2026 Annuals of the Year

<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting from Studio A. Here at proven Winners, Color Choice Shrubs.
<v Speaker 1>It's time for the Gardening Simplified Show with Stacy Hervella, me,
<v Speaker 1>Rick Weist, and our engineer and producer Adrianna Robinson. Well,
<v Speaker 1>today we're talking national Plants of the Year, annuals, flowering annuals,
<v Speaker 1>and Stacy, the elephant in the room is that for
<v Speaker 1>some people they kind of resist buying annuals because they
<v Speaker 1>only last for a year. And I say, no, that's
<v Speaker 1>because annuals are something that well, you know, garden centers
<v Speaker 1>will take the approach. Annuals die, they don't come back,
<v Speaker 1>so you'll come back, right.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I mean I just think I get everybody's at
<v Speaker 2>a different position in their gardening journey and everything. But
<v Speaker 2>like that's the same as saying, you know, I only
<v Speaker 2>buy pants, not socks, not jewelry, not a scarf. I
<v Speaker 2>only buy, you know, a sofa. I don't buy pillows
<v Speaker 2>or a throw or fun things to have around my house. Like, yes,
<v Speaker 2>annuals are a bit frivolous in that they don't come
<v Speaker 2>back every year, but they are so important for keeping
<v Speaker 2>your garden dynamic, keeping it colorful, giving you an opportunity
<v Speaker 2>to do something different every year, because when we invest
<v Speaker 2>in shrubs and perennials and trees and all of that,
<v Speaker 2>those are somewhat permanent.
<v Speaker 1>That's exactly where I was going with this preache. It.
<v Speaker 1>I agree, a landscape without annuals is like red velvet
<v Speaker 1>cake without the frosting. I mean, what would you do
<v Speaker 1>without that cream cheese frosting? Right? Otherwise I wouldn't eat
<v Speaker 1>red velvet cake.
<v Speaker 3>Right, you'd be too freaked out by the food coloring.
<v Speaker 1>As Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake. Actually she
<v Speaker 1>didn't say that, but that's a whole, other, whole other road.
<v Speaker 1>It's an important part part of the season. And I
<v Speaker 1>remember Bill Veck, the famous promoter and marketer in Major
<v Speaker 1>League Baseball fifties, sixties and seventies. He was the guy
<v Speaker 1>behind the disco demolition in Chicago that turned into a riot.
<v Speaker 1>Look it up. It's quite fascinating, did it. My brother
<v Speaker 1>in law was that bad game. People were flinging record
<v Speaker 1>albums from the upper deck and the boy it got
<v Speaker 1>pretty bad. But anyhow, he always said, there's two seasons
<v Speaker 1>in the year, winter in baseball or here in Michigan
<v Speaker 1>winter and road construction. Right, basically, annuals are important part
<v Speaker 1>of our growing season, and I think for me, I
<v Speaker 1>have a frame of reference in that working in the
<v Speaker 1>industry in the nineteen seventies and eighties, the annual season
<v Speaker 1>was a short season. We essentially had Mother's Day weekend
<v Speaker 1>for mom, and you had decoration Day or Memorial Day
<v Speaker 1>and people would would decorate the at the cemeteries with flowers.
<v Speaker 1>We are so far past that now with the genetics
<v Speaker 1>and the incredible varieties that are available that bloom all
<v Speaker 1>season long and perform just admirably that Stacey, I'm of
<v Speaker 1>the opinion now that a landscape without annuals is not
<v Speaker 1>a landscape.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I think that you're missing out as a gardener.
<v Speaker 2>I think you're really missing out on an opportunity. And
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to go crazy, you don't have to spend,
<v Speaker 2>you know, five hundred dollars to get some enjoyment out
<v Speaker 2>of annuals. And I think, you know, another big change
<v Speaker 2>here is it's not simply the genetics. The genetics that
<v Speaker 2>have been introduced by companies like Priven Winners definitely have
<v Speaker 2>made a change. But I think one of the biggest
<v Speaker 2>changes really is the evolution of containers. Yes, you know,
<v Speaker 2>we've talked about it on the show before, and I
<v Speaker 2>know our listeners will remember this as well, many of them.
<v Speaker 2>You know, back in the day, you had the plastic cauldron,
<v Speaker 2>you had the plastic.
<v Speaker 3>Swan, whiskey bears had a whiskey barrel, and that was
<v Speaker 3>pretty much the extent of it. And now, I.
<v Speaker 2>Mean, garden centers have these huge selections of beautiful imported pottery,
<v Speaker 2>and there's weatherproof stuff. And so with that advent of
<v Speaker 2>all of these really interesting containers, you needed something to
<v Speaker 2>fill them up, you bet.
<v Speaker 1>And we'll talk about recipe combinations coming up in segment four.
<v Speaker 1>But you're so right about that. And you add these
<v Speaker 1>great performing varieties. I think about petunias or verbina or kleome,
<v Speaker 1>I mean cleome. Back in the seventies and eighties, I
<v Speaker 1>think the variety was rose queen. Oh yeah, sticky the
<v Speaker 1>odor was awful, reseated itself like mad. You know, now
<v Speaker 1>you've got wonderful to ours that really perform in the landscape.
<v Speaker 1>So everything has changed. I guess that's my point. And
<v Speaker 1>if you're one of those people that resists annuals in
<v Speaker 1>your landscape, I'd take another look I would too.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I will come right out and say it.
<v Speaker 2>My husband prides himself on his frugality. He's very frugal
<v Speaker 2>and I appreciate that. And so for many years he
<v Speaker 2>was just very resistant to us growing annuals because he
<v Speaker 2>was just like, oh, you know, they're just going to die,
<v Speaker 2>they only live one season. I won him over by
<v Speaker 2>focusing on annuals that attract hummingbirds. So if you have
<v Speaker 2>this resistant person in your life, try this. Get so
<v Speaker 2>all the annuals that I buy pretty much attract hummingbirds,
<v Speaker 2>almost every single one, And so plant those and then
<v Speaker 2>position them around where you do most of your outdoor sitting.
<v Speaker 2>And the day that a hummingbird hovers at their knee
<v Speaker 2>just inches away, they will be converted.
<v Speaker 1>There you go.
<v Speaker 3>So that's just a little pro tipic.
<v Speaker 1>No, you're right, proven winners Salvia Koufia, any of those.
<v Speaker 2>Those are two of I go too, So I think,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and that also helps me choose because there
<v Speaker 2>are so many annuals that by making sure that I'm
<v Speaker 2>selecting four annuals that attract hummingbirds, not only am I
<v Speaker 2>making us happier and hummingbirds happier, I'm also helping to
<v Speaker 2>kind of curate that enormous selection that you can get.
<v Speaker 2>So even me knowing what I'm working with, knowing what
<v Speaker 2>to expect, yeah, you can get overwhelmed when you see
<v Speaker 2>all those fabulous planks.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I love annuals and I buy lots of them
<v Speaker 1>for my landscape. I enjoy them. So let's take a
<v Speaker 1>look at the national Plants of the Year, and we're
<v Speaker 1>going to start with Annual of the Year. The envelope, please,
<v Speaker 1>it's Safari Dusk, South African Flocks or James Britannia. That's
<v Speaker 1>tough to say, stacy for people to say Safar Dusk, James.
<v Speaker 2>Britton, James Britannia, Yeah, Britannia. This is definitely one of
<v Speaker 2>the funkiest botanical names out there for sure. Definitely one
<v Speaker 2>of the most unique ones.
<v Speaker 1>I know.
<v Speaker 2>The first time I heard it, I was like, what
<v Speaker 2>did you just say? And it's it is what it
<v Speaker 2>sounds like. It is someone's name. James Britton. Yeah, James Britannia.
<v Speaker 2>South African Flocks definitely rolls off the tongue a little
<v Speaker 2>bit more easily. But it's not a flox, right, It's
<v Speaker 2>not a flox and it's a pretty new annual. So
<v Speaker 2>you've got this weird name that people aren't really familiar with,
<v Speaker 2>and even the common name people aren't really familiar with.
<v Speaker 2>But what an amazing plant.
<v Speaker 1>It is incredible. It's a relative of soutera or uh
<v Speaker 1>some people would recognize be copa. But copa is one
<v Speaker 1>of those what I consider to be a trigger plant
<v Speaker 1>that you put in hanging baskets or containers. If you
<v Speaker 1>think of snowstorm, giant snowflake. But copa a great plant.
<v Speaker 1>So this is a relative causes me to think that
<v Speaker 1>if I'm in a bar setting or whatever and they
<v Speaker 1>have karaoke that night, I always have to do the
<v Speaker 1>Copa caban. Yeah that's a crowd pleaser, I tell you what.
<v Speaker 1>But anyhow, aside from that, this plant is heat and
<v Speaker 1>humidity tolerant. It blooms through the whole summer without cycling,
<v Speaker 1>very very forgiving. And now it's of course available in
<v Speaker 1>a broader range of colors. Also, you have the Safari dusk,
<v Speaker 1>so glitzy kind of purple blooms with a gold eye,
<v Speaker 1>but you have a lighter lilac Safari sky, Safari dawn.
<v Speaker 1>The blossoms transition through rose pink and lavender shades, and
<v Speaker 1>then Safari lava flow, which is red.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the colors on these plants are really cool, so
<v Speaker 2>anyone who is kind of taking that reference to.
<v Speaker 3>The copa at face value. They are not white.
<v Speaker 2>They're all sorts of different colors, and they're multiple colors,
<v Speaker 2>which is very cool to see. And the flowers do
<v Speaker 2>look a little bit like a flux and it's kind
<v Speaker 2>of a mounded e type of habit. So it's a
<v Speaker 2>pretty easy plant to use. I haven't grown it yet,
<v Speaker 2>have you grown it?
<v Speaker 1>I have not grown.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm excited to try it. I mean, you get
<v Speaker 2>me red. It's going in my garden.
<v Speaker 3>That's simple, you bet you.
<v Speaker 1>And now thanks to Stacey, we know it's Britannia, James Brittannia.
<v Speaker 3>And it's all one word.
<v Speaker 2>That's the crazy thing is it's all one even though
<v Speaker 2>it's like one person's name, James Britton. It's all one word,
<v Speaker 2>James Britannia.
<v Speaker 1>I want to say James Brittania.
<v Speaker 3>But James, there's no wrong pronunciations, only wrong.
<v Speaker 1>We thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Petunia of the Year envelope please super Tunia Hoopla vivid
<v Speaker 1>orchid petunia. And of course this one has been around
<v Speaker 1>for a while. It's a pickle te patterned petunia, so
<v Speaker 1>the edges are different than the flower's base color. In
<v Speaker 1>this case, you're looking at a purple flower with a
<v Speaker 1>white edge, and performs admirably as a supertunia, keeps blooming
<v Speaker 1>its head off all summer long.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I think that's so important for this plant,
<v Speaker 2>because so it's like this really vivid kind of purple
<v Speaker 2>or could purple in the center and a crisp white edge,
<v Speaker 2>and that would be pretty cool on its own. But
<v Speaker 2>this is not one of those petunias. It just I
<v Speaker 2>bloom a little bit here, I bloom a little bit there.
<v Speaker 2>It is a mass of blooms. And so when you
<v Speaker 2>get that really wild pattern juxtaposed over the whole plant,
<v Speaker 2>it is eye dazzling, like really just makes a crazy
<v Speaker 2>kind of visual like illusion in the garden.
<v Speaker 1>It is.
<v Speaker 2>It is a polarizing plant. I have to tell you,
<v Speaker 2>it's not my favorite. It's not one that I personally
<v Speaker 2>would grow, but I totally get the appeal and I
<v Speaker 2>see why people like it so much.
<v Speaker 1>But you put it in a container or a basket
<v Speaker 1>with a super beina may be a white or a
<v Speaker 1>purple superbina. Wow, it's ipop.
<v Speaker 2>It's a high performance, very unique plant, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 2>There's just so much cool stuff happening with petunias right
<v Speaker 2>now now.
<v Speaker 1>Part of the reason I grow annuals in my landscape.
<v Speaker 1>And again from these plants you get tremendous performance. I
<v Speaker 1>grow them to impress my neighbors.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, I mean there are a front yard
<v Speaker 3>plant for you.
<v Speaker 1>Then yeah, front yard, backyard, sideyard, on the deck. It's
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. You impress your neighbors with your flowering annuals.
<v Speaker 1>And so I've written a limerick along that line. To
<v Speaker 1>impress your neighbors with flowering annuals. I want something colorful,
<v Speaker 1>bloomy everywhere, make it feel roomy. Why live with life,
<v Speaker 1>duller when there's season long color. I've had it with
<v Speaker 1>winter long gloomy. I catching perfect combinations. My neighbors will say, congratulations.
<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you it grew my mind when annuals with
<v Speaker 1>others come by to become a form of public relations.
<v Speaker 1>Let me make a pundently clear. See what I did there?
<v Speaker 3>I did.
<v Speaker 1>I did a pundently clear It's grow time in spring
<v Speaker 1>each year, Here today, gone tomorrow. But as impressive as
<v Speaker 1>Killeman Jarl. Watch this and please hold my beer. Looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to planting Annuals of the Spring. Let's see how
<v Speaker 1>Stacey ties this in with Plants on Trial that's coming
<v Speaker 1>up next here on the Gardening Simplified.
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<v Speaker 2>welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show, where we're talking
<v Speaker 2>all about the annuals of the year. So our first
<v Speaker 2>show of the year, we did the four Shrubs of
<v Speaker 2>the Year. Second show, actually there's more than four Shrubs
<v Speaker 2>of the Year. Second show Perennials of the Year, and
<v Speaker 2>this week Annuals of the Year. And you know, as
<v Speaker 2>we've said before, of the Year program from Proven Winners
<v Speaker 2>is just a way to help you kind of focus
<v Speaker 2>on a couple of the varieties. We have so many
<v Speaker 2>varieties in the line, and it also helps to ensure
<v Speaker 2>that these plants are going to be pretty abundant in
<v Speaker 2>the marketplace, so they're going to be easy to find. Now,
<v Speaker 2>we were chit chatting so much about our love of
<v Speaker 2>annuals in the first segment that we did not actually
<v Speaker 2>get to announcing all of the annuals of the year,
<v Speaker 2>and Plants on Trial is actually centered around one of
<v Speaker 2>the annuals that we did not get to, and segment
<v Speaker 2>one and we'll talk about it more and segment for
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure, but the landscape annual of the year is
<v Speaker 2>Senorita Rosalita.
<v Speaker 3>Cleomi.
<v Speaker 2>Now you said Cleo, I say Cleomi, however you want
<v Speaker 2>to say it again. The bottom line is you got
<v Speaker 2>to walk out of the garden center with the plant
<v Speaker 2>you want and then some but at least the plant
<v Speaker 2>that you wanted. So Cleomi or Cleome, however you want
<v Speaker 2>to say, it is fine. I happen to be. I
<v Speaker 2>happen to be of the mind that I love Rose Queen.
<v Speaker 2>And the old fashioned cliomis that they're they're tall, they
<v Speaker 2>self so everywhere, which I happen to think is an
<v Speaker 2>excellent quality.
<v Speaker 3>Because I love some people, some people don't.
<v Speaker 2>I love that kind of free self sewing cottage gardening
<v Speaker 2>kind of feel, so I like that in my plants.
<v Speaker 2>And it's quite tall and it does get quite leggy,
<v Speaker 2>whereas senior Rosalita cleome Cleomi is much smaller and it
<v Speaker 2>is still kind of tall, but it keeps its foliage,
<v Speaker 2>doesn't have smell, doesn't have thorns, and it doesn't have seeds.
<v Speaker 2>So it's a good problem solver, especially if people are
<v Speaker 2>looking for something that is a little bit tidier and
<v Speaker 2>easier to maintain, which is why it is the landscape
<v Speaker 2>annual of the air.
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't stink and doesn't have thorns.
<v Speaker 2>Right, which probably means it's not dear resistant. Other cleoi
<v Speaker 2>are probably dear resistant. Can't speak to Seniorita Rosalita, I'm
<v Speaker 2>not sure. But the thing about Kleomi, and it's a
<v Speaker 2>little bit different. You know, when I think of most
<v Speaker 2>proven winner's annuals, or at least the way that I
<v Speaker 2>use annuals, I plant almost entirely in containers.
<v Speaker 3>What about you, do you plant annuals in the.
<v Speaker 1>Ground primarily containers. No, I'll put some in the ground,
<v Speaker 1>you know. I'll use miny vista supertunas as a groundcover
<v Speaker 1>to fill an area, right but primarily containers, right.
<v Speaker 2>And the funny thing about Senorita Rosalita Clomi is it
<v Speaker 2>can be grown in a container. But this is one
<v Speaker 2>of those annuals that I think really is best in
<v Speaker 2>the ground. And the reason for that is it's a
<v Speaker 2>little bit taller and thinner than your average annuals. When
<v Speaker 2>we talk about annuals and containers, we're looking at, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the whole thriller, spiller filler thing, whereas this is really
<v Speaker 2>a plant that is very upright and it flowers very freely,
<v Speaker 2>but it just has such a different habit. You can
<v Speaker 2>grow in a container, and if you look on the
<v Speaker 2>proven Winter's website, you'll see examples of it in a container.
<v Speaker 2>But I really think of Klomi as a landscape annual,
<v Speaker 2>something that goes into the ground. And the reason for
<v Speaker 2>that is it's one of those sea through plants. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and see through plants might sound like a very bad thing,
<v Speaker 2>but quite the opposite. It's an excellent quality to have.
<v Speaker 2>And a sea through plant basically adds height to your
<v Speaker 2>garden bed without adding bulk. So it adds a light airiness,
<v Speaker 2>It has color, it has texture, it has interest, but
<v Speaker 2>without like plunking itself right down into the middle of
<v Speaker 2>your border and taking up a bunch of space. And
<v Speaker 2>this lets all sorts of fun interactions happen with what's
<v Speaker 2>in front of it, what's behind it, the color as
<v Speaker 2>the plants come and go. I love sea through plants.
<v Speaker 2>And if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's
<v Speaker 2>a fun winter project for you. Spend some time on
<v Speaker 2>your favorite search engine looking up different English perennial borders.
<v Speaker 2>You can look by the different estates like Great Dixter
<v Speaker 2>and Sissinghurst and all of that. You can look up
<v Speaker 2>by the designer Vitascville, West Grutr, Jicyl, Beatrix Potter, etc.
<v Speaker 2>However you want to do this, just you know, get
<v Speaker 2>your source material and that will kind of lead you
<v Speaker 2>down this wonderful rabbit hole. And as you look at
<v Speaker 2>these absolutely brilliant flower beds that these designers have created
<v Speaker 2>and put together, you will see that a central element
<v Speaker 2>for all of them is these sea through plants. That
<v Speaker 2>that is what really keeps them very interesting. And the
<v Speaker 2>sea through plant may actually be the flowers of a
<v Speaker 2>perennial that get very tall. Like you think about you know,
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe I'm going to say this, but it's
<v Speaker 2>the first thing that came to mind at daily where
<v Speaker 2>it has those long, thin scapes that help give it
<v Speaker 2>that sea. You know, when it's just the planet itself,
<v Speaker 2>not see through, but when it starts to flower and
<v Speaker 2>you have those long thin scapes, you get some of
<v Speaker 2>that sea through height.
<v Speaker 1>I think of Verbena benarians.
<v Speaker 2>Verbena banarians is a classic. That is why it became
<v Speaker 2>so popular, and similar to senior Rida rosalita, proven winners.
<v Speaker 2>Verbina anariensis also doesn't seed. So good thing if you
<v Speaker 2>don't want verbinav oriensis everywhere, but not such a good
<v Speaker 2>thing if you prefer that cottage garden.
<v Speaker 3>Look oh on.
<v Speaker 1>Those rose queen cleomes or klioni or however we pronounce it.
<v Speaker 1>The following year, the seeds the plant, the little plants
<v Speaker 1>come up like crazy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it's it's prolific.
<v Speaker 1>It is, yeah, prolific.
<v Speaker 2>Now it is a some lover, so as the plants
<v Speaker 2>start to grow and other plants around it start to grow,
<v Speaker 2>it will pretty readily get shaded out, so it doesn't
<v Speaker 2>become a huge, huge issue. But again, if you are
<v Speaker 2>the type who doesn't like, you know, randomness and unpredictability
<v Speaker 2>in your garden.
<v Speaker 3>Not the plant for you, definitely you're gonna want seniority.
<v Speaker 2>To Rosalita, but because Seniorita Rosalita has this amazing sea
<v Speaker 2>through quality, I wanted to spend plants on trial talking
<v Speaker 2>about some different things in the garden that you could
<v Speaker 2>combine it with, kind of going back to what I
<v Speaker 2>said the beginning about annuals being more of like the
<v Speaker 2>jewelry or the throw pillow or you know, the fun
<v Speaker 2>decor item compared to the structure of your garden. So
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to discuss some of those options to combine
<v Speaker 2>different things for color and for interest. And I'm starting
<v Speaker 2>with an absolutely classic combination roses, not just because of
<v Speaker 2>the name Senorita Rosalita, but because roses and Kleomi. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, I just feel like they are such a
<v Speaker 2>classic kind of cottage gardening, a English garden combination.
<v Speaker 1>It's beautiful.
<v Speaker 2>I would a combination that would just knock your socks
<v Speaker 2>off is Seniorita Rosalita with our reminiscent crema rose. As
<v Speaker 2>the name implies, it is kind of a creamy white rose,
<v Speaker 2>and I just think that white would set it off
<v Speaker 2>so beautifully and you know, I think if you're not
<v Speaker 2>familiar with Kleomi, because it did kind of fall out
<v Speaker 2>of fashion for a while. Used to be everywhere and
<v Speaker 2>then it kind of, you know, fell out of fashion
<v Speaker 2>a little bit. It kind of has this sort of
<v Speaker 2>round funded flower head. It's common name, very unfortunate for
<v Speaker 2>some is spiderflower, does not attract spiders, doesn't even really
<v Speaker 2>look like spiders, but has this kind of like whispyness
<v Speaker 2>to it that earns it that name. So it's kind
<v Speaker 2>of a rounded whiskery flower head. Whisker flower. That would
<v Speaker 2>be a more fun name for it, So Mue should
<v Speaker 2>get on that. So I think that when you pair
<v Speaker 2>it with the roses and that high pedal count, it's
<v Speaker 2>just a really nice contrast. Now, if you want to
<v Speaker 2>more contemporary twist, I think it would look amazing with
<v Speaker 2>ringo double pink rose as for a little bit of
<v Speaker 2>something different. And if you love contrast, then I would
<v Speaker 2>recommend try it out with So Easy lemon zest or
<v Speaker 2>Oh so Easy Sonya rita rose, both of which are yellow,
<v Speaker 2>for some really interesting contrasts and really kind of taking
<v Speaker 2>it over the top.
<v Speaker 3>So very classic. Now.
<v Speaker 2>I also love this with panicle hydranges. And the reason
<v Speaker 2>why I think panicle hydrange is out of all of
<v Speaker 2>the different hydrange types that you could plant it with,
<v Speaker 2>are such a good idea is because panicle hydrange of
<v Speaker 2>flowers are pointed most of them, so that point that
<v Speaker 2>kind of rounded football or big ice cream cone shape
<v Speaker 2>I think really counter points nicely with that rounded Kleomi flower.
<v Speaker 2>Adds a lot of texture and interest, and I think
<v Speaker 2>the colors that especially panicle hydrangs turn later on in
<v Speaker 2>the season is just an ideal combination. So you can
<v Speaker 2>pair it with really large, full sized panicle hydrangees like
<v Speaker 2>Limelight Prime or Pinky Winky Prime or quick Fire fab.
<v Speaker 2>These are going to be more in that six to
<v Speaker 2>eight foot range, so they're going to be more of
<v Speaker 2>a backdrop or enclosure type of role, but they also
<v Speaker 2>work really well with small to medium varieties the kleomi
<v Speaker 2>do like little lime, puffer fish or fire like tidbit,
<v Speaker 2>so that things are more covorting on a similar level
<v Speaker 2>rather than way up above it. So I love the
<v Speaker 2>way that it's going to be dynamic, that you're going
<v Speaker 2>to see the colors of the panicle hydrange of flowers
<v Speaker 2>changing through the season and that Cleomi is just going
<v Speaker 2>to keep flowering and flowering and flowering.
<v Speaker 1>I love the fact that you mentioned that, Stacey. We
<v Speaker 1>have a garden center here in West Michigan called Garden
<v Speaker 1>Crossings which specializes in proven winters plants and in their
<v Speaker 1>landscape in the front every summer, and I've taken pictures
<v Speaker 1>they combine panicle hydranges with either Senorita rosalita or the
<v Speaker 1>Verbina benariensis variety meteor shops. Yeah, and the combination of
<v Speaker 1>the two is fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Well, they know what they're doing.
<v Speaker 1>They know what they're doing.
<v Speaker 2>They definitely do now for our friends in warm climates,
<v Speaker 2>you could grow most of the plants that I just mentioned.
<v Speaker 2>But wow, wouldn't Senorita rosalita cleomi look absolutely stunning with
<v Speaker 2>any of the purple leafs jazz hands Laura pedulum. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's just that is a match made in heaven.
<v Speaker 2>So if you have a jazz Hands Laura Pedalum in
<v Speaker 2>your landscape, consider looking for the Senorita Rosalita Kliomi to
<v Speaker 2>just kind of plants around it. It's low stakes. You
<v Speaker 2>just buy a couple plants, put it in there, see
<v Speaker 2>if you like it. Next year, you can do something
<v Speaker 2>different or you don't have to do it at all.
<v Speaker 2>And for our cold climate people, I think it would
<v Speaker 2>look amazing with happy faced white potentilla. Yes, So just
<v Speaker 2>some fun different choices for you there to think about
<v Speaker 2>pairing Senorita Rosalita the rather unusual landscape based annual compared
<v Speaker 2>to your more typical container based annual. We're going to
<v Speaker 2>talk a lot more about it in segment four, so
<v Speaker 2>stay tuned because first we're going to have the mail bank.
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<v Speaker 2>We also welcome your celebrations and that kind of thing, especially,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we love to hear what's going well. We're
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<v Speaker 2>on a cold winterry day dreaming of last year's garden
<v Speaker 2>and what is to come this year. Now, speaking of
<v Speaker 2>things to do in winter to keep you busy, we
<v Speaker 2>heard from Cheryl So right before the holidays, Cheryl had
<v Speaker 2>written us with a question about her amaryllis, and she
<v Speaker 2>wrote back to us thanking us for our answer, and
<v Speaker 2>she said she wants to spend the winter. I love this,
<v Speaker 2>so you're going to understand why I chose to include
<v Speaker 2>this in today's show. Cheryl wants to spend the winter
<v Speaker 2>learning botanical names and meanings, which is a great way
<v Speaker 2>to spend winter if you love plants and words and
<v Speaker 2>reading and all of that jazz and I certainly do.
<v Speaker 2>And she was wondering if we had any suggestions for
<v Speaker 2>how to do this.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, well yeah, I have suggestions.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, what is it?
<v Speaker 1>And I think it's a I think it's a good
<v Speaker 1>thing to do because I you know, well, my first
<v Speaker 1>suggestion would be watch Stacy her Villa on the Gardening
<v Speaker 1>Simplified Show, because that's where I learn how to pronounce James, Brittania,
<v Speaker 1>Britannia whatever, Kleiomi, Yeah, so I watched Stacey. I get
<v Speaker 1>a lot of help from Stacy. That's number one. Throughout
<v Speaker 1>the years for me, I've always relied on Timber Press
<v Speaker 1>because they have great resources to help you do that.
<v Speaker 1>And then you can start reading and you can start learning,
<v Speaker 1>because you know, Stacy, you are are very adept at this,
<v Speaker 1>whereas with me, you know, the things that I struggle
<v Speaker 1>with are like Pendula, well that makes sense, it's hanging weeping.
<v Speaker 1>But if pendula is hanging weeping, then why does Scandon's
<v Speaker 1>mean climbing? That makes no sense to me. Globosa is rounded,
<v Speaker 1>makes sense Elba is white, Pumila is dwarf, right right,
<v Speaker 1>So this is just crazy stuff. Silvestros means woodland or
<v Speaker 1>vulgaris means common.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you got to learn.
<v Speaker 1>All that stuff. Well, it's got to make sense to you.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we call it, you know, botanical nomenclature, but
<v Speaker 2>it is a mix of Latin and Greek and sometimes
<v Speaker 2>other words as well. So that's why sometimes you'll have
<v Speaker 2>synonymous words that, like the translation means the same thing,
<v Speaker 2>in two different words mean the same thing. I guess
<v Speaker 2>it was whatever Carl Lenaeus felt like doing at that
<v Speaker 2>particular moment. We're all at Linaeus's whims now. I do
<v Speaker 2>want to tell you, Cheryl here at work, I rely
<v Speaker 2>on one book. It is excellent. It is David Gledhill's
<v Speaker 2>The Names of Plants. It's from Cambridge Press. It is
<v Speaker 2>rather expensive for a book, even though it's not a
<v Speaker 2>huge book. I think obviously it has a fairly niche audience,
<v Speaker 2>so not necessarily you know Ben Airport bestseller here that
<v Speaker 2>we're talking about, So that one is a little bit
<v Speaker 2>on the pricier side. So you might want to see
<v Speaker 2>if you can find it at you know, a library
<v Speaker 2>or through a used book exchange. Even when I was
<v Speaker 2>just looking for the show, the used ones were still
<v Speaker 2>pretty pricey relatively speaking.
<v Speaker 3>But that is excellent.
<v Speaker 2>I love that book because it has an entire basically
<v Speaker 2>encyclopedia of every single genus and species all listed out.
<v Speaker 2>If it's in Greek, it has the Greek spelling and
<v Speaker 2>it goes way into depth about everything that you could
<v Speaker 2>want to know. So that is my main go to
<v Speaker 2>at work, and it's excellent. But yeah, the Timber Press
<v Speaker 2>Dictionary of Plant Names by Alan Coombs is a great
<v Speaker 2>choice as well. That's going to be a little bit
<v Speaker 2>more affordable. I can't vouch for this one, but I
<v Speaker 2>did find it and it was one of the lowest costs.
<v Speaker 2>The Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names by aw Smith from
<v Speaker 2>Dover Publishers, And if you're not familiar with Dover, they
<v Speaker 2>do a number of low cost books and they're always
<v Speaker 2>really fun and interesting and has a very pretty picture
<v Speaker 2>on the front. So that's a good vote in its direction.
<v Speaker 2>But of course you can always start with your local library.
<v Speaker 2>If they don't have something, they should be able to
<v Speaker 2>inner library loan it for you and then that can
<v Speaker 2>help you decide what you actually want to invest your
<v Speaker 2>time and money in for the long haul.
<v Speaker 1>It's fun, you know, it's a great activity summertime, sitting
<v Speaker 1>on the deck and friends are over, you know, with
<v Speaker 1>my family, and you look at a plant and you say,
<v Speaker 1>you know, well, if somebody asks you what it is,
<v Speaker 1>you say, that's Gladisia triacanthos. Enormous, you know, and my
<v Speaker 1>family will roll their eyes and then they'll look at
<v Speaker 1>the guests and say, he just makes that stuff.
<v Speaker 3>You know, you really didn't.
<v Speaker 1>You're going to be subject.
<v Speaker 2>But it's always a fun thing to learn. So for
<v Speaker 2>anybody who wants to spend their winter upping their botanical
<v Speaker 2>nomenclature game, those are great places to start. And if
<v Speaker 2>you are already on our YouTube channel, Adriana and I
<v Speaker 2>made a series of botanical pronunciation and derivation videos, so
<v Speaker 2>you can also take a look at those.
<v Speaker 1>That's great. Well, I'm still going to use you as
<v Speaker 1>a resource, Stacey, so I appreciate that Tina asks us
<v Speaker 1>on YouTube. I have about a dozen roses, including several
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite at last roses in my Ohio garden.
<v Speaker 1>Every summer I have a few weeks of a beautiful
<v Speaker 1>rose show followed by the rest of summer with black
<v Speaker 1>spots tons of Japanese beetles. Now I think I have thrips.
<v Speaker 1>I want to be very proactive this winter and spring
<v Speaker 1>trying to mitigate this for next summer. My Rose show
<v Speaker 1>is very disappointing last year. Can you advise for a
<v Speaker 1>comprehensive preventative program and Stacey, as far as prevention is concerned,
<v Speaker 1>I'd have to say, there's a sign there if you're
<v Speaker 1>dealing with those issues, that there is some sort of imbalance.
<v Speaker 1>Usually the case maybe water, maybe your irrigation methods, whatever
<v Speaker 1>it may be. But you know, roses can put on
<v Speaker 1>a show well into in Ohio, should be able to
<v Speaker 1>put on a show well into November, right, And.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I would say that Japanese beetles aside and
<v Speaker 2>will deal with them in a moment. You know, roses,
<v Speaker 2>there are certainly older varieties that are very susceptible to
<v Speaker 2>black spot, but typically, especially if you have more modern
<v Speaker 2>disease resistant landscape roses, if they are getting a lot
<v Speaker 2>of black spot, it does indicate that something is not ideal.
<v Speaker 2>You know, very often we plant something and as the
<v Speaker 2>years go by, it gets kind of shaded out by
<v Speaker 2>its neighbors. Everything's growing, continuing to grow, and so that
<v Speaker 2>can cause some shade trees that you know you didn't
<v Speaker 2>take into account when you planted it because it was
<v Speaker 2>full sun, have grown and shaded it out. So black
<v Speaker 2>spot happens with shade with overhead watering, especially with a
<v Speaker 2>sprinkler system that pelts it every morning, it dries out
<v Speaker 2>all day. Next morning, same time happens again exactly. But
<v Speaker 2>as far as prevention goes, it will do so much
<v Speaker 2>if this spring, before the plant leaves out, but when
<v Speaker 2>the snow has finally melted, if you get out there
<v Speaker 2>and you take away all of the rose foliage that
<v Speaker 2>you can find in your garden. You know, very often
<v Speaker 2>when they when the foliage drops in fall, it just
<v Speaker 2>kind of blows away. But sometimes it drops below the plant,
<v Speaker 2>gets wet, gets matted down. Black Spot spores love, love,
<v Speaker 2>love to live on that fallen foliage and below the plant.
<v Speaker 2>And then when it leaves out in spring, that leaf
<v Speaker 2>is so fresh and so delicate, it doesn't have a
<v Speaker 2>cuticle to protect it from fungal infection, and those spores
<v Speaker 2>just go right up and can reinfect the plant. And
<v Speaker 2>that's called called a disease cycle because you keep getting
<v Speaker 2>this cycle. So removing that will help a lot because
<v Speaker 2>it will take that, you know, all of that fungal
<v Speaker 2>spores and take it away from the plant. Now, it's
<v Speaker 2>not fool proof method because if things are going wrong,
<v Speaker 2>your plant's probably still going to get them, but it
<v Speaker 2>will help. Pruning helps a lot to make sure you're
<v Speaker 2>pruning your ros as well. You know, thrips are a
<v Speaker 2>tiny little insect that cause damage to flowers primarily, and interestingly,
<v Speaker 2>I was reading that thrips are mostly an issue on
<v Speaker 2>lighter colored roses and particularly yellow roses. Interesting so they
<v Speaker 2>like the lighter colors more than the more vibrant boulder colors.
<v Speaker 2>But they can happen on any rows. And trips are
<v Speaker 2>nearly impossible to control because they are so so tiny,
<v Speaker 2>and they get in the flower and they suck and
<v Speaker 2>they cause these little like spots and deformities. They are
<v Speaker 2>probably one of the hardest pests for home gardeners to
<v Speaker 2>control for. But pruning will help a lot. And again,
<v Speaker 2>if you have a landscape rose, whether that's at last
<v Speaker 2>I know so easy rows or any of those landscape
<v Speaker 2>roses that bloom continuously without deadheading, I know this is
<v Speaker 2>gonna hurt, but if you can cut the whole plant back,
<v Speaker 2>even though it has flower buds or flowers on it,
<v Speaker 2>you can actually get it to rebloom outside of the
<v Speaker 2>main invasion time of the thrips. Now again, I know
<v Speaker 2>that's painful and easier said than done, but that is
<v Speaker 2>a good effective way to management. Now, as for Japanese beetles,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's really no help for Japanese beetles. I
<v Speaker 2>don't want to be defeatist or you know, disappoint anyone,
<v Speaker 2>but you know, all of the things, it takes a
<v Speaker 2>multifaceted approach and all of the things that people recommend.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you can put milky spore down in your
<v Speaker 2>yard and make sure that the grubs aren't maturing in
<v Speaker 2>your yard, and you don't have a population of Japanese
<v Speaker 2>beetles raised in your yard. But the simple fact is
<v Speaker 2>they fly, and they fly everywhere, and they love roses,
<v Speaker 2>and they're going to come from miles around for your delicious,
<v Speaker 2>delicious rose garden. So it's really really hard to control
<v Speaker 2>for Japanese beetles.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I think the key with Japanese beetles I have
<v Speaker 1>found is understand when they emerge in your area, and
<v Speaker 1>at that time I spray the roses with something like
<v Speaker 1>a gneam oil or something like that, because if you
<v Speaker 1>can get it early, you know, once Japanese beetles begin
<v Speaker 1>attacking the roses, others join the attack. So if you
<v Speaker 1>can avoid that in the first place. You know, it's
<v Speaker 1>always important to understand the triangle host, pathogen and environment,
<v Speaker 1>and we can control the environment. Maybe the plant it
<v Speaker 1>needs more sunlight, maybe, as you said, irrigation, all key
<v Speaker 1>factors and doing the detective work you need to do
<v Speaker 1>to deal with this.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, you ken if you have another of
<v Speaker 2>landscape ros again, you can cut it back when you
<v Speaker 2>first start seeing those Japanese beetles. I know it's hard,
<v Speaker 2>but by the time it reblooms in, you know, six
<v Speaker 2>weeks down the line, they're no longer interested and they
<v Speaker 2>can move on. So it is hard to do, but
<v Speaker 2>that is an effective, non toxic way to try to
<v Speaker 2>at least save yourself the heartbreak of seeing your rose
<v Speaker 2>looking like a skeleton in the garden.
<v Speaker 3>We're going to take a little break when we come back.
<v Speaker 2>We're continuing our conversation on annuals of the year so
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<v Speaker 1>Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show as we continue
<v Speaker 1>our conversation on national Plants of the Year flowering annuals
<v Speaker 1>and Stacey, you did a great job of outlining senior
<v Speaker 1>Rita Rosalita, and that is the landscape annual of the year.
<v Speaker 2>Right, And like I said, you know it is. I
<v Speaker 2>think of Proven Winners Annuals right or wrong, as primarily
<v Speaker 2>container plants. And I really realized thinking about how I
<v Speaker 2>would plant Seniorita Rosalita kleiomi, that I have really only
<v Speaker 2>ever seen kleiomi widespread in the ground. Yeah, and so
<v Speaker 2>it does. That's not the only reason that something is
<v Speaker 2>the landscape Annual of the year. The landscape annual of
<v Speaker 2>the year, like the Landscape Perennial of the Year and
<v Speaker 2>the Landscape Shop of the Year, are plants that are
<v Speaker 2>suitable for landscapers, So you know, kind of bulletproof easy
<v Speaker 2>to plant, easy to maintain. They're going to make you
<v Speaker 2>look like a superstar. And of course it translates great
<v Speaker 2>to home gardeners like us, because we know that reliability
<v Speaker 2>is going to translate just as well into our gardens.
<v Speaker 2>So it's not just that it is suitable for the landscape,
<v Speaker 2>but that landscapers where it meets landscapers needs. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like I have kind of you know, it's
<v Speaker 2>gotten me thinking about how I could use annuals more
<v Speaker 2>in the ground. I have self sewing annuals. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>as I've already explained, one of my favorite things in
<v Speaker 2>the garden is self sewing annuals and pop up wherever
<v Speaker 2>and you know, kind of create that cottage gardening look
<v Speaker 2>without you having to do much work.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I mean they're a good problem solver.
<v Speaker 2>You can fill in little spots while you're waiting for
<v Speaker 2>something to grow in if you started with a very
<v Speaker 2>small plant. And pretty much all annuals, almost all annuals
<v Speaker 2>except for the proven Winner's Superbells or Caliber CoA, are
<v Speaker 2>suitable just as suitable for planting in the ground as
<v Speaker 2>they are in containers. Caliber CoA is the exception because
<v Speaker 2>it needs really really really good.
<v Speaker 3>Drainage and good moisture.
<v Speaker 2>So it is really much more suited to containers, hangar
<v Speaker 2>baskets the like. But that is really the only annual
<v Speaker 2>that I can think of offhand that's really only suited
<v Speaker 2>for containers. Everything else, you know, it can go in
<v Speaker 2>the ground. I just rarely put it there.
<v Speaker 1>Sure, And if you're driving in your car or listening
<v Speaker 1>to the radio version of this show or the podcast,
<v Speaker 1>Cleome or Kleiomi is spelled cl Eome. Okay, let's move
<v Speaker 1>on to Kalladium of the Year. I love the Heart
<v Speaker 1>to Heart series. An envelope please, In this case, Kalladium
<v Speaker 1>of the Year is Heart to Heart Chinook. It's a
<v Speaker 1>sun or shade kalladium. And that's the thing that excites
<v Speaker 1>me is that kalladiums today, and with the Heart to
<v Speaker 1>Heart series, many of them can be grown in both
<v Speaker 1>sun or in shade. And with kalladiums, I've found you
<v Speaker 1>really don't need a lot of fertilizer. You got to
<v Speaker 1>cut back on the fertilizer. You really don't want to
<v Speaker 1>over furtilz lie kalladiums. You can burn the foliage. So
<v Speaker 1>this is a plant in the right conditions and in
<v Speaker 1>a container, even though it can go in the ground,
<v Speaker 1>creates just incredible color. It's a salmon pink kalladium and
<v Speaker 1>really scored high end trials all over the United States.
<v Speaker 1>I on an annual basis, no pun intended, have really
<v Speaker 1>enjoyed growing Heart to Heart kalladiums in my landscape. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>They really are so much different than kaladiums used to be.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you used to buy like a bag of
<v Speaker 2>you know, twenty five kalladiums, and the tubers were like
<v Speaker 2>the size of a dime and you were lucky to
<v Speaker 2>get like two leaves if you lived in Michigan. Whereas
<v Speaker 2>the Heart to Heart series is all about those top
<v Speaker 2>quality bulbs and so you don't have to worry so
<v Speaker 2>much about fertilizing them to try to get the growth.
<v Speaker 3>The growth comes from.
<v Speaker 2>The quality, top quality bulb that you're starting within the
<v Speaker 2>first place.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>I love Heart's Heart kalladiums. They are beauty full.
<v Speaker 2>I am done trying to grow them because the only
<v Speaker 2>thing that loves them more than me do I do
<v Speaker 2>is the deer.
<v Speaker 3>Oh oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 2>And last year I had some I thought, oh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>give it a try on my patio. See how it goes.
<v Speaker 2>And I swear to you, every time those things would
<v Speaker 2>start to put up a new leaf, trying to recover
<v Speaker 2>from the previous time they were devoured to nubs, they
<v Speaker 2>would be like.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, did you hear everybody? Get over here? I think
<v Speaker 3>there's enough to go around. So well, they.
<v Speaker 1>Look tasty, they look like candy.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, but I was thinking that they're in
<v Speaker 2>the aeroid family, which contains a number of toxic plants.
<v Speaker 2>They have a toxic alkaloid, so even if they're not
<v Speaker 2>going to kill you, they don't taste good. They're really alkaline.
<v Speaker 2>It did not stop the deer, so which feel thinking.
<v Speaker 1>Keep trying, you know. I like we talked about in
<v Speaker 1>the first segment. The thing that I love about annuals
<v Speaker 1>is every year is a new year. So annuals are
<v Speaker 1>the perfect plant to do some experimentation. Just let your
<v Speaker 1>mind wander and experiment with annuals. That's the fun thing
<v Speaker 1>about them. There are throughout the United States into Canada,
<v Speaker 1>there are many wonderful trial gardens. They call them trial gardens,
<v Speaker 1>and they try these plants and see how they stand
<v Speaker 1>up to the weather and how they do. So Annuals
<v Speaker 1>to a large extent, are about creativity. You know, I
<v Speaker 1>dabble in stand up comedy, and I remind myself all
<v Speaker 1>the time that when it comes to stand up comedy,
<v Speaker 1>you have to be serious about your craft the art
<v Speaker 1>how to do stand up comedy. You have to be
<v Speaker 1>serious about it. At the same time, you can't take
<v Speaker 1>yourself serious, and you have to combine those two factors.
<v Speaker 1>I see it the same way in planting annuals. And
<v Speaker 1>when you plant annuals sometimes you need a little help
<v Speaker 1>with those combinations. And that's why Proven Winners provides recipes
<v Speaker 1>or combinations and has combinations of the year. And again,
<v Speaker 1>these are something that just isn't pulled out of the
<v Speaker 1>hat on a whim. These are trialed and tested. And
<v Speaker 1>there are four great combinations in twenty twenty six Saffron Sunrise,
<v Speaker 1>there's moonlit Lavender, there's pixie powder. I love that, and
<v Speaker 1>there's a kalladium combination called Kindness. And many of those
<v Speaker 1>recipes are set up assuming that you're going to use
<v Speaker 1>a four and a half inch plant container that you
<v Speaker 1>would typically find in a garden center or a greenhouse,
<v Speaker 1>and the combination put into a fourteen inch size container
<v Speaker 1>for example, the combination Saffron sun Rise has two super
<v Speaker 1>Bell's Tropical Sunrise Caliber coas a great spiller, two Safari
<v Speaker 1>dusk South African flocks. Thank you to Stacy, we now
<v Speaker 1>know it's James Britannia as a filler and two super
<v Speaker 1>Tunia Saffron Finch. This is a great supertunia. And I've
<v Speaker 1>always longed for a really good yellow petunia or super tunia,
<v Speaker 1>and Stacey Saffron Finch fills that bill.
<v Speaker 2>It is such a great plan. I grew it one
<v Speaker 2>year and that thing did not stop flowering, which for
<v Speaker 2>a yellow petunia is really saying something. Now with these,
<v Speaker 2>we're going to continue with the recipes, but I do
<v Speaker 2>want you to know if you are not the type
<v Speaker 2>of person who wants to whip up a garden recipe.
<v Speaker 2>Just like with the annuals and other shrubs and perennials
<v Speaker 2>of the year, these recipes are also going to have
<v Speaker 2>higher availability in the garden center. So this helps garden
<v Speaker 2>centers when they are putting together their combinations to sell
<v Speaker 2>or they're buying them in from a grower. The growers
<v Speaker 2>are focusing on these, so these aren't just things that
<v Speaker 2>you can create yourself. There are also the recipes that
<v Speaker 2>you are going to see in higher quantities this year,
<v Speaker 2>so you can try a new hanging basket, or give
<v Speaker 2>your mom a new hanging basket for Mother's Day, or
<v Speaker 2>you know whatever, you're whatever you're looking for. So these
<v Speaker 2>are recipes that we can use as home gardeners, but
<v Speaker 2>there are also recipes that are given to growers, so
<v Speaker 2>you can kind of work this however you want to.
<v Speaker 1>I love that point, Staceye. So when you go to
<v Speaker 1>the garden center or greenhouse, uh, let's say Mother's Day
<v Speaker 1>weekend and get a hanging basket for mom our odds
<v Speaker 1>are some of those maybe these types of things, yes,
<v Speaker 1>combinations and you can access them on proven Winner's website.
<v Speaker 1>So a combination like moonlit lavender has two Supertunia Hoopla
<v Speaker 1>vivid orchid petunias, as we mentioned, is the petunia of
<v Speaker 1>the year. You combine with that supertunya men Vista white
<v Speaker 1>and again the Mini Vista series makes such a great
<v Speaker 1>filler in containers in hanging baskets, and then combine that
<v Speaker 1>with a Superbina violet ice verbina. Again, the combination is
<v Speaker 1>knock your socks off. Great Pixie powder has two double
<v Speaker 1>delight apple blossom begonias as spillers, two diamond frost Euphorbia
<v Speaker 1>a classic filler, and two Rockapoco coral reef double impatiens
<v Speaker 1>as a filler. You put these three together, these combinations
<v Speaker 1>of three, and boy, by the time you get to
<v Speaker 1>June here in the North, June July, you've got quite
<v Speaker 1>a presentation.
<v Speaker 3>For sure.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So I can't wait to start putting annuals in
<v Speaker 1>the ground. I love annuals and the season long color
<v Speaker 1>that they provide us. But again, as I mentioned in
<v Speaker 1>segment one, Stacy, the thing that blows me away is
<v Speaker 1>the frame of reference that I have looking back at
<v Speaker 1>the seventies and eighties, the cultivars that we have generally,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the approach where everyone had geranium spike and
<v Speaker 1>vincavine and a container. And what we have today blows
<v Speaker 1>my mind.
<v Speaker 2>Oh for sure, absolutely, And we're lucky to have it.
<v Speaker 2>So take advantage of it.
<v Speaker 3>Have fun. Start saving your pennies now.
<v Speaker 2>If you don't want to spend a lot, then you
<v Speaker 2>can spread out your winter budget and spend it all
<v Speaker 2>in May for your annuals.
<v Speaker 1>I like that line of thinking. Thanks Stacey, Thanks Rick,
<v Speaker 1>thanks Adriana, and thanks to you. Thanks for watching us
<v Speaker 1>on YouTube or listening to the podcast or our radio
<v Speaker 1>version of the show. Have a great week.