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“Happiness held is the seed,
Happiness shared is the flower”
John Hurrican
Bright Lights™ Pink African Daisy
Bright Lights Pink Annual
Deadheading not necessary for continuous bloom. Plants will "bury their dead" (new flowers will quickly cover old flowers) so no deadheading necessary. Bright Lights Osteospermum do not like having wet feet and will react badly to constantly wet soil. Be sure to allow soil in containers to get dry on top before watering and only plant Bright Lights in ground beds with good drainage. While it shouldn't be necessary you can trim your plants with a sharp pair of scissors or pruning shears at any time.
A yearly application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.
Resists Deer
Partial Sun to full Sun
12” x 12”
Water Category = Average
Maintenance Category= Average
Rockin’ Deep Purple
Unplugged® White Mealycup Sage
Full Sun; Heat, Sun, and drought tolerant; Deadheading Not Necessary. Attracts Butterflies, Bees, and Hummingbirds.
If you’ve enjoyed the look and performance of Unplugged® So Blue™ salvia, you’ll love this crisp white selection. The two-lipped blossoms are densely packed on the upright spikes and complemented by the silvery, felted calyxes.
Finding attractive annuals with native roots can be a challenge, but more and more gardeners are seeking these kinds of plants. Unplugged® White fills that niche. It is a cultivar of Salvia farinacea which is native from Florida, west to Texas and New Mexico. These native roots hint towards its strong tolerance of heat and humidity.
Resists Deer
PLANT NEEDS
Light Requirement:
Part Sun to Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Hard Frost
Hardiness Zones: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
Water Category: Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil
Uses: Border Plant, ContainerLandscape, Mass Planting
Truffula™ Pink Globe Amaranth
Gomphrena pulchella
Truffula™ Gomphrena has a perfectly-balanced habit that shows off a plethora of hot-pink flowers. It has performed very well in hot, humid climates where it blooms all season long. It is an ideal cut-flower with long vase life.
Deadheading not necessary
Annual
Light Requirement:
Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category:
Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Hard Frost
Hardiness Zones: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Uses: Border Plant, Container, Cut Flower, Dried Flower, Landscape, Mass Planting
White Knight® sweet alyssum
Latana Luscious Goldengate
Lantana camara, Annual, bright golden yellow blossoms
Large clusters of beautifully fragrant, white blooms that attract beneficial insects completely envelop this sweet alyssum all season. Since it doesn’t set seed and is very heat tolerant, you can count on seeing blooms from spring all the way until frost. Compared to Snow Princess®, this plant is smaller overall with a more rounded, less trailing shape. It grows well in the landscape, hanging baskets, window boxes and upright containers.
Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Hard Frost
Hardiness Zones: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil
Uses: Container, Groundcover, Landscape
Groundcover
Landscape
Icicles Licorice Plant
Helichrysum thianschanicum
Annual
Long, elegant, intensely silver foliage, Award Winner, Foliage Interest, Fall Interest, Heat Tolerant, Drought Tolerant
Light Requirement:
Part Sun to Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Grown for Foliage
Hardiness Zones: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
Water Category: Average
Uses: Container, Landscape,
Uses Notes: Use in hanging baskets, beds, borders and window boxes
Maintenance Notes: Easy Care
Angelface® Wedgwood Pink
Summer Snapdragon
Angelonia hybrid, Annual
Full Sun
Blooms all season, heat and drought tolerant, no dead-heading necessary.
Fragrant Foliage, Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer, Long Blooming, Heat Tolerant, Deadheading Not Necessary
Resists: Deer
Light Requirement:
Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Frost
Hardiness Zones: 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil
Uses: Border Plant, Container, Cut Flower, Landscape, Mass Planting
ColorBlaze® Mini Me™ Chartreuse
Coleus scutellarioides
This wonderful new coleus for sun and shade features golden chartruese foliage, forming a very well-branched plant that works well in landscapes and containers. Like all ColorBlaze® coleus, it is bred to take the heat and bloom very late in the season, if at all, extending its garden performance into the fall. ColorBlaze Mini Me Chartreuse is a bright blast of color in a small package.
Adaptable As Houseplant
Foliage Interest
Heat Tolerant
Deadheading Not Necessary
Light Requirement:
Sun or Shade
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Grown for Foliage
Hardiness Zones:10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil
Uses: Border Plant, Container, Landscape, Mass Planting
Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flowe
Cleome hybridThis heat-tolerant plant adds dramatic height to landscape beds; sterile flowers, and thornless, non-sticky, odorless foliage add to the appeal of this great garden performer.
Award Winner, Heat Tolerant, Deadheading Not Necessary,
Attracts: Birds, Butterflies
Resists: Deer
Light Requirement: Sun
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Frost
Hardiness Zones: 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil
Uses: Container, Landscape
Double Up™ Pink
Begonia semperflorens, Annual. Continuous Bloom
Sun or Shade
These vigorous plants feature double flowers and dark foliage. They perform well in landcapes and in containers. These are very dense, upright, globe shaped plants that will flower all summer.
Award Winner, Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer, Long Blooming, Foliage Interest
Heat Tolerant
Deadheading Not Necessary
Light Requirement:
Sun or Shade
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Maintenance Category: Easy
Bloom Time: Planting To Frost
Hardiness Zones: 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b
Water Category: Average
Uses: Border Plant, Container, Edging Plant, Landscape, Mass Planting
Supertunia® Pink Tiara
Petunia Hybrid, Annual, Continuous Long Blooming season, and grows to large size. Filler and Spiller in planters.
Supertunia petunias are vigorous with slightly mounded habits that function as both fillers and spillers in containers. They are also excellent landscape plants, best suited to be placed near the front of beds. They have medium to large-size flowers.
One look and you’ll know why this Supertunia is so special. Its incredible vigor is impressive, but the luminescent glow which emanates from the center of the princess pink flowers will keep buyers coming back for more.
Stunning princess pink blooms feature a luminescent glow which emanates from the center, not unlike the color patterns found in some morning glory flowers. It’s a new pattern for the Supertunia line, and one that we expect exciting things to come from in the future. No deadheading is needed to keep it in bloom from spring to fall. In addition to gorgeous flowers, the vigor of this plant is incredible, nearly rivaling Supertunia Vista petunias but with a more trailing habit. Combine it with other medium to high vigor plants in large hanging baskets and upright containers or use it as a flowering groundcover for landscapes.
Plants may be trimmed back with a sharp pair of scissors or pruning shears at anytime, although this is not usually necessary. Plants may flush out of flower if night temperatures begin to stay in the upper 70's or above. If this happens a light trim to shape them would be good. The trim will increase branching and will result in more flowers once the temperatures fall and the plants begin flowering again.
A yearly application of fertilizer or compost on garden beds and regular fertilization of plants in pots will help ensure the best possible performance.
Full Sun to Part Sun;Heat and sun tolerant, drought tolerant; deadheading Not Necessary.
Where to find me? Pollen Store
Stratosphere™ White Butterfly Flower
Gaura lindheimeri, Annual, Blooms Early, Mid, and Later Summer
Heat and sun tolerant plants have flowers May to September; low maintenance. Deadheading Not Necessary. Drought Tolerant. The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
Where to find me? Pollen Store
Miss Piggy Pigsqeak
Bergenia cordifolia, Perennial, Blooms Early, Mid, and Later Summer. Part shade to full shade.
Jumpstart your garden after the snow melts! Bright pink flowers top thick, dark green, glossy leaves. A great foliage plant after it is finished blooming..
Attracts: Bees, Butterflies
Where to find me? Gateway Park
Bobo Hydrangeas
Hydrangea paniculata, Perennial,
Loads of flowers on a tiny plant!
This dwarf panicle hydrangea will turn heads! Bobo® hydrangea is engulfed by large white flowers in summer. The flowers are held upright on strong stems, and continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. No flopping, unlike some panicle hydrangeas! As blooms age, they turn pink.
It is compact and dwarf in habit, and the flowers cover every inch of the plant right down to the ground. This plant was developed by Johan Van Huylenbroeck, the same breeder that developed Pinky Winky® hydrangea.
Where to find me? Gateway Park, Visitor’s Center, Lion’s Pride,