New Plants 2014
Each twelvemonth flora companies post case plants to garden writers too world gardens inwards gild to come across how they grow inwards conditions across the country. At the goal of the 12-month case the arboretums, too writers study dorsum to the seed too flora companies. You tin bathroom come across the results from 27 case gardens at www.planttrials.org/TrialGardens.
Oklahoma State University experiments amongst vegetable, bloom too crop seeds. The crop results are online at www.croptrials.okstate.edu too the vegetable case results are at http://hort.li/1naX. The Dallas Arboretum trials hundreds of ornamental plants each twelvemonth too their reports are at www.dallasplanttrials.org.
Blooms of Bressingham too Proven Winners are 2 of the companies that sent small-scale case plants to garden writers this month.
Blooms of Bressingham sent bare origin plants including double-white Dendranthema Icicle Igloo too yellow-flowering Dendramthema Sizzling Igloo. Dendranthema is the Latin elevate for cold-hardy mums.
All 10 varieties inwards the Igloo serial characteristic dozens of 2 to five inch flowers on each mum. The bare origin plants they sent are forthwith inwards clay pots amongst regular potting soil too they are already loaded amongst bloom buds.
One of their other wonderful selections is Foamy Bells, Heucherella Buttered Rum. This 1 is a 7-inch tall shade flora amongst caramel colored leaves too fragile white flowers. Cold hardy to zone iv Buttered Rum tolerates hot, humid, summertime weather condition simply non moisture soil.
Their Cranesbill, Azure Rush Geranium, returns amongst beautiful bluish flowers each summer.
Proven Winners Color Choice sent a few of their novel perennials including: Quick Fire dwarf Hydrangea, Superbena Royale Cherryburst, Salvia Colorspires Crystal Blue, Hibiscus Summerific Cherry Cheesecake too Buttonbush Sugarshack.
Quick Fire Hydrangea grows vi to 8 feet tall too wide. The flowers that start inwards mid-summer too maintain into autumn are white when they commencement come upward out too popular off rose-pink equally they mature. Unusual for Hydrangeas, Quick Fire tin bathroom accept total Sun too tin bathroom tolerate drought conditions. The flowers emerge on novel forest so they are pruned belatedly wintertime earlier the jump increase begins.
Superbena Royale Cherryburst is a trailing Verbena that spreads cherry reddish flowers across the ground. It is a novel hybrid that resists powdery mildew, is oestrus too drought tolerant fifty-fifty inwards total sun.
The Crystal Blue Salvia is gorgeous amongst spikes of clear sky-blue flowers. Cold hardy to zone 3, it grows to 18-inches tall too 24 inches broad inwards total sun. Like all Salvias, butterflies flock to the flowers simply deer too rabbits function out it alone.
The 7-inch flowers of Cherry Cheesecake Hibiscus are pinkish too white, resembling cherry juice on the transcend of a cheesecake. The shrub grows iv feet tall too wide. It volition tolerate whatsoever soil simply needs regular watering to bloom best. Heat too humidity tolerant, too mutual depression temperature hardy to zone 4, it blooms for several months over the summertime fifty-fifty inwards part-shade. The petals are thick plenty to withstand summertime oestrus too wind.
The Sugar Shack Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidenta, has doubled inwards size inwards the brusk fourth dimension since it arrived too volition mature at three or iv feet tall too wide. It is a native flora that tolerates moisture soil establish inwards bogs too H2O gardens. The white, fragrant flowers attract bees, butterflies too hummingbirds so shape reddish fruit. At 12-feet tall, the native Buttonbush is also large for nearly abode landscapes. Sugar Shack is one-half that size spell retaining all the beauty inwards its leaves, flowers too autumn fruit. You tin bathroom shape them, cutting to the Earth inwards the jump or let them to grow untamed.
Two of the novel Proven Winners annuals are purple-flowering Dark Knight Alyssum, or Lobularia, too Superbells Frostfire amongst yellow-centered white flowers that are streaked amongst red.