SUPERCAL COLORS SERIES
Sometimes it’s the flowers that make a plant pretty, and this mix of varieties from the Chameleon series of calibrachoas looks good enough to eat. Flowers are white with a thin pink margin.Ĭalibrachoa Chameleon Blackberry Tart Mix
Absolu de Morel has been selected by its breeder to have a much more noticeable fragrance. Anyway, cyclamen do have a nice scent, although it may be very faint. It’s not necessarily true that scientists have bred scent out of flowers (at least not on purpose), but it is true that sometimes the longest-lasting flowers don’t have as much scent … it’s sort of a chicken-and-egg situation. farinacea doesn’t offer the reds and purples of the salvia you may be familiar with, but if you like blue, light blue or white, give them a try, because in my garden they look as fresh at the end of the season as they did in May. This is a Salvia farinacea, which is an extremely durable and problem-free type of salvia. What makes it pretty? It’s blue flowers and bulletproof garden performance. You are likely to find it available in multi-count packs and not just large pots, so you can put more of them in your garden. “Interspecific” means it’s got two different parents, each of which brings good traits to the garden, such as vigor and uniformity the fact that it is grown from seed means it should be less expensive for you, the consumer. Twelve years in the making, this is the first sun-tolerant interspecific impatiens that is grown from seed (all other competitors are grown from cuttings). What makes it pretty? A lower price point for growers and consumers. Solarscape sun-tolerant New Guinea impatiens The breeder says that by 2025 all their petunia varieties will be resistant to this disease. TMV isn’t as devastating to petunias as IDM has been to impatiens, but it can be problematic to growers as well as gardeners, who might not know why their plant suddenly faded away. That’s the case with Smartunia, which is the first to be resistant to the disease tobacco mosaic virus (TMV).
SUPERCAL COLORS SKIN
Sometimes it’s what’s under the skin that makes a plant pretty. What makes it pretty? It’s the world’s first TMV-resistant petunia But sometimes happy accidents happen, like with this dianthus, which features shades of white and pink and salmon and lavender and red all on one plant, and even on one bloom. What makes it pretty? Multiple flower colors in each pot-even on each bloom!įlower breeders like stability-meaning if they breed a flower to be a particular color, they want it to stay that color. Thankfully, a smart breeder in the Netherlands found a way to breed an IDM-tolerant impatiens (called Beacon), and now they’ve bred that same IDM resistance into a double impatiens, which they’ve named Glimmer. Some years back, a disease called impatiens downy mildew (IDM) rose up seemingly out of nowhere to almost wipe out impatiens in shade gardens around the world. What makes it pretty? It brings double impatiens, with their rosebud-shaped blooms, back to the garden. Then again, keep your eyes peeled, because you never know when a smart grower might have gotten some early samples! 10 PRETTY INTRODUCTIONS ON THE FLORAL RUNWAY
Oh, a note: These are mostly introductions for 2023, so don’t expect to see them in your favorite garden center this season. But I also look for traits that make plants better and easier for the grower, retailer and especially you, the gardener. Sure, I’m a sucker for a pretty color, too. My list is completely subjective, of course, but doing this for nearly three decades gives me a view of “pretty” that goes deeper than just a flashy blossom. The ornamental horticulture industry just held its annual “California Spring Trials,” a five-day event where flower breeders from around the globe show off their newest and coolest flower and plant introductions to greenhouse and garden center professionals.Īs a former greenhouse owner and the editor of the horticultural trade magazine GrowerTalks, I’ve been covering this “fashion week for the flower business” since 1994, and I reckon that’s why my friend Jill Brooke of Flower Power Daily asked me to share what I consider the ten prettiest flower introductions from this year’s event-I have seen a lot of pansies and petunias come and go!
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