2017 Spring Trial Highlights from PanAmerican Seed Europe

Spring Trials at PanAmerican Seed Week 16 - 18 Venhuizen, The Netherlands

Introduction “During the Spring Trials here at PanAmerican Seed in Venhuizen, The Netherlands we presented our new varieties for the 2018 season plus our leading varieties in well established products. What follows in this presentation is a reliable review about what we showed. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for you continued support of our products and look forward to working with you in the 2018 season.”

Jean-François Ignasse – Sales Manager Europe Jf.ignasse@panamseed.com

Highlights of the outdoor presentations – Cool Wave & Sorbet

NEW! Sorbet XP Deep Orange

Angelonia Serena and Serenita Serena is: • The first Angelonia from seed • Easy to produce in plugs and to finish • Low maintenance and easy care in the landscape New! White Improved: Same crop time as old White, with faster secondary flowering.

Serenita Sky Blue

Serenita Raspberry

Serenita is: • A more compact and controlled version of Serena with the same crop time • Less PGRs required

New! Serena White Improved

Serena new White Improved (L) vs. old White

Alternanthera Purple Knight (L) and Purple Prince (R)

Alternanthera Purple Knight (L) and Purple Prince (R)

• Purple Prince is compact and easy-to-grow with ruby/burgundy foliage. Ideal accent plant for mixed containers and landscaping carpet.

• Purple Knight is excellent in the landscape as a vigorous bedding plant.

• Both are very heat tolerant including drought and rains, low- maintenance.

Begonia Dragon Wing - endless summer delight • Dragon Wing keeps on pumping out the colour in gardens and planters all season.

• Unique and beautiful arching, pendulous habit is spectacular in hanging baskets, large containers and commercial landscaping plantings.

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Calibrachoa Kabloom®

Kabloom® Deep Pink

Kabloom® White

Kabloom® Yellow

• The first Calibrachoa from seed!

• Kabloom® has a medium vigour and will spread or trail to approximately 50 to 75 cm. Suitable for production in 10.5 cm pots and upwards.

• Supplied as easy-to-sow pelleted seed with an 80% minimum germination standard.

• Kabloom® Deep Blue

Full culture advice available via this link

Fuseables provide you instant and innovative combination solutions

• Perfect for hanging baskets and large patio containers.

• Now with a guaranteed 90% germination which grows with normal bedding production.

• Only 8 to 12 weeks from sow to finish!

• Find more Fuseables products here Calibrachoa Fuseables Paradise Island in Precision Multi-Pellet Seed

Celosia First Flame

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New! First Flame Mix

First Flame Red (Left) vs. Fresh Look (right)

First Flame finishes 10 to 14 days earlier than competition – reduced production costs.

Branches like a regular C. plumosa to produce full blooms.

New! Scarlet: Series model features bright colour that holds well in sun, high light. Great habit matches Red and Yellow.

New! Mixture: Three bright colours: Red, Yellow and NEW Scarlet.

Coreopsis new primed seed form

New! Primed seed form for all PAS Coreopsis seeds: Coreopsis SunKiss • Deliver reliable plug production • Uniform quality in plug trays that improves your order fill rate • Uniform finished plants

Dianthus interspecific - Jolt

New! Jolt Pink Magic

Jolt Pink

Jolt Cherry

Jolt - Outstanding Summer Colours!  Continues to flower without setting seed.  The most heat-tolerant Interspecific Dianthus series, deliver striking colours and all-season performance.  Standouts in landscapes, gardens and premium containers.

Dianthus interspecific - Rockin’ Red

• Vivid and Dynamite RED colour, durable performance and overwintering possibility.

• Opens the door to premium product sales for mid-spring, autumn decorating season and landscaping.

• Elegant flowers, slightly scented flowers top full, long-lasting plants

Gerbera Revolution and Mega Revolution

Revolution Yellow with Light Eye Improved

Revolution Salmon Shades Light Eye

Revolution Red with Light Eye Improved

Revolution Bicolor Rose White

Revolution series - The most uniform gerbera you can grow! When it comes to uniformity of flowering window across a complete color range. Revolution is the leading standard size pot gerbera.

Mega Revolution series - Vigorous, bushy plants with very large flowers, beats competing series for both plant vigour and flower size.

Revolution Bicolor Red Lemon

Lavandula Bandera Pink Bandera series: • First professional-quality seed L. stoechas series offers compact to medium habit with good branching and uniformity.

• Easily fills 10-cm pots to big containers.

• Short harvest window New! Bandera Pink: Large, soft pink flags on spikes with deep rose flowers. Perfect partner to Bandera Purple.

New! Bandera Pink Lavandula Bandera Purple (left) and Bandera Pink (right)

Bandera Purple

French Marigold Bonanza, Fireball and Strawberry Blonde

Fireball

Bonanza Bolero Improved

Strawberry Blonde

French Marigold comparison – Gold and Flame

Bonanza Bonanza Gold Orange

Hero Gold Orange

Chica Chica Orange Gold Bonanza Bolero Improved

Bonanza Flame

Hero Flame

Bonanza Orange

Chica Flame Chica Orange

French Marigold comparison - Harmony

Bonanza Harmony

Hero Harmony

Bonanza Harmony has bigger flowers, uniformity in color pattern, flower size and plant habit.

Hero harmony has many upright off-types, not consistent in color, flowers are smaller.

African Marigold Taishan

Marigold Taishan is 20% shorter peduncles and 15% thicker stems than the competition.

Less stretch on the bench, and less breakage in shipping and at retail.

Ornamental Oregano - Kirigami

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Oregano Kirigami is the first professional seed variety of this type: perfect eye-catching patio plant!

Holds better in shipping and at retail: dense, slightly trailing plant has tighter, fuller habit than standard cutting varieties.

Exceptional heat/drought tolerance, Continues flowering from spring to autumn.

Non-culinary, not edible plant.

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Akila is the most compact seed series for easy, nopinch production with best uniformity and top-selling colours.

5% higher germination than competitors for higher yields – it's the best seed-grown Osteo for both habit and seed quality.

Matches or surpasses cutting varieties.

New! Grand Canyon Mixture: First multicolor segregating mix includes popular colours like yellow, rose-reds, purple, lavender, cream and white.

Akila Grand Canyon Mixture

Trailing Pansy Cool Wave – The most spreading color • The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading color for spring and autumn • The most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy – great in hanging baskets, big containers and combos • Cool Wave Production Handbook

Cool Wave Fire New! Cool Wave Morpho

Cool Wave Violet Wing

Petunia Grandiflora Ez Rider Ez Rider Deep Salmon

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Ez Rider White

New Ez Rider Red Improved (left) vs. Limbo Red (right)

Ez Rider Deep Pink

Ez Rider Blue

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Ez Rider Rose

Ez Rider Red Ipd

Ez Rider Blue (L) vs. Limbo Blue (M) vs. Duvet (R)

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New! Red Improved: Darker, truer red colour; shorter, denser and betterbranched plants; and strong, long plant holding.

Averages 3 days faster to flower, with faster secondary blooms.

Ez Rider series: genetically shorter, more controlled plants need less PGRs. Perfect for high-density programs.

Ez Rider series has 6 colors and 1 mix Click here to see full color range

Spreading Petunia Tidal Wave • Award-winning Tidal Wave petunias create an extremely full plant covered with an amazing number of blooms.

• An excellent landscape performer with terrific Botrytis tolerance and quick recovery from rain.

• Tidal Wave forms a dense, mounded hedge, 40 to 55cm tall.

Tidal Wave Purple Tidal Wave Red Velour

Tidal Wave Silver

Vinca F1 Titan and Valiant • Vinca F1 Valiant series give growers and landscapers better option where aerial Phytophthora is a concern.

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Makes well-branched, market-ready plants with large flowers that deliver big colour impact.

• Heat, cool, drought, sun and salt tolerant.

Titan Really Red Titan Blush • Vinca F1 Titan® series has exceptional uniformity, superior branching, and the biggest flowers in the best colours.

• Flowers up to two weeks earlier than the competition when weather is cool.

Vinca F1 Valiant series

Viola Sorbet – new XP varieties

Sorbet XP Yellow Blotch Improved Sorbet XP Yellow Blotch Improved

Sorbet XP Deep Orange

Sorbet XP Red Blotch Sorbet XP offers you extra: • Performance: Fast Flowering, floriferous; short Stem, strong Branching • Precision: Uniform & Consistent in color, habit, timing and location • Profit: More Sales with Low Cost

Sorbet XP Blue Blotch Improved

Sorbet XP True Blue

Viola Sorbet and Sorbet XP– fantastic unique colors

Sorbet XP Raspberry

Sorbet XP Delft Blue

Morpho

Sorbet XP Yellow Pink Wing

Sorbet XP Morpho

Sorbet Honeybee

Sorbet Yellow Violet Jump Up

Viola Sorbet trial overview – XP mixtures

Sorbet XP blueberry Sundae Mix

Sorbet XP Raspberry Sundae Mix

Sorbet XP Mixtures have been upgraded this year with our newly introduce varieties.

12 professional mixtures offer you best seasonal choices and most color impact.

Zinnia Zahara and Double Zahara

Zahara Sunburst

Zahara Red

Double Zahara Yellow

Double Zahara Yellow (L) vs. Profusion Double Yellow (R)

Double Zahara Raspberry Rippple

Zahara Starlight Rose

Sunflower Miss Sunshine, Balad and Celosia cristata Dracula

Sunflower Miss Sunshine

Celosia cristata Dracula

Sunflower Balad Snapdragon Snapshot Appleblossom

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Snapdragon Snapshot, Impatiens Divine, Ornamental Peppers

Snapdragon Snapshot Appleblossom

Divine Lavender Improved

Ornamental Peppers Blaze Ex-Plant assortment including their market leading Ornamentaa Peppers are now part of our product range.

You can find all of our ornamental Peppers from our 2018 catalogue.

Divine Red

SimplySalad® and SimplyHerbs

SimplySalad® Cress

SimplySalad® Arugula

• SimplySalad® Arugula is perfect for bunching – includes mix of lobes and smooth shapes. Baby leaves have mild, nutty flavor; become spicy as they mature or in high temperatures.

• SimplySalad® Cress has rosette-forming plant, leaves have a great lobed shape and spicy flavour perfect for salads or braising

SimplyHerbs collection • New Precision Multi-Pellets for SimplyHerbs Basil, Try Basil and Sage.

• For Growers producing these varieties, this offers reliable plug production, improved order fill rate, uniform quality in plug trays and improved margin, meaning more sales.

Welcome to 2017 Flower Trials®!

New! French Marigold Bolero Improved

New! Double Zinnia Zahara Mixture

FLOWERTRIALS® REGISTER OPENING TIMES: 13 - 16 JUNE 2017 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 08:00 - 18:00 Friday 08:00 – 16:00 Download here our 2018 catalogue, 2018 new varieties brochure and 2018 Seed Production Information Guide

New! Viola Sorbet XP Deep Orange

PanAmerican Seed® Flower Trials location: Kruizenmuntweg 51 1435 DD Rijsenhout The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0)228 541 844