new plant releases GREG CARRICK | GARDEN CITY PLASTICS
Wow Your Clients With the Latest New Plants Want to know how to WOW your clients? Have the perfect shaped plant in every position in your design? Keep up to date with the latest releases that suit the Landscape market for fantastic results giving a great return on investment for both you and your clients. New Plant Releases drive a huge part of the horticultural market opening up numerous options and ensuring you have the right plant in the right position in your design. They are not just new, they are mostly improved selections or breeding from older varieties that have other benefits to make them more attractive or useful in the landscape. Here we have put together a selection of recent plant releases that are selected due to their potential use in the landscape market. Not only 'use' really, it's more to do with performance and other benefits such as improved shape, range of planting options and possibly hardier plants than the previous release of that species.
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SALVIA PURPLE AND BLOOM
What we are looking for are plants that will make your clients happy and give you the confidence with some new varieties that will perform as expected so everyone is happy with the end result. Plant Breeding is now an art form that many know nothing about. Plants that are cross pollinated then chosen from batches for their relevant benefits of foliage, flower or growth habit, can take years to turn into a new variety. These are often bred with the end result in mind, resulting in a more purposeful plant for your new gardens or renovations. Funny enough, a great Australian plant named Brachyscome, which is a low growing Australian native daisy with a blue flower, is mostly bred overseas than in Australia. Just shows you how the European market approaches this issue too.
NANDINA 'LEMLIM'
In this article we have spoken to key growers and breeders who have given us a small but interesting list of some of the most exciting new plant releases of recent times. They are aimed specifically for the landscape arena and will give great value for money when planted. We have Plants Management Australia (PMA) who are the people who deal with various breeders and bring their plants to the market and help promote the benefits to a wider audience. Ball Australia are one of Australia’s largest growers of flowering plants for a wide range of purposes. From supplying cut flower growers, to vegetable farms and every seedling growing nursery in the country. Last, but not least we have some recent releases from Flemings Nurseries who, as you would all know, are the largest grower of Ornamental and Fruiting trees in the country and one of the great innovators in the Australian Nursery Industry.
EUPHORBIA 'ASCOT RAINBOW'
Botanical: Salvia guaranitica
Botanical: Nandina domestica alba
Botanical: Euphorbia x martinii
Salvia Purple and Bloom, an outstanding new release, is free flowering with a generous number of black spires bursting with purple blooms from spring to autumn. The royal purple florets open from dark, almost black calyxes above the foliage. Salvia ‘Purple and Bloom’ is a great choice for gardens or containers. These rugged plants require little and do so much.
Looking for easy care, low maintenance and high impact foliage? This stunning evergreen plant has it. With lush lime green foliage year-round which gives you a contemporary look year-round with minimal maintenance. The new foliage creates an explosion of lemon tones fading to lime green as they age. The compact habit means there is no pruning required to maintain the neat natural shape.
This hardy shrub was selected for its distinctive foliage which changes with the seasons. The foliage displays tones of cream, green and blue merging to stunning red and pink colouring throughout the cooler months of the year. Spikes of flowers in a blend of cream, lime and green appear from late winter through spring.
Characteristics: Pollinator plant, Drought Tolerant, Heat Tolerant, Low Maintenance
Characteristics: compact, evergreen form with a tight habit, extremely versatile and tolerant of a wide range of growing conditions, frost tolerant
Available now at Tavistock Nursery / Plantmark
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Available now at your local wholesaler, see the support centre: www.pma.com.au/supportcentre
Characteristics: distinct foliage that changes with the seasons, year-round foliage interest, as tough as they come - sun, frost, wind: the lot! Available now at your local wholesaler, see the support centre: www.pma.com.au/supportcentre
