Situations & Solutions

What was missing: Easy, affordable varieties to invigorate your program, and deliver upscale appeal to consumers and landscapers.

The Fantastics Solution: Top-performance, seed-grown varieties that offer the elegance of premium products at a terrific value.

Fantastic Flowers™

NEW Veranda Scutellaria

• Need for heat tolerant Summer performers
• Need more interesting varieties for shade

The Veranda solution

• Heat lover and can tolerate high-humidity
• Shade baskets and containers – perfect for consumer to put on patio around the house in the shade
  
  

Serena™ Angelonia

Industry situation

• Vegetative Angelonia requires pinching
• Pinching results in less desirable asymmetrical growth
• Vegetative types are not well-suited for in-ground use and are just not economical

The Serena solution

• Develop seed Angelonia with excellent branching
• Serena does not require pinching
• Grows symmetrically, more appealing
• Fantastic in-ground performance

High Tide Ageratum

Industry situation

• Dwarf type ageratums lack vigor to make it in the landscape through the whole Summer
• Dwarf types don't "bury their dead" and quickly become unsightly with loads of dead, brown blooms on top of the plant
• Ageratum is one of the few bedding plant classes where bright blue is available, and not having it broadly available in the landscape is a hole in the market

The High Tide solution

• High Tide was specifically developed to outperform standard dwarf bedding in the landscape
• Bred to branch well so that it creates a mound of color in the landscape and provides structure and heights; also useful in providing height and structure in mixed combination with other plants
• Provide bright blue flowers and complementary, essential white
• The superior vigor and branching also gives High Tide the ability to have a continuous supply of new, bright blooms to provide a bright display in the landscape
  
  

Diamonte Diascia, Poetry Nemesia & Enchantment Linaria

Industry situation

• Limited number of products that survive in cool temperatures with pansies
• Color in demand for cool season
• Demand for economical crops to complement pansies
• Need for landscape color
• Much of the existing unpatented vegetative material is infected with Scrophularia mottle virus

The Fantastic Flowers Solution

• Create high end, colorful varieties that are reliable and affordable to grow along with pansies
• Thrive in cool temperatures
• Create seed items with excellent garden performance for the landscape
• Withstand heat for Fall season retail sales
• Seed varieties do not have issues with Scrophularia mottle virus
• Excellent garden and container performance
• Linaria comes with the added bonus of fragrance and long bloom time!
  
  

Dakota Gold Helenium

Industry situation

• Growers requested a "yellow flower that will last through the Summer in the south"
• Daisy shape is still a main sell for consumers

The Dakota Gold solution

• Developed to withstand hot southern Summers
• Tolerant of cooler temperatures as well
• Bright yellow color in daisy shape – fast sell-through at retail

Fantastic Foliage™

NEW Maracas Brazilian Fireworks (Porphyrocoma pohliana)

Industry situation

• Need for heat-tolerant Summer performers
• Need more interesting varieties for shade

The Maracas solution

• Heat-loving tropical foliage that tolerate high-humidity
• Unique and new item for shade containers/patios/even indoors
  
  

NEW Live Wire Isolepis

Industry situation

• Current varieties propagated by division
• Time consuming and expensive

The Live Wire solution

• Developed an economical seed variety
• Instant volume!