WHAT’S NEW FOR SPRING GARDENING
It’s time to stop thinking of only begonias, impatiens and marigolds and start taking a very strong look at all of the new plants in the gardening market. “Proven Winners” and “The Flower Fields” are two companies that just keep on coming out with new and improved plants, some are improved versions of old standards and some are totally new to most of us. Many of these plants are endorsed by the PBS celebrity, P. Allen Smith, and, of course, by me.
New Guinea Impatiens and Non-Stop Begonias have been around for more than 15 years but are still some of the most popular of all blooming plants for the garden. New dahlias from seed instead of tubers are making a big splash, as they are sturdier and shorter, as well as better bloomers than those grown from tubers. New varieties of coleus, such as “KONG” and “Stained Glass” are replacing the old standard coleus varieties.
Mixed hanging baskets are becoming the most popular trend of all and the assortments of plants that can be used in these baskets are “mind-boggling.” Osteospermum, torenia, Mexican heather, angelonia, oxolis, scaevola, serena streptocarpella, nemesia, diascia, phlox and diamond frost are many of the new types of plants that you obviously must see to believe as these names probably mean nothing to you. And how about those “filler” plants such as vinca vine and asparagus sprengeri fern? Now you can use many different plants for fillers such as bacopa, licorice vines, lotus vines, lamium, sweet-potato vines, “Wave” petunias or lysimachia.
And speaking of petunias, so many new and wonderful varieties of trailing petunias have hit the markets starting back to the original Purple Wave petunia which now comes in many different colors as will as in a miniature size. Often the petunia hanging baskets are sold in solid colors but I much prefer to see them mixed, both colors and sizes. Since I first discovered the “Wave” petunia, it has been the prime ingredient in my window boxes for many years.
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