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Farwest Success |
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The PlantHaven Team had a superb 3 days at the Farwest Show up in Oregon last month. Our Czech Republic breeder Michal Andrusiv won “Best Shrub” in the New Varieties Showcase, with his new Berberis ‘Orange Rocket’. Orange Rocket is one of five outstanding new selections from Michal which are part of our new PlantHaven Shrub Program. If you would like more information on the program or the members growing this exciting “Best Shrub” please contact Keith Manbeck our Shrub Program Coordinator. Email: keith.manbeck@planthaven.com The PlantHaven team is proud to have represented 7 different crops in the 2010 new varieties showcase. The team of designers and contractors from the Association of Northwest Landscape Designers (ANLD) really showed off each crop to it’s best effect using modern design with vertical living pillars, living walls, trees mixed with perennials and grass plantings all completed within a courtyard including tranquil lotus pot and meditating stone Buddha. Read on for more information on the PlantHaven selections featured in the showcase.
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Dianthus Early Bird Radiance |
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Used as a living wall behind the meditating stone Buddha and contemplation lotus pool, the new Early Bird Dianthus from UK Breeders Whetman Pinks, looked really exceptional in the new varieties showcase. This superb new series of early season Dianthus are a full 4-6weeks earlier flowering. Depending on your location flowering starts end of Feb beginning of March. The series has perfectly matched habits in 5 hot colors. Chili – warm coral |
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Erysimum Fragrant Star |
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This is a great new selection from UK Breeder David Tristram. Fragrant Star has subtle variegated foliage topped with soft lemon blooms. The blooms are sterile and give a long flowering period.
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Pennisetum Burgundy Bunny |
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Our newest PlantHaven grass offering from Breeder Lorne Blackman at Walla Walla Nursery is a sport of the popular dwarf selection ‘Little Bunny’. This crop has received fabulous reviews nation wide and is a crop to watch for sure in 2011. Burgundy Bunny has fine delicate foliage tipped in burgundy tones from early summer and by fall the whole plant is truly ablaze. Soft, feathery bottle brush seed heads complete the picture in mid summer.
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 Pennisetum Burgundy Bunny |
Agapanthus Gold Strike |
This colorful selection from NZ Breeder’s Ian and Helen Gear really looked super; lightening up a shady corner of the new varieties display. Gold Strike has broad golden variegated foliage which is compact and well behaved, topped in summer with sterile blooms striped in dark and light blue. A real performer here in California where it just keeps on blooming. It is the ideal plant for low maintenance planting in Zone 7 and up.
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Daphne Rebecca |
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This colorful sport of D. odora ‘Aureomarginata’ was discovered by a UK nurseryman. Rebecca has all the fantastic qualities of Daphne ordora, but with even more striking variegated foliage than ‘Aureomarginata’. In early spring Rebecca is an overwhelming mass of blooms in delicate soft shell pink giving out a wonderful fragrance. Use Rebecca as a stunning specimen in early season pots and containers in your outdoor living space or as a landscape specimen. Top Tip: Daphne perform best when given humus rich soil in a part shade position.
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 Daphne Rebecca |
Cornus Summer Gold |
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This new selection from Crispen’s Creations in Oregon had colorful variegated foliage which is very eye catching. Summer Gold has much better summer variegation than other C. Kousa selections. In early spring this elegant tree is a mass of four pedaled bracts which in appearance are like creamy flowers. Summer Gold is the perfect tree for smaller yards. Until our next issue, have a great month. Kind regards |
 Cornus Summer Gold |
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