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Top New Items for 2024-2025

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    These plants are among the finest new varieties and selections introduced to the market. They will be available to the wholesale trade starting in 2024 and will reach garden centers by 2025.

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    'Pinky Pie' Agastache

    Hummingbird Mint

    Height: 18-20" | Spread: 24-26" | Zones: 5-9 | Full Sun

    'Pinky Pie' Hummingbird Mint offers long-lasting flowers from midsummer to early fall. Apricot buds open to lavender pink blooms with colorful calyxes extending the display. This drought-resistant hybrid attracts hummingbirds and pollinators.

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    'Bobblehead' Allium

    Ornamental Onion

    Height: 30-32" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full to Part Sun

    Allium ‘Bobblehead' is a robust perennial with larger blooms and an earlier bloom time than ‘Serendipity'. Globe-like pale lilac flowers appear in midsummer. Glaucous blue-green foliage with a twist offers high deer and rabbit resistance.

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    'Golden Anniversary' Baptisia

    False Indigo

    Height: 3-3½' | Spread: 3-3½' | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

    Introducing the first Baptisia with indigo blue flowers and golden yellow foliage. Its ball-shaped habit with ovate leaves on sturdy stems produces long spikes of indigo blooms in early summer. A long-lived perennial, perfect as a landscape focal point.

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    MONARCH® 'Cherry Royale' Buddleia

    Butterfly Bush

    Height: 4-4½' | Spread: 4½' | Zones: 5-10 | Full Sun

    Exceptionally floriferous with wide, 8-inch-long bright rose pink flower panicles. More pink than 'Prince Charming.' Heat and drought tolerant when established. Popular with pollinators, providing an excellent food source for butterflies.

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    DESIGNER THREADS™ 'Golden Needles' Coreopsis verticillata

    Threadleaf Coreopsis

    Height: 18-20" | Width: 20-22" | Zones: 5-9 | Full to Part Sun

    Golden yellow flowers contain sharp maroon central eye zones. Like ‘Creamy Calico', flowers are clear bi-color and do not contain any flecking or bleeding in the petals. Flowers are notably large for C. verticillata at 2” wide.

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    KALEIDOSCOPE™ 'Razzle Dazzle' Delosperma

    Ice Plant

    Height: 20-24" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 5b-10 | Full Sun

    'Razzle Dazzle' offers large, brilliantly colored bi-color flowers and improved cold hardiness. Heat and drought tolerant, these low-maintenance plants feature evergreen foliage and reliably overwinter in Zone 6. Ideal for groundcover, they provide year-round evergreen interest.

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    'White Diamonds' Dicentra

    Fern-leaved Bleeding Heart

    Height: 14-16" | Width: 16-20" | Zones: 3-9 | Full to Part Sun

    Pure white blooms from spring to frost, with finely textured glaucous blue-green foliage. Best in full sun and well-drained soils. Companion to 'Pink Diamonds'.

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    'Touch of Blush' Heliopsis helianthoides

    False Sunflower

    Height: 18-20" | Width: 16-20" | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

    Named for the pink tones on new foliage, enhancing white variegation on dark green leaves. Semi-double yellow flowers with dark cones. More compact than ‘Tuscan Sun'.

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    DRESSED UP® 'Prom Dress' Heuchera

    Coral Bells

    Height: 8-10" | Width: 16-18" | Zones: 4-9 | Full Sun to Shade

    Each sizeable pewter leaf is heavily ruffled, with dark charcoal veins and violet-flushed new leaves. Long-lasting foliage looks great through autumn.

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    SUMMERIFIC® 'Cookies and Cream' Hibiscus

    Hardy Hibiscus, Rose Mallow

    Height: 2½-3' | Width: 3½-4' | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

    Matte black foliage and pure white 6-7” flowers. Compact and sturdy, blooms appear from top to bottom of the stem. Full sun enhances foliage color.

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    SHADOWLAND® 'Sound of Music' Hosta

    Hosta

    Height: 30-32" | Width: 60-66" | Zones: 3-9 | Full to Part Shade

    Giant hosta with heavily corrugated, variegated leaves. Chartreuse centers mature to creamy white in summer. Near white flowers appear in early summer.

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    'Half Pint' Panicum virgatum

    Switch Grass

    Height: 3' | Spread: 1½-2½' | Zones: 4-9 | Full Sun

    This compact Switch Grass, reaching 3' tall, features a dense, upright habit and dark rosy red seedheads in fall. Its compact nature suits new landscape applications, with excellent weather tolerance, remaining standing through heavy winter snows.

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    BEJEWELED™ 'Pink Pearls' Penstemon barbatus

    Bearded Penstemon

    Height: 16-20" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full Sun

    This midsize Bearded Penstemon offers vibrant colors, dense habits, and large flowers. Strong stems hold bright blooms. Lance-shaped dark blue-green foliage looks good all season. Thrives in full sun with good drainage. 'Pink Pearls' has medium pink tubular flowers in late spring and early summer.

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    BEJEWELED™ 'Rose Rhinestones' Penstemon barbatus

    Bearded Penstemon

    Height: 14-16" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full Sun

    This midsize Bearded Penstemon offers vibrant colors, dense habits, and large flowers. Strong stems hold bright blooms. Lance-shaped dark blue-green foliage looks good all season. Thrives in full sun with good drainage. 'Rose Rhinestones' has deep rose pink tubular flowers appear in late spring and early summer.

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    GARDEN GIRLS® 'Dream Girl' Phlox paniculata

    Tall Garden Phlox

    Height: 30-36" | Spread: 20-24" | Zones: 3-8 | Full to Part Sun

    'Dream Girl' features bright lavender pink flowers with white eyes. It has a vigorous, dense, vase-shaped habit, blooms later than other Tall Garden Phlox, and offers excellent rebloom. Thrives in hot, humid summers with dark green foliage into fall.

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    LIVING LARGE™ 'Big Sky' Salvia

    Perennial Salvia

    Height: 28-32" | Width: 28-32" | Zones: 3-8 | Full Sun

    A super-sized Perennial Salvia with violet blue flowers and a dense rosette of large green leaves. Later to bloom than other Perennial Salvias.

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    PRAIRIE WINDS® 'Brush Strokes' Schizachyrium scoparium

    Little Bluestem

    Height: 32-36" | Width: 22-26" | Zones: 3-9 | Full Sun

    Stems stand vertical like bristles on a paintbrush, bending gracefully with the wind. Powder blue stems turn wine-red in early fall. Fine texture in summer, providing winter interest.

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    'Apple Slices' Spigelia marilandica

    Spigelia

    Height: 18-22" | Width: 16-18" | Zones: 5b-9 | Full Sun to Part Shade

    This native wildflower attracts Hummingbirds with its red and orange tubular flowers in late spring and early summer. Grows from sun to shade and is long-lived. Self-cleaning flowers, more floriferous in full sun.

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    TOTALLY STOKED™ 'Riptide' Stokesia laevis

    Stoke's Aster

    Height: 24-26" | Width: 32-36" | Zones: 5-9 | Full Sun

    Moderately sized Stoke's Aster with dense habits and rich dark green foliage. Numerous flowers from early to late summer. Proven to thrive in southern heat and humidity. 'Riptide' features 2½-3” periwinkle blue flowers.

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    'Cotton Candy' Thalictrum

    Meadow Rue

    Height: 38-42" | Width: 18-24" | Zones: 5-8 | Full to Part Sun

    This elegant Meadow Rue has a dense pillar of foliage topped with wispy lavender flowers in late spring. Well-balanced with flowers just above the foliage, perfect for adding height to small spaces. Deer and rabbit resistant.

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