Page 5 - Griffin Gazette Issue 2 - 2018

Superbells Doublette
Love Swept calibrachoa
from Proven Winners

Big Blue salvia from PanAmerican Seed

Cabrio is Syngenta’s all-new calibrachoa Top picks must always include new
series. Carefully selected for uniformly colors in Superbells calibrachoa, and
early flowering in 10½–hour days, Cabrio this year we have seven. As with all
provides early color when you need it Superbells, the new colors were selected
most. It’s more compact than the popular for the disease resistance and summer
Callie series, with a mounded and well- garden performance we’ve come
branched habit. Six colors available for to expect.
2018-19.
Superbells Cardinal Star and Evening
In the March issue of the Gazette, we Star are red and purple, respectively, with
introduced you to Syngenta Flowers’ glowing yellow star patterns. For a tricolor
new Delta Speedy pansy, Deltini viola look, check out Holy Cow! and Holy
and Snaptini dwarf snapdragon – all new Smokes! – both star-patterned colors
series. At CAST, Syngenta also debuted feature white speckles and yellow throats.
a new interspecific begonia series Tangerine Punch replaces Apricot Punch;
named Tophat. (Think “top hat,” not “too its rich-looking orange flowers are Cabrio Grape calibrachoa from
fat.”) This green-leaf series produces accented with a dark red eye. Syngenta Flowers
extra-large flowers on vigorous, well-
branched and mounded plants. It’s great Proven Winners introduced two double-
flowered Superbells last year. Now, they’re
in containers and landscapes. Tophat back with two more: Double Chiffon is a
launches with three colors, all easy-to-
manage in production in jumbo packs up to soft lemon yellow. Doublette Love Swept is a
3-gallon pots. vivid pink, contrasted by a white picotee edge.
The top new Supertunia petunia variety
A beautiful setting for beautiful
annuals is Vista Paradise. The Vista types are
Proven Winners returned to Kirigin vigorous spreaders with a taller habit
Cellars Winery in Gilroy, Calif., to stage than standard Supertunia, designed to
their CAST display. It’s become a favorite dazzle in the landscape. Paradise is a
watermelon pink that’s well-matched to
stop on the north end of the CAST route,
a beautiful setting for so many beautiful the already-popular Vista Bubblegum.
plants. The Proven Winners group My other top pick in Proven Winners
showed off more than 60 introductions, annuals is Diamond Mountain, a super-
not counting 20 new ColorChoice shrubs, sized, high-vigor euphorbia. It’s a solid Moxie! Scarlet geranium from Syngenta Flowers
for 2019. combo component that’ll stand up to

Pretty Little Pink
Splash geranium Cabrio Eclipse Lilac calibrachoa
Diamond Mountain euphorbia from Syngenta from Syngenta Flowers
from Proven Winners Flowers