Strong and generative balance variety. For both traditional and high wire cultivation. HR: Cca/Ccu | IR: CMV/CVYV/Px.
This exciting addition offers growers a versatile and highquality orange pepper with impressive shelf-life that will nicely round out their assortment. HR: Tm:0-3
Agriculture requires a long-term vision. As a family business we tend to think in generations rather than in quarterly figures. Enza Zaden is your hands-on partner delivering innovative solutions through meticulous, non-GMO seed breeding.
Precision multi-pellets yield easy-sow, easy-grow combos of popular spreading pansies for Spring and Autumn: Cool Wave Blue Skies and Cool Wave Golden Yellow.
Fuller plant, more densely branched, with deeper color for better retail and garden show. Less upright vigor, shorter peduncles for improved manageability all Summer.
F1
Clear, yellow-filled flowers stand out on compact, smaller-leafed plant. More manageable and programmable on the bench and more appealing in the store. Needs fewer PGRs.
Biggest blooms of this type make a royal impression! Uniform flowering time and habit. Multiple flowers on a compact, mounded plant. Best in cool weather.
Most unique vinca on the market! Bold, head-turning, fun, floriferous and well-branched. Showstopping blooms with overlapping, fully rounded form — won’t show gaps in hot temperatures.
Unique cherry tomato ripens red, shows blush of glossy black-purple when exposed to sun — a standout at retail and farmstand! Produces flavorful fruit all season.
Great in heat and low-water conditions. Low-maintenance; no deadheading needed. Blue spires attract pollinators. First of this type from seed. Super easy and showy!
Bright and early favorite, 2 to 3 weeks earlier than competitors in cool season; 1 to 2 weeks earlier in Summer. Compact, with semi-double flowers.
Earliest ripening habanero on the market! Huge yields of larger size peppers, about 1/3 the heat of standard habaneros. Super tasty!
Deeper, richer red does not wash out. Denser plant with more branching and shorter peduncles. About 3 days faster to salable stage.
Showiest English Lavender! Bigger, taller spikes than any seed variety. Upright flower stems stand close together. Easy to grow, high uniformity, good habit and earliness.
Mini bell excels in earliness, ease and eating! Thick-walled, blunt-end peppers with rich, sweet flavor. “Easy-out” stem and seeds for quick cleaning.
Crowned with the biggest blooms!
NEW Corona offers the biggest blooms of any dianthus of this type! With uniform flowering time, an exceptional flower form and a palette of showstopping colors, Corona is guaranteed to reign over early Spring sales.
With bold Cherry Red, rich Rose, sweet Strawberry and crisp White, Corona makes a magnificent addition to cool season landscapes, gardens and patio planters.
A uniform series that flowers one week earlier than other upright verbena. Features the same heat performance as EnduraScape in a compact patio pot habit.
Stunning for full sun and shade. Versatile, premium variety retains its pink coloration longer into the summer. Serrated leaf edge brings out the bicolor contrast.
A new pattern in the sky type: Star AND spots in an attractive burgundy and yellow color. Basket petunia boasts early flowering for a fast finish.
Features excellent branching and 2 to 3 weeks longer flowering into the heat. The nonsplit habit late in the production cycle means higher sell-through.
New heart-shaped leaf varieties join the series of densely branched ipomoea. Holds its shape and color in the landscape and mixed combos all Summer long.
Medium-compact calibrachoa with uniform flower timing across the series. Grows well in quart and gallon containers; thrives in hanging baskets. Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winner
Hardy in the hottest days of Summer, but survives down to the low teens. Still reblooms in Spring! New for 2019: Pink Fizz and White.
First compact ipomoea series now offers popular heart-shaped leaf varieties in Black and Lime. Its naturally branched habit is ideal for packs, small pots and mixes.
Great for extending the season. Its large blooms last longer, and the sturdy stems are ideal for shipping and hold at retail. Available in three colors.
The perfect medium-mounded basket and mixed container verbena. Offers a full range of colors with the same superior garden performance in the heat as EnduraScape.
Dark-leafed dahlia that is a powerhouse in the garden. Bold, bicolor blooms last all season. A magnet for butterflies and birds. Makes an outstanding centerpiece.
Large-flowered with dark red blooms on a very strong, vigorous plant. It has unique, very dark stems for contrast. Heat-tolerant variety is perfect for landscapes.
Cascading Angelonia are ideal for hanging baskets. Rather than being upright, these stems whirl and twirl, weaving in and around other plants in the container.
The first of its kind, Rockin’ Fuchsia is a fabulous color breakthrough for gauraniticatype salvias. The large, intense fuchsia flowers are incredible hummingbird magnets!
These crisp colors are easy to match with many other flowers in combinations. This variety has been screened specifically for resistance to Thielaviopsis.
A breakthrough color for Osteospermum, this perfectly pink selection is ideal for spring container recipes. It has increased heat tolerance, which means all season blooms for many.
A color expansion for our Superbells Star line that mixes easily and blooms from spring into fall without deadheading. Screened specifically for resistance to Thielaviopsis.
Thrill gardeners with these beautiful speckled, star-patterned flowers! An easy way to add life to recipes with solid colored flowers. Screened specifically for resistance to Thielaviopsis.
This group of super-sized, vegetative hypoestes does what Snow Princess did to seed alyssum. They’re big and bushy with an upright habit, growing in full sun to full shade.
Beautiful fully double, soft lemon yellow flowers appear in spring and bloom into fall without deadheading. Screened specifically for resistance to Thielaviopsis.
You love our Supertunia Vista® petunias, so we’ve expanded the line to include this watermelon pink selection which comes close to the vigor and habit of Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum.
Here’s a new Calendula selection with bright yellow double blooms. These double varieties have greatly reduced seed set, which encourages blooming throughout the season.
These tightly compact calibrachoa are ideal for smaller scale plantings--think petite mono pots or window boxes. Talk about spring impulse appeal!
The bloom power of this new Supertunia Charm Petunia is remarkable, becoming completely covered in pure white flowers from spring into fall. They thrive in heat and humidity too.
Plants that will be in top demand into next year – and why.
BY TREENA HEIN
The Canadian gardening season is well underway and many of the planting trends now coming into flower across the nation are expected to continue into 2019.
Mark Cullen, national spokesperson for lawn and garden at Home Hardware, notes that the use of eco-conscious plants – indigenous, pollinator-friendly, drought-tolerant – is really no longer a trend but here to stay. “It’s getting bigger and bigger all the time,” he says. “For the new generation of gardeners, millennials, supporting the environment is why they are gardening. That and for food.”
Denis Flanagan agrees. “The current generation of gardeners are more keyed into the big environmental factors like water scarcity,” notes the public relations and membership manager at Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association. “Many municipalities have water bans every summer now, so water conservation is not something off in the future, it’s a reality now.” He believes that drought-tolerant plants are being used in landscapes more frequently
Multi-function plants which look good, are edible and offer food and shelter for pollinators will likely stay very popular for the foreseeable future. Valerie Stensson, Sheridan Nurseries’ vice-president of marketing and purchasing notes that fragrant plants that attract pollinators from Sheridan’s ‘Fragrance Garden Collection’ are selling very well.
“The average landscape designer ten years ago might have laughed at the suggestion that an area for vegetable growing would be a major trend and an integral part of planning,” notes Flanagan. “With regards to fruit trees, ten to fifteen years ago most garden centres had stopped selling these due to lack of interest. Today we are witnessing a major revival in urban agriculture.”
Edible plants, shrubs and trees have all seen a resurgence in the past few years. Stensson notes that extremely hot varieties such as ghost peppers and scorpion peppers are very popular. “Millennials,” adds Cullen, are “definitely into herbs. Plants like sage, rosemary, mint, basil, they take up very little space and are very productive. None are really shade tolerant but do well in sunny yards, decks or south-facing balconies.”
Demand for trees, shrubs and perennials continues to be strong as they provide years of fairly easy care – particularly native
or native-based cultivars like echinacea and new hybrids. “All the hybrids nowadays are beautiful,” Cullen notes. “People are gobbling them up. And people are also getting more educated about shrubs of many sorts and seeking them out by name, such as hydrangea and black elderberry.”
Aberta Horticultural Association President Robert Spencer provides a report from their annual meeting in June on consumer interests. They mentioned that Calibrachoa (million bells) is becoming more popular as an easy-care flower instead of petunias, as they better withstand wind and do not need deadheading, which can be a time-consuming process.
Although Cullen does not see plants with patterned foliage (dots, dashes, stripes, swirls) as a large trend at this point, Sheridan is selling lots of these plants, from Petunia Night Sky to Brise d’Anjou Variegated Jacob’s Ladder. Flanagan notes that in addition to providing visual interest, plants with patterned foliage usually also grow very well in the shade, adding visual interest in darker corners of the flower garden.
Spencer notes that gardeners should – and are – trying out different colours. Take Ipomea (sweet potato vine) for instance, which comes in many different colours and is heat-tolerant to boot.
Close-up of a mandevilla bloom. Potted tropicals are placed outdoors in the summer and brought in for the winter.
In terms of colours for 2018 and beyond, Home Depot identifies purple as ‘hot,’ describing it as signifying “peace, mystery, magic and ambition.” Cullen agrees that purple is popular this year, but isn’t sure whether that translates into actual sales increases. For his part, Flanagan thinks purple will stay popular into next year. “There are the permanent aspects of your garden, and then colour can be the trendy aspect,” he says. “Colour can be addressed with containers and annuals.”
Stensson reports that in addition to purple, pink and white selections are also selling well. “The latest releases in the Proven Winner Hydrangea program are all variations of white,” she notes, “and have been met with great success.” Flanagan observes that in the last two years, there have been a growing number of gardens in Ontario with only white flowers. “One of the nicest times to enjoy a garden is at night, and that’s also when people have time in their busy modern lives to do so,” he says. “The white flowers are really stunning in the evening with some strategic lighting.” Stensson adds that plants that bloom in the nighttime include Evening Primrose and Jasmine, and plants that ‘show’ well in low light with their brightly-coloured blooms include verbenas and hydrangeas.
Gardeners also continue to look upwards, using walls, fences, deck trellises and more for vines or to hang container planters on. ‘Vertical gardening’ is especially important to condo owners, says Cullen, inside and out.
Flanagan notes that shrubs and perennials of many varieties, including many traditional choices like lilac and mock orange, are
now available in hybridized dwarf form, and “the fear of having one shrub take over your backyard is now a thing of the past.” He adds that there are now new compact food crop varieties adapted to containers, from strawberries and rhubarb to potatoes.
Container planting shows no sign of slowing down. “Many of the new shrubs in the various branded programs are bred for compact form, which lends well to container gardening,” Stensson notes. Spencer again passes on reports from AHA annual conference presenters that gardeners are going beyond traditional containers to “all sorts of things, like desks, lamp shades, shoes and purses.” They are also making new choices for the centre of their planters, he says, replacing traditional Dracaena with plants like Coleus.
Gardeners are also putting tropical plants in containers and bringing them in every fall to overwinter inside, plants such as patchouli, lion’s tail, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, Malabar spinach, hibiscus and oleander. “It’s very big,” says Cullen. “We’ll see more retailers carrying tropicals, especially greenhouse retailers that maintain them properly.” Tropical plants selling well at Sheridan Nurseries this year include fan palms, fiddle leaf figs, mandevilla vines and Boston ferns.
To keep up with trends, Cullen encourages greenhouse growers to have a word with every one of their retailers every year. “I travel across the country every spring for Home Hardware, and every market and every year has its own story,” he says. “I’m not sure if there’s as much asking around as there should be. Retailers might not have a lot to say but what they do say is important. You want to grow products that sell and maximize margin.”
With wonderful colours that pop against deep begonia foliage, ‘Spring Fling Buttercup’ offers beautiful bicolour blooms that would dazzle any garden.
The reliably uniform Main Street Coleus series became more appealing this year with the addition of ‘Alligator Alley.’ This variety is the top choice for extending an annuals program into summer and fall.
New to this grower-favorite series is ‘Big EEZE Foxy Flamingo’. With pink variegated flowers, ‘Foxy Flamingo’ is flexible for all your container needs with the added benefit of long-lasting garden performance.
I’Conia
features extremely saturated yellow flowers, clean foliage, strong branching, excellent flower power, shade/ part-sun tolerance, and unbeatable consumer preference.
With oversized, truly double flowers, grower-friendly production, indoor/outdoor appeal, and retail merchandising support, I’Conia Portofino Sunrise just might be the best choice for a vivid hybrid begonia on the market.
Confetti Garden® FireFlash features a combination of new Sweetunia Fiona Flash, petunia, Aloha Kona Hot Orange calibrachoa, and large-flowered Empress Flair White verbena.
Starsister dahlias are known for their unique flower colours and patterns, and ‘Yellow Daffodil’ is no exception! Pair this new variety with ‘Rose & White’ for a lovely, well-balanced program.
HOT ROD RED
The Savannah Pelargonium series is our top-selling zonal geranium with its superior habit and dark foliage. New for 2019, ‘Savannah Hot Rod Red’ is sure to have high retail appeal.
‘Wild Romance Red’ is a trueshade NGI, adding a bold red bloom to the existing white and blush pink lineup. Wild Romance is ideal for large container and combination production.
Fiona
is a new addition to the “superhero” line of novelty petunias. With a vivid orange-red bloom, ‘Fiona Flash’ is sure to turn heads at retail.
Part of a new series, Cabrio™ Amethyst Calibrachoa has a deep amethyst blue color with a mounded habit. All colors match well to the rest of series.
This novelty Calibrachoa has a lilac and dark purple bicolor flower color with a mounded habit. All colors match well to the rest of the series.
Madinia dipladenia has limited vining allows growers to produce both small and large pots with less labor, ensuring more plants and less time pinching and spacing.
INTENSE COLOR THAT LASTS™. Calliope Large Hot Rose interspecific geranium is vivid hot pink and proven, award winning performance making it a reliable choice for your premium geranium programs.
PURPLE WITH GOLDEN CENTER
A yellow center surrounded with purple color, these viola are ideal for winter flowering in the South and West and early spring in the North.
Offers reliable and programmable production with near day-neutral flowering. The ideal pansy for winter flowering in the South and West and early spring in the North.
The first and only interspectic geranium bred for brilliant colour in small conatiners. Moxie! has interspecific breeding that ensures best-in-class colors and garden performance season long.
A highly programmabledwarf snapdragon with reduced photoperiod sensitivity offers consistent crop timing across all seasons.
Loaded with flower buds and tons of irresistible bicolor flowers at finishing for incredible color pop. It is perfect for premium branded quart programs as a stand-alone color.
Highly programmable with reduced photoperiod sensitivity offers consistent crop timing across all seasons. Strong central leader combined with sturdy branching creates an easy to ship plant.
Tophat Begonia finishes at least one week earlier than the leading competitors with the largest blooms in this market segment. Tophat has the only white in its class.
Adorable faces with a light yellow to bronze color, these viola are ideal for winter flowering in the South and West and early spring in the North.
Westbrook Greenhouse Systems has been an industry leader for decades, not only because of our innovative spirit and technologically advanced facilities, but because we’re growers ourselves. We understand what’s needed and we’ve developed our products from a grower’s perspective. Your perspective.
We begin by listening. Give us a call and learn how we can provide you with a custom growing environment: 1-855-945-0806.