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components are day length neutral, so this will
provide early color for the retail market. The
Sparkles are now composed of five colors and
are components in four new Confetti Gardens
for 2022. The petunia Double Origamis offer
five colors for 2022, including two new colors:
Red and White. The Classic Aloha Kona series
now comprises 20 colors, including the new
'Aloha Kona Dark Red'. The photo is from
Lucas Greenhouse in late August.
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8. BLIND LOVE
Proven Winners
Blind Love is a new National Recipe for
2022. Proven Winners has a rigorous testing
program and enters many new combinations
in multiple trials throughout the country. Blind
Love is highlighted with a full-page spread in
the 2022 Proven Winners recipe guide, and for
good reason. It combines three exceptional
components: petunia 'Supertunia Lovie Dovie',
petunia 'Supertunia Royal Magenta' and
verbena 'Superbena Whiteout'. The recipe
manifested what you would expect from a
Proven Winners recipe - balance, timing,
floriferousness, minimal maintenance and
summer performance. The photo was taken at
the Lucas Greenhouse container trial in mid
August.
9. MIXMASTER PATRIOTIC HEART
Ball FloraPlant
This new sun-loving MixMaster recipe will
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provide heat and drought tolerance and
continual flowering through the summer
and early fall. The recipe was colorful and in
fine form the first day of September in the
Raker-Roberta's trial. Flower breeders are
creating more colorful and resilient recipes
with angelonia components for good reason:
they provide a recipe for success, are dynamic
upright and trailing plants, and are summer
survivors, which translates into success for
the consumer.
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This mono species recipe combines these
components: the new angelonia AngelMist
spreading Dark Purple Improved with larger
flowers and a more intense purple color,
AngelMist White, and the upright 'Archangel
Cherry Red' to provide the vertical element.
The habit is dense, creating a rounded and
full basket. The prolific flowers are large and
vibrant and are positioned well above foliage.
10. CONFETTI GARDEN ENDURABLE
BEAUTY
Dümmen Orange
There are five Confetti Garden Endurables
available for 2022: Beauty, Cerise, Cherry,
Lilac and Pink. They were entered in multiple
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trials this summer. The Endurables incorporate
the interspecific Durabloom petunias,
interspecific Empress Sun verbenas, and
the exceptional Bloomtastic calibrachoas.
I highlighted Endurable Lilac in my July
article from the late spring Costa Farms trial.
Endurable Beauty, with its complementary
colors of 'Bloomtastic Yellow', 'Durabloom Hot
Pink' and 'Empress Sun Compact Violet', was
eye-catching in the late summer trials. The
timing, balance, flower size, floriferousness
and heat tolerance were consistent with the
entire Endurable Confetti Gardens series. The
photo is from my Plant Peddler trial visit in
mid August.
11. MIXMASTER TOUCH OF SUGAR
Ball FloraPlant
The petunia components of this new
MixMaster for 2022 are 'ColorRush Pink' and
'ColorRush White'. The ColorRush series was
launched in 2017 with Pink and Blue. White,
Purple and Watermelon Red were added a
year later, and Merlot Star Improved, Red
and Yellow have been added to the line for
2022. This is the most vigorous petunia
series offered by BallFloraPlant with multiple
applications in spring production programs,
landscape utilization, and for consumers in
larger containers and residential beds. I have
followed the trial performance since 2016,
and the series has been a top performer
throughout the country, especially in trial
beds and large containers and baskets. The
attributes of the series include eye-catching
colors, mounded habit, prolific flower canopy,
vigor, excellent rain recovery and superior
heat tolerance. There are three ColorRush sun
combos available in 2022: Rush Hour, Tart
Deco and Touch of Sugar. The accompanying
photo was from the Mast Young Plants trial on
the last day of August.
12. KWIK KOMBO CARITA SUMMER
BERRY BLAST
Syngenta Flowers
The components of this mono species Kwik
Kombo are angelonias 'Carita Cascade White',
'Carita Cascade Deep Purple' and 'Carita
Raspberry'. This is a heat-loving, summer
survivor combination that definitely will
provide color and performance well into fall.
This Kwik Kombo was well balanced, produced
a dense habit and flowered profusely. 'Carita
Cascade Deep Purple' and 'Carita Cascade
White' were both filler and spiller components
in this Kwik Kombo and the upright 'Carita
Raspberry' provided an excellent thriller. The
photo was taken at the Colorado State trial in
mid September.
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