2024 Bradford Greenhouses New Variety

NEW 2024 INTRODUCTIONS

NEW 2024 VARIETIES

Seed & Vegetative

Top new introductions trialed by our breeding partners to ensure peak performance in the greenhouse and on the retail bench.

ANNUAL COMBINATIONS

Trixi® Romance in Bloom

Trixi® Sunshiny Day

SEED ANNUALS

Begonia Dragon Wing® Pink Bronze Leaf

Begonia Dragon Wing® Red Bronze Leaf

Impatiens Beacon® Lipstick

Impatiens Beacon® Pearl Island Mix

Petchoa Caliburst™ Yellow

Rudbeckia Sunspot Yellow Bicolor

Lettuce Sculpin

Lettuce Slot Machine

Pepper Prism

VEGETATIVE ANNUALS

Ajuga Chocolate Chip

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Neo Red Hawaii

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno Blue Star

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno Pink Radiance

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno Rose Eye

Coleus Main Street Lombard Street

Coleus Main Street Ruby Road

Euphorbia Loreen Compact White

Geranium Sunrise™ Purple Big Eye

Geranium Super Moon™ Compact Violet

Nemesia Whimsy™ Deep Rose

Nemesia Whimsy™ Red

Nemesia Whimsy™ White

Nemesia Whimsy™ Yellow

Osteospermum Zion™ Orange Burst

Osteospermum Zion™ Pink Orbit

Petunia Headliner™ Lavender Picotee

Petunia Headliner™ Violet Sky

Petunia SweetSunshine™ Magenta Sky

unique and exciting mixes show beautifully in both containers and baskets and will suit every mood and occasion! All of the varieties have been bred for excellent performance in Trixi® combos. We have added two new multi-species Trixi® mixes to stir things up with a range of colours and classes that grow and show brilliantly together. Available in 50 Liner trays, three plants per cell.

Trixi® Romance In Bloom

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Neo Salmon Pink+Eye

Petunia Headliner™ Strawberry Sky

Verbena Blues Red

Trixi® Sunshiny Day

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno White Gold

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno Yellow+Red

Verbena Lascar™ Orange Lava

Begonia Dragon Wing® Bronze Leaf Series

Dragon Wing expands the large-flowered and vigorous series with two core colours over warm bronze leaf foliage. Drought, heat, and shade tolerant, and low maintenance. Unique arching, and pendulous habit is spectacular in hanging baskets, large containers, and commercial landscape plantings. Angel-wing leaves and large blooms give Dragon Wing® a dramatically different look. Great branching, and plenty of flowers covering the plant.

Height: 12 to 15 in. (30 to 38 cm)

Spread: 15 to 18 in. (38 to 46 cm)

Habit: Upright

Vigor: Vigorous

Flower: Medium

P/L size: 50 Liner or 288 Plug

Impatiens Beacon®

Hot new colours join the Disease-Resistant Series. NEW Lipstick, along with bold NEW Pearl Island Mixture, a 3-colour mix named after a well-known lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada, where Impatiens downy mildew has been a significant problem. This mix joins the three mixes introduced in 2023, expanding the versatile series with high resistance to the widely prevalent populations of Plasmopara destructor, the cause of Impatiens downy mildew. These impatiens are suitable for packs, pots, hanging baskets and inground beds.

Height: 14 to 18 in. (36 to 46 cm)

Spread: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)

Habit: upright mounding

Vigor: medium

Flower: medium

P/L size: 288 Plug

Petchoa Caliburst™ Yellow

The first petchoa from seed! Caliburst takes the best colours from calibrachoa and delivers them in the habit, flower size and product form of petunias. Vibrant yellow flower colour looks exceptional in any season. Controlled habit is perfect for quart, gallon, and basket productions. Fantastic for mixed combos with both seed and vegetative components. Day neutral flowering with a 9-hour daylength response. It can be produced in early spring using cold growing down to 50°F (10°C).

Height: 6 to 10 in. (15 to 25 cm)

Spread: 20 to 28 in. (51 to 71 cm)

Habit: mounding-spreading

Vigor: medium

Flower: medium

P/L size: 288 Plug

Rudbeckia Sunspot

Yellow Bicolour

A compact plant with very nice branching that blooms from May through first frost. A great choice for gardens. One of the best plants for attracting butterflies and other pollinators. Ideally suited for garden beds, landscapes and containers. Sunspot grows as rosettes for longer, producing more basal branching before elongation, which is what gives them their ”flower power,” putting on a spectacular show.

Height: 10 to 12 in. (20 to 30 cm)

Spread: 12 to 14 in. (20 to 36 cm)

Habit: upright

Vigor: compact

Flower: large

P/L size: 288 Plug

Lettuce Sculpin

Vegetables

A slow maturing, dark savoy, semi-closing Romaine type lettuce, Sculpin is a great option for the conventional market. It’s been shown to provide growers the flexibility of in-field-holding while delivering dependable quality.

Days to maturity: 65 to 95 days

P/L size: 512 Plug

Lettuce Slot Machine

Vigorous plant produces reliable, highly uniform, large, rounded heads. Adaptable to many growing regions, conditions and planting windows, while providing growers an opportunity to secure high-quality, consistent yields for a longer period of time per season.

Days to maturity: 57

P/L size: 512 Plug

Pepper Prism

Multicolour sweet peppers on one plant!

NEW Prism produces tasty fruit that is between mini and standard size bell peppers. This multicolour mix is attractive in the ground or in containers. Sweet midi bell matures from light green to orange, to red and can be harvested at all stages of maturity for a multicoloured “mix” on each plant. Perfect for stuffed peppers, eating fresh in salads and recipes that call for a small portion of bell pepper. Early maturing and highly productive.

Days to maturity: 60-85

P/L size: 288 Plug

Ajuga Chocolate Chip

Ajuga is a dwarf plant with narrow, miniature rounded, chocolate-coloured leaves and blue flowers that attract hummingbirds. It is disease resistant and excellent for small spaces, at garden’s edge, or in rock gardens.

Height: 4 in. (10 cm)

Spread: 6 to 9 in. (15 to 23 cm)

Habit: spreading

Vigor: compact

Flower: small

P/L size: 100 Liner

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Neo Red Hawaii

Large striking red flower and a bright yellow star that looks great in baskets. A semi-trailing habit, early flowering, medium vigor, and the performance you expect from MiniFamous®.

Height: 8 to 12 in. (20 to 30cm)

Spread: 12 to 15 in. (30 to 38 cm)

Flower: large

P/L size: 100 Liner.

Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Uno Series

Early-to-finish, larger flowers, and medium-compact calibrachoa with uniform flower timing across the Uno series.

3 NEW additions:

• “Blue Star” dark blue blooms with white strikes

• “Pink Radiance” soft elegant pink outer petal and semi-double yellow centre

• “Rose Eye” pink blooms with darker pink centers.

Height: 8 to 12 in. (20 to 30 cm)

Spread: 12 to 15 in. (30 to 38 cm)

Flower: large

P/L size: 100 Liner.

Coleus Main Street Series

The Main Street series boasts bright coloured coleus that work in sun and shade. Compact and well-branched, they are great for containers and as border and bedding plants. They have been selected to be weather tolerant and late to flower, and are uniform in vigor and size, so mix and match for your garden display.

Height: 12 to 24 in.

(30 to 61 cm)

Spread: 8 to 16 in.

(20 to 40 cm)

Habit: upright

Vigor: medium

P/L size: 100 liner

Euphorbia Loreen Compact White

Excellent branching and dense flowering make an eye-catching display at retail and in finished containers. Loreen is ideal for gallons and larger mixes.

Height: 10 to 12 in.

(25 to 30 cm)

Width: 12 to 14 in.

(30 to 36 cm)

Habit: mounding

Vigor: medium

Flower: medium

P/L size: 100 liner

Coleus Main Street Lombard Street

Coleus Main Street Ruby Road

Geranium Sunrise™ Purple Big Eye

Large flowered Zonal Geranium, features early blooms on green-leaf. Sunrise is perfect for gallon programs, hanging baskets, and mixed planters

Height: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)

Width: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)

Habit: upright

Vigor: medium

Flower: large

P/L size: 50 liner

Geranium Super Moon™ Compact Violet

Large flower umbel Zonal Geranium, unique dark stem and heat tolerant.

Height: 12 to 18 in. (30 to 46 cm)

Width: 10 to 14 in. (25 to 36 cm)

Habit: mounding

Vigor: vigorous

Flower: large

P/L size: 50 liner

Nemesia Whimsy Series

Uniform series, delicate fragrant blooms cover this plant that performs well in cool temperatures.

Height: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)

Width: 8 to 10 in. (20 to 25 cm)

Habit: mounding

Vigor: medium compact

Flower: large

P/L size: 100 liner

Whimsy Red

Whimsy Deep Rose

Whimsy Yellow

Whimsy White

Osteospermum Zion™

Features two new unique and brilliant earth tones, large impressive flowers make it a great focus plant.

• “Pink Orbit” A unique pattern! Deep pink petals with an orbital pattern circling the eye.

• “Orange Burst” Displays masses of large, exotic, orange daisy-like flowers.

Height: 16 to 20 in. (41 to 51 cm)

Width: 16 to 24 in. (41 to 61 cm)

Habit: mounding

Vigor: medium

P/L size: 100 liner

Petunia Headliner™

Early flowering for a fast finish and features a dramatic colour range resulting in eyecatching finished baskets and pots with large blooms.

• “Lavender Picotee” Novel lavender blooms have delicate white picotee edges.

• “Violet Sky” deep violet bloom with cream spots

Height: 10 to 16 in. (25 to 41 cm)

Width: 20 to 30 in. (51 to 76 cm)

Habit: mounding trailing

Vigor: vigorous

Flower: large

P/L size: 100 liner

Zion Pink Orbit

Zion Orange Burst

Lavender Picotee

Violet Sky

Petunia SweetSunshine™ Magenta Sky

The FIRST Sky pattern in double petunias! These semi-double flowers hold up in all weather conditions. Unique, eye-catching colour and pattern will WOW at retail. Durable, fully double blooms stand up to tough weather. Well-branched, medium-vigor plants have a semitrailing habit that looks great in hanging baskets.

Height: 10 to 16 in. (25 to 41 cm)

Width: 20 to 30 in. (51 to 76 cm)

Habit: semi-trailing

Vigor: medium

Flower: medium

P/L size: 100 liner

Optimal light level 5k-6k lm/ft2 High light level