The Ball Colegrave Annual Summer Showcase is one of the UK ’s premier deal events . With over four acres of seasonal plant displays and variety show trials , ready in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside , this event attracts an hearing of over 3,500 Growers , Independent and Multiple Retailers , Parks and Landscapers , Garden Writers , Plant Breeders , Trades Associations , Students and Home Gardeners .
craft Visitors and Home Gardeners likewise , vote for their favourite variety using a blue marking sword lily . With over 1300 catalog varieties , 200 unexampled change and 700 experimental products on display , there was sure as shooting plenty to select from !
This year , not only find out visitant favouring “ unexampled ” diversity with their choice in voting , but also many more Perennial miscellanea come out in the top choices .
Here are this class ’s top varieties voted for by our visitors :
New Petunia ‘ GlacierSky ( P)’“This most unique , stand - out flower ‘ wows ’ gardeners with its configuration of maven butt with an ‘ water ice ’ effect margin … a great new twist on a garden ducky !
GlacierSky is a Petunia sensation with its striking and unequaled colour patterning .
At the 2019 Summer Showcase at Ball Colegrave , GlacierSky steal the show with its captivating coloring and strong functioning in pots , baskets and containers .
This was reinforced by the 3,500 Trade and Consumer visitor to the 2019 Summer Showcase who both vote GlacierSky as their favourite variety !
GlacierSky has with child violet flowers with a distinct ‘ ice consequence ’ edging , decorated by blank speckles . The singularity of the diversity is also revealed in the high weather resistance , semi - trailing and strong fork habit , which in combination with a static colour pattern and a great shelf life makes this a veridical ‘ standout ’ miscellanea . GlacierSky is a ‘ must have ’ plant life variety for impulse colour sales at Retail in 10.5 - 13 cm pots and ready embed baskets .
In the garden , GlacierSky loves a gay location on the patios or balcony in containers , baskets and windowpane boxes . "
useable to the trade as a Ball 84 plug tray with color labels , weeks 8 – 20 . For the home gardener , we look forwards to seeing this kind in many Garden Centres and Plant Retailers across the UK in 2020 .
New Lavandula angustifolia ‘ puritanic Spear’“The showiest English Lavender you could grow and sell!Lavandula Blue Spear shows off bighearted , improbable spikes than any other cum Lavender , with more upright flower stem that digest nigher to each other for an intense blue - purpleness colour impact , even from a aloofness .
The well - branched , shaggy-haired plants are well-off to grow . Their very tidy shape , early flowering and uniformness make them ideal for pot tight yield in 10.5 centimetre pots up to 1 or 2 l pots with strong color impact at point of sale .
Being a semen and first year flowering variety , crops of Blue Spear are particularly economical to produce and can be set off in the Spring without the requisite of overwintering or heavy fungicidal programmes .
Seed can be advantageous over vegetative varieties in abbreviate the risk of exposure of importing diseases such as Xyllela from overseas production sites .
Blue Spear is particularly idealistic for patio containers , garden beds , rock gardens , geld flowers , dried flower , is highly attractive to pollinating insects and of class carries that particular ‘ find - good ’ Lavender scent .
This hardy variety ( USDA 6a – 8b ) is idealistic for a full sun location , bring home the bacon long-lived pleasure and smell over a very long season . Garden tiptop ; 28 - 33 atomic number 96 and circularise ; 23 - 28 cm . "
usable to the trade as a Ball 40 jade tray weeks 15 , 18 and 24 , plus a Ball 104 tray weeks 10 - 18 , all provide with colour labels . For the domicile nurseryman , we attend ahead to seeing this change in many Garden Centres and Plant Retailers across the UK in 2020 .
New Geranium ‘ Macarda ® Pink with Purple Eye ( P)’“An great performer for windowpane box , containers and baskets !
Pink with Purple Eye is just one of the outstanding colours in the Macarda interspecies Geranium serial publication . It is intelligible why this particular colour was choose as this has been a actual consumer favorite colour in zonal mixture .
But , the Macarda series deliver a new pull to the market . Not only does this variety render a strong and early proliferation of single efflorescence in racy colours , but its habit is to die for ! The industrial plant are strong , yet keep in line in their clean semi - trailing and mounding class to render a powerful display of colour in hoop , windowpane boxful or patiocontainers . The full - sounding and sloshed shape of the ‘ ivy - leaf ’ leaf contrasts exceptionally well against the multiple heyday head to put up an outstanding plant introduction .
In the garden , Macarda has in high spirits weather electrical resistance and is self - strip , so it want little dead - heading to stay looking well . The foliage stay clean and tidy . Height & spread 35 - 40 cm .
At retail , Macarda fills 11 – 17 cm pots with great ease and stays neat looking for longsighted with its strong flower retention and uninfected mounded leaf . We intend it looks best in 13 cm ( 1 litre ) up to 17 cm ( 2 litre ) pots . There are 6 colours in the range ; Dark Red , Magenta , Orange , Pink , Pink with Purple Eye and White . "
useable to the craft in a Paper 104 plug tray with colour label , workweek 6 and 8 - 16 . For the home gardener , we calculate onwards to pick up this diverseness in many Garden Centres and Plant Retailers across the UK in 2020 .
The 2019 Summer Showcase ‘ Blue Flag ’ results : Your Favourite Varieties
What is the Blue Flag survey?The ‘ Blue Flag ’ survey is a measurable study that identify sales opportunities right through the supply chain , enabling Ball Colegrave customers to ascertain what varieties are “ favourites ” as visitors place a blue flag beside their favored plant . Over 2,000 gentle fleur-de-lis were placed this twelvemonth during trade and public days which are weigh daily and totalled at the final stage of 3 week .
Over 25,000 one-year and repeated plants are sleep with out in the trial run and video display beds with in excess of 5,000 jackpot plants and 2,000 terrace baskets / containers are plant up for the event .
Traditionally the Trial Grounds were hang by Parks and Nurserymen . Today they are joined by an ever - increasing phone number of Garden Centres looking for fresh plant and retail idea .
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