LOXLEY, AL — The Southern Living™ Plant Collection has announced a range of exciting, new plant offerings for the Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 season. The Fall 2009 introductions include: the double-blooming Jubilation™ Gardenia, Blush Pink™ Nandina, showy Queen Mum™ Agapanthus and other additions. New plants for Spring 2010 include: new early-blooming Crape Myrtles, Cleopatra™ and Marc Anthony™ Liriopes and more.
The Southern Living™ Plant Collection, first introduced in Spring 2008 through a partnership between PDSI® and Southern Living®, provides innovative new plants designed to solve specific landscape challenges.
Each plant in the collection is the result of years of plant evaluations, plant trials and consumer research. The plants in the Collection are selected to perform especially well in Southern gardens.
What’s New for 2010:
- New Early-Blooming Crape Myrtles
- Red-leafed Crape Myrtle Delta Jazz™
- Dwarf Colocasia Little Black Magic™
- Liriope Marc Anthony™
- Liriope Cleopatra®
- Nandina Flirt™
- ‘Princess Blush’ Verbena PP#11911
- ‘Princess Dark Lavender’ Verbena PP#11951
- Mandevilla Vogue® ‘Sophia’ PPAF
- Mandevilla Vogue® ‘Vivian’ PPAF
- Pentas ‘Stars & Stripes’
Login in to media portal to download fact sheets for 2010 introductions.
The Collection is available through retail garden centers across the Southeast.
For more information about any of the exciting new releases from the Southern Living Plant Collection, or to request sample plants, please visit southernlivingplants.com
Plant Development Services Inc., a leader in horticultural innovation, was founded in 1996. Founder Greg Smith recognized a need for an industry resource that could manage new plant introductions. Of particular interest to Plant Development Services Inc. are plants with unique performance attributes that can be patented, branded and successfully introduced to the consumer market. Plant Development Services Inc. owns and/or licenses more than 50 patented plant properties, including the number one azalea brand in the world, Encore® Azalea.
Growers interested in the program and plant breeders with potential new cultivars should contact Plant Development Services Inc.
Southern Living® is a premier lifestyle and entertaining magazine of the South and the 8th largest monthly consumer magazine in the U.S. (based on readership). It reaches nearly 16 million readers each month and enjoys a circulation of about 2.8 million. Published 12 times a year Southern Living® celebrates the heart of Southern life.
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Thursday August 13, 2009