Page 16 - Griffin Gazette Fall 2015
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Bonus Beedance Bidens Series
Digital Content
Catch Buzz! Beedance full plant
Warm up your combination plantings with sunny
new bicolors from Suntory Flowers and tap into
the bee-friendly trend.
By Delilah Onofrey, License Manager for Suntory Flowers fragrance. Proceeds from cuttings sales will support honeybee
North America health research through the Pollinator Partnership.
Beedance bidens drew a swarm of attention during the 2015 The series debuts in North America with two varieties:
California Spring Trials, where visitors saw them in whimsical Beedance Painted Red – Painted Red won the Innovation
retail displays, mass plantings and combination baskets. And Award at the IPM Essen show in Germany for best new bedding
the plants live up to their name! Bees were dancing all over the and balcony plant. Temperature influences the coloring. In
plants at Suntory’s display in Ventura, Calif. warmer conditions, blooms have yellow centers and red-orange
Although Beedance is seed-sterile, it is not pollen-sterile and tips. In cooler weather, blooms are more solid red-orange.
16 truly does attract bees. Painted Red, especially, has a soft honey
