NEW VARIETIES
Spreading Petunia E3 EASY WAVE® MIDNIGHT MARBLE F1
A unique mid-blue and white bicolour pattern. Well branched and very floriferous. Cold durable, with a 9-hour photoperiod requirement.
DRAGON WING® WHITE BRONZE LEAF F1
A core white colour over warm bronze leaves, it features best-inclass, bulletproof performance.
CALIBURST NECTARINE F1
Offers a dynamic colour shift: a glowing orange with yellow undertones in the greenhouse that transforms outdoors with a soft rose overlay.
Marigold LANNA LACE F1
Dwarf African marigold features white double blooms that shake off water for a fresh look throughout summer!
Vibrant pink colour is a fast-filling, season-long way to light up the shade, and offers high resistance to Impatiens downy mildew, for healthy, long-lasting blooms.
ALWAYS SUNNY GOLD F1
Golden flowers are always pollen free for no-mess production and enjoyment. Green foliage is attractive and long-lasting.
Cherry red shades bring a whole new colour to seed angelonia! Count on Serenita for good looks, durability and easy production.
Interspecific Impatiens SOLARSCAPE® XL RED GLOW F1
A unique, iridescent red colour with a glowing violet centre. Vigorous growth habit quickly fills beds and containers.
SERENITA® CHERRY RED F1 Vinca TATTOO BOYSENBERRY
Like a ripening berry, the flowers display a purple red ombre with a white centre. A truly distinct addition to the Tattoo series!
The largest white-flowered seed bacopa available on the market. It features a mounded plant structure and branches without pinching.
F1
yellow colour in a neat, compact habit. The first-ever yellow osteospermum from seed!
Displays a full range of colours, including shades of white, cream, lemon, yellow, orange, scarlet, pink and rose.
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NEW VARIETIES
RIBOSKI
Riboski (DRTH5066) is a beefsteak tomato variety providing intermediate Resistance to ToBRFV with high yield, AFW of 280 grams, that produces fruits with some ribbing and good uniformity.
Splash is our new mini cucumber hybrid for all crop cycles with high percentage of marketable fruits. Suitable for umbrella and high wire cropping systems.
Loader (DRPB1795) is a red blocky bell pepper, featuring a generative plant type with balanced vigor. Growers will like even coloring and good shelf-life of fruits. AFW of 220-230 grams.
Grandice RES (DRTH1060) has high yield potential, glossy, and intense red fruits of De Ruiter® brand tomato class Grandice. Grandice RES is a conversion featuring multi gene IR to ToBRFV.
Luminity (DRTH1054) features IR multi-gene to ToBRFV with good potential of AFW 165-175 grams and uniform truss quality. Internal FULLRED color.
DRCB0142 is a mini cucumber with early production capacity. It features an open structure, joint with an even and steady production of fruits. IR to CGMMV.
Evander (DRPB3992) is an orange blocky pepper suitable for bulk or flow packs with IR to Tomato spotted wilt and Powdery mildew. Features earliness, and shiny orange fruits.
DR0141TX is a tomato rootstock with high yield potential and long endurance. Excellent uniformity and fruit quality, combined with strong vigor, make DR0141TX an attractive rootstock.
Yoletta is a Long English cucumber with an open, laborfriendly plant architecture. Its demonstrated ability to maintain a high percentage of mediumsized fruits, gives high yield.
Introducing Serenity (DRTH1053) featuring IR multi-gene to ToBRFV, with XL size potential of AFW 190-220 grams. It has high yielding, with internal FULLRED color.
Pinkmaru is a new pink beef tomato with IR against ToBRFV. It features high brix, and a very good flavor. This new variety was also selected for its higher yield production.
Gomax is a Long English cucumber with high yield potential combined with strong IR Powdery mildew resistance and solid proven CGMMV resistance.
Ben Yurkiw
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Marie-Pierre Grimard, P. Tech
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Isabelle Dubé, Agr. North Shore of Montreal, Qc isabelle.dube@norseco.com 514 295-7202
NEW VARIETIES
A premium begonia with abundant, vibrant pink blooms and exceptional branching. Delivers continuous color, outstanding vigor, and a refined habit for premium containers and baskets.
Unique tri-color blooms make a bold statement on these medium-upright plants. Powered by Intrinsa® for TMV resistance, it delivers exceptional performance in containers and landscapes.
Bold foliage features warm shades of burnt orange and burgundy for season-long interest. Wellbranched plants deliver vibrant color in sun or shade, enhancing containers and landscapes.
Bright golden-yellow flower spikes attract pollinators. Strong branching, excellent heat tolerance, and long-lasting blooms shine in containers and landscapes. Hardy in Zones 4–9.
Eye-catching salmon bicolor blooms attract pollinators while delivering exceptional garden performance. Well-branched plants flower continuously, creating vibrant containers and landscapes.
Extra-large bright orange blooms feature a striking yellow cartwheel pattern on densely branched, semi-trailing plants. Excellent heat and humidity tolerance ensures season-long performance.
Brilliant cherry-red flower clusters deliver nonstop summer color on semi-compact, well-branched plants. Exceptional heat and drought tolerance make this lantana ideal for sunny retail programs.
Golden spoon-tipped blooms cover compact plants all season. Excellent branching, heat tolerance, and reliable flowering deliver outstanding landscape performance. Hardy in Zones 4-9.
Bring vibrant color to shady spaces with a regal pairing of Tradescantia Nanouk and New Guinea Impatiens Magnum. This lush combination delivers season-long beauty and transforms spaces.
Bright pink flower spikes bloom continuously on this first-year flowering and well-branched plant. Excellent garden performance, pollinator appeal, and season-long color. Hardy in Zones 4–9.
Deep garnet-red blooms and fragrant foliage create exceptional appeal. Excellent branching and strong garden performance make this a premium lavender for any space. Hardy in Zones 6–9.
Tropical-inspired colors shine in this vibrant combination featuring our best selling, Calibrachoa series. Exceptional uniformity creates beautifully balanced blooms, making it ideal for many pot sizes.
Begonia I’Conia® Valencia Pink
Coleus DOWN TOWN® SANTA FE
Petunia SWEETUNIA VIOLET VORTEX (INTRINSA®) Agastache HONEYSTICKS GOLD
Calibrachoa BLOOMTASTIC ORANGE CARTWHEEL
Dahlia SUMMER BEES SALMON BICOLOR
Lantana HAVANA® CHERRY RED
Garden Party SHADE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE
Gaillardia SPINTOP™ MARIACHI GOLD
Salvia CARAMIA PINK
Confetti Garden® ALOHA KONA HAWAIIAN TOUCAN
Lavandula LA DIVA GARNET ROUGE
NEW VARIETIES
Plant Hot Pink Improved in spring and sell the same year! This compact coneflower series delivers non-fading colour in small gardens and containers.
Lightning Bolt® flashes silver plumes on green blades; rounded Tumbleweed® dazzles a display of seed heads; compact Smoky Rose® waves billowy blooms.
Heuchera CARNIVAL LIME ZEST
Vibrant chartreuse foliage WOWs in shaded spaces and looks extra dramatic when paired with darkleafed varieties! Features a heattolerant, vigorous, mounding habit.
Hardy SunBurst thrives in hot, dry landscapes. This groundcover displays cute, spring flowers that resemble old-fashioned roses. Varieties: Pink, Rose, White.
For all-season landscape interest, Blue Arrow® provides steel-blue foliage; Comet® adds ruby, purple and green hues; Mystic Purple™ delivers purple shades in fall.
Early-spring woodland phlox is covered in fragrant flowers on sturdy stems with a compact, mounded habit. Varieties: Blue Diamond, Blue Velvet, White.
This easy-to-produce Spanish lavender boasts a high flower count in knock-out colours that pollinators love. Varieties: Plum Perfect, Poppin’ Pink.
In shades of yellow, gold, scarlet and coral, DayScape Daylilies are easy to grow, early to bloom and highly resistant to rust, disease and insects.
Tall, dark blue flower spikes rise from clumps of silver leaves for a stunning color display. Tolerant of many soils and conditions.
With a higher cold tolerance, for more forgiveness in early frosts, the latest in the Marto series displays mounds of white, star-shaped flowers from March to June.
Add drama to containers and borders with this fast-growing, lowmaintenance perennial. Its glossy black leaves add interest and elegance to shaded landscapes.
This unique, low-mounding veronica is not picky. It delivers masses of purple-blue flowers during a long bloom window in a range of soils and conditions.
Veronica MISTY BLUES
Hemerocallis DAYSCAPE™
Saxifraga MARTO™ WHITE
Veronica BABY BLUES
Heuchera EVERGLOW MIDNIGHT
Showstopping color with heavy flower coverage. Hits peak retail in late-Spring market.
NEW VARIETIES
MADINIA® HOT PINK Dipladenia
Bushy habits and limited vining enable efficient production in small pots—maximizing bench space and reducing labor. Continuous flowering and heat-loving performance create care-free color.
ITSY™ BLUE Petunia
With exceptional color coverage and good vigor, Itsy is a great option for landscaping and containers. Tiny flower blooms form a blanket of color providing undeniable retail appeal.
ICANDY™ XL DEEP YELLOW Begonia
iCandy hybrid begonias feature large double flowers in vibrant, bright colors set against dark chocolate foliage. Ideal for quarts and larger pots, iCandy flourishes in part sun and shade.
All the benefits for grower efficiency—early flowering, less PGRs, no vining, and high-density production in small pots. Beautiful tropical flowers on a compact habit deliver care-free color all summer.
SCENT™ MINI BLUE Lavender
First-year flowering! Scent Mini Blue matches the original Scent Blue for fill and flower timing but finishes 33% more compact, optimizing retail appeal and shelf-life.
MADINIA® PETITE WHITE BLUSH Dipladenia HOT BLOODED® MEGA RED Lantana
The Hot Blooded lantana series boasts a powerhouse of bold orange-to-red blooms that thrive when temperatures climb. Hot Blooded Mega Red features enhanced vigor and larger flowers.
SUNFINITY® SINGLE YELLOW Sunflower
Sunfinity has expanded into vegetative selections. Expect the Sunfinity promise of unmatched garden performance with continual flowering and a high resistance to powdery mildew.
COFFEE SHOP™ LAVENDER LATTE Dahlia
Enjoy dark-roast foliage and double-shot blooms. Strong garden performance with excellent powdery mildew resistance helps plants to look fresh and healthy from summer through fall frost.
WHISTLER™ LATE Iberis
F1 vigor brings uniformity in both habit and flowering. Excellent branching and pot fill, with near vegetative performance. Whistler Late offers great season extension for growing and retail needs.
PRETTY LITTLE™ WHITE SPLASH
Interspecific Geranium
Pretty Little™ showcases an abundance of vibrant flowers throughout the season, making it ideal for small-space gardening. Compact and early to flower, it excels in small container programs.
Zydeco has 25% larger flowers than competitors. Fully-double flowers increase flower longevity for lasting impact. Zydeco has excellent heat, drought, and disease tolerance.
Exceptional F1 series for use in both pack and pot production. Well-branched with early-to-bloom, extra-large flowers that maintain their perfect form even in the most extreme conditions.
ZYDECO™
NEW VARIETIES
TOMATO Formoza
Extra-large cluster variety with high production potential, exceptional quality fruit, labor-friendly, due to its size.
HR: ToMV:0-2/ToBRFV /Pf:A-E/
Fol:0.1/For
SWEET PEPPER Levente
Compact yellow blocky, strong structure. Reliable setting, fast coloring, strong production with heavy weight and great quality fruits.
HR: Tm:0-2. IR: TSWV:0
CUCUMBER
Analisa
Mini with generative plant, short internodes, dark green fruit, small flower scars & uniformity.
HR: Ccu. IR: CMV/CVYV/Px/ CGMMV
TOMATO Bocas
Roma for long cycles, strong vegetative vigor, excellent structure. Highly productive and uniform.
HR: ToMV:0-2/ToANV/ToBRFV / Pf:A-E/Va:0/Vd:0/Fol:0/For
SWEET PEPPER Mathieu
Red blocky with high yield and stable quality, easy setting, fruits with high average weight. Excellent adaptability and shelf life.
HR: Tm:0-3 IR: TSWV:0
CUCUMBER
Marilisa
Mini with adaptability in high & low wire, high yielding, uniform, excellent quality, strong resistance against Px & CGMMV.
HR: Ccu/Px/CGMMV. IR: CMV/CVYV
NEW VARIETIES
Roma tomato for AGH climates with vigorous, stable plants and excellent setting. Firm fruits for loose or truss harvest (110–120 g), good yield potential. IR: ToBRFV, Powdery Mildew.
Tomato-on-the-Vine with strong generative plant habit, stable balance, and easy setting. Fruits average 150–170 g, with good total yield potential and excellent cluster presentation. IR: ToBRFV.
Yellow blocky pepper with consistent production and XL fruit size. Maintains good fruit weight through summer conditions. Strong against Powdery Mildew. HR: Tm:0-3.
Fast-ripening Roma variety for AGH climates with open plant type. Delivers firm fruits for loose harvest (95-110 g) with good yield potential. IR: ToBRFV and Powdery Mildew.
SIRIANA
Fast-growing Long-English cucumber for AGH climates. Features a vigorous plant type with good balance, producing a good percentage of medium-sized fruits. HR: CGMMV, Ccu, Px.
Tomato rootstock with ToBRFV resistance and high resistance to Fusarium (US1-3). Provides balanced growth and good yield potential with added protection for demanding cycles.
VARIETIES
2026 - 2027
Innovation you can taste.
At Syngenta®, we combine innovation with the flavor and performance that growers and retailers demand. This year, we’re introducing our newest varieties, developed to meet evolving market needs while maintaining the quality and consistency you know from us.
Whether you’re supplying fresh markets, retail chains, or foodservice, our portfolio is built to help you grow with confidence from season to season.
To learn more about our varieties or connect with our commercial team, reach out to your Syngenta® representative:
Hans Van Haeff Hans.van_Haeff@syngenta.com
Cameron Lyons Cameron.Lyons@syngenta.com
Jean-Paul Cote Jean-Paul.Cote@syngenta.com
David Mekala David.Mekala@syngenta.com
NEW VARIETIES
Superbells® continue to thrill with a never-before-seen pattern you’ll only find at Proven Winners®. This early, facultative long day variety is early blooming in time for spring promotions and flowers nonstop.
Greatly improved heat and sun tolerance allows this continuous blooming Fuchsia to be grown and sold over a much longer period than traditional cultivars. An essential for sun and shade recipes.
Bearing truer red flowers than the original, this Pentas unifies the series in size, vigor and appearance. Easy to produce without supplemental lighting.
An essential color that coordinates beautifully in recipes, this fully double Calibrachoa is day neutral and early to bloom with remarkable heat and cold tolerance, resulting in a long sales window.
One of our top 10 most award-winning annuals is upgraded with a more refined, balanced habit and stronger branching, resulting in more attractive plants that fit together better on racks.
Resolving all somaclonal variations seen in recent years, this improved selection has a fuller, more compact, well-branched habit and flowers earlier. Similar coloring ensures an even swap in recipes.
A new pattern for the ColorBlaze® series, this robust, vigorous selection fills out containers fully and quickly. Its bold bicolor effect has awesome impulse appeal at retail. Thrives in sun and shade.
Modern breeding gives rise to this new sky-blue cultivar featuring a compact, dense habit and long bloom time. Does not require cool nights to bloom well and flowers all summer in cool climates.
This essential color expansion to the series features large, wellbranched, vigorous plants with prolific blooms that appear continuously, providing a broad sales window. Incredible vigor.
This newest member of the popular Aromance® series has proven its outstanding heat and humidity tolerance, allowing for summer sales across much of the country. Upright mounded habit.
Everything you loved about the original is now in a stable, bright bubblegum pink color on slightly more compact plants that mature to the same impressive size you expect from our top-selling petunia.
This game-changing Salvia greggii hybrid blooms prolifically from spring to frost in most climates. Available in Orchid and Red, both are deer-resistant, pollinator-friendly and heat and humidity tolerant.
Lantana
Felicia SEA SPRAY™
Salvia OUTSHINE™
Nemesia AROMANCE® PLUM HONEY
NEW VARIETIES
PETCHOA CITRANOVA LIMONE
This cold-tolerant petunia x calibrachoa hybrid features a cheerful yellow calibrachoa colour with the large blooms and strong roots from petunias for superior container performance.
LANTANA SHAMROCK CHERRY SUNRISE
Like the medium-vigor Lucky version, Shamrock Cherry Sunrise features hues of hot pink,fuchsia and yellow, and is ideal for smaller pots, baskets and mixes.
MANDEVILLA DIVINA COMPACT SERIES
Compact, bush-type mandevilla has strong branching for an excellent habit in small pots and baskets, and no trellis needed. Available in Red and White.
PETCHOA CITRANOVA LEMON ZEST
Cold-tolerant Lemon Zest is a high-performing hybrid of petunias and calibrachoas. Its huge white blooms and yellow centres capture attention in pots and baskets.
OSTEOSPERMUM SUNSET GLOW
Early flowering, with large, unique, tricolour blooms in deep yellow, scarlet and rose tones. Medium-vigour plants are excellent for early-Spring and Fall sales.
MANDEVILLA DIVINA MEGAFLORA SERIES
Tropical vining plant displays extra-large flowers and mediumgreen leaves, with excellent branching that fills large pots before climbing. Offered in Neon Pink and Red.
FUCHSIA DOLLARITA ROSE VIOLET
Displays large double flowers that bloom earlier than leading varieties, for an excellent presentation in Spring weather. Perfect for medium baskets.
DAHLIA CITY LIGHTS COMPACT SERIES
More compact than Dalaya®, more vigorous than Dahlietta®, with City Lights’ performance! Sunny Yellow, Magenta and Scarlet blooms over dark leaves that resist powdery mildew.
OSTEOSPERMUM 4D ORANGE
Stays open 24/7! A vibrant orange joins the super-uniform series with excellent branching and masses of blooms that guarantee outstanding earlyseason sales.
BLUE
Flowers early in Spring with large, vibrant blooms on a strong, upright habit that doesn’t split. Easy to grow in large pots and baskets.
Vivid purple and black blooms with yellow stars join the medium-compact series with uniform timing and powdery mildew resistance, and that’s not sensitive to PGRs.
TRIXI® IN A FLASH!
This colour-filled, very earlySpring mix includes NEW MiniFamous® Neo Amethyst Flash, Coral Flash and Rose Flash Calibrachoa. It’s been proven to grow and show well.
CAST 2026:
The breeding trends shaping tomorrow’s bench
BY RODGER TSCHANZ AND GREENHOUSE
The 2026 California Spring Trials weren’t just a showcase of new colours and novelties; they were a preview of where genetics are heading. Across annuals, herbs, and perennials, breeders signalled clear shifts in priorities, ranging from climate resilience to retail‑ready novelty. Several trends stood out, each pointing to how growers will be producing, scheduling, and selling plants over the next few seasons.
1) COLD TOLERANCE IS A COMPETITIVE TRAIT
Cold performance used to be a bonus; in 2026, it’s a battleground. Breeders are designing genetics that let growers push earlier turns, reduce heat inputs, and survive unpredictable springs (especially here in Canada). With CitraNova Petchoa (1), BallFloraplant introduces citrus‑bright colours paired with genuine cold tolerance as well as the breeder’s New Bee Petunia (2) which is noted as being unfazed by 2 to 4°C production. ThinkPlants and Syngenta teamed up to introduce Lavender Scent Mini Blue (3), which boasts first‑year bloom from seed in a compact form that fits spring racks. This shift signals a future where “cold‑ready” becomes as standard as “uniform habit.”
2) DISEASE RESISTANCE IS BASELINE
Growers aren’t asking for disease resistance anymore as they have come to expect it. Breeders responded with genetics that remove
chronic pain points without compromising appearance or flavour.
PanAmerican Seed’s (PAS) Monteverde Genovese Basil (4) possesses high Downy Mildew resistance while maintaining a true Genovese flavour. Hishtil’s new Salvia Ovalvet (5) has strong resistance to powdery mildew while maintaining its ornamental and culinary attributes. PAS’s signature Beacon Impatiens line known for its DM resistance, introduced a long missing pink colour (6) to the series in 2026. Darwin Perennials’ DayScape series of Hemerocallis (7) brings rust resistance to a daylily that also self‑cleans and reblooms, proving that disease‑proofing is expanding into core perennial classes.
The message is clear: resistance is no longer a feature, it’s the baseline.
3 SEED-PROPAGATED SPECIALTY CLASSES ARE GAINING GROUND
Breeders are pushing seed lines in traditionally
1) CitraNova
PetuniaNewBee
LavenderScentMiniBlue
5) SalviaOvalvet
4) Monteverde B
6) ImpatiensBeaconPink
7) DayScape
8) Dichondra Emerald Surfer
PHOTOS
COURTESY: RODGER TSCHANZ
perennial classes crops that behave like vegetative stock, with uniformity and predictable timing even if they’re grown as annuals or seasonal programs in Canada.
Benary has introduced its eye catching seed propagated Emerald Surfer Dichondra (8) that boasts more than 85 per cent germination and tidy trailing habit. HilverdaFlorist’s Melodiva Gerbera (9) is a seed gerbera with near‑synchronized timing, capable of delivering 90 per cent of the crop ready the same week. Schoneveld’s new Gaultheria series Ciao Bella (10) is a first in the breeding of a F1 hybrid from seed that will give uniformity in the crop. It’s available in both white and red berry forms for Christmas sales. Seed‑propagated perennial‑type crops are becoming a more efficient, programmable option for Canadian growers — even when they’re not garden‑hardy across the country.
4) NOVELTY PETUNIAS ENTER THEIR CHLOROPHYLL ERA
The biggest visual story at CAST wasn’t
a colour, it was chlorophyll. Breeders are exploring green margins, transitions, and bi‑colour effects that feel genuinely new.
This is particularly evident across Danziger’s Petunia Amazonas Series (11) which features chlorophyll rims that shift into purples and pinks. Westhoff’s aptly named Frogger White Petunia (12) has white petals with green margins for instant retail impact.
This is novelty with staying power: distinctive, photogenic, and surprisingly production‑friendly.
5) SMART ALTERNATIVES & MIX - FRIENDLY FILLERS
Breeders continue to refine foliage and structural crops that behave better in mixed containers, offer cleaner habits, and solve long‑standing production challenges. The focus is shifting toward genetics that deliver function (controlled vigour, pollinator value, or non‑invasive behaviour) without sacrificing retail appeal.
Westhoff has added a new gold coloured Callisia called Dragon Scales
(13) to its Fancy Fillers program that promises controlled vigour. Meanwhile, PanAm’s Always Sunny Sunflowers (14) are pollenfree but nectarproducing, giving growers a structural, pollinatorfriendly option that works in containers, patio programs, and cuts. Kientzler’s Muhlenbeckia Golden Girl (15) features small golden leaves and could be a suitable replacement for the trailing chartreuse lysimachia in mixes.
Breeders are clearly prioritizing cleaner, better‑behaved structural crops. Expect this push for mix‑friendly, non‑invasive genetics to accelerate over the next few years.
9) GerberaMelodiva2
10) Gaultheria
12) PetuniaFrogger
15) GoldenGirl
11) Amazonas
14) Alwayssunny
13) Callisia Dragon Scales
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PHOTO COURTESY: PANAMERICAN SEED
