Archive for January, 2012

Our Kniphofia Popsicle™ Series are among some of the most vibrant and unique plants we offer our grower customers. With a delicious array of colors, combined with improved characteristics, this series is quickly becoming a favorite. The Popsicle™ Series feature a compact habit, long bloom times, attractive grassy foliage and high-impact colors. Continue reading below to learn more about the different varieties included in the series.

Kniphofia ‘Creamsicle’

This new dwarf kniphofia has multiple spikes of flowers that are creamsicle orange. ‘Creamsicle’ was specifically bred for smaller spaces and long bloom time. This beauty is ideal for mixed beds or as an upright accent.

Kniphofia ‘Mango Popsicle’

‘Mango Popsicle’ has delicious spikes of sweet, mango-orange that bloom continuously from summer into fall. The short grassy foliage looks neat all summer. ‘Mango Popsicle’ is a terrific drought-tolerant garden plant.

Kniphofia ‘Papaya Popsicle’

‘Papaya Popsicle’ is an all-summer bloomer with a very short, compact habit. This prolific bloomer has spikes of flowers the color of ripe papayas. With charming, grass-like foliage, ‘Papaya Popsicle’ is great for small gardens or in a container.

Kniphofia ‘Pineapple Popsicle’

‘Pineapple Popsicle’ has compact, grassy foliage and produces massive numbers of re-blooming cream to yellow spikes. This dynamic plant grows and flowers very quickly. ‘Pineapple Popsicle’ is deer-resistant and attracts hummingbirds throughout the summer and fall.

Kniphofia ‘Redhot Popsicle’

‘Redhot Popsicle’ has lively, cinnamon-red flowers on short, compact plants. With narrow, grassy leaves and a fast-growing time, this variety is ideal for mixed beds and small gardens. ‘Redhot Popsicle’ is free blooming and re-blooming.

Kniphofia ‘Orange Vanilla Popsicle’

‘Orange Vanilla Popsicle’ is the newest addition to our Popsicle™ Series, and is only available to growers at this time. This variety is a two-toned beauty topped with flower spikes of red-orange over a creamy-white bottom. ‘Orange Vanilla Popsicle’ has the same re-blooming, short grassy leaves and compact habit of the other varieties in the series. Hummingbirds love this plant!

Our newest Sneak Peek, Coreopsis ‘Summer Punch’, part of the Punch™ Series, is already making waves among our grower customers. ‘Summer Punch’ features large, bi-colored flowers of deep-crimson and lemon-gold at the beginning of summer, and then change color as they age to deep ox-blood and burnished-bronze. This new coreopsis variety is a handsome, dramatic annual with a low spreading habit. ‘Summer Punch’ grows well in zones 8 – 10 and prefers full sun. The average size includes 14” W / 9” H / 10” Flower Ht. For additional information, click here to see the full plant profile, as well as view the Grower Recipe below.

Growers, in addition to Coreopsis ‘Summer Punch’, we have a large selection of plants available for immediate shipping, including our Heuchera Soda™ Series. The varieties in the series are medium sized, vigorous landscape plants that feature round leaves, great foliage color and have showy flowers with long bloom times. The showy flowers are due to H. sanguine and H. cylindrical breeding. With warm, earth tone foliage, the Soda™ Series are perfect for containers or borders. The series includes ‘Cherry Cola’, ‘Ginger Ale’ and ‘Root Beer’.

To learn more about our current liner availability listings, click here. Also, to place an order for our Heuchera Soda™ Series, or Coreopsis ‘Summer Punch’, contact one of our sales representatives at sales@terranovanurseries.com.

 

Retailers and homeowners, as you may have seen, Pantone has launched this year’s color trends, including color of the year, Tangerine Tango. As a tribute, the Terra Nova Nurseries team would like to share a selection of plants to match 2012’s color trends.

Tangerine Tango        

Echinacea ‘Tangerine Dream’, part of the Dream Series, has been on the market for a couple years. But, given 2012’s color of the year, we thought it would be fitting to include ‘Tangerine Dream’ in the mix. This beautiful Echinacea is everything a great garden plant should be. It has elegant 4” clear, orange flowers that have wide, overlapping petals. The bloom holds its color better than any we have ever seen, and it has a lovely honey scent. ‘Tangerine Dream’ also has multiple, wide-branching strong stems, making it perfect for mixed beds.

Solar Power

Heucherella ‘Sunrise Falls’ most closely matches the Solar Power yellow tone. This vigorous, trailing Heucherella has large, yellow, maple-shaped leaves and red veins. During the fall this plant’s leaves have dramatic red tints. The stems will trail 2 feet in a container enabling ‘Sunrise Falls’ to be a wonderful hanging basket or a super ground cover. Also, from spring to fall, this lovely variety produces charming white flowers.

Bellflower

Heuchera ‘Spellbound’ is an almost-perfect match for Bellflower. With marvelous ruffled foliage of dazzling silvers and tints of rose purple, this gorgeous variety is mesmerizing. In the spring, the purple tones are more prominent and when exposed to shade, the silver tones come alive. ‘Spellbound’ forms a big plant with a dense, multi-crown habit. And, like most of our heuchera varieties, ‘Spellbound’ is great in containers or in the landscape.

Cabaret

Cabaret is a beautiful hot-pink color, and we have just right plant to match its tone, Coreopsis ‘Garnet’. This stunning variety has numerous garnet-red colored flowers on a compact habit. ‘Garnet’ is perfect for containers and landscape for a touch of vibrancy. In addition, ‘Garnet’ blooms for months on end and attracts hummingbirds during the summer season.

Margarita

With a sweet and sour taste, no wonder Margarita made this year’s color trend list. Helleborus ‘Jade Tiger’ complements this tone very nicely. ‘Jade Tiger’, part of the Winter Jewels Series, has double-green flowers painted with purple edges. The backs of the flowers are often streaked with purple. Bred by one of the world’s top hybridizers, Marietta O’Byrne, ‘Jade Tiger’ is deer-resistant, drought-tolerant and grows well in zones 5-8.

Sweet Lilac

The soft tones of Cyclamen ‘Sweetheart Sparkle’ makes this variety is an ideal match for Sweet Lilac. Our Cyclamen Sweetheart Sparkle has kaleidoscope-marked leaves with a dramatic shape and colors of silver and green. This plant, part of the Sweetheart Series, has lovely pink flowers on cinnamon-colored scapes that bloom from August through November. ‘Sweetheart Sparkle’ makes an excellent spot color or ground cover in dry shade under trees and shrubs.

To view the rest of Pantone’s 2012 Color Trends, click here. Friends and fans, do you have a favorite Terra Nova plant that matches one of the color trends this year? If so, please feel to post your comments below!

 

Growers, the wait is over, our new 2012 Spring Catalog is here. You can download the catalog by clicking here.

At Terra Nova, we’re all about innovation. The innovation of our breeders has made us your one-stop destination for echinacea, heuchera, and the world’s hottest, premier plants. We sell plants that offer value and pleasure for your customers over all four seasons. Why buy a soft yellow Shasta Daisy that fades, when you can grow our new Leucanthemum, ‘Goldfinch,’ with true-yellow blooms that don’t fade for weeks? Our plants are bred to offer a vastly greater sales window in the retail setting. The expanding worldwide network of our new partner labs and rooting stations continue to improve our availability.

In our new 2012 Spring Catalog, be sure to look for the following highlights:

• 132 pages of delicious photography, informative tips for growers, actual examples of nursery-grown plants grown without PGRs, mixed container recipes, and information on our new plant programs
• New varieties in a wide range of genera are represented like carex, cistus, crocosmia, phygelius, polygonatum, and rudbeckia with novel color forms and improved garden performance
• 28 Series of plants encompassing agastache, coreopsis, crocosmia, cyclamen, echinacea, helleborus, heuchera, heucherella, kniphofia, penstemon, sedum, tiarella, and tradescantia

To request a copy of our 2012 catalog please call us at 800-215-9450 or download a copy at www.terranovanurseries.com.

 

Our latest and greatest Sneak Peek is here, Coreopsis ‘Desert Coral’. This stunning new variety, part of the Coreopsis Jewel™ Series, has large flowers of sun-tanned peach and coral that bloom for months and months. The old flowers are covered so quickly, the plant doesn’t have a rest period during the summer and fall months. With a dwarf, mounding habit and continuous flowers, what else does a plant need?

‘Desert Coral’, a hardy coreopsis can be used in mixed beds, containers and borders. It performs well in zones 6 – 9, and requires full sun for optimal growth. The average size includes 14” W / 9” H / 11” Flower Ht. To learn more about ‘Desert Coral’, click here. Growers, you can also view the Grower Recipe below for additional information.

To order this brand new coreopsis variety, contact a Terra Nova Nurseries sales representative at sales@terranovanurseries.com.

 * To enlarge the Grower Recipe, simply select the image and zoom in.