CAST 2024 cut flower highlights
These new varieties for 2025 will make stunning cut flowers — consider adding them to your benches to promote as cutting garden varieties.
Syngenta Flowers
Ornamental Kale ‘Bright and Early Mix’
Genetically compact and tidy for small pot and pack production requiring less plant growth regulators (PGRs). ‘Bright and Early’ colors are clean and crisp, coloring up early, and offering a shorter production cycle to a wider range of growing conditions.
HilverdaFlorist
Garden Gerbera ‘Garvinea Cheeky Hot Pink’
The first hot pink variety within the Garvinea Cheeky series, this quick-to-grow variety has a compact and uniform growing habit. Cheeky Hot Pink is extremely rich flowering. The small flowers from Garvinea Cheeky will show from spring until frost.
Garden Gerbera ‘Garvinea Sweet Blaze’
This flaming color combination is the newest addition to the Garvinea Sweet series, offering sturdy garden gerberas. Garvinea varieties have great weather tolerance and provide lots of flowers from early spring until the first frost for three seasons straight.
Garden Gerbera ‘Garvinea Sweet Maggie’
Sweet like candy, ‘Garvinea Sweet Maggie’ is the first hot pink variety with a green center in the Garvinea Sweet series. The variety has a semi double, elegant flower shape and is an excellent choice for garden borders and landscaping.
Schoneveld Breeding
Gerbera Joybera Series
The most impressive colors shine with the new Gerbera series called Joybera. Schoneveld Breeding has added this amazing uniform gerbera to its assortment, with eight colors available. The series has been developed with flower count, usability and uniformity as a focus. It is typical for the plant to provide three flowers immediately from the first flowering. Outstanding shelf life.
Sakata Seed America
Lisianthus ‘Rosanne 2 Terracotta’
Lisianthus ‘Rosanne 2 Terracotta’ is an improved, unique brown color replacing ‘Rosanne 1 Brown’. With an attractive light brown color, this is a standard double lisianthus. Rosanne 2 has extremely strong flowers that hold up during shipping.
Danziger
Helianthus ‘Sol Seeker Bee Yellow’
Helianthus ‘Sol Seeker Bee Yellow’ is part of the new helianthus Sol Seeker series. The series features four varieties that offer a grower-friendly habit, require little to no PGRs and have lower water needs than other varieties. The bright and cheery blooms of ‘Sol Seeker Bee Yellow’ bring the upright and compact look every gardener is looking for.
Darwin Perennials
Echinacea ‘Sombrero Fuchsia Fandango’ (left) and ‘Sombrero Mandarin Mambo’
Darwin enhances its top-selling Sombrero series for 2024 with next-level flower coverage and petal overlap in Mandarin Mambo and intense vivid pink color in Fuchsia Fandango. The series continues to promise first-year-flowering reliability, habit uniformity and high flower count per plant.
Cohen
Dahlia ‘Mystic Electro Pink’
The dahlia Mystic collection includes trendy plants perfect for modern gardens. These flowers stand out because they have fancy dark red to black leaves and vibrant blossoms. Unlike older types of dahlias, they don’t need support sticks to grow. They also have lots of small, pretty flowers in many beautiful colors that can be used in various ways, including cut flowers.
Monrovia
Shasta Daisy ‘Lemon Puff’
‘Lemon Puff’ features fluffy, pale yellow, double blossoms with bright, lemon-colored centers. This leucanthemum stays compact and flush with blooms from early spring through midsummer. This perennial is incredibly easy to grow, offering loads of blooms that last in the garden, container or in a vase.
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