Carrying on family legacy Jul 21, 2008
The crimes turned Cheshire, called the Bedding Plant Capital of Connecticut, from a town where many residents didn t bother to lock their doors to a place where people are increasingly buying guns. And they left Petit to face a future with none of what he cherished from the past. (Sharon Herald)
Terry and Barb Larsen's yard is painted with color Jul 20, 2008
So she has a cream strainer sitting on a milk can, acting as a pot for petunias or impatiens or whatever bedding plant she has available. She likes the combination of bright splashes of color against the rusty metal. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Shrub Roses Add Easy, Ever-blooming Color to Landscapes Jul 18, 2008
Hardy to zone 5, these ground hugging, ever-blooming shrubs are perfect as a border or bedding plant. Growing only about a foot around, they make a stunning low hedge or edge on a border. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Growing young gardeners Jun 27, 2008
I have no clue what it s called other than a bedding plant, she said. Garrett Rolph, 9, had some experience in outdoor gardening. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
How to Grow Coleus Plants May 16, 2008
A Tropical Grown as a Houseplant or a Summer Bedding Plant. Grow coleus as a houseplant or a summer bedding plant, in the garden ... Coleus is a tropical plant grown as a houseplant or outside as a summer bedding plant. (Suite101.com)
The portable, potted garden Apr 20, 2008
The bedding plant industry was built on just that notion, so pick your favorite and plant a container ... That s the whole point of the bedding plant industry. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Experimental experience Feb 17, 2008
On the first week in April, the FFA will hold a bedding plant sale as a fundraiser. Types of plants include begonias, coleus, dianthus, petunias and salvia. (Clanton Advertiser, AL)
A new flower shop blossoms downtown Feb 1, 2008
He then began a wholesale bedding plant operation, marketing in the tri-state area. Business grew steadily and the next expansion happened in 1989 when he purchased the Cushman building at 11th Street and Avenue H and renovated it into a retail flower shop and garden center. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Look what the mail brought me Jan 23, 2008
n Osteospermum F1 Asti White (AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner): This tender annual, also known as cape daisy, has its origins in South Africa ... n Viola F1 Skippy XL Plum-Gold (AAS Cool Season Bedding Plant Award Winner): This old-fashioned charmer won over the judges based on sheer floral power: Here in Western Oregon, expect lavish blooms from earliest spring into the heat of summer ... Hansel will be available as seed and young bedding plants. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Growing Sweet Potatoes Nov 12, 2007
An alternative method is to use small bedding plant flats known as six-packs or small flower flats. Fill the pot or flat with potting soil and plant the slips, one to a cell or pot. (Suite101.com)
All-America Selections Winners Sep 1, 2007
2008 Bedding Plants and Vegetables Receive Top Honors ... Among these carefully chosen varieties are vegetables, herbs, flowers, and bedding plants ... For 2008, three winners were selected, one vegetable and two bedding plants. (Suite101.com)
Fragrant Annual Plants Aug 28, 2007
While it can grow to 5' tall in native environments, heliotrope usually only grows about 18 when grown as a bedding plant or container annual. Full sun is best for heliotrope except in hot climates or drier soil when afternoon shade is appreciated. (Suite101.com)
Red White and Blue Flowers Jul 4, 2007
If you are planting a formal design or bedding plant design or planting a specific pattern, annuals are the better choice ... Some annuals with white flowers that are commonly used in bedding plant schemes would include white alyssum, white petunias, white impatiens, white vinca, white begonias, white cosmos, white cleome, and although in flower for a shorter blooming time, white gladiolus. (Suite101.com)
For Sheer Beauty, 'Plant' Butterflies Jun 27, 2007
So you can plant one of everything that blooms," he said. "You have to limit your choices in order to have room for a group of each type of bedding plant you select, as well as for flowering shrubs. "Upham said scientifically recognized butterfly favorites include the following:Annual flowers ageratum, cosmos, French marigold, petunia, verbena, zinnia.Early-blooming perennials and shrubs allium, chives, forget-me-not, lilac.Mid-season perennials and shrubs bee balm, black-eyed Susan, butterfly... (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Extension connection: Flowers in the ‘limelight’ for Mother’s Day May 13, 2007
Bless those folks who arranged for our kids to leave Sunday school, Scouts, or school with a simple, single bedding plant, often petunias or marigolds, as a gift to be given for Mother s Day. Our children s tiny hands would come home a little dirty, carefully clasping the container. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Jolivette farming tradition still blossoming May 7, 2007
Strawberries and bedding plants, such as flowers, are the most popular items at the family s roadside stand in West Salem, which usually is open from April until just after Halloween, Jolivette said ... Jolivette said he most enjoys the bedding plant business ... If you get tired of bedding plants, the strawberry season is starting. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Syngenta to Acquire Fischer, Leading European Flowers Company Mar 29, 2007
Syngenta's Slowers is a worldwide leader in the pot and bedding plant industry with a large proprietary portfolio. Operating on a global basis, Sds and markets superior proprietary flowers as seeds, young plants and cuttings for the ornamental industry. (PR Newswire)
All America Selection Winners 2007 Mar 20, 2007
2007 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner Petunia F1 Opera Supreme Pink Morn ... 2007 All America Selection Bedding Plant Award Winner Vinca Pacifica Burgundy Halo. (Suite101.com)
The Petunia That Refuses to Die Mar 18, 2007
An All America Selections bedding plant winner for 2007, this vigorous petunia behaves as a tender perennial if it is overwintered in some frost-free place indoors during the winter months. Use it freely in flower beds and borders as an annual bedding plant ... Opera Supreme Pink Morn is also readily available as bedding plants from retail stores and other sources. (Suite101.com)
Looking for something a little shady? Try Maracas, Veranda Feb 16, 2007
It performs well outdoors during the summer in mixed containers or as a bedding plant. Use it in combination with dark green or blue forms of hosta. (The Clarion-Ledger)
All-American winners include exciting new plants Jan 22, 2007
Vinca "Pacifica Burgundy Halo" is a 2007 Bedding Plant winner. It is the first Vinca with a burgundy halo surrounding a large white center. (Pensacola News Journal)
Local education briefs Oct 23, 2006
Fall Plant Sale: The lower school science department is sponsoring its annual Fall Bedding Plant and Clay Pot Sale Thursday and Friday. The plants are provided by Grower's Outlet and will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the entrance to the lower school. (Conroe Courier, TX)
Winter color goes beyond pansies Oct 19, 2006
Snapdragons are a second great bedding plant in colors such as white, yellow, pink, rose and red. They range from short varieties suited for edges of flower beds to tall snapdragons that can hit 3 feet. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Silver Belles Oct 12, 2006
Easier on the eye," she says. Even dusty miller, the common gray-white bedding plant so ubiquitous in summer, does the job nicely, especially if planted in stripes along a wavy border. It intensifies nearby greens and softens pinks and purples, acting as chameleon and peacemaker and upgrading its image as an ordinary filler. But silver plants are distinctive for more than their visual versatility. Nature has designed many to endure extremes of heat, cold and drought, and they grow with little... (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Fall annuals Sep 16, 2006
Flowering kale and cabbage excel in beds of brightly colored pansies, violas, panolas and snapdragons. Having color in your winter garden means planting now. (Fresno Bee -- Real Estate)
Monster lantana better known as Miss Huff Sep 9, 2006
Think of Miss Huff as a shrub that renews itself each year, rather than a bedding plant. Other lantanas do not grow nearly as big as Miss Huff. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Only four plants made All-America for 2007 Aug 17, 2006
The last few years have seen numerous selections of flowers, bedding plants and vegetables, all of which must pass rigorous field testing around the country to make the cut ... One flower, two bedding plants and one vegetable made the cut and are being recommended to gardeners ... Vinca "Pacifica Burgundy Halo" is one of the bedding plant winners, the first vinca with a burgundy halo surrounding a large white center. (Mail Tribune, OR)
GARDENING: Fruits and vegetables draw questions from readers Jul 20, 2006
It is more commonly known as amaranth and also known in the bedding plant industry as Joseph's Coat. Amaranth varies greatly in foliage color with bright red leaves, along with the shape of the leaves and the height of the plant. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
Dix to close wholesale operations Jun 22, 2006
Dix Greenhouse produces about 25 million spring bedding plants each year ... King, 68, said the bedding plant industry is a tough business, but he has always enjoyed the challenge. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
TOUGH CURBS ON WATER USE AS DROUGHT HITS BRITAIN... May 16, 2006
The statistics were based on a reduction in summer bedding plant sales from 400 million to 320 million, a 20 million drop in other plant sales from 200 million to 180 million and a general cutback in spending at garden centres from 2 billion to 1. 8 billion. (The Drudge Report)
• Hospice offers help for entire families May 13, 2006
The Hospice volunteer went to the store and bought potting soil, a flowerpot and a bedding plant and brought them to her bed. She was so happy to get her hands into the soil again, said Garth. (Bartlett Express, TN)
Garden calendar for May 6 May 6, 2006
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Early start to holiday brings motorway jams Apr 29, 2006
Weather outlook for May Day mainly bleak Bedding plant sales boom but DIY gets thumbs down ... Bedding plants, due for putting in from this weekend onwards, are the top selling items, with primroses heading the list. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
YARDSMART-HOME Apr 19, 2006
But gardeners may not be on a first name basis with them because they're not often grown as bedding plants and so it's rare to find them in the garden center. Only strawflowers in a new dwarf form are making inroads to the mass bedding plant market, but these produce stems too short for some dried flower crafts and arrangements. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Farm and garden calendar Apr 19, 2006
Catoctin FFA Bedding Plant Sales, April 22 and 29 and May 6, 9-11:30 a.m., Catoctin High School greenhouses, Thurmont. Flowering and vegetable bedding plants, herbs and perennials available, produced by students to raise money for FFA and horticulture activities. (Frederick News-Post)
Spring dreaming Jan 27, 2006
Studies in trial gardens across America showed this new dianthus to tolerate heat and bloom longer in hot climates than other bedding plant dianthus varieties. The flowers are rosy-purple. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
