12/24/2023 0 Comments Petchoa caramel yellow![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to its excellent look and performance, Midnight Fire, like other ornamental peppers, is an excellent host for Orius, a beneficial predator that will feast on many pests. Ornamental Pepper Midnight Fire (44) is a black foliage plant with loads of peppers that is great in pots, landscape and mixes. ![]() Blue Prelude can be grown in gallons for landscape or in large containers mixed with other perennials or annuals. This excellent garden performer blooms through the whole summer and well into frost. Nepeta Blue Prelude (43) is a first-season flowering perennial that has scented foliage, and attracts bees and butterflies. I would suggest using this lotus vine as an accent in combinations as it can complement any mix without taking over. It needs to be aged, then cooled for 6 to 10 weeks before being forced under bright light conditions. The lotus flower on the Berthelotii are exceptional, but unfortunately hard to produce. Great alone, in combinations, and in mixed containers. In addition to thriving in extreme heat, rainy days did not affect the hot blooded red lantana as it bounces back immediately. In our trials, Hot Blooded Red had excellent garden performance throughout the whole summer, without the need for deadheading. Lantana is the best hot-weather genera, and it is vastly underused. It does not produce any seed, which gives the plant more energy to continuously produce more flowers. ![]() Lantana Hot Blooded Red (41) is a breakthrough in breeding. The latter is one colour of the versatile Sunpatiens series that can transform a mediocre garden to one positively exploding with healthy plants seen from 100 ft. Sunstanding Jazzy Coral (39) and the outstanding Impatiens Sunpatiens Compact Tropical Rose (40). If you are after vigour and good garden performance, try new crosses like New Guinea Imp. New Guinea Impatiens Roller Coaster Hot Pink (38) has the New Guinea habit but with higher end flowers that could be suitable for selling in an upgraded container for better margins. If you like the habit of New Guinea impatiens but want more vigour and double flowers, you now have more choice. In our trials, all were grown in full sun without negative effects, showing better growth habits and more flowers compared to growing in the shade. They also take the sun better than the shade. The New Guinea impatiens perform very well in gardens, with larger flowers and resilient growing habits. They performed very well in the trials, which raises the question as to why we need Walleriana impatiens. New Guinea Impatiens Super Sonic Orange Ice (36) and Magnum Fire (37) were not susceptible to (IDM). Hence, even when environmental conditions were favourable for IDM, the Beacon and Imara impatiens were resistant to it. In comparison, Impatiens walleriana Xtreme (35) was covered with IDM. The double impatiens, such as Impatiens Double Fiesta Coral Orange (34), also did not display any IDM but showed great garden performance with huge double flowers that looked like multiflora roses due to the cooler nights compared to other summers. In our trials, the Beacon and the Imara did very well all summer long without any signs of impatiens downy mildew (IDM) and with good garden performance. Impatiens Beacon White (32) and Impatiens Walleriana Imara Orange Star (33) are two colours from the Beacon and Imara series, long awaited to replace older impatiens genetics. Dynamo recovers faster than other geraniums after a rain due to its ability to produce lots of flowers. Typically, if no deadheading is done, the entire plant will be dead. For good garden performance, fast flowering is needed in geraniums because after every rain, almost all of the open flowers need to be removed to prevent the spread of botrytis. Consumers look for colour, and the more of it there is, the faster the product is sold. Its leaf zoning and high degree of flower power are musts for both sales appeal and for garden performance. Geranium Zonal Dynamo Orange (31) is one in a range of colours for this medium-habit series. The following varieties are listed either alphabetically or grouped with similar varieties, and not listed in any order of importance or by popularity. In this second part, we will explore the remainder of my selections and highlight how they could benefit your operation. In the first article, we discussed 30 new and notable varieties that excelled at the Sawaya Garden Trials this past year. ![]()
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