Ball FloraPlant + PanAmerican SeedNew Variety Highlights

Ball University Manitoba – Sept. 22, 2015

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New varieties are the engine that drives excitement throughout the industry!

As you can see, the past couple years have offered not just something for everyone but tons of excitement for growers, retailers, landscapers and home gardeners.

Heat-loving Season Extenders

SolarPower Series IpomoeaGrowers: Best matched Ipomoea series on the market! Most efficient in production.

Retailers: Three distinct colors. More plants per rack with SolarPower’s tidy habit.

Landscapers: Manageable habit is less work and friendly to companion plants. These also will not fade in the heat of the Summer!

Red

Duayne’s Pick!

SolarPower Series Ipomoea

Black Lime

SolarPower Series Ipomoea

Black Black

Little Zin HibiscusGrowers & Retailers: Extend the season – add this heat lover!

Landscapers: A third the size of Mahogany Splendor, Little Zin gives opportunity for additional applications. Dramatic as a thriller in mixed containers as well as mass in-ground plantings.

Little Zin Hibiscus

Black & Bloom SalviaGrowers & Retailers: More impact than Black & Blue with thicker leaf, bigger bloom, darker stem!

Landscapers: Tough as nails - thrives in heat, drought and humidity. Desirable blue color against the black stem stands out in every landscape or container.

Duayne’s Pick!

Black & Bloom Salvia

Black & Blue NEW Black & Bloom

Campfire Coleus

COLOR!COLOR!COLOR!

A MUST in the landscape for proven performance like other stars Redhead and Wasabi. For sun and shade, late flowering, with similar habit to Henna.

Duayne’s Pick!

Campfire Coleus

Flame Thrower Series ColeusWith tons of texture and color, Flame Thrower is so versatile!

Controlled habit makes for the perfect coleus in mid-borders and mixed containers.

You’re going to have fun with this one!

Chili Pepper

Duayne’s Pick!

Flame Thrower Series Coleus

Chipotle Spiced Curry

Archangel™ Series AngeloniaNEW Light PinkNEW Orchid Pink

To complete the series, we added two winning colors to the biggest flowered Angelonia series on the market.

Light Pink

Orchid Pink

Criteria for a Real Series:

1. All varieties in the series flower and can ship in the same week.

2. All share the same culture recommendations and finish with the same habit and vigor.

3. Most uniform series on the market.

Real Series

Presto™ Series Zonal GeraniumNEW Dark Red ImprovedFantasia® Dark Red color on Presto habit!

Presto™ Series Zonal Geranium

Presto in production

Cabaret® Series CalibrachoaNEW Light Pink ImprovedMost uniform Calibrachoa series on the market:Super-efficient and no-brainer for cali mixes!

Improved for flower coverage and more intense pink.

Cabaret® Series Calibrachoa

Light Pink Improved, Deep Blue and Deep Yellow

Conga™ Series CalibrachoaNEW Coral Kiss NEW Pink KissNEW Rose Kiss NEW Sun KissNEW Yellow

Growers: Naturally compact habit for a pot-tight crop that’s a snap to grow!

Retailers & Gardeners: Bold bicolor is ideal for color bowls!

Pink Kiss

Conga™ Series Calibrachoa

Coral Kiss Rose Kiss Sun Kiss Yellow

Conga™ Series Calibrachoa

Sun Kiss

Serenity™ Series OsteospermumNEW Lavender Frost ImprovedNEW Spring DayGrowers and Retailers: More solid-performing options in the popular Serenity series.

Spring Day’s blooms range from white to pink on the top and are yellow on the bottom! Even cuter when a few blooms are closed early in the morning!

Spring Day

Lavender Frost Improved

Spring Day

Serenity™ Series Osteospermum

Sun Spun® Series PetuniaNEW PinkNEW Raspberry StarNEW Red ImprovedNEW SalmonGrowers & Retailers: More winners in the popular Sun Spun series.

Red is improved for habit, dark foliage and flower color.

Raspberry Star

Sun Spun® Series Petunia

Pink Red Improved Salmon

Sun Spun® Series Petunia

Salmon Red Improved

MixMasters

15 colorful new combos join the innovative, flexible combo series.

MixMastersNEW Berry Basket Petunia Sun Spun Burgundy Verbena Aztec

Burgundy Wink Calibrachoa Cabaret

White ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Circus Parade Bidens Sunbeam Lobelia Waterfall Blue Verbena Aztec Red VelvetRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Color Theory Petunia Sun Spun Blue Verbena Aztec Dark Red Calibrachoa Can-Can ApricotRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Comic Relief Petunia Sun Spun Yellow Lobelia Hot Springs

Lavender Pink Verbena Aztec

Violet ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Do You Lilac It? Petunia Sun Spun Silver Lobelia Hot Springs

Lavender Pink Verbena Aztec Blue VelvetRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall 

MixMastersNEW Eye Caramba Petunia Flash Mob Bluerific Verbena Aztec Violet Wink Calibrachoa Cabaret

White ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Fantasyland Petunia Flash Mob

Magentacular Calibrachoa Cabaret

Deep Yellow Verbena Aztec Blue VelvetRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Flower Child Petunia Sun Spun Burgundy Verbena Aztec White Lobelia Hot Springs Sky BlueRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Game On! Petunia Sun Spun Orange Lobelia Hot Springs

Lavender Pink Verbena Aztec Blue VelvetRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Heartland Petunia Sun Spun White Verbena Aztec Dark Red Lobelia Hot Springs Sky BlueRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Panorama Calibrachoa Cabaret

White Improved Calibrachoa Cabaret

Rose Improved Calibrachoa Cabaret

Purple ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Playdate Calibrachoa Cabaret

Deep Yellow Calibrachoa Cabaret

Rose Improved Calibrachoa Cabaret

Purple ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Pop Culture Petunia Sun Spun Yellow Verbena Aztec Dark Red Lobelia Hot Springs Sky BlueRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Summer Cottage Petunia Sun Spun Pink Calibrachoa Cabaret

White Improved Lobelia Hot Springs BlueRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall

MixMastersNEW Sweet Escape• Petunia Sun Spun Yellow• Verbena Aztec

Burgundy Wink• Calibrachoa Cabaret

Light Pink ImprovedRetail-ready: Early Spring to Fall 

Suntory

BIDENS BEEDANCERed Stripe

Pollinator plantUnique yellow/orange

stripingKeep an eye on vigor

Duayne’s Pick!

Sakata

CELOSIA DRAGON’S BREATH

Ideal for early Spring + FallTons of blooms all season longUnique texture for any garden or

mixed combination

Duayne’s Pick!

Serenita® Series F1 AngeloniaSky Blue: Colour holds in high heat and high light conditions. Mixture Improved: Now includes Sky Blue.

Excellent solution where shorter, more manageable material is needed.

Great branching and fullness with no pinch. Perfect for consumers looking for water-wise,

heat-loving plants that won’t be ruined by deer, rabbits.

Sky Blue

Mixture Improved

BabyWing® Series F1 Begonia Bicolor: Special novelty colour – along with the bicolour pattern, there is a hint of orange that adds an “orange glow” to each flower.

Bullet-proof bedding plant! Maintenance-free, season-long performer is extremely heat tolerant and handles stressful conditions well for continuous colour in landscapes, containers, baskets.

Bicolor

BabyWing® Series F1 Begonia

Red Mixture

Kabloom Series F1 Calibrachoa Kabloom is the first seed calibrachoa. A game changer in the industry! Seed gives growers Flexibility: Flexibility of input beyond liners or

URCs. Flexibility to receive product when

weather does not permit vegetative shipments.

Flexibility to manage staffing based on site needs, not based on when supplier ships vegetative cuttings or URCs.

White

Kabloom Series F1 Calibrachoa

Deep Blue Deep Pink Red Yellow

Kong® Series Premium Shade ColeusScarlet Improved: Noticeable improvement for better, more consistent colour with no rose centre. Later to flower for better landscape show.

The king of coleus – extremely large leaves and unique patterns on well-branched plants.

Scarlet Improved

Kong® Series Premium Shade Coleus

NEW Kong Scarlet Improved Kong Scarlet

Jolt Series F1 Interspecific DianthusShocking Summer Colour! Jolt is the most heat-tolerant Interspecific Dianthus you can grow and sell – great for Summer landscape and premium choice container programs.

EXP Pink: All-America Selections Holdover for future introduction.

Cherry

EXP Pink

Duayne’s Pick!

Jolt Series F1 Interspecific DianthusSeason-long performer is highly durable – stands up to hot Summer conditions and continues to flower without setting seed. Grower friendly: Well-branched plants are easy to produce in premium containers with less to no PGRs – compared with Amazon.

Glamour EuphorbiaThe first and only landscape euphorbia from seed! Vigorous, very resilient and durable from the start. Shines in landscapes, large cityscape containers, combination in-ground plantings, garden beds.

Suited to landscaper 1801s, quarts, 6-in./15-cm pots, gallons. Not recommended for pack programs.

Glamour

Glamour Euphorbia

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Divine Series F1 New Guinea ImpatiensYour best shade alternative: The most colours…high resistance to Impatiens Downy Mildew…perfect for shade landscape premium packs, 4-in./10-cm and quart pot programs.

Pink Improved

Divine Series F1 New Guinea Impatiens

Violet Improved White

Taishan® Series F1 African MarigoldOrange Improved and Yellow Improved join Gold for better-matched series. Now more uniform across the colours for timing than Antigua, plus slightly earlier to flower and better double flower form.

Orange Improved

Yellow Improved

Taishan® Series F1 African Marigold20% shorter peduncles and 15% thicker stems than the market leader means less stretch on the bench, less breaking in shipping and at retail. Better branching with more aggressive side branching = quicker fill and healthier look. Larger double flowers tolerate overhead watering better and shed water well for less waste, longer shelf life.

Orange Improved: Shorter plant for a matched series. Improved fully double flower form. Darker orange colour. Yellow Improved: Earlier for a matched series. Larger flower.

Taishan® Series F1 African Marigold

NEW Taishan Orange Improved is shorter with better double flower form than original Taishan Orange.NEW Taishan Orange Improved is earlier to flower than Antigua Orange.

Antigua Orange Taishan Orange NEW Taishan Orange IPD

Hot Pak Series Heat-Tolerant Extra-Dwarf Crested French MarigoldA first for French Marigolds! Hot Pak stays compact and continues to flower reliably in high temperature/high humidity areas. Specially bred and trialed in areas of the world with high temperatures – “Developed in the heat for the heat.”

Mixture

Hot Pak Series Heat-Tolerant Extra-Dwarf Crested French Marigold

Fire Flame Gold Harmony

Hot Pak Series Heat-Tolerant Extra-Dwarf Crested French Marigold

Orange Spry Yellow

Hot Pak Series Heat-Tolerant Extra-Dwarf Crested French Marigold

Hero Yellow NEW Hot Pak Yellow

August 2014, Florida

Cool Wave® F1 Spreading PansyThe best pansy ever adds two great new colours! Blue Skies: An important new mid-blue introduction! Habit and vigour match Golden Yellow. NOTE: Cool nights/low PGRs will deliver the deepest colour. High temperatures/PGR use show slightly lighter blue colour and broader yellow eye. Small percentage of blooms show dark purple cap. Lemon Surprise: Lemon blooms produce some genetic dark and light shading. The surprise…up to 3% of the blooms show a purple cap.

Blue Skies

Lemon Surprise

Cool Wave® F1 Spreading PansyCrushes competitors in trailing and filling containers…Beats other varieties hands down for vigour and overwintering. Cool Wave for multi-season sales:Spring: Grab early bird gardeners. Cool Wave pansies wake up Spring gardens and baskets with easy spreading colour.Autumn: A decorator’s dream – versatile, colourful, long-lasting! Autumn plantings overwinter in the North.

Matrix® Series F1 Extra-Large-Flowered PansyYour best pansy option for longer days and warmer growing. Beaconsfield: Popular novelty colour joins the series. Largest flowers of any “beaconsfield.” Solar Flare: Novelty variety in vivid fire shades. Colour pattern varies by temperature – blooms show more red in low temperatures, more yellow in high.

Beaconsfield

Solar Flare

Matrix® Series F1 Extra-Large-Flowered Pansy

Unmatched in the market for uniformity of timing and plant habit. Only Matrix has a tight bloom window that allows shipping of all colours in the same week in Autumn. Less handling + less waste + exceptional holding power = higher profitability. Well-suited to 606 jumbo packs, 1801s and 4-in./10-cm pots.

Easy Wave® Series F1 Spreading Petunia

Three new Easy Wave colours, along with the recent launch of the three Velour varieties, give growers and retailers premium program sales opportunities.

Duayne’s Pick!

Easy Wave® Series F1 Spreading Petunia

Pink Passion Silver Yellow

Easy Wave® Series F1 Spreading PetuniaPink Passion: • Habit similar to Easy Wave Neon Rose.• Consistently good in the garden. • Times like Violet; 8 to 10 days earlier than Pink in Spring natural daylength conditions. • 10 hours critical daylength. • Good performance in the presence of Botrytis.• Tolerant of cold growing situations. Silver: • Elegant colour similar to Tidal Wave Silver. • Times like Easy Wave Berry Velour. • 11 hours critical daylength. • Dense, mounded habit. • Especially well-suited to landscapes – holds exceptionally well. • Exceptional performance in the presence of Botrytis. • Tolerant of cold growing situations.

Shock Wave® Series F1 Spreading PetuniaYellow:• Compared with vegetative yellow petunias,

Shock Wave Yellow offers:o More branching – without pinchingo Full plantso Strong rootingo Better performance

Shock Wave is the best for baskets!• Start your Wave sales early.• Excellent weather durability.• Recommended packaging: 4-in./10-cm pot,

hanging basket, 306 premium pack with branded pack handle.

Yellow

Tidal Wave® Series F1 Spreading PetuniaRed Velour – ATTENTION IGCs!• Velvety colour now in a large-format plant for big,

bold, 3D colour!• Fills big spaces and climbs along and over walls

and fences.• Plant with NEW Glamour Euphorbia for high-

impact landscapes.• Can be grown in gallons for landscape market.

Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winner.All-America Selections Holdover for future introduction.

EXP Red Velour

Tidal Wave® Series F1 Spreading Petunia

Super-size colour for big spaces!• Extend your season with this

strong finisher.• Holds its excellent shrublike

shape.• Recommended packaging:

8-in./20-cm pots.

NEW Valiant Series F1 Vinca

Valiant vs. Cora & non-resistant F1 varietiesLeft to right: Titan, NEW Valiant, Cora, VItesse

Phytophthora Screening in Ruskin, Florida – July 2014

NEW Valiant Series F1 VincaValiant is a vigorous hybrid vinca that survives in the landscape. Gives growers and landscapers another option where aerial Phytophthora is a concern. Valiant is more vigorous than Cora.

Apricot

NEW Valiant Series F1 Vinca

Apricot Burgundy

OrchidPunch

Lilac

Pure White

Double Zahara Series ZinniaThree variety additions all feature a tidier habit to make the overall series more uniform and feature higher petal counts.

YellowCherry Salmon Rose

Yellow

Double Zahara Series ZinniaThe only true double, disease-resistant zinnia series on the market. Flowers are fully double with significantly more petals, while Double Profusion is only semi-double. Double Zahara has larger blooms. More colour show = bigger retail impact, greater sell-through, more attractive beds and planters. Superior all-season performance and durability in the landscape: disease resistance, drought resistance, weather tolerance, low water needs, low maintenance (low fertilizer, no deadheading needed).

Double Zahara Series Zinnia

NEW Double Zahara Yellow ‘Double’ Profusion Yellow

HandPicked Collection Vegetables & Herbs

HandPicked Vegetable CollectionPanAmerican Seed has put together a novel, high-quality group of vegetables and herbs well-suited for those who supply fresh market farmers and hobby gardeners. What sets HandPicked varieties apart:• Fresh, home-grown flavour • Exceptional fruit quality• Earlier and longer harvests• Loads of produce• Unique shapes, sizes and colours• Some with compact habits to fit smaller growing spaces• Some with disease resistance

Dolce Fresca Sweet Italian BasilTidy, high-quality basil has a unique bushy habit with shorter internodes that looks good at retail and in the garden or container. More usable leaf yields. Won’t get tall and leggy but still delivers traditional basil leaf size and flavour.

2015 All-America Selections National Winner.

SimplySalad® Kale Storm MixtureHealthy, high-demand “superfood” is now available in SimplySalad! First all-kale SimplySalad. Multi-Species Multi-Pellets have assorted textures and colours, including purple, green and blue. Edible and ornamental – lasts longer in the container than lettuce and won’t bolt. Can also be planted in the ground for all-season harvest. Cool night temperatures bring out rich colours in the foliage.

Cute Stuff Gold II F1 Sweet Mini-Bell Pepper

Now has disease resistance to Bacterial Leaf Spot races 1 to 5. Same great sweet taste, size and shape as the original.

Chocolate Sprinkles F1 Cherry Tomato First in this type with a disease-resistance package: Fusarium Race 1, Nematodes, Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Unique fruit colour – red with dark green overlay/striping for a “chocolaty” appearance. Very productive – more fruit with better flavour than similar OP varieties.

Sugar Rush F1 Cherry TomatoSuper-sweet – one of the highest Brix ratings of this type. Fast-maturing and extremely productive all season, with long trusses of elongated red fruit with great crunch and texture.

Little Napoli F1 Roma/Paste TomatoGreat in containers – one of the only patio-type romas available. Disease resistance = better gardening success. Yields large amounts of tasty fruit for such a small plant, so gardeners can harvest enough at one time to make a batch of salsa or sauce.

Duayne’s Pick!

F1 Heirloom Marriage™ Collection TomatoHeirloom Marriage varieties cross two heirlooms to create a tomato that is much higher yielding and earlier maturing than their heirloom parents, with all of the same great flavour and less of the fruit blemishes.

Cherokee Carbon

F1 Heirloom Marriage™ Collection TomatoCherokee Carbon: Purple beefsteak tomato is a cross of Cherokee Purple and Carbon. Fruit has a well-balanced, full bodied flavour with a unique colour and “old-fashioned” shape.

Cherokee Carbon

F1 Heirloom Marriage™ Collection TomatoMarzinera:Red roma/paste tomato is a cross of San Marzano and Cream Sausage. Large fruit set + great traditional taste + elongated fruit shape = great cooking tomato Marzinera

Ball FloraPlant + PanAmerican SeedNew Variety Highlights

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