#Supercal cinnamon petchoa trial
The brightness, floriferousness and color saturation set it apart in the landscape and trial beds. It was only a matter of time before the first petchoa from seed would be introduced to the industry, and the new ‘Caliburst Yellow’ was definitely a “wow” plant in the Costa trial. My favorite in the trial was the well-branched and splashy ‘Down Town Greenville’ with a dense habit and chartreuse leaves splashed with burgundy. The varieties are diverse, adaptable in sun or shade and have polychromatic, serrated, lanceolate leaves.
#Supercal cinnamon petchoa series
This new series is comprised of five new varieties, including LeFreak, which was a standalone variety last year and the forerunner to this series. Dümmen Orange currently offers the Main Street series and Stained Glassworks collection, and for 2024 is introducing the Down Town series. COLEUS ‘DOWN TOWN GREENVILLE’įlower breeders have responded the past few years with the introduction of new vegetative coleus series with a wide range of leaf forms, habits, textures and multicolored foliage. I have included a photograph of the Deep Pink which was extremely colorful in the February trial. As our summers become hotter and more environmentally extreme, cuphea offers the consumer a plant that will survive and thrive. Production application will be quarts, gallons and mixed containers.
This new seed series will offer an alternative or an addition to your current cuphea program.
#Supercal cinnamon petchoa full
It is heat and humidity tolerant, adaptable in full sun, and pollinator friendly. The series has a mature size of 8 to 14 inches and develops large, vibrant lobed flowers. They differed slightly: Deep Pink was the most floriferous, Lavender Splash the most compact, and Red the most eye-catching. They were densely branched and flowered profusely in the trial. The three new colors in the Sweet Talk series are Deep Pink, Lavender Splash and Red. The breeding and introduction of vegetative cuphea has accelerated in the past five years. The versatility, durability and prolific flower color of this series are unmatched, and it is a season extender with a diverse range of colors for production application in spring and summer. The Compact series is characterized by vigor, continuous flowering, compact habit, stable flower patterns and superlative summer performance. The bicolor flowers, with red star centers and light pink petals contrasting with the dark bronze foliage, were dazzling in the trial. Sakata had expanded the bicolor selections for 2024 with Compact Red Candy. We have had many new trailing lantana series introductions the past three years, and this new selection looks to rival them in habit, early flowering and floriferousness. ‘PassionFruit’ is recommended for combinations, baskets and landscape sites. ‘PassionFruit’ is a new standalone trailing lantana introduction with a dense, spreading habit and large umbel clusters with transitional florets of peachy-orange, yellow and bright pink. Mast Young Plants offered a limited release of Cosmic Violet this spring, and it will be in multiple summer trials. All three varieties offer striking centers, large flowers, stable color patterns, uniform habits and excellent summer performance. Cosmic Violet is a mutation of Black Mamba, one of the most popular colors in the collection. (Shown above) The new Cosmic Violet joins Cosmic Pink and Cosmic Purple to offer three of the most dramatic petunias in the Crazytunia portfolio. Many of these new introductions will also be in multiple trials this summer. The majority of the varieties were planted in the trial beds week 50 of 2022, and my first visit was week 9. This, and my subsequent article in June, will focus on new annual introductions for 2024 in the Costa trial that manifested unique and brilliant colors, breakthrough genetics, and prolific flower canopies that set them apart. Atlee Burpee in 1893: “To thoroughly know seeds and the relative value of their products, both of his own and his competitor’s stock, to learn the comparative merits of newly introduced or proposed novelties, carefully conducted trial grounds are to the progressive seedsman, and his assistants, the open book of nature.” I am reminded by the perceptive and visionary quote about flower trials by W. The spring and summer trials are the final phase prior to industry release and offer the horticultural industry the opportunity to visit, promote and make purchasing decisions for next season. I also reflect on the number of global flower breeders represented in this trial and the many years of research, breeding, development and trialing that precedes these new introductions. When I step into the first trial of the season at the Costa Farms Season Premiere spring trial and gaze at the multitude of new annual introductions, I am overwhelmed with anticipation and excitement to walk the trial and evaluate them.
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