Flows Like a River
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Shady creeper of the forest floor…
Heavenly spring blooms over striking, low profile foliage.
Introducing Tiarella cordifolia ‘Delaware’ PPAF
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‘Delaware’ Tiarella is the product of 15 years of cross breeding and selection of plantsman Sinclair A. Adam. Just one of 150 hybrid seedlings selected from a test group of 15,000 plants. Of those running Tiarellas that were selected for superior looks and vigor – only 5 were deemed special enough to be brought to market. The clumping new hybrid varieties selected from this test group are still under observation.
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‘Delaware’ is the most floriferous in the River Series Tiarella introductions coming for 2009. The fuzzy leaves are distinctive and will provide a lovely ground cover forming perennial in shady spaces. Spring is the season for foam flowers to burst into bloom. They are great for naturalizing or traveling among the Rhododendrons and Hostas.
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Sinclair has an eye for distinctive plants and is the man responsible for bringing ‘Shortwood’ Phlox paniculata to the world. He has also been the person behind other exciting Tiarellas known as ‘Erika Leigh’, ‘Oakleaf’, ‘Laird of Skye’ and ‘Brandywine’. This new River Series of Tiarellas has been much awaited in the horticultural circle.
The lovely flowing plants grow 6 inches high and can spread up to 18 inches in one year. Early spring is the time when the Tiarella blooms. Each bloom head on Delaware gives you an amazing 6 weeks of beauty that begins when most other plants are still waking up.
Covers up to 3-feet of ground in one season
Being introduced by Plants Nouveau, assures you that the plants are nothing ordinary. If you have not gotten excited about foam flower before … it is high time you did. If Angela is behind it, there is something to crow about.
Cool As a Cucumber
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Gorgeous foliage that will not fry …
No matter how hot, no matter how dry.
Introducing Autumn Delight™ Sedum ‘Beka’ PP#18,421
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There is a lot more to perennial plants than just the flower. Blooming is wonderful, but don’t forget about the rest of the season. Your garden or landscape plantings have far more impact with different hues and textures of foliage on display. Autumn Delight Sedum has great value for foliage impact from spring to early fall.
This lovely new plant from Intrinsic Introductions gives you glowing chartreuse leaves edged with a thin line of deep blue green. Autumn Delight is sure to set those hot, dry plantings off in a way not possible with other drought tolerant plants. A sweep of brilliant foliage in summer is topped with increasingly deep pink and finally brilliant red blooms in late fall.
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Sedum Autumn Delight is easy to grow and will adapt to just about any soil but does require good drainage. This perennial prefers full sun but will do well in part shade. As with most colored foliage plants, you will get far brighter hues in all day sun. Maturing at 18″ high and wide, Autumn Delight is hardy in zones 4-9.
If you’re new to growing perennials in your yard, sedums are an excellent starter plant. They thrive even when neglected, making them the perfect ‘plant it and forget it’ perennial. Their chunky texture makes them the perfect textural balance planted with ornamental grasses. For the exact reverse in variegation excitement, check out the stunning looks of Autumn Charm Sedum.
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In a container garden this new sedum will shine without constant care. In the ground, you’ll get great impact in hot, dry places teaming Autumn Delight Sedum up with dramatic plum purple lower growing Vera Jameson Sedum and silvery Artemesia. To really jazz it up and add some height toss in some Pink Muhly Grass. New and beautiful Autumn Delight Sedum is available from better garden catalogs and nursery for Spring 2009 purchase.
One To Grow On
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Dashing and radiant leaf to bloom …
Easy to grow, plant it and forget it beauty.
Introducing Autumn Charm™ Sedum ‘Lajos’ PP#14,421
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One magnificent looking perennial plant you really out to get to know. Here’s living proof that workhorses can be stylish and beautiful. Sedum ‘Lajos’ Autumn Charm will grow in just about any soil. The sedum family will tolerate just about anything you or nature can do to it. Including not only surviving the family dog’s digging spree but also multiplying merrily because of the apparent destruction. (Believe it or not … it has happened to me. The following spring there were hundreds of baby sedums!)
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Autumn Charm Sedum will be beautiful from the spring day it emerges from the soil until hard frost dries it for winter interest. This sport of Sedum Autumn Joy has all the great assets of irs parent and 20 times the beauty. Autumn Charm will give you brilliant fall color later in the season when all the rest of the sedums have darkened and become dull.
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Autumn Charm Sedum prefers full sun and dry conditions once established. The plant will mature at 18″ or more high and wide and is hardy in zones 4-9. Foliage is a lovely blue green with a wide cream colored margin. The exact reverse foliar pattern of Sedum Autumn Delight (Sedum ‘Beka’) also new for 2009 from Intrinsic Introductions.
Bright fall color holds on longer than other sedums.
Flower buds will be full blown and glowing white in August. Coloring as the weather cools to pink and gradually deep red. For 3 seasons of color and added winter interest, Autumn Charm Sedum is definitely one to grow on … and on. Look for Spring 2009 availability in better garden catalogs. If you have a hard time finding this one in the spring, give them a year and there will be around for purchase by summer 2010.
Tall, Dark and Handsome
February 22, 2009 by admin
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True red phlox? You bet!
Smoldering atop the world’s only black leafed cultivar.
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Early spring leaves are the blackest of burgundy as they rise from the soil. As the leaves age and become more plentiful, each develops the arresting accent of a striking acid green stripe down the midrib. Quite a showstopper clump of foliage it is too.
The strong stems are black burgundy from the soil line to the tips where the midsummer blooms will form. There is no other colored leaf cultivar within the Phlox paniculata plant family even though it is a vast and highly varied assortment of available perennials.
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He is very debonair this high society gent. At home in any garden where full sun will allow him to strut his stuff. Black tie attire completed when he pins those fire engine red flower heads to the tips of every showy stem when July is under way (zone 5).
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No color rendering needs to be done when it comes to this plant or these flowers. All these photos are true to color. There is a noticeable different in hue to any other tall phlox bloom found to date. It is the truest to red of any of them. Believed to be a natural cross between Phlox paniculata ‘The King’ and Phlox paniculata ‘Starfire’.
Starfire can only hope to claim a red bloom. Instead it is very much on the pink side of the color chart and a short plant of about 24″ in height. The theory is that the bluer tones of The King allowed the cross to produce a true red. Works well in crayons and paint the same should be true in nature.
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Like any dark color foliage plant, the more sun will markedly deepen the black variegation. The intense coloring of th e stems does not fade in less sunlight. As shown in the above photo shot inside a greenhouse, the stem remains dark. No matter what lighting you grow Lord Clayton in, the stem is one tone from tip to soil.
Sporting dark dress hose all the way to the tops of his wing tips, Lord Clayton Phlox is dramatic and fetching. When he starts pumping out blooms, every woman will want him. He’s just that rakish kind of guy. You know, the one that all the girls are after. The ones who have seen Lord Clayton in full show regalia insisted that they must own him. Until now, no one else was allowed even the smallest little piece.
Your garden will never be the same.
This exclusive plant portrait is found only on Lost In The Flowers. I doubt even the most observant catalog nurseries know about Lord Clayton garden phlox yet, give them a little time as we’re sure they will catch on soon. Production for wholesale availability has only just begun. For once an arresting plant of huge appeal originated on this side of the pond. Collectors in Europe will just have to wait, as trialing is not yet completed there.
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The plant has been stable and reliable throughout the entire 6 years of its existence. Truly one to swoon over. Once you get a good long look at Phlox paniculata Lord Clayton you’ll be begging for him to move in at your garden too. Full sun, dry to moderate soil, hardy in zones 4 – 8 (maybe zone 3 too). Mature plant will be 40-48″ tall and up to 3′ wide.
All inquiries about the future of Lord Clayton Phlox PPAF, should be directed to Plants Nouveau who is introducing this most sophisticated plant to the world.
Seedy Little Charmer
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Fine texture for great balance…
Makes a late statement of soft smoky blooms.
Introducing Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Piglet’ PPAF
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Graceful, willowy ornamental grasses are usually too tall for being really versatile in the landscape and garden. Dwarf fountain grasses grow to a mere foot tall and regular sized varieties can hit 30″ in height. Piglet Fountain Grass gives you a happy medium at 18″ tall.
This lovely new introduction from Intrinsic Introductions measures up to a placement behind the front row of your border planting. The habit of fountain grasses being upright and yet somewhat weeping is great for shape and texture in any landscape planting. Piglet Pennisetum offers you an in between sized grass with excellent placement versatility.
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Abundant, light smoky bloom heads appear in late summer and hold on into fall and add winter interest everyone is seeking. Like all ornamental grasses, Piglet Pennisetum offers you an easy to grow perennial that deals with drought and hot sun effortlessly. You will also have great luck growing this fountain grass in part shade.
Grasses are excellent as a textural balance mixed with shrubs or perennials. For the best impact in any designed planting, you need to use large leaves down to small to get the most desirable finished look. The savvy homeowner will play one texture against the other and use a variety of foliage tones as well.
Even small fountains make beautiful music
Piglet Fountain Grass will prove to be valuable to just about many with an interest in improving their curb appeal. Cold hardy as far north as zone 5, this lovely little grass prefers consistent moisture and good drainage.
To add an abundance of light colored, buff tan seed heads to your beds with a concentration towards the front of the planting, Piglet is guaranteed not to disappoint in looks and easy care. You will find Piglet Pennisetum available from finer nurseries and garden catalogs for Spring 2009.
Fabulous Glowing Foliage First
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Lemon-lime foliage is just the beginning.
Double the impact with fiery red blooms midsummer.
Introducing new Lobelia cardinalis ‘Golden Torch’ PPAF
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For brilliant late summer to early fall color, Lobelia is an excellent low maintenance perennial. It does well in many soils with consistent moisture and good drainage. You will have great luck growing Lobelia in full sun to part shade.
Golden Torch Lobelia gives you double the color, double the fun with bright foliage that is striking through early summer. In full sun, you will have the brightest yellow hues to the leaves. In part shade, they will be more chartreuse. Either way Golden Torch will glow in the landscape and garden amidst the more expected colored foliage.
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You’ll get a riot of beauty when the cardinal red blooms unfurl mid season and continue into early fall. That fiery display will be all the hotter shooting out of the glowing stems. This hot new plant is being brought to your garden from Intrinsic Introductions.
Sling some zing around your yard! Lobelia is fabulous in masses and thick waves when you have space to devote to multiples of one plant. It is excellent for around ponds, waterfront and stream banks because it adores moisture. Golden Torch Lobelia is sure to lighten your maintenance load and brighten your yard anywhere you want to enjoy them.
Golden Torch is a slender perennial finishing out at just 18″ wide. The foliage gives you 18″ of height. Brilliant red blooms give you months of floral enhancement at 30-42″ above the soil that continues into early autumn. Oooh-la-la! You’re going to look forward to this plant reawakening each and every spring.
Guiding light in ground effects
You probably won’t have to wait long to get your hands on this fabulous new easy to grow perennial. Look for Lobelia ‘Golden Torch’ to show up in better garden catalogs for Spring 2009 ordering.
Perfectly Timeless Posies
February 22, 2009 by admin
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Imagine flowers that do not age. Impossible?
No!
Introducing new Echinacea ‘Milkshake’ PPAF
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Everyone will suspect you of pinning silk flowers on your perennials to mess with their heads! The plant is made up of strong, upright stems that will be smothered with those fabulous fully double coneflowers for the entire season. Milkshake Echinacea is destined to become the best white coneflower for middle of the border beauty.
Sturdy and erect, you’ll have no flopping dilemmas from Milkshake Coneflower in your home garden. As with all other Echinaceas, full sun for best flowering and average garden soil with good drainage is best. Everyone in zones (4) 5-9 will be lusting after this amazing Cone-fection perfection.
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For more information about the amazing Milkshake Echinacea, please contact Plants Nouveau directly.
Garden Frosting
February 21, 2009 by admin
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Fluffy, not stuffy and fits just right.
Dwarf, fully double coneflower… a powerhouse bloomer.
Introducing new Echinacea ‘Meringue’ PPAF
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Like icing on a cake. Creamy and attractive petaling that may just find it’s way to being a favored blossom for wedding cake decor. What a lovely bloom to team up with romantic pink rose buds to add unusual flair to nuptials celebration traditions.
Echinacea ‘Meringue’ is a petite new introduction in the Cone-fections series that comes to us from The Netherlands. Add a little evening glow to your garden. Nicely compact for smaller spaces and an excellent candidate for front row placement. Arie Blom has again created a densely branched Echinacea that is fully double and extremely floriferous. Reported to be in full flower from July through September, Meringue has great garden merit.
Measuring 18″-20″ high and wide at maturity, Meringue is a Coneflower everyone needs in their collection. Anything bred by Arie will continue to delight you for weeks on end. Buds open to apple-green disc flowers that elongate as they age and develop into a fully double cream petaled cone skirted with bright white petals. Clean creamy white when fully open, then fading to resemble Coconut Lime.
Sweet ‘n low takes the cake.
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Beauty in shape as a plant and all those delightful flowers showing off in your yard over the second half of summer … how can you go wrong? Meringue Echinacea will be available in greater abundance for Spring of 2009. Make a note to scan the catalogs early before everyone sells out of stock. Hardy in zones 5-9 (and possibly 4 with shelter) – Meringue will thrive in any situation other Coneflowers do.
North American inquiries about Echinacea Meringue should be sent to Plants Nouveau.
Happy Hour Goes On and On
February 21, 2009 by admin
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As colorful as its namesake cocktail …
Like a blast of sunshine touched with grenadine.
Introducing new Geum x ‘Tequila Sunrise’ PPAF
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A delightful layer of petals comes together to create the blooms of this new hybrid Geum from Intrinsic Introductions. Following ‘Sangria’, Tequila Sunrise marks the second spiked release from the new Cocktail Series Geums from Intrinsic.
Dark red stems and good texture from the lush green foliage will really set these blooms off in the border. Blooming for up to a month in early season, you’ll get a lot of color out of Tequila Sunrise Geum.
The plants are short and form a nice clump of leaves. The semi double blooms are borne on stems that finish off at about 18″ tall. Tequila Sunrise is hardy in zones 4-9 and does best in full sun. For best plant vigor it prefers moist to well drained soil.
Foliage of the perennial Geums is handsome enough to look good in your beds even after the blooming is finished. It is possible to get a few intermittent new blooms from hybrid Geum later in the season.
Tequila Sunrise Geum is definitely a candidate for a blast of sunshine early in the warm season. Many gardeners enjoy this easy growing perennial that adds weeks of exuberance wherever you plant it. Watch for Tequila Sunrise to appear in garden catalogs for Fall 2009/Spring 2010. In the meantime, reserve a place for an early cocktail.
Inquiries regarding Geum ‘Tequila Sunrise’ should be directed to Intrinsic Introductions.
Moy Caliente Cone-fection
February 21, 2009 by admin
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The world’s first and only …
fully double orange coneflower!
New introduction: Echinacea purpurea ‘Hot Papaya’
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Talk about a hot tamale … this is one bodacious bloomer. Direct from the Netherlands comes more perennial artistry from Arie Blom. Give a hand to the man who brought us Pink Double Delight and Meringue Echinacea. There are more of Arie’s exciting introductions just waiting to come on board too. Impeccable breeding lines lie behind the performance and stability found in all of his Cone-fections™ Echinaceas.
Hot Papaya Echinacea blooms begin heating up your garden scene in mid July and the show continues to play as late as October. Flowers open with the ray petals showing florescent papaya tones ringing a deep orange-gold cone. Hot Papaya blooms mature to a sizzling reddish-orange pompom over rich, spicy orange ray petals. Aye Caramba!
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You can count on extreme flower power and excellent full branching plants with anything Arie Blom brings to the garden market. Good middle of the border height at 30″-36″ tall and 30″ wide. Full sun beauty from sturdy plants with robust deep green leaves. Flowers do not fade and are held aloft on maroon flushed stems. For any average garden soil with good drainage in zones 5(4)-9.
Sizzling color sensation …
sure to put some pop in your plot.
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Reserve a space for this newcomer and watch the major hot-plant outlets for your shot at getting one of the first off the assembly line. The earliest you will find a Hot Papaya to call your own will be Fall 2009. Larger numbers of plants will be available for retail sales by Spring 2010. Start saving up those pennies now. First availability will be found in the finer nursery catalog with an online presence.
All inquiries regarding E. purpurea ‘Hot Papaya’ should be directed to Plants Nouveau.