landscape, and they are a tough-as-nails groundcover for hard to establish landscapes.
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Cosmo Pot Mum Trio (Dümmen Orange)
The Cosmo Pot Mum series is a brand new line comprised of Yellow, Purple, and White Cosmo pot mums. All three Cosmos are stable mutants from the same parent, making them perfectly uniform. This matched vigor and response time makes them a low-risk choice for a pot mum combo program.
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Honeybelle (Proven Winners)
Honeybelle is Proven Winner’s 2017 National Fall Recipe. It is a combination of Bidens hyb. ‘Campfire Fireburst,’ Calibrachoa hyb. ‘Superbells Yellow,’ and Petunia hyb. ‘Supertunia Honey.’
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Lollipop Berry Daring One Touch Combination (Ernst Benary of America)
Benary’s new One Touch Combinations are not mixes, they’re combos. Benary provides growers with the recipes and with the varieties and percentages of each color in the mix. Seeds are sold in solid-color packets. Lollipop Berry Daring is a bright, vibrant combination to grow for baskets, packs, window boxes, or even the landscape. Growers get exactly the right colors they need for each, with no guesswork.
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Mingle Picnic Mix (Florist Holland)
Garvinea Gerberas produce colorful flowers from early spring until the first frost. This mix combines Gerbera ‘Garvinea Sweet Memories’ with Calibrachoa ‘Ice Blue,’ Petunia ‘Cheesecake,’ Scaevola ‘Blue,’ and Verbena ‘Dark Purple.’
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Mingle Pretty In Pink Mix (Florist Holland)
Garvinea Gerberas produce colorful flowers from early spring until the first frost. This mix combines Gerbera ‘Garvinea Sweet Spice’ with Calibrachoa ‘Pink Doll,’ Bracteantha (Xerochrysum) ‘White,’ Lobelia ‘Hot Snow White,’ and C. ‘Pink Doll.’
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Mingle Sunset Glow Mix (Florist Holland)
Garvinea Gerberas produce colorful flowers from early spring until the first frost. This mix combines Gerbera ‘Garvinea Sweet Glow’ with Petunia ‘Cheesecake,’ Verbena ‘Red,’ Heliotrope ‘Blue,’ and Lobelia ‘Hot Blue.’
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Mixed Perennial Planter (Walters Gardens)
This beautiful combination of mixed perennials is designed for a short window of interest of three to four weeks in mid-summer, but in a larger container, it will look great for several months. Plants included are Echinacea ‘Sombrero Salsa Red,’ Stokesia ‘Honeysong Purple,’ Gypsophila ‘Summer Sparkles,’ Phlox paniculata ‘Flame Coral,’ Coreopsis ‘Sizzle & Spice Curry Up’ (just starting to bloom), and Monarda ‘Rockin’ Raspberry.’ This mixed perennial planter is offered through Eason Horticultural Resources, Inc.
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MixMasters Summer Bouquet (Ball FloraPlant)
MixMasters multiliners are perfectly balanced mixes where each variety is individually propagated and custom treated, which allows for greater genetic diversity in mixes. Summer Bouquet, a mix of Angelonia ‘AngelMist Spreading Blue,’ A. ‘Spreading Pink,’ and A. ‘Spreading White’ is new for 2017.
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MixMasters Sunnyside (Ball FloraPlant)
MixMasters multiliners are perfectly balanced mixes where each variety is individually propagated and custom treated, which allows for greater genetic diversity in mixes. Sunnyside, a mix of Calibrachoa ‘Deep Yellow,’ Petunia ‘Sun Spun Yellow,’ and Verbena ‘Firehouse White,’ is new for 2017.
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Night Watch Trixi (Selecta One)
The Trixi collection continues to grow with new and improved mixes. Selecta has bred and upgraded many of the Trixi combos specifically for better performance. New for 2017, Night Watch is a mix of Bidens ‘Namid Special Yellow,’ Petunia ‘Starlet Velvet,’ and Verbena ‘Blues Red.’
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Petunia Colorworks Burgundy Star and Coleus PartyTime Ruby Punch Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
New PartyTime Ruby Punch and ColorWorks Ruby Star offer beautiful patterns in playful colors. Party Time plants provide controlled growth and thrive in the sun or shade. ColorWorks offers early blooms with high resistance to powdery mildew.
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Petchoa SuperCal Buttercream and Crimson Red Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
New Buttercream and Crimson Red offer two unique colors and all-weather garden performance. This gorgeous combo is ideal for quart and basket production with vigorous, well-branched plants. Plus, early blooms provide constant color.
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Plug & Play Premium Annuals Coral Lights (PanAmerican Seed)
Plug & Play combos offer growers easy, economical production with high-impact genetics plus culture support. Combos feature programmable finish times to hit store set dates. Recipes range from value priced to upscale designer blends, all with on-trend colors. Some are backed by the Wave brand, others are offered as Fuseables Precision Multipellets. New for 2017, Coral Lights is a blend of Petunia ‘Easy Wave Yellow,’ P. ‘Shock Wave Coral Crush,’ and Euphorbia ‘Glitz.’
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Prime Time Trixi (Selecta One)
The Trixi collection continues to grow with new and improved mixes. Selecta has bred and upgraded many of the Trixi combos specifically for better combo performance. New for 2017, Prime Time is a mix of Bidens ‘Namid Special Yellow,’ Verbena ‘Lascar Dark Red,’ and V. ‘Lascar Dark Violet.’
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Snapdragon Candytops Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
Candy Tops dwarf snapdragons are upright with sturdy stems. Plus, an abundance of blooms on dwarf plants means constant color. This new and sweet series plays well with others in mixed containers.
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Spring Marvel Mixers Combo (Suntory Flowers)
Spring Marvel is one of the new Suntory Mixers combos for 2017. Inspired by the vibrant primary colors found in comic books, the varieties are Calibrachoa ‘Million Bells Mounding Yellow,’ Lobelia ‘Suntory Lobelia Trailing Sky Blue,’ and Verbena ‘Temari Trailing Red.’
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Wave Plug & Play Lovin’ It (PanAmerican Seed)
Plug & Play combos offer growers easy, economical production with high-impact genetics plus culture support. Combos feature programmable finish times to hit store set dates. Recipes range from value priced to upscale designer blends, all with on-trend colors. New for 2017, Lovin’ It is a blend of Petunia ‘Easy Wave Yellow,’ P. ‘Neon Rose,’ and P. ‘Combo Blue.’
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Cities of Fashion Bangkok (Hort Couture)
Color My Sunset Kwik Kombos Mix (Syngenta Flowers)
Cosmo Pot Mum Trio (Dümmen Orange)
Honeybelle (Proven Winners)
Lollipop Berry Daring One Touch Combination (Ernst Benary of America)
Mingle Picnic Mix (Florist Holland)
Mingle Pretty In Pink Mix (Florist Holland)
Mingle Sunset Glow Mix (Florist Holland)
Mixed Perennial Planter (Walters Gardens)
MixMasters Summer Bouquet (Ball FloraPlant)
MixMasters Sunnyside (Ball FloraPlant)
Night Watch Trixi (Selecta One)
Petunia Colorworks Burgundy Star and Coleus PartyTime Ruby Punch Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
Petchoa SuperCal Buttercream and Crimson Red Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
Plug & Play Premium Annuals Coral Lights (PanAmerican Seed)
Prime Time Trixi (Selecta One)
Snapdragon Candytops Mix (Sakata Ornamentals)
Spring Marvel Mixers Combo (Suntory Flowers)
Wave Plug & Play Lovin’ It (PanAmerican Seed)
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Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.