Page 5 - Griffin Gazette Issue 1 - 2020

2 2. HELIOPSIS BURNING HEARTS
3 Nearly a ‘purrfect’ match for the 2020 Pantone color,
4 Photo from Walters Gardens.
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7 Darwin Perennials.
With its vivid yellow and orange bicolored daisy-
like flowers and purplish foliage, this four-foot-
tall charmer is sure to be a star in middle of the
perennial garden. An abundance of flowers wins
the hearts of bees and butterflies. And it makes
a good garden cut flower; blooming from June to
mid-October. Photo from Jelitto Perennial Seed.
3. NEPETA PURRSIAN BLUE
Classic Blue. This is a plant that the pollinators,
cats, and gardeners can all vote for. Unlike other
nepeta, Purrsian Blue offers a tidy habit, and is very
floriferous. Drought tolerant, deer resistant, and long
flowering, this may be your favorite cat in the garden!
4. ECHINACEA ARTISAN COLLECTION
FROM PANAMERICAN SEED
The first hybrid seed echinacea. Highly branched
full plants are uniform in habit and flowering
ensuring all plants are ready to sell at the same
time. Seed for this 2021 early release is available
now in 2 exciting colors: Red Ombre and Soft
Orange. Or ask your Griffin rep about plugs or liners.
5. NEPETA BLUE PRELUDE
Winner of the Retailers’ Choice Award™ at
the Farwest Trade Show in 2019, this first-year
flowering nepeta offers large blue flowers on a
robust plant with minty leaves. It can get to three
feet tall in its second year creating even more
flowers to attract throngs of pollinators. Photo from
6. RUDBECKIA AMERICAN GOLD RUSH
As the first All-American Selections Perennial
award winner, this one deserves all the buzz it’s
generating! Bred to resist Septoria leaf spot, this
hybrid shows no signs of the fungus even in wet,
humid conditions. Golden-yellow petals on flowers
with black centers is a favorite of pollinators.
Destined to become a top choice for gardens and
landscapes. Photo from Walters Gardens.
7. LAVENDER PHENOMENAL
The National Garden Bureau named 2020 as the
Year of the Lavender. If you aren’t already growing
and selling this hardy lavender, you should be.
‘Phenomenal’ is tolerant of temperature extremes
and resistant to many of the root and foliar issues
that will kill other lavender varieties. Flowering into
late summer in the north, as with all lavenders the
calyx is persistent. Photo from Walters Gardens.
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