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Hi. My name is
Kirsten Siegler from The Greenery and we want to show you our standout
performers of
2013. We've got them laid out here in front of you and i'm just going to explain a little bit about each
one
throughout this segment. We're doing this filming here in the month of September ...
it's the beginning of September just to give you a great idea of what things look
like at this time of year.
The first couple of plants that we're going to talk about are great
featured centerpieces. Right here we've got some examples of some large mix
planters that
we've put together in the end of the season. We've got some left over plant
material that
The Greenery has when we closed our doors. We just make up
a mixed planter that we think will work and they get set along our parking lot,
along the fence line if anybody is driving by, they would see these out there.
So the two types of plants that were going to talk about
are this. This here; this is Cyperus Papyrus.
Now I have talked about this plant
in the previous segments as a water plant so
it's used a lot of times in a water feature but it can also be used just
as a regular centerpiece in a mixed planter and that's what we're trying to
show...
show you, how awesome this looks
as a feature center plant.
So this plant is great. It just comes up with these
stalks out in the middle and a
really nice big head that develop
on the top and that there was just one
5-inch pot that was planted
sort of the third week of June to give you an idea of how large this gets in one season.
Moving along, over here we have these three planters
with this nice red Canna in the center. This is the next plant we want to talk about is
called
South Pacific Scarlet. It's one of the first larger
cannas done from seed. So that makes it
special. Most cannas are done from root. Either by a bare root
or you know we'll pot up the bare roots and sell them. I just
want people to realize what an amazing centerpiece this makes
compared to some of the older traditional varieties. This is one
four and a half inch square pot. With a couple of stalks $3.99
put in the center begining the third week of June and just look at the display you get
here.
We've got up to 10 stalks
coming off of this one plant
That was put in the center and still; you know first week of September.
We've got lots of flowers still opening up here. On this stalk, there's a brand new
one coming up here.
Just really, was really impressed with these
cannas that came out this year. It's brand new. This next plant here's brand new to us as well.
We're just learning about it but
for its first season, it has done remarkable.
Almost like a tropical-like shrub with these long
tubular flowers on it. Purple
Iochroma is what it's called. I'm sure it would be good
for hummingbirds. Most flowers that have a long tubular
flowers or most plants; sorry, that have long, tubular flowers are generally great for
hummingbirds because bees can't get inside. So it makes it
easier for hummingbirds. They have a long beak obviously and they can get in there.
It's been in a western location all season
and started blooming pretty much right away in June and it hasn't let up all
season. It's pumping out these big clusters of
purple tubes and like look at the
big new heads coming out. It's going to keep flowering here until
the end of the season, which we all know how
partly it is; I am pretty sure it's pretty cross sensitive but
still, for the first week of September, it's pretty remarkable
This here is another type of Bougainvillea we're working with called
Raspberry Ice. Awesome! It's a contrast between the bright,
bright, fuchsia pink flowers
and the variated leaf. It's a stunning,
full sun plant.
We'll have a large selection of this variety
for next season.
This sample here is in a hanging basket. It can be grown in a hanging basket.
As a groundcover. You can trail it up on a trellis.
Whatever you want to do in that respect. It does have a few
thorns that will develop. That's the only thing to watch out for with Bougainvillea.
They are quite, quite thorny but the flowers last forever
on this plant. Almost like paper.
They're actually part of the leaf. The flowers themselves are
made up of colored leaves. This white portion in the middle
would actually be the true flower
of the bougainvillea. The little white
part in the center.
Let me peel that back to
show you.
This next little plant here is called Angelonia
Angelmist Dark Purple. Like a spreading dark purple.
So it's that sort of sprawling trailing type of plant.
It has become very popular in Kelowna. There was actually an article in The Courier
on Angelonia and we know that there's a great interest from that article.
So we started working with him a little bit more then and I
have found that this variety is our top performer out of
the different varieties of Angelonia. So this would work great
on the edge of a window box or even just
make a hanging basket out of it or mixed hanging baskets. More on the edge so it
doesn't get buried by the upper plants and it'll just
sort of cascade out to the side in
kind of this fashion. Very nice plant.
Branches naturally, you don't have to pinch it, no deadheading.
Really just a top performer in our mind.
And has bloomed all summer. Just really remarkable. Just keeps moving along the
stems, opening up new flowers.
and they do last a very,very long time. Nice,
dark green, pointy leaves never has a dull,
burnt-out look to it. It's just great in the full sun in the Okanagan.
This next plant here is called Bracteantha. I have mentioned Bracteantha
in last year's top performers. This
variety here has the largest flowers of all the Bracteantha. It's
called Strawburst Yellow. Huge
flowers for a strawflower type plant.
Beautiful bright golden flowers
this huge. Earlier today we had a huge rainstorm
and all these were tight. Like a round tight ball
and are now just starting to really open up because we have the nice
evening sun coming at us. See, some are just
doing their thing here opening up a bit more but that makes it
quite unique because it's protecting itself from
having water getting in the flower. It keeps dry inside and it
just reopens when the Sun comes out and that's what makes these
flowers or helps these flowers last the whole summer.
There really only been a very little bit of dead heading here. Maybe five
flowers have picked off and in bloom
the whole summer. Great, drought-tolerant plant for the full sun.
This next plant here is called Phygelius
"Passionate Pink". Common name is
Cape Fuschia. The strains are
available to us now in the market. This is one of the newer ones
out there. They are a lot more compact than the varieties that we're
around ten years ago. The older varieties were
quite large, rangy plants. Not great for containers.
These new varieties that have hit the market
are just awesome. Look at this nice and compact
great for a container. Again you've got loads of
trumpet-like flowers. It's a magnet for hummingbirds and
butterflies.
And this is the first variety we have worked with in this series. We will have another
one next year
called Scarlet Ink and I'm just excited to have those
in our display of plants.
This plant here is called Cistus "Mickie". It's actually a
tender shrub. Not hardy for our winters. Just sell it as a hardy
basket stuffer. It does have a flowering habit
where it's native. Just plain white flowers I have not yet seen in
bloom in the Okanagan. So we're just selling this as a foliage- type plant.
It has a beautiful variegation to it. bright chartreuse.
A little bit of darker green down the middle. Great for half-sun, half-shade.
It will burn in full sun. So it makes a good
contrasting plant against some darker foliage