Novelties 2009

Heuchera

Malachite

FSN

• Heavily curled green-leaved counterpart to Melting Fire• Strong garden performance, good weather tolerance• Easy growing, highly uniform• Excellent for mixed combinations offers• Prime Perennial Collection group 1

Sowing-potting 8-10 weeksPotting-selling 12-16 weeksGarden height 25-40 cmGarden diameter 30 cm

Heuchera

Melting Fire

Uniform and attractive Heuchera with curled red foliage The young leaves on a full grown plant are bright blood red, creating an exciting "hot" centre in each plant.

• Attractive foliage colour and texture, lasting all season long

• Easy growing and uniform plant quality, this seed variety is highly suitable for professional container production

• Seed alternative for tissue culture varieties• Prime Perennial Collection® Group I • PBR (kiecakrul) and Fleuroselect Registered

Variety

FSN

Heuchera

Melting Fire

Melting Fire < > Palace Purple

Lobelia valida

Delft Blue

• Compact, sturdy and well branched plants• Deep green foliage with toothed edges, succulent-like• Resistant to broad weather conditions, wet as well as dry• Intense blue flowers, self cleaning, long flowering• Available as TunedSeeds® for easy and fast germination

and emergence• Prime Perennial Collection group 1

Sowing-potting 5-6 weeksPotting-selling 10-12 weeksGarden height : 40-50 cmGarden diameter : 30 cmHardiness zone 5-9

Penstemon hirsutus

Snowbells

FSN

• Compact dark leaved Penstemon• Rich- and free flowering • Flowers white with touch of pink• Fully first year flowering, short crop time• For pot- or pack production

Sowing-potting 6-7 weeksPotting-selling 8-9 weeksGarden height 15-20 cmGarden diameter 15-20 cmHardiness zone 4-8

Salvia patens

Patio Series

Dark Blue

Sky Blue

• Compact (30 cm)

• Basal branching

• Sowing to flowering 12-14 weeks

• Easy to grow in pots

• Unique colours

• Great garden performance

• Uniformity comparable to vegetative types

• Prime Perennial Collection Group I

White

Pink

Patio Rose

FSN

Patio Lilac

Silene alpestris

Starry Dreams

FSN

• Compact fresh green leaf-cushion• Small starlike upward facing pure white

flowers• First year flowering• Prime perennial Collection group 1• For pot or packproduction

Sowing-potting 6-7 weeksPotting-selling 8-10 weeksGarden height 15-20 cmGarden diameter 20-25 cmHardiness zone 5-8

Armeria pseudarmeria

Ballerina Series

Ballerina Red

Ballerina White

• Very early flowering as annual

• Excellent earliness overwintered

• High Uniformity and compactness

• Long lasting flower power

• Striking garden performance

• Prime Perennial Collection® Group I

Digitalis purpurea F1

Dalmation Series

FSN

• Early flowering

• High uniformity

• Short harvest window

• Good plant habit (well branched; compact foliage)

• Strong colour

• Good quality spike

• Suitable for 10 cm (4”) as well as large containers

• Fully first year flowering

• Prime Perennial Collection Group I

•Highly awarded series

Lavandula angustifolia

Ellagance Purple

Highly awarded series Ice

Sky

Purple

• Fully first year flowering Lavandula

• Large, densely filled spikes, great floridity

• Well branched bushy plants

• Short production cycle

• Outstanding garden performance

• Unmatched uniformity

• Includes the most sensational

purple colour ever seen in Lavandula

• Excellent alternative to vegetative

varieties

• Prime Perennial Collection® Group I

Verbena bonariensis

Buenos Aires TunedSeeds®

• Well known and -respected perennial• Strong, square stems, grey leaved• Purple-violet flower umbels• First year flowering if sown early• Drought tolerant• Available as TunedSeeds® for fast and easy germination

and emergence

Sowing-potting 6-8 weeksPotting-selling 10-14 weeksGarden height: 100-120 cmGarden diameter 30 cmHardiness zone 7-10

Pennisetum macrourum

White Lancer

• Tall upright, tender perennial landscape grass• Flowers first year with long, narrow white spikes• Pale green leaves with silvery underside• Drought tolerant, suitable for cutting

Sowing-potting 6-8 weeksPotting-selling 8-12 weeksGarden height: 80-120 cmGarden diameter: 40-50 cmHardiness zone 8-10

Carex

Phoenix Green

• Sturdy upright narrow leaved sedge• Bright green foliage• Good heat tolerance, low maintenance• For landscaping or mixed combinations and borders• Trendy in solitary planters

Garden height: 50-60 cmGarden diameter: 40-50 cmHardiness: zone 6-8Sowing-potting 6-7 weeksPotting-selling 10-14 weeks

Isolepis

Wi-Fi

• Compact, soft green, narrow tubular leaved ColorGrass

• For in- and outdoor use, both pot- and packproduction

• Does well under various weather and garden conditions, best in wet spots

• Foliage and flowers resemble fibre-optic strands• For mixed plantings and baskets, or as solitary

indoorplant• Offered as TunedSeeds, multipellets in

development

Sowing-potting 6 weeksPotting-selling 6-8 weeksGarden height 25 cmGarden diameter 25 cm

Juncus

StarheadTM

• Compact broad leaved ColorGrass®

• Easy to produce, high usable plant %

• Attractive flower head, longlasting

• High germinating seed

• Available as SowEasy® Pelleted and multipelleted

Anemanthele

Buffalo’s Gold

• long lasting landscaping power from late summer into winter

•Colour changes from fresh summer green to Winter gold

•Great heat tolerance• low maintenance  Garden height : 70 cm Spread : 60 cmLeaf colour : Green towards gold-bronzeHabit : Erect, slightly pendulous

tussockGarden habitat : moist, well drained, full sun Hardiness : 6-8

ColorGrass® is a well balanced collection of highly decorative ornamental grasses, now all available as TunedSeeds® seed, for easy germination.

ColorGrass® brings you a selected line of easy to produce varieties , in a wide range of colors and texture.

Suited for sales as single items but also very appealing in combination sales.

Colored Ornamental Grass from seed, since there is more than green!

Hard. Height(cm)Picture – Variety Zone pot garden

1 Carex Red RoosterTM 7 30 602 Carex BroncoTM 7 20 253 Carex Amazon MistTM 7 20 254 Carex CoppertopTM 7 25 605 Carex BronzitaTM 7 20 406 Carex Prairie FireTM 6 20 407 Corynephorus Spiky BlueTM 7 15 208 Festuca FestinaTM 4 15 259 Koeleria CoolioTM 6 10 2010 Luzula LuciusTM 6 15 6011 Luzula StarmakerTM 4 15 6012 Stipa Pony TailsTM 6 25 35

12 1 10

6 9 2

7 3

5 11 4

Profits:

For the grower: For the marketer : For landscaper/gardener:

Easy to sow, germinate and grow

Producable as a series, all in one climate

Grows as an annual sells as a perennial

Fits into plug programs, through TunedSeeds® seedquality

Programmable for year-round production

Low maintenance Long delivery window Compact and flexible

container product

Long sales window, with good shelf life

Saleable as a series High consumer demand Usable for landscaping and

gardening Fits into bedding plants and

perennial sales Heat tolerant and low

maintenance Texture item for mixed

basket and color bowls

Long lasting garden plant Beautiful shapes and colors Thrives in shade and loves the sun

Heat tolerant and low maintenance

Winter hardy with winter foliage

Sowing period

Potting period

Sales period

Overwintering schedule J un J ul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec J an Feb Mar Apr

Bedding schedule Dec J an Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

Alyssum maritimum

Allure Series

• Compact packperformance

• Well-branched plant habit

• Strong garden performance

• Unique range of colours

• Very uniform pastel mixture

• Available as SowEasy® Filmcoated

White Rose Pink Lavender Pastel MixBronze Deep Purple Lemon Yellow

Cuphea ignea

Matchmaker Series

Matchmaker Scarlet Matchmaker White Matchmaker Pink

• First series of Cuphea with 3 colours• Very compact habit, long and richflowering• Selfcleaning habit, wide climate acceptance• Deep green shiny foliage

Sowing-potting 3-4 weeksPotting-selling 8-10 weeksGarden height: 20-25 cmGarden diameter: 20-25 cm

Dianthus hybrida F1

Panache Series

Gazania F1

Kontiki® Series

Kontiki Series is the best bedding-typeGazania for professional use.

• Early flowering on uniform planthabit

• Strong floriferous garden performance

• Short, dark green glossy foliage

• No growth regulators required

• Long opening hours

• 90%+ usable plants

Kontiki Rose

Kontiki Violet Picotee

Kontiki Yellow

Kontiki Orange

Kontiki White

Kontiki Stars & Stripoes

Kontiki Formula Mix

Gerbera F1

Revolution

Micro MiniStandard Mega

Gerbera F1

Revolution®

• Superb seed quality => high % usable plants (90%+)

• Short cultivation period (15-16 weeks)

• High uniformity

• Compact well-shaped plant habit (11-13 cm pot)

• High percentage of top-quality plants

• Suitable for year-round production

• Wide colourrange

• Revolution®: the earliest potgerbera available

• Offered as SowEasy® seeds

Baby Pink

Red/Dark Centre

Neon Rose

Scarlet/Dark Centre

Vanilla Shades

Terracotta

Red Shades/Dark C

Rose Shades

Yellow/Dark CentrePastel Pink Sh./D.C.

Pastel Orange Dark C

Golden Yellow Shades

Yellow/Green Centre

Spring Pastels

Gerbera F1

Mega Revolution

Mega Revolution® is specially developed for the larger container sizes (15 cm/6”up). It creates nice bushy plants with extremely large flowers.The Mega Mix contains red, scarlet, orange, yellow, white, coral-salmon, pink and rose shades, partly with a dark centre.

 

Gerbera F1

Mega Revolution®

Champagne

Golden Yellow/Dark Centre

Purple Shades

Mega Revolution® is specially developed for the larger container sizes (15 cm/6” up). It creates nice bushy plants with extremely large flowers.

• flowers 20% larger than Gerbera Revolution®• offered as SowEasy® seeds• recommended for larger plug size production

• Superb seed quality => high % usable plants (90%+)• High uniformity• High percentage of top-quality plants• Suitable for year-round production• Revolution®: the earliest potgerbera available

Orange

Rose Shades

White

Scarlet/DC Imp.

Yellow Shades

Gerbera F1

Mini Revolution

The new generation in genetically compact pot-Gerbera, succeeding the Mini Color series. Mix contains a wide range of colours, dark and green centred, including bicolour an semi-double-flowers. Mini Revolution® Red is the first separate colour to be released with more to follow soon!

• Improved plant habit

• shorter stem length

• Improved earliness

• Small flowered, most suited for 9-10 cm/4” containers

• Offered as SowEasy®

 

Mini Revolution® Rose

Mini Revolution® White

Mini Revolution® Yellow

Mini Revolution® Red

Mini Revolution® Formula Mix

Gerbera F1

Micro Revolution

Irish Eyes Mix

Micro Revolution Irish Eyes is 100% greencentred and provides a wide range of colors, including many pastel shades andbicolors. It contains more than 50% double and semi-double flowers!

• For high density production, suited for 6-9 cm pots

• Ideal for growing in packs

• Very compact round shaped plants

• 3 to 7 (micro)flowered stems/plant

• Very short crop time

• Offered as SowEasy®

 

Salvia splendens

Saluti Red Improved

Tagetes patula nana

Focus Series

Focus Yellow Focus Yellow Bee

Focus Gold

Focus Harmony

Focus Flame

Focus Deep Orange Focus Red

Viola wittrockiana F1

Promise Deep Blue/Blotch

Viola wittrockiana F1

Promise®

• High % usable seedlings

• Early in both Fall and Spring

• High programmability and uniformity

• Compact and floriferous

• Large Flowers Ø 8-9 cm

• Wide colour range

• Excellent garden vigour

• Good winter hardiness

Sunset warm shades of Golden-bronze with bronze blotch

Indian SummerAutumn shades with rose, pink and bronze tones, all with a darker blotch

Pure White Outback Fire shades of red and gold with large black blotch

Pro

mis

e®

F1

Yellow/Purple Wing

Antique Shades

Blue/Blotch Yellow/Blotch

Red/Blotch

Yellow/Red Wing Deep Orange Primrose/Blotch

Lemon Splash Pure Lilac Shades White/Blotch

True Blue Marina

Pure YellowPure Silver AzureRose Shades

Beaconsfield

Capsicum annuum

Garda Series

• Ornamental and edible garden pepper• Long lasting colour display (3-4 months)• Healthy green foliage, robust habit• F-1 uniformity, high and easy germination

Chandelier : covered with upright candle-like fruits, from white to red.

Fireworks : branches explode into display of long slender fruits, from purple to striking red

Garden height 40-60 cmGarden diameter 40-60 cmSowing-potting 4-5 weeksPotting-sales 14-20 weeks

Garda Chandelier Garda Fireworks

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