occupy your flush beds and garden pot with these new yearly bloom kind for colored blossom all season long .
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Each year , theBetter Homes & Gardens Test Gardengrows new plant follow onto the grocery . Why ? So we can aid gardeners figure out which varieties are truly outstanding , establish on their real world performance . And we signify material world — we do n’t baby these plants other than perhaps a little more persevering weed than a rest home gardener might do . Our plant have to contend with rabbits , bugs , hail , heat , humidness , floods , and other less than ideal urban conditions .
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Of the raw one-year varieties coming onto the market this spring , here are the single that stand out though all the challenges , according to Test Garden Manager Sandra Gerdes .
Sandra Gerdeshas been the Better Homes & Gardens Test Garden Manager since the garden was start out in 1998 in Des Moines , Iowa .
Bodacious Smoky Jazz Salvia
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unexampled to the Southern Living Plant Collection , this hybridsalviais really a perennial in USDAHardiness zone 8 - 10 , but it works well as a summertime one-year elsewhere . In the BHG Test Garden , we spring up it as a " thriller " plant in enceinte containers , either on its own or with other flowers like petunias .
" This tall salvia is a definite center - catcher with magenta peak , dark calyx and stems that pour down against bright green leafage , " Gerdes says . The heyday also attract plenty of pollinator . This salvia can produce up to 3 feet marvellous and wide , though it stayed a little smaller than that in our containers .
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SweetSunshine Blueberry Vein Petunia
Blueberry Vein is a new color in Ball ’s SweetSunshine line of double - floweredpetunias . These vibrant pinkish purple petunias characteristic colored veins , creating an eye - catching two - pure tone essence on these petal - packed flowers .
" This bivalent petunia , with its elegant frills and affray , added a fashionable element to our assorted container , " says Gerdes . She paired it with ' Bodacious Smokey Jazz ' Salvia , which nicely echoed the darker colored mineral vein on the petals .
Sunfinity Double Yellow Sunflower
New to Syngenta ’s Sunfinity line , ' Double Yellow ' is a vigorousannual sunflowerthat grows a little over 3 feet tall and about 2.5 pes wide . Its size works well in containers or garden beds , and the stems are long enough to makeexcellent cut efflorescence .
" This well - branched helianthus was covered in cheery flowers all summertime with alittle deadheading , " state Gerdes . " Pollinators had no trouble find this multi - blossom beauty , " she bring .
Lake Como Salvia
Part of the Salgoon series of salvias that extend heavily branching plant life with lots of blossom , ' Lake Como ' is a sweetheart . It produces scepter of lustrous dark flowers from early summer into fall on compact flora that top out around 18 inches improbable .
" If you ’re looking for a new wild blue yonder for your garden , you ’ll jazz this undimmed , shaggy salvia as much as the hummingbirds do . Give itfull sunwith good drain and you ’ll be smiling all summertime , " say Gerdes .
Amore Pink Princess Petunia
The Amore furrow of petunias wins the prize for the cutest one-year peak on the market . The radiation pattern on the petal work little hearts that total a tinge of romance wherever you grow them . ' Pink Princess ' is a new colour in the serial , producing confect pink and white flowers all summertime long .
" We grow these colorful charmers inhanging baskets , " suppose Gerdes . " The plants formed goodly mounds of foliage that were always covered with flowers , " she adds .
Lake Onega Salvia
Another young colour in the Salgoon series , ' Lake Onega ' gets about 2 feet improbable when in bloom , a perfect size for large container . Its wands of purple flowers are pollinator attractor , and keep bloom from midsummer into fall .
" For a dark , sour vibe , add this salvia with its dark purpleness , almost black bloom to your landscape painting . Deadheading will kick upstairs blooms all summer , giving you plenty of colored additions for bouquets , " Gerdes says .
Cannova Gold Leopard Canna
Varieties in Ball ’s Cannova serial ofcannasare bred to flower earlier than other canna lilies . ' Gold Leopard ' is a new plus to the collection , propose yellow petals with orange fleck . Plus the plant are more compact , growing 3 - 4 feet tall .
" They ’re the double-dyed sizing for containers , where the come to dotted flush will add some tropic genius , " says Gerdes . She urge keeping them well watered , and deadheading the faded flowers to keep the blossom coming all summertime .
Crazytunia Black & White
The Crazytunia series is known for its sheer color jazz band and tumid flowers . ' Black and White ' is exactly what it voice like : staring clean flowers with a black eye . sinister vein radiate out from the center to create a striking contrast against the snowy petal .
" There ’s nothing more classical than black and white , especially when you plant this petunia in a voguish black container , " say Gerdes . You could desegregate ' inglorious and White ' with ' Black Mamba , ' another Crazytunia potpourri that ’s all black , to amplify the moody burden .
Bandolero Lychee Lantana
Lantanais a tough , warmth and drouth broad plant with flowers that draw in butterflies and other pollinators . Bandolero lantana from Syngenta are spawn to have larger flowers , more vigorous ontogeny , and lots of branching on thickset plants . Several colors are available , and ' Lychee ' is one of the newest .
" The bright pinkish and yellow heyday of Bandolero Lychee covered knee - high plants along our patio bulwark , stopping pollinators and garden visitors in their tracks throughout the season , " says Gerdes .
Petunia Itsy Pink
Itsy genus Petunia developed by Syngenta have minuscule , almost delicate looking flowers on smartly fork , compact plant life . Several coloring material are uncommitted and ' Itsy Pink ' is one of the newest .
" You wo n’t need more than a couple of these plant to fill your hang baskets . modest , but mighty in flower power , Itsy Pink bloomed all summer withoutneeding to be deadheaded . "
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