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jbroderick@bfgsupply.com                  Wow! What a season that was. As we slowly inch our way back into everyday
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                                          and the Horticulture industries. It is an annual event    Spring Trials
Steve Mester                              where the world’s prominent breeders, growers,
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Steve Reed                                ornamental grass and vegetable introductions.
CEL: (440) 482-2858                       Typically held in March or April, the event takes place
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                                          locations. From Spring Trials, new varieties are tested
Phil Swindler
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Begonia Nonstop™                Begonia Nonstop™                                Begonia Nonstop™
    Rose Picotee                     Salmon                                         Joy® Orange
 Replaces Rose Petticoat with   True salmon color with flowers                  New color to the series with
 an improved intense distinct   displayed on top of the foliage.               well-branched and mounded
   coloring and uniformity.                                                     habit. Additions to the series
                                                                               include Red and Rose Picotee.

                                                      Marigold Super Hero™
                                                          Deep Orange
                                               Great garden performance with large, bright
                                              orange flowers. Additions to this series include
                                                         Deep Yellow and Gold.

                                       Heuchera
                                    ‘Ruby Tuesday’
                                 Ruby colored ruffled leaves
                                with light pink colored flowers.
                                            Zone 4.

     Echinacea                                                                         Echinacea
   ‘Moab Sunset’                                                                     ‘Sweet Sandia’
 Large, double flowers with                                                      Single, broad petaled flowers
intense orange/red blooms.                                                         that look like watermelon.
          Zone 4.                                                                Compact habit and is zone 4.

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Begonia I’Conia®                     Begonia I’Conia®
                             Lemon Berry                    Scentiment™ Peachy Keen
                  Selected for hanging baskets and          Begonia with durability and two-toned
                 premium containers. Bicolor blooms        flower color with fancy fragrant blooms.
                with heat-tolerance for sun and shade.

    Calibrachoa Rainbow                                                          Dahlia MegaBloom
        Calypso Coral                                                              Passion Fruit
    Color changing blooms that give
                                                                              Cactus style bloom with a peach/
     consumers an exciting plant to
                                                                                yellow center with pink tips.
     watch all season long. Zone 4.

               Coleus Main Street Bourbon Street          Coleus Main Street Orchard Road

      Robust habit with
        late flowering                                                                    Cherry red colored
         with sun and                                                                         leaves with
       shade tolerance.                                                                   charteuse margins
       Scalloped edges                                                                     that are tolerant
         highlight the                                                                    for sun and shade.
        bicolor foliage.

             Coleus Main Street Venice Boulevard         Coleus Stained Glassworks Palisade

                                                                                           Great fine texture
        Dark maroon                                                                        for ultra-durable
      netting on top of                                                                      combination
      bold yellow green                                                                     plantings with
        color foliage.                                                                        lemon lime
                                                                                            bicolor foliage.

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Lantana Heartland Neon                    New Guniea Impatiens Wild                             Petunia Surprise
  Heat loving and high vigor are the         Romance Hot Rose                                    Raspberry Jam
  highlights of this series. Pollinator   Bright flower power with vivid magenta           Purple veining with orchid colored
friendly and are great for landscapes.     colored blooms. Strong vigor for large        blooms with raspberry margins on the
                                               containers and shade gardens.                      edges of the petals.

                                                                            Salvia Hummingbird Falls
                                                                        Trailing, hanging basket type salvia. Natural
                                                                      hummingbird magnet with rich dark calyces with
                                                                                        blue blooms.

       Petunia Headliner™                      Petunia Headliner™                               Petunia Starlet™
         Banana Cherry                           Enchanted Sky                                   Midnight Sky
    Replaces the banana cherry swirl        Medium vigor and mounded with                   Deep purple blooms that give a
     with cherry hearts and a yellow         bright pink blooms with white                 black velvet look with white flecks.
    star. Vigorous and early flowering.      flecks. Has both flecks and star              Compact series and controlled for
                                                         pattern.                              little or no PGR treatment.

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Calibrachoa MiniFamous®
                      Neo Pink Hawaii
                Raspberry colored blooms with yellow
                 star pattern and black punch center.     Osteospermum 4D™                        Osteospermum
                     Replaces Uno Raspberry Star.               White                         FlowerPower™ Compact
                                                          Double white flowers with early           Violet+Eye
                                                        season blooming and blooms don’t       Violet and white bicolor blooms
                                                                      close.                  with excellent garden performance
                                                                                                     with an upright habit.

                Calibrachoa MiniFamous®
                Uno Double Orange Flame
                  Early bloomer with uniform timing          Verbena Beats™                        Verbena Beats™
                 and a flaming orange colored double          Purple+White                           Red+White
                                bloom.                    New series with compact and         Cherry red and white edges with a
                                                         natural spreading characteristics.               red center.
                                                          No PGR or pinch needed. Red
                                                            center with purple edges.

    Dahlia Dahlietta™ Shirley                                                                  Geranium Moonlight™ Blue
    Flowers in as little as 7 weeks with
                                                                                                Dark foliage with darker pink lavender
    dark yellow chiffon center and gets
                                                                                                     blooms with white centers.
        lighter towards the edges.

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Petchoa SuperCal Premium
                                     Early blooming with high pH tolerance. With
                                           premium vigor and large flowers.

Purple Dawn                  Sunset Orange                           White                      Yellow Sun

         SunPatiens Compact                                            Zinnia Profusion Double Red
             Deep Red                                                   True red double flowers with extreme
   Great for sun and shade with great garden                          heat and drought resistance for landscape
          and container performance.                                               performance.

         SunPatiens Vigorous                                           Zinnia Profusion Double Red
          Sweetheart White                                                    Yellow Bicolor
   Improved branching with vigorous series                            AAS Award Winner with red and yellow eye
    with a red eye fleck with white flowers.                                     catching blooms.

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Bidens Stellar Orange Star
    Extra large, golden yellow flowers with
      a rustic red brushed stripe on each
                      petal.

                                                                                              Bracteantha Cottage Orange
                                                                                             Heavy branching and flowering with orange
                                                                                               flowers. Mildew resistant and flowers all
                                                                                                  summer for maximium utilization.
                                                    Bidens Stellar Red Ring
                                                  Orange/yellow circle center with red
                                                  edges and a distinct novelty coloring.

                                                                                                  Centaurea FanciFillers
                                                                                                    Chrome Fountain
                                                                                              Upright growing, silver folaige plant with
            Calibrachoa Calitastic                  Calibrachoa Chameleon                     coarse leaves. Heat and drought tolerant
                                                                                             and makes a great thriller for combinations.
                Bordeaux Star                            Avant Garden
          Deep burgundy eye with lavender        Early bloomer with lavendar flowers and
          edges and a yellow throat and star     gold eye with white star pattern. Upright
          pattern. Early bloomer and great for             and mounded habit.
                         combos.

                                                                                                    Portulaca Colorblast
                                                                                                    Double Dragonfruit
          Calibrachoa Calibasket                    Calibrachoa Calibasket                   Double hot pink flowers with orange/yellow
                 Pink Doll                                 Racy Red                           edges. Bright and exciting addition to sun
                                                                                                       pots and combinations.

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                                                       Petunia Crazytunia                        Petunia Crazytunia
                                                        Magenta Storm                               Night Watch
                                                   Magenta blooms with white center.          Dark velvety purple blooms with an
                                                  Bloom pattern is rustic and has lighter     upright mounding habit. Very dark!
                                                                patches.

          Begonia Rise Up
            Harlequin
      Bicolor to add to the series. Gold
        and dark orange blooms that                 Petunia Hells Ember Red                      Petunia Hells Forge
           hold above the foliage.                 Orange/red coloring with a pink and        Dark throat with bright burning red
                                                        black throat. Very bright!            colored blooms. Compact habit for
                                                                                                   baskets or combinations.

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Cathranthus Soiree® Flamenco Salmon Glow
                                                                             Salmon colored blooms with a white
                                                                           center. Fringed edges and excellent heat
                                                                                           tolerance.

                                                   Cathranthus Soiree® Flamenco Senorita Pink
                                                              New series with ruffled flowers with
                                                                        fringed edges.

                                                           Petunia Surfinia®                                Petunia Surfinia®
                                                          Heavenly Cabernet                                  XXL Taffy Pink
                                                        Gorgeous purple and burgundy                    Bright colored blooms that are
                                                          blooms with a black throat.                   daylength neutral for early sales
                                                         Semi-trailing habit to match                    and grandiflora-sized flowers.
                                                              Heavenly Sky Blue.

        Mandevilla Sun Parasol®                             Pericallia Senetti®                        Pericallis Senetti®
          Original Sunbeam                                      Rose Glow                                Magic Merlot
     Buttery yellow blooms with a lot of flowers     Bushy habit with dark purple and yellow   Better for cooler climates and high flower
        and two weeks earlier to flower than              centers. Excellent branching.          count. Bright red and purple flowers.
                       others.                                                                        Showy for early season sales.

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Bidens Brazen™                    Bidens Brazen™                    Calibrachoa Callie®              Calibrachoa Callie®
       Rising Sun                        Samurai                             Lavender                     Rose Dark Center
 New series with striking colors   Vigorous and mounded habit          Lavender colored flowers with Strawberry colored flowers with
and unqiue color pattern. Bright     with yellow and rustic red       a dark throat and yellow center. a dark throat and yellow center.
  red/orange blooms with a         coloring. Great for pollinators.   Mixes well with other plants and Outstanding mixer for planters
 mounded habit and medium                                                blooms all summer long.              and combinations.
             vigor.

                Begonia Bossa Nova™                                    Dipladenia Madinia®              Dipladenia Madinia®
                  Night Fever Rosso                                     Elegant Velvet Red                Maximo Scarlet
                                                                       Velvet red blooms with limited Vining variety with huge flowers,
      Bright color with robust coloring for containers and
                                                                      vining and bushy habit. Drought established disease resistance
                        hanging baskets.
                                                                        tolerant and disease resistant.    and drought tolerance.

                   Begonia Bowler™                                       Cleome Sparkler™               Euphorbia Euphoric™
                   Bronze Leaf White                                          2.0 Mix                      Double White
      Interspecific begonia with bronze foliage with white                Eye-catching colors with        Beautiful double flowers
       folowers and mounded habit. 12-18” high with 20-                  improved seed quality and        with strong vigor to fill in
                           24” spread.                                  easy production for superior    combination pots and hanging
                                                                               performance.                        baskets.

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Geranium Calliope®                 Geranium Calliope®                  Geranium Exotica™                      Geranium Ivy
        Large White                       Medium Dark                         Coral Sunrise                      League™ Amethyst
     Matches others in the series                                            Novelty color with unique           Heat tolerant and strong
      with bright white blooms
                                          Red Dark Leaf                     coloring and single flowers.       branches makes it a desirable
                                         Medium vigor with dark
          and large foliage.                                                Perfect for medium to small           plant. Light to medium
                                       foliage and dark red blooms.
                                       Non-stop flowering all season                 containers.                      purple flowers.
                                                   long.

                        Geranium Mojo™                      Geranium Moxie!™                     Geranium Starry
                           Dark Pink                           Pink Splash                         Pure White
                       Dark foliage with dark pink          Great series for medium to          Ruffled edges of pure white
                       flowers. Medium vigor and            small sized containers with          flowers. Very fun novelty
                      well-branched for a variety of        compact to medium vigor.              color to mix with other
                             container sizes.              Great novelty color to add to        components in small mixed
                                                                     the series.                         containers.

        Kwik Kombo™ Banana                               Kwik Kombo™ Midnight                                 Kwik Kombo™
           Pancakes™ Mix                                       Moon™ Mix                                    Summer Jelly™ Mix
         Yellow petunias, golden yellow                Purple petunias with white verbena and           Bright pinks and purples with pink
        calibrachoas and white verbenas.                          light blue lobelia.                  calibrachoa, bright eyes verbena and
                                                                                                                 purple petunias.

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Lantana Bandana® Gold
                  Bright golden blooms with heat and drought tolerance.
                   Mounded habit ensures constant coverage of flowers.

                                                 Lantana Bandito™ White
                                                 Compact series that mixes well with
                                                other small plants. White flowers with
                                                           yellow centers.

             Magenta

       Orange                                                  Marigold Endurance™ Sunset Gold
                                                          African and French Marigold breeding brings best of both
                                                         worlds. Extra large double flowers with French Marigold habit.

             White

 New Guinea Impatiens                                               Scaevola Bombay® Platinum
      Spectra™                                          Lavender blooms with a trailing habit and strong heat tolerance
 Sun and heat tolerance with early                                  make this ideal for hot summer spots.
flowering and excellent branching.

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Verbena Lanai®                    Petunia Dekko™
                                         Compact Violet                        Sorbet
                                                                         Light pink flowers with brown
                                            with Eye                     centers and a salmon colored
                                     Controlled and mounded habit        ring around the eye. Medium
                                     with white eyes and dark violet   vigor and spreading habit makes
                                                coloring.                  it desirable for landscapes.

          Verbena Lanai®                                                Petunia Fun House™
           Green Apple                                                       Potpourri
 Chartreuse coloring with disease                                      Novelty color with unique flower
  resistance and strong trailing                                        color and pattern. Mounding
              habit.                                                   habit makes it great for hanging
                                                                         baskets and combinations.

                                     Verbena Lanai® Lilac                Petunia Itsy™ White
                                      Beautiful lilac coloring works       Small white flowers make
                                       well to add to other darker         it ideal for landscapes and
                                     blooms for a striking contrast.     large containers. Exceptional
                                     Ideal for hanging baskets and     branching creates a blanket with
                                         mixed combinations.                    numerous flowers.

         Verbena Lanai®                                                   Petunia Sanguna®
        Twister™ Hot Lips                                                  Banana Candy
                                                                         Golden yellow blooms with a
     Bright red center gives the plant
                                                                       trailing habit for hanging baskets
      it’s name with lighter red and
                                                                                 and containers.
        pink to support the center.

                                         Verbena Lanai®                   Petunia Sanguna®
                                         Upright Sky Blue                   Mango Punch
                                    Blue and lavender coloring with    Pink and orange colored blooms
                                    white eyes for high-density and    is a great mixer for other genera
                                         pot tight production.         and components for containers.

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Gerbera ColorBloom™                                    Dianthus Sweet™                        Dianthus Sweet™
             Bicolor Red White                                      Neon Purple                             Rose Magic
  Colorbloom stays compact & tidy. This Bicolor Red          This Dianthus is a beautiful purple    Flowers open white, change to pink
  White is a unique color addition with its white ring       that stands out in a bouquet or in     and mature to a rich rose. A tricolor
                  around the center.                           the garden. Stems are 18 - 36”.             look that really pops.

                                                    Impatiens
                                                   Beacon® Rose
                                                     Now we have a
                                                   beautiful rose color.

    Impatiens Beacon® Formula Mix
Beacon® Impatiens are high resistance to down mildew!
      Formula Mix is always a favorite for packs.

                                                                                      Basil ‘Everleaf Thai Towers’
  Interspecific Dianthus Jolt™ Purple                                               Tidy column habit stands out at retail. Well
   This is a drive-by-bright stunning purple. A great                               branched with an aromatic licorice flavor.
landscape performer to add to the popular Jolt™ series.

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The New E3 Easy                       Wave™ Petunias are waking up early sales!
                           It’s Early, it’s Efficient, it’s the Evolution of Easy Wave™...it’s E3!
        This brand-new Wave® series flowers at 10 hours daylength, and it will be ready at retail to kick off Easy Wave™ sales even earlier!

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                 pink with deeper pink veins. Seven colors
                              in this new series.

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       Petunia Madness®                     Petunia Shock
          Deep Rose                          Wave® White
      Large flowers with a brilliant
        deep rose colour. A new
                                          Spreading Petunia
                                          Packed with an amazing
       madness variety with four
                                          number of petite blooms.
                                                                                    Pepper Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry
       colors including Blue Vein,                                             Another Candy Cane Mini Bell, has eye catching variegated
                                         A beautiful hanging basket
           Blue Star and Lilac.                                              foliage. Early maturing sweet flavor a crisp texture. Matures to a
                                         with high impact flowering.
                                                                                          unique chocolate color with red stripes.

         Leucanthemum                      Marigold Xochi™
           White Lion                          Orange
         A Spring Shasta, can be         Strong stems, makes a great
       grown in short days. Needs        cut flower with a long vase                           Pepper Pot-a-peño
      no vernalization and blooms                    life.                  Unique cascading habit, great for hanging basket or container. A
               it’s first year.                                                         early maturing jalapeño, green to red.

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Yellow
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     Pepper Peppi Cornissimo                                                           Pepper Peppi
 Matures green to red. Prouduce these tasty                          Peppi Red & Yellow are small snacking peppers with
peppers seedless by growing them in isolation                         incredible sweetness & rich flavor. Plant these cute
  fwith other non-seedless pepper varities.                          peppers with Peppi Cornissimo for seedless peppers.

        Tomato Bellatrix                               Tomato Cocoa                                 Tomato Red Velvet
High resistance to late blight. Red Roma/     Edible potted tomato. Part of the New
paste tomato that ripens in a short time    Kitchen Minis™ collection. Small tasty fruit.
            with a high yield.                         Only grows to 8” tall.

        Tomato DarkStar                                  Tomato Loki                                  Tomato Marzito
An upgrade to a heirloom tomato. Great      Huge tomato flavor & performance. Early         Firm texture with a sweet taste right off the
flavor with hybrid performance. Matures            maturing round red slicer.                vine. Or use like a Roma tomato. A multi-
  rich purple. East fresh or make a tasty                                                                purpose tomato.
                  sauce.

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Argranthemum frutescens                     Argranthemum frutescens                         Argranthemum frutescens
         Lollies™ Berry Gummy                        Lollies™ Marshmallow                          Lollies™ White Chocolate
         Brand new series/breeding. Early                Nice color two tone pinks.                   Brand new series/breeding. Early
           blooming and very proliferic.                                                                blooming and very proliferic.

           Calibrachoa hybirda                          Calibrachoa Colibri™                           Calibrachoa Colibri™
             Eyconic™ Peach                               Abstract Guava                               Double Deep Purple
      Semi trailing with an extra large flower.   Another new pattern for the Colibri series.       Another great double flower for the
     This peach color is more spectalcular than         Total 17 colors for Colibri™.                         Colibri™ series.
                a photo can express.

                                  Calibrachoa Colibri™                         Calibrachoa Colibri™
                                       Pink Bling                                  Purple Bling
                             Great for high density growing. Fun new      New pattern for the Colibri ™ series. Bred
                                             pattern.                            for better PH sensitivity.

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Golf™ Craspedia
Improved better breeding for good roots,
Strong stems. A unique novelty a must try!

      Mai Tai™ Orange
     Mimulus Aurantiacus
Upright strong and easy to grow. Has that
 tropical look. Grow dry. 3 colors in the
                  series.

                                                  Scaveola™                    Petunia BlackMoon
                                                TOUCH™ Indigo                        Rising
                                                Customers can never get        Stand alone petunia with a
                                              enough Blue. Great addition     unique rim pattern and a black
  Osteospermum Osticade™                     to the series. Mounded & Semi               center.
         Daybreak                                        Trailing.
   Controlled trailing habit, perfect for
   baskets. No need for cold treatment.

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Petunia Capella™
                                                                           Hello Yellow
                                                                   High density petunia, naturally grows
                                                                   compact. A bright true yellow color.

                            Petunia Splash Dance ™
                                 Poppin ‘Pink’
                          Great mounding habit. Customers can’t
                          get enough of these speckled Petunias.

                Bacopa Scopia® Gulliver™                               James Brittenia Stardom™ Pink
                    Compact Blush                                     Starts with a small upright footprint for growers,
             Large flower with good branching. Great for             but grows into a nice trailer for baskets. Blooms all
              combinations. Pink with a dark pink center.                                  summer.

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                                                                           market sales from spring to fall, and as indoor décor as well.
                                                                          Blooms last up to two weeks once cut. Trials show promise of
                                                                                        continued blooms in the garden.

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                                    Lobelia Laguna® Cloud White™                                         Lobelia Laguna® Sky Blue
       Improvement over Laguna® White features significantly larger and showier flowers, a more         An upgrade to our best selling Lobelia.
                                refined habit with increased vigor.                                      Larger flowers and a true blue color.
                                                                                                          Hold a month longer through the
                                                                                                                    summer heat.

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Suncredible®
                                    Saturn™ Helianthus
                                   The original Suncredible® has
                                   a continues bloom. Now with
                                    a showy new color addition!
                                       To be a fall fav for sure.

        Petunai Supertunia® Vista® Jazzberry™                                  Petunia Supertunia® Priscilla® Improved
       Everything you love about Vista® Paradise, now in electric           Already popular and upgraded. Earlier bloom, better branched
       magenta purple. Outstanding landscape performance too.                                habit with more blossoms.

                                                      Salvia Unplugged® Pink
                A new color for the series. Flowers pink with dark calyxes on compact plant. Half the size of the rockin salvias.

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Ageratum Artist® Pearl                                    Angelonia Angelface® Cascade Snow
Elegant robust pearl white flowers on the best Ageratum on the          Mixed recipe in a basket or a stand alone. Robust trailing
                             market.                                            Angelonia with plenty of flower power.

         Augusta® Lavender Heliotropium                               Calibrachoa Superbells® Double Twilight™
A reboot of a classic! Upright, densely branced with bloom power.   Silver lavender fully double-flowered. Mixes perfectly in elegant
                 Use as a thriller in your patio pots.                           recipes. Tremendous impulse appeal!

             Blue My Mind® XL Evolvulus                                        Thunbergia Coconut-A-PEEL®
Everything you love about the original, now 30-50% larger. A true   Creamy white flowers with a black eye. Prolific on vigor. Excellent
             blue color. 4-8” tall and 12-20” spread.                               climber. 60-96” H, 18-24” spread.

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Verbena Cake Pops® Purple
                                                                                          Full sun with a vigor 2, 10-18” H, 10-18”
                                                                                                spread. Flowers sure do pop.

         Heart to Heart®                    Heart to Heart®
         ‘Burning Heart’                  ‘Xplosion’ Caladium
            Caladium                      A cultivar with Thai roots with
      Premium caladiums with the           a unique pattern. American
     best genetics. Burning Heart is     breeeding and a nice mounded
      is suitable for full sun. What a         habit. Sun or shade.
               unique color!

                               Heart to Heart®
                             ‘Clowning Around’
                         This one-of-a-kind cultivar has a
                        unique quilted appearance. Deep
                      lobed and ruffled. Part shade to shade.                Verbena Cake Pops®               Verbena Superbena®
                                                                                Pink Verbena                    Imperial Blue™
                                                                            A new type of Verbena! Flowers       Features large deep violet
                                                                              won’t cycle in extreme heat.    flowers that don’t fade. Earlier
                                                                             Drought tolerant and great in        bloom time than other
                                                                                        recipes.                       Superbenas®.

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    Calylophus Ladybird™ Lemonade
A Texas primrose, Lemon yellow floweres that senence to
            peach. Ideal for hot dry climates.

                                                             Colorblaze® El Brighto
                                                                    Coleus
                                                            This striking new coleus has tricolor
                                                             leaves. Lives up to the Colorblaze®
                                                              standards. 24-40:H, 18-36” spread.
                                                                        Sun or Shade.

                                                            Colorblaze® Newly Noir™
                                                             A tremendous improvement over
     Calylophus Ladybird™ Sunglow                           Colorblaze® Dark Star. Solid black to
Use it like Evolvulus for bright color in low maintenance   deep maroon foliage. Delayed late
        landscapes and containers. Loves the sun.                       blooming.

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Jamesbrittenia
                          Safari™ Dawn
                  A new Genus for PW. Like a bacopa                                Lantana Luscious® Citron™
                 with greater heat & humidity tolerance.              Large rich flowers with a fuller more mounded habit. Little to no
                    Flowers are a soft rose & lavender.                    seed set. Mixes well in recipes due to increased vigor.

                 Jamesbrittenia Safari™ Sky                                    Pesto Besto™ Sweet Italian Basil
     A strong summer performance. Lilac purple flowers bear a white   The best seed grown basil. Down mildew resistance, Similar vigor
                halo and gold eye. 6-12” H, 12-24 spread.                                & taste as Amazel Basil®.

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