EHR 101 2026

N EW VARIETIES REPO RT 2026

THE ROAD TO GREAT PLANTS STARTS HERE.

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ESPECIALLY WORTH A LOOK FOR COMBOS!

GENOVESE-TYPE COMPARISON

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ANGELONIA

ANGELONIA

BASIL

Angelissa Series

Serenita® Cherry Red & Serena® Magenta

Monteverde™ Genovese

SAKATA

PANAMERICAN SEED

PANAMERICAN SEED

The Angelissa series isn’t brand new, but it earned a second look at CAST this year. Three colors (Purple, Rose, and White) anchor this summer snapdragon series with deeper, more saturated tones than the everyday options, with Rose especially eye-catching beside silver foliage. Bred to work in combination with Sakata’s other lines, the upright flower spikes deliver vertical presence and uniform retail appeal. Densely branched, early to flower, strong-stemmed.

One of the most popular landscape-grade summer snapdragons just got two new colors! Serena Magenta deepens the Serena lineup with a rich, saturated shade that flowers on the late end of the series window - but is completely worth the wait.

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Serenita Cherry Red brings the series’ first true red, a punchy addition to the more compact subseries. These bedding-style Angelonia are the perfect picks for mass landscape plantings or retail pack sales, with limited PGR needs for dense, continuous color.

MONTEV

ERDE

A new Genovese basil with one big advantage: serious resistance to basil downy mildew. Monteverde lasts noticeably longer in the garden than other Genovese types, giving consumers the continual harvest they actually want from a basil plant. The flavor stays classic Genovese, rich and ready for pasta, salads, and pesto.

For growers, the added disease resistance means more reliable production across systems. A smart upgrade for any herb program leaning on basil.

SPACESTARS AVIOR

SPACESTARS MAIA IMP. with BEGONIA DREAMS CHLOE CORAL

SPA

RS MAIA IMPROVED A T S CE

BEGONIA

Spacestars™ Select Series BEEKENKAMP

SPACESTA

DA E L RS

Spacestars Select isn’t a new series, but varieties Avior, Leda, and Maia (improved this year) stole the spotlight at CAST, especially paired in shade combos with the new Dreams Chloe Coral begonia. What sets these apart is unusual landscape performance for a rex-type begonia: they handle sun, push aggressive growth (think Gryphon territory), and bring an eye-catching foliage variety to combination containers. These varieties thrive in the heat, are drought tolerant, and are the perfect addition to illuminate shade gardens with shimmering foliage.

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BEGONIA BASKETS TO BEDS

BEGONIA

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Whopper® Rose Espresso BENARY Whopper Rose Espresso earns its name with foliage so deep it actually reads coffee-dark, well past traditional bronze.

Vibrant pink blooms pop against the moody leaves in the kind of contrast that practically sells itself. The plant runs 20 to 25% larger than BIG begonias, with the same rain, drought, and disease tolerance, plus enough flower power to anchor a large container on its own. Sun to partial shade.

This is one of the best value crops for premium landscape installations that never quit.

BEGONIA

BIG® Soft Pink Bronze Leaf BENARY

BEGONIA

Wookie Series BENARY Brand new series, and a fun one at that. Wookie begonias bring fuzzy dark bronzy-green leaves and stems to the table, an unexpected texture and novelty feature not commonly seen in flowering begonia. Pink Splash and White Splash carry the free-flowering multiflora character that makes Benary begonias reliable, plus continuous bloom until frost. The woolly leaves do double duty as a heat-tolerance feature. A great fit for premium hanging baskets.

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She may look soft and sweet, but don’t underestimate the powerhouse behind this new introduction. Soft Pink Bronze Leaf delivers one of the gentlest pink shades in the series, paired with the rich bronze foliage, but with all the robust performance that gives BIG begonias their character.

Vigorous and well-branched, this plant is built for both landscape installs and premium containers. The pink blooms arrive two weeks earlier than competing varieties (a real edge for early markets) and it carries the same rain and heat tolerance this series is known for.

IDEAL MIX! ICANDY XL DEEP YELLOW WITH ICANDY CORAL BEGONIA

iCandy™ XL Deep Yellow SYNGENTA FLOWERS iCandy keeps delivering.

After last year’s launch earned a top pick spot, XL Deep Yellow joins the series with massive, golden-yellow blooms that glow against the chocolate-green serrated foliage. The mix of double, single, and semi-double

flowers tucked throughout the canopy gives the plant a layered, full look instead of the usual top-heavy bloom display. High vigor matches Coral Pink, and the slightly cascading habit makes it ideal for quart and gallon programs aimed at porches and patios.

Entering the lineup as a top 10 pick for our team is this standalone addition to the I’Conia collection. Valencia Pink glows with neon coral-salmon blooms with golden centers against deep bronze-green serrated foliage.

The contrast is rich and tropical, and the layered petals give each flower real dimension. Semi-upright habit, medium vigor, and bloom power from summer straight through frost (best with morning sun, afternoon shade). A clear top pick for premium containers and baskets.

BEGONIA

I'CONIA® Valencia Pink

DÜMMEN ORANGE

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CALIBRACHOA

Oasis Orange Firefly BEEKENKAMP

BIDENS

Beedance® Petites Series SUNTORY FLOWERS Suntory packed everything growers love about bidens into a smaller frame. Beedance Petites run 3 to 6 inches tall with a tight, ball-shaped canopy that holds without PGRs. The three colors (Yellow, Red, Orange) bring sunshine to spaces that don’t

normally make room for bidens: 4-inch pots, mixed mini combos, balcony containers. A new opportunity in a growing small-space gardening category, with consistent habit from greenhouse bench to garden bed.

Beekenkamp enters the calibrachoa game with Oasis, a brand new sixcolor series. Orange Firefly was a team favorite for one specific reason: it is noted to hold vibrant orange color even in off conditions where other oranges fade. The series is bred for longevity, blooming well into the hot summer months, with semi-trailing to compact options and self-branching across the lineup.

Day-neutral, early-blooming, and an easy add for hanging basket and mixed planter programs. Series includes Gold Finch, Pink Ladybeetle, Purple Sapphire, Orange Firefly, Rosy Maple, and Scarlet Tanager.

CALIBRACHOA

BIDENS

Timeless™ Blazing Fireworks™ DANZIGER Blazing Fireworks earns its name.

Golden-yellow petals carry shooting reddish-orange marks that fan outward from the center, mimicking a firework caught mid-burst against ferny green foliage. The pattern shifts as the plant grows (more orange on younger flowers and in cooler regions, mellower under heat), so the display evolves throughout the season. The mounded, semitrailing habit fills quart pots, gallons, and hanging baskets without much PGR, and the variety blooms earlier than Embers.

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Bloomtastic Orange Cartwheel

DÜMMEN ORANGE Orange Cartwheel joins the Bloomtastic series (Dümmen’s most large-flowered cali line) with a tropical pinwheel of color: warm coral and orange blading inward to a bright yellow center, with deep rose veining.

The watercolor effect, plus heavy flower coverage provides a dense and full trailing display in landscapes or baskets. Bloomtastic is built for summer durability and heat tolerance, two things calibrachoa programs always want more of.

CALIBRACHOA

Superbells® Double Mardi Gras PROVEN WINNERS Superbells Double Mardi Gras feels like the calibrachoa people will stop and ask about. The fully double flowers open lavender-purple with playful splashes of yellow and white, giving it a confetti look that actually earns the Mardi Gras name. It was called out by Proven Winners as a first-of-its-kind double and a standout in independent trials, with heavy bloom from spring to hard frost and no deadheading needed. Wellbranched, mounded-trailing habit makes it easy for premium baskets, upright containers, and window boxes.

CALIBRACHOA

Superbells® Double Midnight Magenta

PROVEN WINNERS Midnight Magenta brings a richer, moodier direction to the Superbells Double lineup.

The blooms are large, fully double, and saturated magenta with a darker magentared center that gives each flower more depth than a flat pink. The slightly looser mounded-trailing habit is a plus for mixed containers, where it can weave through other vigorous annuals without looking stiff. Long-blooming, heat tolerant, and self-cleaning, this is a strong color bridge for baskets and recipes that need intensity without going red.

CALIBRACHOA

Ombre™ Tyler Glam DANZIGER The Ombre series leans into subtle color shifts, and Tyler Glam is one of the prettiest. Rosy pink outer petals blend into amber-orange centers with hints of gold, and because each bloom varies, the plant carries a soft watercolor look especially in the dense mounded dome the variety builds.

Medium vigor, 2-2.5 inch flowers, controlled semi-trailing habit, and pH tolerance round it out.

Pinch is optional, but a cool finish improves quality noticeably.

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Crimson Magic COLEUS

KIENTZLER Finally! ...a yellow coleus that actually holds up in the sun. Crimson Magic carries buttery yellow foliage outlined in green, stitched together by vivid magenta veining and crimson stems that are visible enough to be part of the design (hence the name). The deeply lobed, finely dissected leaves give the plant an almost coral-like silhouette, lighter and wilder than the broad-leaf coleus crowd. Top pick for combos as a thriller, and a real upgrade for sun-tolerant yellow programs.

TERRASCAPE PINK RIBBONS

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CRIMSON MAGIC

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COLEUS

COLEUS

DÜMMEN ORANGE

GARDENCHOICE / GARDENGENETICS

A Santa Fe courtyard in late summer, in plant form. Down Town Santa Fe layers cinnamon, adobe, mahogany, and deep wine tones across jagged, finely cut leaves. The compact habit keeps the bold Southwestern palette tight enough for small-pot programs while still reading dramatic in larger containers. Down Town is Dümmen’s most compact coleus series.

Sun or shade, no problem. A foliage centerpiece with real character.

Red Rock joins the GardenScape subseries with broadly scalloped, velvety leaves in rusty-red and copper tones, and just enough green and golden highlights to keep the palette from going flat. The GardenScape subseries of GardenFest was bred specifically for sun tolerance and late flowering (trials across Ohio and Pennsylvania showed no blooms before Labor Day), so the foliage stays the show all season. Heat tolerant, vigorous, and flexible without breaking.

Down Town® Santa Fe

GardenFest™ GardenScape™ Red Rock

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COSMIC CONFETTI

COLEUS

TerraScape Series Additions KIENTZLER TerraScape continues to earn its reputation as a workhorse, and these three additions bring something fresh to the lineup. All That Cinnamon Pop, with a rich mahogany edged in lime, and All That Lime Twist, illuminating containers with chartreuse tones, are both mounding selections.

Cosmic Confetti rounds things out with an upright habit and a wild burgundy-and-lime speckled pattern that reads exactly like its name. Freebranching and sun-tolerant, all three keep the garden-tough structure TerraScape is known for.

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ALL THAT CINNAMON POP + ALL THAT LIME TWIST

DAHLIA

DAHLIA

DÜMMEN ORANGE

DÜMMEN ORANGE

The Summer Bees series adds two standouts. Red Star is a semi-double bloom with hot red petals and a frilly yellow center, an energetic, fully open form that reads well from a distance.

Salmon Bicolor leans softer, with single blooms in coral-salmon and peachyvanilla tips circling a golden center. Both stay true to the series’ big, bee-friendly bloom style and medium-vigor upright habit. A pollinator-magnet program with serious retail flower power.

For maximum garden impact, this is the dahlia. Star Fire glows scarlet-red with subtle golden bicolor markings flickering near the heart of each bloom, set on a tightly layered flower. The XXL line’s signature trait is intact: massive flowers held high on tall, elegant stems that rise above the foliage for a dramatic landscape and container display. Medium vigor, upright habit, and clean symmetry across the bloom.

Summer Bees Series Additions

XXL Star Fire

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FUCHSIA

Sun Pendants™ Hot Pink

PROVEN WINNERS

GOMPHRENA

Spitfire Pink KIENTZLER A more refined take on a powerhouse.

Spitfire Pink keeps everything that makes Fireball Pink a landscape go-to (heat tolerance, toughness, sterile nonstop flowering) but trims the habit into something more usable for combination work and patio programs. Day-length neutral, easy to grow, and well-branched out of the gate. The pink flower color stays just as vivid as the original. A smart fit anywhere you want gomphrena performance without the sprawl.

'BIG SISTER' FIREBALL PINK COMPARED TO SPITFIRE PINK Sun Pendants Hot Pink solves the classic fuchsia problem: beautiful flowers that often fade out once summer heat arrives. This new line was selected for improved sun and heat tolerance, giving growers a fuchsia with more season-long relevance. Hot Pink carries vivid pink sepals with a magenta-purple corolla on an upright mounded to semi-trailing plant, flowering from spring to frost. Proven Winners notes no seed production in trials, which means no deadheading and cleaner continuous bloom. A smart pick for shade-to-part-sun baskets, porch pots, and hummingbird appeal.

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HELIANTHUS

HELIANTHUS

Always Sunny Gold

Sunfinity® Single Yellow

PANAMERICAN SEED

SYNGENTA FLOWERS

Two Fleuroselect awards already for this intro and a designated spot in our must-watch list! The “why:” 10 to 14 days earlier than other reblooming sunflowers + two weeks longer-lasting in the garden. Always Sunny Gold is built for both grower efficiency and consumer satisfaction. Tall, strong-stemmed, well-branched plants carry golden-yellow flowers with classic dark centers from summer into autumn.

Pollen-free for clean production and clean counter tops (great for cut flower use), but nectar-rich for pollinators.

Pinching is optional, finishing is fast, and the result really shows.

The Sunfinity family keeps proving itself in trials, and Single Yellow rounds out the lineup as the fourth profile in the series. Produced from URCs and matching the habit and timing of Double Yellow, it’s a vegetative single-flower addition that fits the shoulder seasons of Syngenta’s “Sunfinity Sandwich” production strategy. Vigorous, wellbranched, mildew-resistant, and adaptable from large patio containers to in-ground plantings.

Pinch at transplant.

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great match!

VARIETIES MATCH IN HABIT + TIMING FOR A CUTE COMBO!

IMPATIENS

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IMPATIENS

Beacon® Series Additions

SunPatiens® Petite Series

PANAMERICAN SEED

SAKATA

Three new Beacons round out one of the most reliable shade impatiens series on the market. Beacon Pink finally fills the color gap with a vibrant true pink. Orange Improved blooms 2 to 3 days earlier than the original with better plant structure. Violet Improved swaps out the inconsistent shading of Violet Shades for a brighter, more controlled, larger-bloomed plant. All three carry the high downy mildew resistance Beacons are known for. PanAm’s new giant packs (POP-free, blue packaging) sweeten the deal. The series stays easy to program and seriously dependable for shade installs.

SunPatiens, but petite. The new subseries scales the bold SunPatiens look down for small spaces (balconies, patios, mini hanging baskets) while keeping the dense, mounding habit and endless color that made the line a go-to. Five varieties launch with Blush Pink, Orange, Purple, Rose, and Red (Orange is slightly more sprawling). No PGRs, no supplemental lighting, well-branched, and excellent retail appeal.

Advice from the breeder: these are built specifically for 8- to 12-inch containers and designer baskets - they are not suitable for packs or landscape use.

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JAMMIN' CORAL SHORTLISTED FOR RHS CHELSEA PLANT OF THE YEAR 2026

IPOMOEA

JAMESBRITTENIA

Sweet Georgia® White Splash

Jammin' Series

GREEN FUSE BOTANICALS

KIENTZLER

Easily one of the most distinctive ipomoeas we’ve seen. Sweet Georgia White Splash carries chartreuse foliage with crisp white margins and green speckling, reading almost like a hedera at first glance. It’s more compact than typical sweet potato vines, which makes it a much better behaved combo component (no swallowing the rest of the container by mid-season). Stability of the variegation is worth confirming in summer trials, but the look is genuinely new for the category.

Kientzler has been breeding jamesbrittenia for over a decade, and the Jammin' series shows it. New varieties Coral, Lilac, Pink, and Pink Passion join the improved Wine 2027 to form a complete and new series. Each delivers large flowers, strong trailing habits, and the kind of heat and humidity tolerance that extends color from spring into summer. The series improves on a long-standing weak spot in the genus with a stronger root system for easier rooting. Grow on the dry side and lean into containers and hanging baskets, where these really shine.

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PINK OU

RECIPES for RETAIL COLOR

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Callie® Citrus Fire™ Mix Imp. Pink Out Loud™ Mix Pink Paradise™ Mix

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KWIK KOMBOS™

MIX

PINK PARA DISE MIX

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Kwik Kombos got a smart refresh this year, organized into color categories like Bright & Bold and Jewel Tones, with close to 20 new or improved mixes. Three picks stand out. Citrus Fire Mix Imp. blends three Callie calibrachoa for warm citrus tones. Pink Out Loud layers Sanguna Sweet Pink, Lanai Deep Pink, and Itsy Magenta into a mid-season pink statement. Pink Paradise (a lateseason favorite at trials) brings Carita, Bandolista, and Fanatix together for an absolutely killer combo.

PROVED

SYNGENTA FLOWERS

FIR S RU T I C E CALLI

HOT BLOODED MEGA RED ALONGSIDE HOT BLOODED RED

LANTANA

PENTAS

PENTAS

SYNGENTA FLOWERS

GREEN FUSE BOTANICALS

BENARY

Hot Blooded Red, scaled up. Hot Blooded Mega Red delivers the same red-orange color but in a plant 30% larger, with stronger vigor and a broader habit that fills landscape installs and big containers without effort. Sterile flowering keeps the bloom display rolling all season, even through the most intense summer heat. New blooms add gold and tangerine highlights providing multidimensional tones. A bigger sibling for an already proven heat performer, and a smart pick where presence matters.

A pentas series with something unusual to offer: truly double blooms. The Phenom series adds Double Blue this year, fitting alongside last year’s Double White and Double Pink. Double Blue stands out for its uncommon shade and the most distinctive flower form of the three.

The plant loves the heat, which positions it cleanly for summer programs and mixes well when paired with the lineup’s other colors.

Big plants, big flower clusters, big retail impact. The new StreetArt series launches with four colors (Blue, Red, Rose, White). Each variety has broad and well-branched habits, along with oversized flower clusters. Blue gets special mention for the shade itself. The complete color range offers a natural marketing with a clean red-whiteblue patriotic combo. The series is built specifically for the bigger pot sizes where pentas can really show off.

Hot Blooded® Mega Red

Phenom Double Blue

StreetArt™ Series

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Sun Parasol® FiredUp® Magic Pink

from SUNTORY FLOWERS

MANDEVILLA + DIPLADENIA 16

DIPLADENIA

The FiredUp subseries gains a softer color option. Magic Pink joins FiredUp Coral and FiredUp Orange as the third variety in the upright dipladenia line, with flowers opening in layered shades of shell pink, blush, and peach, all anchored by golden-yellow throats.

As blooms mature, the color deepens which gives the plant real season-long visual movement. The signature flat pinwheel flower form is intact, and the upright habit makes this a natural thriller in combos.

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MANDEVILLA

Sun Parasol® Giant Powder Pink A pastel pink for premium trellis work. Sun Parasol Giant Powder Pink delivers soft pink blooms up to 5 inches across, with slightly rippled petal edges that add dimension against glossy, deep green leaves. Earlier flowering than current Giant pinks (similar timing to Peach Sunrise) makes scheduling easier, and the variety carries the Giant subseries’ signature heat tolerance and disease resistance.

Natural climbing habit, ready for obelisks, trellises, and large patio containers. Elegant, refined, and built for upscale presentations.

MANDEVILLA

Sun Parasol® XP Maui Sunset A tropical sunset in mandevilla form and we are 100% basking in it! Maui Sunset joins the Sun Parasol XP line with large coral-orange blooms that blend mango, papaya, and warm salmon shades, shifting subtly across each flower. The upright habit and bigger flower size feel closer to the FiredUp line than traditional XP (Suntory hinted it may eventually shift subseries). Either way, the variety’s superior branching and flower power make it an outstanding pick for containers, baskets, and any program leaning tropical color.

PETCHOA

light show

BREEDER'S LIGHT COMPARISON AT CAST:

PETCHOA

GROWN IN MODERATE TEMP + HIGH LIGHT GROWN IN HIGH TEMP + LOW LIGHT

Caliburst™ Nectarine PANAMERICAN SEED

Nectarine joins Caliburst Yellow as the first seed petchoa series, bringing a genuinely dynamic color shift: soft apricot and creamy nectarine tones under warmer, lower-light conditions, deepening to richer sunset orange, amber, and burgundy under higher light. In other words, the plant looks different in the greenhouse than it does in the garden, and that’s the feature, not a bug. The petchoa’s well-known summer durability makes it a smart anchor for combos, like dark coleus and fresh-green thriller grasses.

PETCHOA

SuperCal® Premium Series Additions

SAKATA Three additions to the SuperCal Premium line, all worth a look.

Pink Star is the team favorite: a glowing raspberry-pink and blush-white bloom with a dark pink throat, almost tie-dye in effect en masse with the foliage nearly covered. Purple Ice goes the softer route... icy lavender-white with a deep plum eye.

Orange Sunset Improved brings truer oranges with its upgrade in a warm sunset ombré. All carry the all-weather performance, larger flowers, and self-cleaning habit that makes SuperCal a no-brainer for both spring and even fall programs.

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PETUNIA

N OVELT Y PAT TERNS TO SI M PLE SHA D ES, A H U E FO R EVERY SPACE

PETUNIAS

AMAZONAS MIDNIGHT FINCH AMAZONAS VIOLET PARAKEET

AMAZONAS™ Series Additions DANZIGER Three new Amazonas varieties join Plum Cockatoo to round out a collection that lives in its own funky tropical lane. Midnight Finch is upright, Pink Macaw cascades with a semi-trailing habit, and Violet Parakeet is more mounded with the biggest flower of the group.

Each variety features green ruffled edges, a feature you simply don’t see at retail. They look incredible in combos, especially against maroon or dark-purple foliage. Unlike anything else on the bench!

AMAZONAS PINK MACAW

PETUNIA

PETUNIA

WESTHOFF FLOWERS

PROVEN WINNERS

File this one under “didn’t see that coming” and mark it in big letters “TOP PICK.” Soft limewhite petals fade outward into fresh, frilly green edges (think lime zest, honeydew, or green tea over ivory) in this new petunia. It’s a niche-y, novelty look that lands somewhere between elegant and totally unexpected. The mounded habit and heavy flower coverage you expect from a modern petunia.

Bubblegum II is not a reinvention of the original; it is the cleaned-up, brighter version of one of the most important petunias in the market. Proven Winners

Frogger™ White

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Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® II selected for a more consistently intense bubblegum-pink flower while keeping the Vista performance growers already know: massive vigor, early bloom, self-cleaning flowers, heat tolerance, and nonstop color to hard frost. This is still a big plant – best in landscapes, large baskets, and oversized containers where its 2-3’ spread can do the work of several smaller petunias.

PETUNIA

Surfinia® Heavenly Peach Horizon & Blue Violet

SUNTORY FLOWERS

Two new colors join the Heavenly subseries, with Peach Horizon stealing the show. Multi-tonal peach blooms shift from soft to rosy apricot across the plant, anchored by a deep espresso center that creates a striking contrast. As more flowers develop, the tones deepen. Blue Violet debuts with midnight-purple blooms and expanded dark throats. Both keep the Heavenly Group’s hallmark controlled mounding, semi-trailing habit, and the kind of branching that fills containers solidly. Suntory call this subseries “the happy medium” as an easy-grow petunia.

PETUNIA

Kuyamba Salmon Glow

KIENTZLER

Kuyamba is back on our radar, and Salmon Glow is the reason.

The color lands somewhere between coral, salmon, and tropical pink, with subtle tonal shifts across the canopy that give it a literal glowing effect from a distance. The plant forms a dense, rounded dome covered in blooms. Strong branching, early flowering, and a color that holds its own. We can only imagine this as a standalone basket and know it will be an absolute success!

PETUNIA

Capella™ Rose Ink & Inked DANZIGER Two new Capella petunias add an ink-on-paper twist to the series.

Rose Ink (our favorite) softens the look with blush petals and deep plum centers where dark veins bleed outward like watercolor.

Inked takes the opposite approach: white petals, near-black centers, and sharp violet veining for an almost sketched appearance.

Together they read crisp and rosy, modern and vintage, side by side.

Both finish tidy in small pots and gain size as the season builds.

PETUNIA

SummerScape Pink

KIENTZLER A serious contender for landscape pink!

SummerScape Pink launches a new series alongside SummerScape Lilac (formerly Cloud Purple), with a habit and bloom coverage built for mass plantings. The plant forms a broad canopy almost completely covered in saturated true-pink flowers, glowing in landscape installs and large beds. The team said it may be the new #1 pink on the market, and given the weather tolerance and flower power, it could earn a real spot in landscape rotations.

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PETUNIA

Firefly™ Collection RAKER-ROBERTA'S The world’s first glow-in-the-dark petunia is now a full series. Twilight White Improved upgrades the original with brighter glow, better vigor, and a more compact mounded habit, ideal for indoor windowsills and smaller patio containers. It is joined by two pink Moonlight varieties: Moonlight Pink, a vigorous trailing landscape pink, and Moonlight Pink Bicolor, with pattern-shifting pink-and-white blooms. All three glow soft green at night (yes, even the pinks), with 2 to 3 times the growing power of last year’s original.

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RUDBECKIA HIRTA

Solar Sisters™ BLOOMIN' EASY

Solar Sisters is unlike any rudbeckia we’ve seen.

Fully double, tufted blooms read more like a dahlia or chrysanthemum than a classic black-eyed Susan, opening bright marigold-yellow with orange accents before settling into smoky bronze and copper as the season progresses. Compact, no PGRs required, and heavy-blooming from June through August. Hardy to zone 7 but pushed as an annual for the season-long color, deer resistance, and drought tolerance.

MARVEL II YELLOW STREPTOCARPUS

TAISHAN YELLOW

LANNA LACE

TAGETES (AFRICAN MARIGOLD)

VINCA

Ladyslippers® Double Blue Vein & Double Midnight

Lanna Lace F1

Tattoo™ Boysenberry

PANAMERICAN SEED

PANAMERICAN SEED

GREEN FUSE BOTANICALS

A long-awaited new white in the African marigold lineup. Lanna Lace replaces Vanilla with creamy lemonchiffon double blooms packed with tightly frilled petals, giving each flower a rounded, cushion-like substance that holds up well in summer rain. The 2.5 to 3 inch flowers shed water cleanly and resist the browning that plagues other whites. En masse, the effect is almost cloud-like across green foliage. Smaller-flowered than Taishan but no less polished, it fits beds, packs, and mixed containers.

The Tattoo series has earned a reputation for distinctive, almost airbrushed-looking blooms since 2018, and Boysenberry is the moodiest color yet.

The flowers display a purple-red ombré with a crisp white center, exactly like a ripening berry on the vine. Compared to a typical bright summer vinca, this one reads jewel-toned and saturated, with that hand-inked Tattoo quality across each petal. Very floriferous, well-branched, and an easy grow with the heat-loving toughness vinca is known for.

While technically 2025 intros, we’re including them for the thrill they gave at CAST this year... two world-firsts!

Ladyslippers Double Blue Vein and Double Midnight are the first double-flowered streptocarpus ever in commercial production, with lush, ruffled layers of veined petals that look genuinely exotic. Green Fuse Botanicals’ Lifestyle Plant character is intact: easy care, year-round bloom (no special lighting needed), and equally happy indoors near a window or in shaded patio combos. Both varieties reach 6-10 inches in height.

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EHR 101 New Varieties Report | 2026

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N EW VA RI ETI ES REPO RT 2026

THE ROAD TO GREAT PLANTS STARTS HERE. EHR 101 is our curated guide to the newest plant introductions we’ve scouted on the road... part California adventure down Highway 101, part essential cheat sheet for growers and retailers preparing for the next season.

We’ve done the legwork, sifted through hundreds of varieties, and distilled our picks into a practical tool to spark conversations and inspire.

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EHR 101 New Varieties Report | 2026 CONNECTING PEOPLE & PLANTS. WE DELIVER.

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