WHAT'S EXCITING FOR THIS WEEK ! ! !

Vinca 'Jams 'N Jellies Blackberry' - 4196

This is a 2012 All American Selection early release item and will have limited availability.

Extremely unique, velvety deep purple with white eye flower color will add excitment to summer gardens. This superb accent plant will work beautifully in Americana color schemes and in combination with blue, pink, white or lavender. In some settings, the flower petals appear almost black, making this color a designer's delight. Easy to grow plants have excellent tolerance to drought and heat. Mature plants will reach 10-14 inches tall making them a perfect medium height divider. The 2-inch flowers are complimented by deep green shiny leaves creating a rich background for the richly dark flowers.

Vinca 'Jams 'N Jellies
American Pie Mix' - 4197

A three color mixture with the all american selection Blackberry - this new series is going to be very exciting. Just entering inventory now, your opportunity to grow this item for the Spring still exists.

FOOTNOTES - Our monthly Newsletter is available online NOW!

• Some featured items that are new for this year - plus information from Rich that will not only interest you, but will likely make you smile.
• Every month there is a quiz where you could earn $50 off your next order with us!
  

Tomato Sun Gold - 8493

Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes leave customers begging for more. Vigorous plants start yielding early and bear right through the season. Tendency to split precludes shipping, making these an exclusively fresh market treat. The taste can’t be beat. Indeterminate stake habit.

Days to maturity: 57

Now is the time to look at placing your mum orders!

• We have programs that include all of the genetics from Yoder and GroLink.
• Choose from our program from Raker which offers both ‘no-pinch’ Belgian and Yoder mum rooted liners in the 50 count strip tray, there is even an option to have them pinched prior to shipping. This program will give you a delivered price, plus BIG discounts for orders placed 12 weeks in advance and volume discounts starting at 16 trays or 800 plants.
• Another option would be Syngenta, they are offering unrooted cuttings as well as rooted liners in a 50 strip tray and 160 count ‘high density’ tray for freight savings. Both programs and additional items like asters and montauk daisies
• check out the programs at http://www.germaniaseed.com/mums

WHAT'S EXCITING FOR THIS MONTH ! ! !

Ornamental Pepper Black Olive - 1967

This is a 2012 All American Selection early release item and will have limited availability.

The AAS Judges said this entry was a standout, especially in the southern gardens where heat was a major presence during the 2011 trials. All season long this beauty kept its upright habit with nicely draping leaves and dark purple/black fruit which appeared in small clusters along the stems. As summer progresses, the fruits mature to red giving a beautiful contrast against the dark purple foliage and bright purple flowers. Retailers and growers can sell this multi-use ornamental as a 20-inch border plant, a great color splash for containers or as a cut flower in mixed bouquets.

Ghost Pepper - 8162

This is a early release item and will have limited availability.

Very hot variety! Green peppers ripening to a red, yellow orange and chocolate color are 2 to 3-inches long and 1-inch wide. The rough, dented fruit is very unique and abundant under the best of conditions. This variety should not be taken lightly as the fruits are astonishing in their scoville and heat rating. They should not be eaten by themselves and care should be used when handling. A prized variety for the hot pepper gardener! This variety is associated with many common names including Bhut Jolokia, Naga Jolokia, Ghost Chili. 950,000+ Scovilles.

Days to maturity: 95

Gomphrena Fireworks - 2250PE

Weeks to flower: 13-14.

Order Online now - you still have time to grow this brand new item for Spring and Summer sales.

Native Wonders

Great native plants for American gardeners.
When we decided to expand our Native Wonders collection, we wanted more than a litany of plants with North American bloodlines. If native status were the only qualification, this list could be a lot longer. We didn’t include every plant we grow whose ancestry is rooted in the Americas. Nor did we aim to please the purist who defines "native" down to the narrowest possible provenance. Our main criterion: Ornamental value.

Native Wonders gives growers the ingredients necessary to assemble a comprehensive, marketable natives program. Retailers get two legitimate selling points: Beauty and authenticity. Most importantly, Native Wonders gives the consumer an attractive selection of truly garden-worthy grasses and perennials, with an important plus: Gardeners can feel good about putting these plants into the American landscape. Because that’s exactly where they belong.

click here for a full listing of this program

Cut Flowers - Specialty items and sizes for your Success

We are proud to offer you several new and exciting programs. Enclosed are unique product choices that we feel will help contribute to your success, differentiate yourself from other growers, while earning the profit margins you deserve. We are committed to you, the cut flower grower, and will continually strive to enhance our offerings and services to you.

Click here to download this program - 10 pages

Already placed a seed or plant order for $250?  You are eligible for the 250,000 tag price on your Pixie tag order - a color picture tag for about 2 cents each.

Click here to download an electronic version of the tag order blank.  File format is Excel - enter your quantities and email me back an order.  We are seeing shipping turnaround on tags at 3-5 days!

Would you prefer a hard copy of the order form?  Reply with an email or call me at 800-380-4721 and we can send you one out today!