Looking for some new plants to add to your garden this spring? Here are some new varieties being offered by Heritage Perennials, of Abbotsford, one of the prime suppliers of top notch perennials to garden centres across Canada.
New varieties of Itoh peony. Paeonia – This new breed of peonies, offering the hardiness of garden types plus the exotic flower colour of tree kinds. Heritage is offering varieties that have been hard to get. Look for ‘Belle Toulousaine’ with stunning double fuchsia flowers and ‘Duchesse de Lorraine’, the first fully double, yellow Itoh that can produce blooms with 120 to 150 petals, more than even Bartzella.
Ligularia ‘BBQ Banana’: This new plant puts up clusters of golden yellow daisy-like flowers, held above dark chocolate brown heart shaped foliage. It flowers mid- to late-summer and grows to 90 cm (3 feet).
Dianthus ‘Devon Cottage Pinball Wizard’: The Devon Cottage series of pinks offers fragrant blooms from spring to fall. A sensation new plant, blooms form over a low mound of grassy blue-green leaves. This selection has fancy pink and white striped flowers. Great for borders or in containers. SuperTrouper, a red and white variety will also be available this spring. It is being marketed to mark the Canada 150th anniversary celebration.
Sedum Sunsparkler Lime Twister: This forms a low, dense carpet of cream and green variegated foliage which lasts throughout the growing season and produces rose flower clusters. Cream-colored edges turn to red during cool spring and fall weather.
Phlox subulata ‘Running with Scissors’: This moss phlox is considered supercharged in terms of flower power, vigour and durability. In early to mid spring, masses of large, fragrant, light to medium violet flowers appear with strongly cleft and blunt petals similar to training scissors. Flowers lasts up to six weeks and often rebloom in fall. The dark green foliage is similar to rosemary.
Coreopsis UpTick Series: This is a great set of plants for injecting a vibrant colour in summer. Look for Gold and Red and Cream and Red.They are famous for being floriferous from May to September.
Campanula poscharskyana Adansa series: This group of campaula offers a variety of colours from pink, purple and white flowers. Plants form a spreading patch of small green leaves. They have starry purple flowers beginning in late spring and blooming for weeks.
Phygelius Tye Dye ‘Radiant Red’: Cape Fuchsia are native to South Africa, but are surprisingly hardy perennials. Plants make a bushy, upright mound of green foliage. They have showy clusters of fuchsia-like firecracker flowers beginning in mid-summer and continuing into the fall. This selection from the Tye Dye series features masses of dark, rosey-red, trumpet flowers with a yellow throat.
Lavandula ‘Super Blue’: This strain has grey-green foliage with rich, deep blue flower spikes appearing on short stems. Excellent winter hardiness and heat and humidity tolerance. Prune lightly in early spring.
