Product Profiles

Adriana Heikkila

Action Packaging Systems
The Gold Seal Horticultural Label Applicator is for potted plant growers. The GS-80 heavy-duty label applicator is designed to perform flawlessly in harsh outdoor labeling environments and comes complete with label slitter/rewinder. For details, visit booth 711 at Cultivate’14, call (888) 845-2235 or visit www.GoldSealApplicators.com.

ANC Technology
The Ancnoble Irrigation Controller uses a moisture sensor to control when plants are watered. When the soil is dry, the moisture sensor triggers the controller to start irrigation. Then, when the moisture sensor detects sufficient moisture in the soil, the controller shuts the water off. Use in garden beds or container plantings.

Armitage’s Greatest Perennials & Annuals App
Dr. Allan Armitage has developed a new gardening phone app for smartphones. Users can peruse his favorite perennials and annuals, understand why they were chosen and download tips/videos for success in home landscapes. Independent garden centers can be listed for free.

Conard-Pyle
Tahitian Treasure Radtreasure represents a breakthrough in breeding as one of the first garden roses with all the great attributes of a landscape shrub rose—strong color, good habit, good rebloom and very disease resistant. It’s hardy to Zone 5.

Cool Springs Press
“Square Foot Gardening with Kids” is a fun, colorful book that introduces kids to the joy of growing vegetables in your very own wooden box. Author and creator of the Square Foot Gardening Method Mel Bartholomew shares the lessons he has learned over two generations of Square Foot Gardening so you can share the experience with the kids in your life.

Danziger “Dan” Flower Farm
A colorful addition to the Cascadias series, Petunia Cascadias Autumn Mystery blooms in varied flowers. At first it blossoms in yellow with a brown center and as the flowers mature it turns to cream shades with a purple center. Lush flowering and an excellent branching structure.

Darwin Perennials
Gardeners love the bright, rich flowers of Sombrero Echinacea. It blooms on sturdy, compact stems with proven hardiness (Zones 4 to 9) for years of enjoyment in the garden. Available in spicy, vibrant colors like new Adobe Orange (pictured).

Dümmen Group
BARTELS Phlox Spring Series is the best creeping phlox on the market. A full 10 days earlier than other subulata types, this extremely uniform evergreen phlox is a must have for early spring. With six colors and a long-flowering first year, it packs a powerful punch in the garden or in a container. Phlox Spring Series is hardy in Zones 3 to 8.

Emerald Coast Growers
Pennisetum Majestic bears long, broad, rich purple-red leaves. Color deepens even in bright sun, strong heat and humidity. It has pennisetum characteristics like exceptional vigor, but with the look of phormium. Reaches about 6 ft. tall. Hardy in Zones 7 to 11.

Growe Industries LLC
The Joseph Bentley Digging Spade boasts a stainless steel head that has a handy tread edge at the top. Ideal for digging, turning the soil, planting trees and flowers and more. The spade has an extra-long steel shaft joined to a wooden handle made of solid ash and features a contoured wishbone grip for greater comfort.

GSky Plant Systems Inc.
GSky Wall Gardens use 4-in. potted plants—just pop them in! The Wine Crate Vertical Garden is perfect for fresh herbs, flowers and foliage of any type. Made of solid wood and handsomely finished. Enjoy year-round indoors or outdoors.

HGTV HOME Plant Collection
Elegant Sunrise dahlia is a showstopper both planted by itself or used in an annuals mix. It can also be found in the big and bold Fierce Fiesta mix. This upright dahlia matures to 12 to 18-in. height by 12 to 18-in. width and blooms spring and summer.

PlaceTile Designs LLC.
These adorable Gingko leaf ceramic markers, sized 5 in. tall by 2.5 in. wide, sit upon powder-coated matching steel stems. Durable, yet fun and functional and wipes off easily. Label potted plants or herbs, mark gift flower bouquets or pots, or use as a place card/party favor.

Plants Nouveau LLC.
Hydrangea macrophylla Hokomarevo Everlasting Revolution not only flowers on new and old wood, making it sure to bloom for everyone, but the flowers fade to magical color combinations of deep pink, maroon and true blue, adding green highlights as they age over a long period of time.

Premier Tech Horticulture
OMRI-certified PRO-MIX Vegetable and Herb Mix is a peat-based mix formulated with natural ingredients and suitable for vegetable and herb gardens. It contains an organic fertilizer that provides gradual feeding and MycoActive, a natural plant stimulant that helps plants be more stress resistant by increasing nutrient and water uptake.

Quince Creek LLC
Vitax Slug Gone Wool Pellets are a naturally organic way to keep slugs and snails off plants for an entire season. Slug Gone is made from 100% wool waste. Wool pellets self-felt to form a natural barrier to slugs and snails, while also acting as mulch, a weed and thermal barrier, and will biodegrade to add organic matter to the garden.

Selecta
Double dare to be different—the MiniFamous Double series of calibrachoa has the most colors of any double calis! New Purple is a key must-have color and Chiffon (pictured) is incredible in mono or mixed containers and baskets.

Sterling International Inc.
RESCUE! Stink Bug Traps received a U.S. patent for stink bug attractant, murgantiol. This new attractant starts catching stink bugs early in spring, after they emerge from hibernation. It’s effective throughout summer and fall. New attractants are on store shelves now.

Suntory Flowers Ltd.
Sun Parasol Pretty mandevilla varieties offer superior branching to produce the highest flower count. Colors include Pink, Deep Pink, Crimson and Deep Red (pictured). Foliage is glossy, thinner and vining—ideal for trellises. Pretty varieties are more cold tolerant than other mandevillas.

Sweet-Seed Micro Batch Wild Bird Feed
All-natural Sweet-Nectar concentrates and ready-to-use nectar formulas are dye-free and infused with a proprietary blend of steam-distilled wildflower and fruit extracts, carefully created from the flowers and fruits most visited by hummingbirds, orioles or butterflies. Fortified with calcium and electrolytes.

SwingArm USA
The ultimate swinging hanger swings with ease and is heavy-duty, supporting up to 35 lbs. With six different models, outreaches ranging from 20 in. to 36 in. and a universal mounting system, there’s a model for everyone. Made in the USA.

Terra Nova Nurseries Inc.
The Penstemon Cha Cha series features four varieties: Hot Pink, Lavender (pictured), Purple and Pink, best grown in Zones 6 to 9 with full sun. Penstemon Cha Cha Lavender is elegant and free flowering with smooth, bright lavender trumpets that open week after week. This variety will make an excellent hedge with measurements of 20- in. height/20-in. width/25-in. flower height.

Walters Gardens Inc.
This truly short, compact selection of Russian Sage named PEEK-A-BLUE tops out at just 2 ft. tall, notably shorter than others on the market. Very lacy, silvery green leaves line the silvery stems topped with lavender blue flowers for months beginning mid-summer. Zones 4 to 9.

Wayside Gardens
The Color Carnival Mix is an assortment of different forms and colors of Eucomis. A hybrid cross between the popular Eucomis vanderMerwei and the lesser-known Eucomis autumnalis, this mix combines the best of both varieties—big blooms that last for months and in an impressive variety of colors. This South African native is cold hardy from USDA Zones 7 to 9. GP