I have a strong feeling that 2013 is the year of the 'Begonia'. Every stop today has had a prominent new trailing basket begonia they are promoting. We probably will see a lot more beginias on this trip too. Bonfires and Million Kisses type trailing angel wing begonia have skyrocketed in sales in the last few years and you can see that all breeding programs are focused on developing new intros for that class.
Santa Cruz Begonia bolivinesus(sp?)
Very exciting.. First from seed! Very self branching and no risk of blind (non-branching) plants. I did feel the plant vigor was good but the flower size and stem caliper seemed bit smaller than the traditional vegetative types . I don't think that it is a big issue, but something to point out.
This 10" hanging basket is 3ppp 8 weeks planted from a 288 plug.... No pinching needed either.
A new blue ageratum for flats! No name yet, but that should come soon. Benary is the breeder/producer of Hawaii Blue, but they didn't exactly say what the fate of would be of that variety would be. Jim Nau said he will be watching his summer trials at Ball trials and report how this compares. I have to think they are introducing this due to the yearly seed production issues with Hawaii. No extra colors yet, but hopefully in the future. I would love to get the old assortment back from the Hawaii series of past.
Food: Tort au Choux (French pork & cabbage puff pastry), cheese quiche, fresh strawberry shortcake.
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