Ecke

Our first stop on our first day. Ecke met us with a great assortment of of breakfast treats and big smiles. They changed the layout of their event and focused on lifestyle settings of plantings and it worked very nicely.
In the past two years I haven't got too excited at this stop, but their new Arcadia begonia series was quite impressive. This vegetative series is bred by Benary and looks to be a different take on their Illumination begonia series from seed. The new Arcadia has much larger and more doubled blooms and they seem to be more evenly dispersed throughout the plant as well. The other change is that while it still has a trailing habit, it seems to be better branched and at least at this age of plant growth, not as trailing. This is a good feature as Illuminations are almost impossible to ship on racks, and a bugger for customers to bring home in their car without breaking them either.











The other interesting new item was a coleus with a compact habit called Tempest.



Food: Strawberry Yogurt Parfait, Banana Nut Muffin