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Jimmy Turner
Director
of
Horticulture Research
  • Plant Trials
  • Collections
  • Garden Design
  • Purchase plants
  • Budget
  • Plant Geek….
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2007 Sponsors   THANK YOU!!!!
  • GOLD SPONSORS
    • Abbott-Ipco
    • Calloway's Nursery
    • Powell's Plant Farm
    • Green Lake Nursery
  • SILVER SPONSORS
    • Floranova
    • Green Valley Growers
    • Jackson's Wholesale Pottery
    • Proven Winners
    • S&G Flowers
    • Sakata Seed
    • Southwest Landscape
    • Raker's Acres, C.Raker & Sons, Inc.
    • Texas Nursery & Landscape Association
    • TruGro Expanded Shale


  • BRONZE SPONSOR
    • American Takii
    • Benary Seed
    • Berger Peat Moss
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    • Goldsmith Seed
    • Greenleaf Nursery Company
    • PanAmerican Seed
    • Southwest Perennials
    • Syngenta Professional Products
  • COPPER SPONSOR
    • Akron Garden Club
    • Ball Seed
    • Denton Co. Master Gardeners
    • Kinney Bonded Warehouse
    • Lifestyle Gardens
    • Steve's Leaves

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Arboretum
by the numbers
  • 1/2 million spring bulbs
  • 300,000 pansies/violas & others
  • 100,000 Transition plants
  • 350,000 summer color
  • 20,000 fall mums
  • 66 acres
  • 25 people!!!!
  • 380,000 visitors
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Women’s Garden Phase II
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McCaslan Sunken Garden
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Boswell Family Garden
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First Men’s Garden Club
Hardy Palm and Tropical Collection
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WaterWise Demonstration Bed
Texas Nursery & Landscape Region IV
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Dallas Blooms 2007
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Dallas Blooms Flower Power!
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Transition planting


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Pumpkin Fest
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Dallas Arboretum
Plant Trials
  • Bulb Trials
  • All America Selection
    (only Trial in Texas)
  • Annual Trials
  • Perennial
  • Woody Collections


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Why Trial Plants Here?
We have a unique climate!
  • If we can’t KILL it no one can!
  • Hot & Cold
  • Night & Day?
  • Wet & Dry
  • Long growing season
  • Soil- pH
  • Zone
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Data Taken
  • Weekly on every plant!
  • Scale of 1 to 5
    • 3 is average
    • 3.5 to 5 is excellent
  • Types
    • Leaf color & quality
    • Plant vigor
    • Floral/stalk display
    • Flowering uniformity
    • Overall Average
  • Days in above average bloom
  • Days in garden
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AWARDS
  • Arboretum Approved




  • North Texas Winners Circle



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BULB TRIALS 2006-2007
  • Bulb Field Day
  • Sept. 8, 2007
  • Same place!
  • 214 varieties total!
  • 129 Tulips
  • 50 Narcissus
  • 37 Miscellaneous


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MUM TRIALS 2006
  • 93 varieties total!
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Cool Season Annual Trials
2006-2007
  • 267 Pansy & Viola cultivars
  • 18 Dianthus cultivars
  • 35 Snapdragons cultivars
  • 355 other cool season
  • 350+ varieties this year in trials!
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Container Trials sponsored by
 Calloway’s Nursery
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2006 SUMMER
FLOWERING ANNUALS
  • 1451 Total Varieties
  • 30 Begonias
  • 49 Coleus
  • 36 Geraniums
  • 38 Impatiens
  • 47 Osteo
  • 87 Petunias
  • 116 Vinca


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Ageratum
‘Artist’ series
  • Proven Winners
  • Vegetative
  • I too was skeptical
    • Blue
    • Purple
    • Blue-Violet
    • Rose Imp.
    • Alto Blue
  • Self cleaning…
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Angelonia
‘Serena’ Series
  • PanAmerican
  • Seed grown
  • Compact
  • Doesn’t cycle
  • Heavy flowering
  • ‘Serena White’ !!! Absolute best Angelonia!
  • Best series too!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Arctotis
‘Lemon Drop’
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual-Veg
  • Not the showiest, but the longest lived.
  • Yellow daisies up through summer
  • Thick foliage
  • Spread to 3 ft
  • Arboretum Approved
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Begonia ‘Stara’Series
  • FloraNova
  • Annual Seed
  • Green leaf type
  • Flowered in full sun throughout summer
  • Beat out bronze leaf types!
  • 5 colors White scored highest
  • Testing lots this year!
  • This year blind Begonia Trial (Plant Date)
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Begonia ‘Babywing’
series
  • PanAmerican
  • Seed-Shade
  • Dwarf
  • Free flowering
  • Tough & Heat tolerant
  • Shade Only
  • Somebody GROW THEM!!!!
    Arboretum Approved
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Callie x Petunia
Supercal
  • Ball
  • Annual - Veg.
  • Sun
  • Larger flowers and less pH issue than Callies
  • Holding up well for us
  • First year in trials!
  • Several Colors
  • Arboretum Approved
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Calibrachoa
Milky Way
 Light Blue
  • Fides
  • Annual - Veg.
  • Sun
  • The longest lasting “Cal” we’ve tested
  • Different than all the rest
  • Less chlorosis
  • Arboretum Approved
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Celosia
‘Fresh Look’
  • AAS Winner
  • Benary (annual-seed)
  • Red & Yellow & Orange & Gold
  • Only one that has ever really done well for me
  • Don’t growth regulate
  • Continuous flowering
  • I like ‘New Look’ too
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Celosia
‘Wonderland’ Series
  • Annual-Seed
  • American Takii
  • Sun
  • Brains!
  • Big Brains!
  • Stop making bonsai out of Celosia!!!
  • Grow it in Gallons!


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Chrysocephaum ‘Flambe’ Series
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • 2 colors Orange-Yellow
  • Sun
  • Neat factor
  • Drought tolerant
  • Great in containers!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Cleome
‘Senorita Rosalita’
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Full Sun
  • Heavy flowering
  • Compact habit
  • Better branching
  • Lasts longer than any other Cleome for me!


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Cuphea
‘Flamenco’ series
 Rhumba, Samba
& Tango
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Full Sun
  • Heavy flowering
  • Compact habit
  • Gets 2 ft. across
  • Better branching
  • Large up-facing flowers
  • Arboretum Approved
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Cuphea
Flamenco
Cha-Cha
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • New Purple for this year!


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Cuphea
Flamenco
Totally Tempted
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • New introduction!
  • Short full and compact
  • Red Red Red
  • BEST NEW INTRO 2007


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Euphorbia
‘Diamond Frost’
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Proven Winners
  • Heat & Humidity no problems!
  • Sun or shade
  • Fine textured
  • Goes with everything
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Gaillardia
‘Torch’ series

  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual - Veg.
  • My favorite Gaillardia
  • Flowers all summer
  • Doesn’t die like the others
  • Red & Yellow
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Helenium amarum ‘Dakota Gold’
  • Ball Seed
  • Annual-Seed
  • Full sun
  • Mounding
  • Gold flowers all summer
  • Tough
  • Yes, it really is Bitterweed!
  • Best New Introduction 2005!
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Helichrysum ‘Helicia’ Series
  • Annual-Veg
  • Danziger
  • Silverleaf & Yellow
  • Sun
  • Neat factor
  • Drought tolerant
  • Great in containers!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Impatiens
‘Xtreme’ series
  • Goldsmith
  • Annual-seed
  • Shade
  • Fast growing
  • Large plants
  • Heavy flowering
  • Great for landscape use
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Impatiens, Trailing
Spellbound series
  • S&G Flowers
  • Annual-Seed
  • Shade
  • Horizontal branches trail
  • Excellent for baskets or covering large areas
  • Heavy flowering
  • Long bloom time
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Impatiens, Dbl.
Silhouette
Light Pink
  • GoldFisch
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Large flowers on medium sized plants
  • High scorer
  • Long bloom time
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Impatiens, Dbl.
Fiesta Ole
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Compact habit
  • Flowers are held at top of foliage
  • Strong bloomer
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Impatiens
Fancy Flowered
Fanciful series
  • PanAmerican
  • Annual-Seed
  • Semi-double flowers
  • Heavy flowering and great growth habit
  • Unique color combinations
  • Hawaiian mix & Salsa Mix
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Impatiens, Mini
Firefly series
  • Goldfisch
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Shade
  • Mounded plants with heavy flowering
  • Great for containers
  • Stays compact
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Impatiens
New Guinea
Divine
  • Annual-Seed
  • PanAmerican
  • Shade
  • Compact and floriferous
  • Good heat tolerance!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Impatiens
Sunpatiens
  • Annual-Veg
  • Sakata-Ecke
  • Sun or shade
  • I too was skeptical…
  • Let me share the story….
  • Arboretum Approved
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Impatiens Hybrid
Fanfare
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual-Shade ???
  • Spreading floriferous
  • Better than any New Guinea last year
  • Testing in Sun this year….
  • Spreading Orchid was highest scoring
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Lantana
Landmark Peach
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual
  • Sun
  • Compact habit and heavy flowering
  • Excellent high scoring series
  • Arboretum Approved
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Lantana
Landmark
Rose Glow
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual
  • Sun
  • Compact habit and heavy flowering
  • Best for containers
  • Excellent high scoring series
  • Arboretum Approved
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Laurentia
‘Starshine’
  • S&G Flowers
  • Annual-(well….)
  • Sun
  • 1” blue star like flowers on spreading green mats



  • Arboretum Approved
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Laurentia
‘Beth’s Blue’
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-(well….)
  • Sun
  • Ok, not really sure what it is but it flowers and flowers and flowers
  • 1” blue star like flowers on spreading green mats
  • Arboretum Approved
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Marigold
‘Zenith’ series
  • Floranova
  • Annual-Seed
  • Triploid
  • Most vigorous marigold we’ve tested
  •  Plants get to 2 1/2 ft. tall and never go out of bloom.
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Marigold
‘Sunburst series
  • Floranova
  • Annual-Seed
  • Triploid
  • Sterile plants covered in flowers
  • Most vigorous marigold we’ve tested
  • Plants get to 2 1/2 ft. tall and never go out of bloom.
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Pentas
‘Graffiti’ Series
  • Benary
  • Annual-Seed
  • Compact plants stay under 12” and are covered in large clusters of flowers in vivid colors
  • Sun or light shade
  • Arboretum Approved
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Pentas
‘Kaleidoscope’ Series
  • Benary
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun or Shade
  • Well branched plants that are intermediate between ‘Graffiti’ and ‘Butterfly/Galaxy’ types Arboretum Approved
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Phlox
‘Intensia’ series
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual - Sun
  • A surprise for me!
  • Usually a spring annual for us
  • Flowered all summer
  • Colors available
    • Cabernet
    • Lavender Glow
    • Lilac Rose
    • Pink
    • White
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Porphyrocoma ‘Maracas’
Brazilian Fireworks
  • Pan American
  • Annual-Seed
  • SHADE
  • Got shade? Deep shade?
  •  Well this one loves it.  The flowers are awesome, but the foliage makes it a worthy garden addition alone!
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Purslane
‘Rio’ Series
  • Annual-Veg
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Sun
  • Neat factor
  • Arboretum Approved
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Portulaca
grandiflora
‘Samba’ series
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Gro-Link & Yoder
  • Sun
  • Large growing plants that are underused for landscape or containers
  • Huge flowers in the worst heat!
  • Why has this plant been forgotten?
  • Arboretum Approved


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Salvia
‘Mystic Spires Blue’
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Annual/Perennial-Veg.
  • Basically dwarf form of Indigo Spires
  • Perfect as annual or use as perennial
  • Best blue salvia I’ve tested!!!!
  • Best new introduction 2006
  • Arboretum Approved
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Scaevola
Carissa’s Secret
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Proven Winners
  • Full sun
  • Compact mounding rather than spreading.



  • Arboretum Approved
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Scaevola
Mini Soft Blue
  • Danziger
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Full sun
  • Restrained growth habit and flowered heavily even during the hottest days of summer.
  • “Best Historic Scaevola Trialed”
  • Arboretum Approved
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Scaevola
‘Top Blue’
  • GGG
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Sun
  • Blue flowers
  • Compact habit
  • Heavy flowering
  • 1st year traveled
  • Arboretum Approved
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Torenia
‘Summer Wave’ series
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg
  • Sun or Shade
  • The largest at 5ft. Across
  • My favorite
  • Arboretum Approved


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Torenia
‘Moon’ series
  • Danziger
  • Annual-Veg
  • Sun or Shade
  • Golden, Yellow, White, Purple, Violet,
  • Arboretum Approved
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Torenia
‘Catalina’ series
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg
  • Sun or Shade
  • Arboretum Approved


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Turnera
‘Eldorado’
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg
  • Sun or Shade
  • 3 ft. by end of season
  • Arboretum Approved


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Vinca
‘Nirvanna’ & ‘Cora’
  • Goldfisch - Goldsmith
  • Annual   Veg - Seed
  • Ok, apparently miracles in plant breeding does occur
  • Aerial Phytophora resistant
  • Upright and Trailing Varieties
  • Best new introduction &  Best Vinca Trialed historically
  • Yeah, and I didn’t believe it either
  • 23 weeks in the garden.. Compared to… 8
  • Arboretum Approved
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Zinnia elegans
‘Magellan’ Series
  • Goldsmith
  • Best scoring Z. elegans variety
  • Taller plants will fully double flowers
  • Good disease resistance
  • Even flowering
  • Arboretum Approved



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Zinnia
‘Profusion
Coral Pink’
  • Sakata
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun
  • New addition to the series
  • Great color that doesn’t fade as bad as cherry
  • Arboretum Approved
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Zinnia
‘Profusion
Deep Cherry’
  • Sakata
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun
  • Darker version of ‘Cherry’ that doesn’t go “brown”.  Still fades but it’s attractive.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Zinnia
‘Profusion
Deep Apricot’
  • Sakata
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun
  • Darker version of ‘Apricot’
  • Great heat and disease resistance
  • My Beef!!!!!!!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Zinnia
‘Profusion
Double Cherry’
  • Sakata
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun
  • Double version of Cherry.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Zinnia
‘Zinnita’
  • Benary
  • Annual-Seed
  • Sun
  • Meatballs with pom-poms of flowers
  • Flowered heavily


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FOLIAGE
ANNUALS
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Acalypha ‘Ceylon’
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Full Sun


  • Arboretum Approved
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Acalypha wilkesiana Macafeana
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Full Sun
  • Orange salmon peach foliage
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alternanthera
‘Purple Knight’
  • Annual-Seed
  • Pan American
  • Sun
  • You can’t kill it
  • Grows like Kudzu
  • Shear it
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alternanthera ‘Red Runner’
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Gro-Link
  • Sun or Shade
  • Fast growing
  • Trailing
  • Excellent in containers
  • Reseeds
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Alternanthera ‘Burgundy’
  • Annual-Veg.
  • AgriStarts
  • Sun or Shade
  • Fast growing
  • Trailing
  • Excellent in containers
  • Reseeds
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Alternanthera ‘Party Time’
  • Itsaul Plants
  • Shade plant
  • Rambling to 18”
  • Great with Impatiens
  • Patented
  • Colors up more in summer
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia
Borneo Giant
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Sun or shade depending on water
  • Was “this” big from a 72 liner
  • HUGE leaves
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia
calidora
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Sun or shade depending on water
  • Was “this” big from a 72 liner
  • Same as earlier, but more “pups”
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia gagaeana var. Californica
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Sun or shade depending on water
  • Small rounder leaves and makes multiple pups
  • 4-5 ft.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia
Green Shield
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Shade
  • Deep green veins
  • Great in small containers for shade
  • 2 ft. tall
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia
New Guinea Gold
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Shade
  • Yellow variegated foliage once it heats up
  • Every plant is different
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia portei
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Sun or shade depending on water
  • Completely different
  • Has leaves like a philodendron or a Giant alien carrot!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Alocasia ‘Sarian’
  • Tropical-Veg
  • Agri-Starts
  • Shade to 5 ft.
  • Has white veins
  • Very upright leaves
  • Cool in containers


  • Arboretum Approved
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Basil
‘Pesto Perpetuo’
  • Annual-Seed
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • Gorgeous variegation
  • FAST Growing
  • Smells Good with compact foliage
  • Arboretum Approved
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Cyperus
‘King Tut’
  • Annual-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • It grow FAST!!!
  • Loves it hot and wet
  • Container made
  • Arboretum Approved
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Duranta
  • Annual-Veg
  • You need to make people plant these!!!
  • Use them in summer bedding schemes as back drops!
  • Always look good
  • Low water and high heat!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Eranthemum nigrum
‘Ebony’
  • Proven Winners
  • The hotter and more humid the better
  • Not showy alone
  • Mix with other colors for best effect
  • White flowers
  • Arboretum Approved
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Euphorbia cotinifolia
  • Proven Winners
  • Burgundy foliage on upright plant
  • Loves it hot and sunny
  • Use it for quick height in summer containers
  • Nothing eats it…..
  • Arboretum Approved
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Hibiscus acetosella
‘Maple Sugar’
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual to 5 ft.
  • Dark burgundy foliage all summer doesn’t fade
  • Prune if it gets too large
  • Flowers more than typical species
  • Loves the heat!
  • Full sun
  • Arboretum Approved
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Hibiscus acetosella ‘Haight Ashebury’
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual
  • Foliage is sprinkled with pale pink
  • 4-5 ft. tall
  • Containers or as backing color beds


  • Arboretum Approved
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Iresine
Blazin Rose
  • Annual-Veg
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Shade
  • Great color for shade height!
  • Great in containers
  • Arboretum Approved
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Manihot esculenta
Var. Tapioca
  • Annual-Veg
  • Burning Blistering Sun
  • Tough!
  • Colorful and different
  • 5 ft. tall and wide
  • It’s finally available and no one will buy it!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Pepper
‘Black Pearl’
  • Ball Seed
  • AAS Winner
  • Great foliage and fruit
  • Wonderful cut flower
  • 3 ft. tall
  • Full sun and will tolerate light shade!
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Ornamental Pepper
Trifetti
  • Tomato Grower’s Supply
  • Full Sun-Annual
  • Unusual foliage variegation
  • Purple fruit
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Ornamental Pepper
Nu Mex Twilight
  • Tomato Grower’s Supply
  • Full Sun-Annual
  • Like tiny Christmas lights
  • Large horizontally spreading plants
  • Fruits constantly
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Perilla
‘Vanilla’
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Sun or shade
  • Loves the heat
  • 3 ft. tall if not pinched
  • Prune it if too large
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Plectranthus
Blue Yonder
  • Proven Winners
  • Annual-Veg.
  • Shade or Sun
  • Upright foliage with bright blue flower spikes Arboretum Approved
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PERENNIALS
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Achillea
Gypsy White
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Fischer
  • Sun
  • Great in containers
  • Great all summer flowering perennial
  • White
  • Arboretum Approved
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Agastache
Heatwave Hot Pink
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Yoder
  • Sun
  • Flower spikes are full enough to see
  • Upright to 4 ft.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Agastache
Tutti Frutti
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Yoder-Greenleaf
  • Sun
  • Flower spikes are full enough to see
  • Upright to 4 ft.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Ajuga
Arboretum Giant
  • Terra Nova Nursery
  • Evergreen foliage
  • Blue spikes for 2 months
  • 12” tall flowers
  • Very vigorous
  • Great addition to shade perennial areas
  • Arboretum Approved
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Anthemis Suzanna Mitchell
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Blooms of Bressingham
  • Sun
  • Flowers for long period
  • Drought tolerant
  • Spreads
  • Doesn’t melt out!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Aster dumosus
‘Sapphire’
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • Earlier then A. oblongifolius
  • Compact and mounded
  • Deep purple-blue
  • Oh-and I HATE most asters
  • Arboretum Approved
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Aster praealtus
Willow Aster
  • Perennial-Veg.
  • Mountain States
  • Sun to part shade
  • Fall flowering incredible aster!
  • Right up there with A. oblongifolius
  • Texas native!
  • Symphyotrichum praealtum
  • Arboretum Approved
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Calyophus ‘Southern Belle’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial
  • Full Sun
  • Yellow flowers from May to July
  • Thick carpet of foliage
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Calamintha
nepeta var. nepeta
Lesser Calamint
  • Plant Delights
  • Perennial
  • Full sun
  • Flowers from June to October
  • Clouds of pale blue (look white) flowers
  • Arboretum Approved


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Canna
‘Tropical’ series
  • American Takiii
  • Perennial
  • Seed grown
  • Fast growing perennial that should be used more in bedding schemes
  • 4 colors now
  • Arboretum Approved
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Carex
‘Bronzita’
  • Kieft Seeds
  • Perennial
  • Sun or shade
  • Yes it’s brown
  • Try it!
  • Love it used in perennial gardens as groundcover
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Chrysanthemum ‘Broadway Lights’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial
  • Full Sun
  • Pale yellow flowers that fade to white
  • Long flowering time
  • Dwarf habit
  • Arboretum Approved
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Colocasia
‘Cranberry Stem’
  • Agristarts
  • Perennial
  • Full Sun or light shade
  • Likes lots of water
  • Better than red stem
  • Put it in a pot so you can see the stems!
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Convolvulus
sabataius
‘Blue Casbah’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial
  • Full Sun or light shade
  • Blue flowers all summer
  • Spreads and forms a mat
  • Great cascading over containers
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Echinacea
‘Double Delight’
  • Holtex
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Compact Habit
  • Multi-branched plants
  • Scented
  • Repeat flowers


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Euphorbia
‘Efanthia’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial
  • Red & Green foliage
  • Winter hardy
  • Evergreen
  • Needs drainage
  • Try it in winter containers.
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Euphorbia ‘Helena’
  • Proven Winners
  • Great in containers
  • Full sun
  • Needs perfect drainage
  • Foliage gets bronzer in winter
  • Chartreuse flowers
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Gaura
‘Geyser’ series
  • Syngenta
  • Only gaura I have liked so far!
  • Heavy flowering
  • Compact
  • Doesn’t go “weedy”


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Geranium
‘Tiny Monster’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial
  • Full Sun or light shade
  • Mounding habit
  • Great hot pink 1” flowers all spring into summer
  • Arboretum Approved
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Hibiscus
‘Luna’ Series
  • PanAmerican
  • Short with large flowers
  • More compact then ‘Frisbee’ or ‘Disco Belle’ Seed grown variety
  • Should be used as a bedding plant more!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Hibiscus
‘Fantasia’
  • Fleming Bros.
  • Perennial-Veg.
  • Large flowers with deep plum bluish flowers
  • Heavy branching
  • Great group of hibiscus!!!!
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Kostelezkya virginica
Salt Marsh Mallow
  • Plant Delights
  • Perennial
  • Full sun
  • Pink mini-hibiscus flowers (2”) all summer on upright plants to 4ft.
  • Arboretum Approved


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Ligularia
Jitsuko’s Star
  • Plant Deights
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Shade
  • Glossy foliage
  • Double yellow flowers in late summer into fall
  • Arboretum Approved
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Malvaviscus
Pam Puryear
  • Greg Grant
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Shade or Sun
  • Pink flowered turk’s cap


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Monarda
bartlettii x fistulosa
‘Peter’s Purple’
  • Perennial
  • 6 ft. tall
  • No staking
  • Mildew resistant
  • Long blooming season
  • Vibrant purple color
  • Not overly invasive
  • Arboretum Approved
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Muehlenbeckia
Creeping Wire Vine
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • Hardy to zone 8
  • Strange fern like creeper for sun
  • Likes it dry
  • Arboretum Approved
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Muhlenbergia rigens
Deer Muhly
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Sun
  • Like a green sparkler
  • Will tolerate standing water in spring and bone dry drought in summer



  • Arboretum Approved
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Panicum amarum
‘Dewey Blue’
  • Hoffman Nursery
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Sun
  • Incredible foliage!
  • Found by Ricke Darke
  • Arboretum Approved
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Pennisetum
alopecuroides ‘Moudry’
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Sun
  • Large mounded plants to 4 ft.
  • Black-purple fuzzy flowers from Sept to…
  • May need to divide after a few years
  • Retail in 3 gal.
  • Arboretum Approved
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Pennisetum
 ‘Fairy Tales’
  • Proven Winners
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Sun
  • Mounded habit
  • Constant flower production
  • Incredible when backlit
  • Arboretum Approved
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Prunella
‘Purple Loveliness’
  • Perennial
  • Compact mounds of deep green foliage
  • Light shade or sun
  • 10”
  • Violet pink flowers spikes (not pink)
  • Long flower period
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Pycnanthemum muticum
Mountain Mint
  • Perennial-Sun
  • Texas native
  • Light shade
  • Great with grasses
  • Hardy to zone 4
  • Use it in mass
  • Butterflies love it
  • Smells great….


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Salvia elegans
‘Golden Delicious’
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Proven Winners
  • Sun
  • Yellow foliage with red flowers
  • Blooms like crazy
  • Smells like
  • Arboretum Approved
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Salvia farinacea
‘Henry Duelberg’
&
‘Augusta Duelberg’
  • Greg Grant
  • Perennial
  • 4 ft. tall
  • Just bigger and better
  • The best “mealycup” sage!
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Salvia greggi
‘Navajo Rose’
  • Ball Floraplant
  • Perennial-Veg.
  • Sun
  • Compact habit and heavy flowering
  • Fast growing plants
  • More branching than standar types
  • Arboretum Approved
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Salvia greggi
‘Teresa’
  • ???
  • Perennial-Veg.
  • Sun
  • Incredible pale pink to white flowers
  • Great compact habit
  • Tough
  • Arboretum Approved
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Salvia transylvanica
‘Blue Cloud’
  • Pan American
  • Perennial-Sun
  • Why doesn’t anyone grow this?
  • Better than any S. x superba variety
  • Likes it dry!!!
  • Tall 2 ft. spikes of flowers
  • Arboretum Approved
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Sinningia tubiflora
  • Yucca Do
  • Full Sun or Light Shade
  • White flowers all summer
  • Spreading
  • Very drought tolerant
  • Zone 7 hardy
  • Arboretum Approved
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Sinningia ‘Tante’
  • Yucca Do
  • Full Sun or Light Shade
  • Peach flowers
  • Mounding
  • Great flower power!
  • Very drought tolerant
  • Zone 7 hardy
  • This plant will be popular…
  • Arboretum Approved
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Un-“New”-Usuals
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Agave bracteosa
Squid Agave
  • Mountain States
  • Perennial - Sun to Shade
  • Will grow where you plant Hosta
  • Container plant!
  • No stickers!
  • Arboretum Approved
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Allium canadensis var. mobielensis
  • Plant Delights
  • Perennial
  • A flowering form of one of our worst weeds
  • Xeric to regular garden
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Aloe aristata
Lace Aloe
  • Plant Delights
  • Perennial
  • Yes I said perennial
  • Least it has been for 3 years for me
  • No burn even with ice!
  • Looks like a Haworthia
  • Mini mounding succulent
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Althaea
‘Chiffon’ & ‘Satin’ series
  • Spring Meadow Nursery
  • Shrub
  • I think it’s actually better cut back hard every year
  • Double flowers don’t ball
  • Sterile so it flowers more
  • Large flowers
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Banana
‘Bordelon’
  • Agri-Starts
  • Perennial
  • Full sun
  • Flowers!!!
  • Burgundy foliage
  • Hardy
  • Doesn’t tatter as bad as other varieties
  • Arboretum Approved
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Begonia cucullata
  • Perennial-Veg
  • Plant Delights
  • Shade
  • Might be a weed?
  • But it is winter & Summer hardy!!!
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Begonia
withlacoochee
  • Shade Tropical
  • Burgundy and grey/green foliage
  • White flowers constantly
  • 3 to 4 ft. trailing habit
  • Arboretum Approved
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Cordyline
Miss Andrea
  • Shade to Sun Tropical
  • Agri-Starts
  • Why can’t I get these for containers?
  • Funky colors and foliage
  • Nothing eats them!


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Cordyline
Miss Ruby
  • Shade to Sun Tropical
  • Agri-Starts
  • Why can’t I get these for containers?
  • Funky colors and foliage
  • Nothing eats them!


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Cordyline
Wiley’s Gold
  • Shade to Sun Tropical
  • Agri-Starts
  • Why can’t I get these for containers?
  • Funky colors and foliage
  • Nothing eats them!


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Cordyline
Plantation
  • Shade to Sun Tropical
  • Agri-St