Hort Couture 2019 Buyers Guide
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What’s New… Our focus is greater than ever on finding amazing plants and delivering them from the best partners in the business. Our company is better equipped now to bring value, dependability and quality to the market than ever before.
New Varieties… New Ideas We have over 30 new varieties for 2019. Culinary Couture is a major focus for our company. We have new, innovative tomatoes, peppers, herbs, edible flowers and a huge array of new breeding in kale and other Brassicaceae crops. We now have NO POT requirement for the brand, only our stylish Lady Couture tag!
New Relationships A great plant starts with a great liner. Our URC program is now based at Innovaplant in Costa Rica and all sales of URC go through Ball Horticulture as well as all Seed sales. You will find all of our varieties on Ball WEBTRACK. We are grateful for this new relationship that strengthens are supply chain and breeder network. The future of Hort Couture is very bright and the IGC will benefit from our brand even more. Rooted Starter Plants are now shipping from Peace Tree Farms, Wenke Greenhouses, Wenke Sunbelt & Meadowlands Propagators (Canada). These liners are available from our original broker network. 304-466-2660 / fax 304-466-2476 / www.hortcoutureplants.com
Statuesque
™ angelonia
Modern breeding is mostly focused on fitting more plants on carts for the box store grower. At Hort Couture we are looking for innovation and new varieties that will excite the consumer. Our Statuesque Angelonia is a great example of this. They are the largest size and flowers of any varieties in the market. We describe them as a heat tolerant delphinium looking annual for containers and landscape applications.
Blue
Pink
Monarch Promise
™ asclepias
Monarch Promise is an annual in a category all Its own. Beyond the beautiful foliage, incredible heat tolerance, gorgeous flowers and perfect form in the mixed container, Monarch Promise brings so many lovely Monarch Butterflies into your garden areas. The uses for this plant in the annual beds, borders and pots is endless. Have fun and help create much needed pollinator areas with this fun flower. Grow warm like a Lantana in production. Wonderful POP available!
Boutique
™ bacopa
Our Tie Dye White Bacopa is a remarkable variety that not only is unique in its good looks but its performance in the heat in the deep south and over into Texas has become legendary. This is the Bacopa you want for summertime beauty. The tie dyed flowers are prolific, large and shine on the benches in retail.
Little Lava
™ begonia
This sweet little Begonia boliviensis is fun sized for pots and baskets. It has tremendous flower power, bright orange flowers all through the season and is extemely heat tolerant and easy to grow. You will fall in love with this plant, we promise!
Kimono
™ calibrachoa
Our Kimono Calibrachoa have been a big hit in the market with their rich dark eye zones, compact habit and superb performance across North America not only in greenhouse production but also once they go home with the consumer. The dark centers make the flowers really glow in the afternoon sun. Kimonos are also tolerant of pH rises and keep blooming well into fall.
Black Dragon
Blue Dragon
Obi Lavender
Tokyo Sunset
Under the Sea
ÂŽ coleus
The most fun Coleus on the planet are our UNDER THE SEAÂŽ Collection. We have been selecting now for seven years to bring you the cutest little crustacean critters for your pots and planters. From the giant leaves of Fishnet or King Crab down to the little baby Sea Monkeys, there is something for everyone to love here!
Bone Fish
Copper Coral
Electric Coral
Fishnet
King Crab
Lime Shrimp
Pink Reef
Red Coral
Sea Monkey Apricot
Sea Monkey Purple
Sea Urchin Copper
Sea Urchin Neon
Sea Urchin Red
Sea Weed
Yellow Fin Tuna
Glitterati
™ geranium
Hort Couture is redefining the fancy leaved Geranium with new interspecific breeding that combines the free flowering and mounding habit of an Ivy type with the fancy leaves of heirloom types but with larger more vibrant flowers. All Glitterati have outstanding summer performance and early flowering. Consumers find these irresistable on the benches and will be back next year asking for them again.
GARDENSTAR™ Flame Violet
GARDENSTAR™ Flame Scarlet
GLITTERATI™ Diva Queen
GLITTERATI™ Ice Queen
Budacious
™ gomphrena
These taller growing Gomphrena are amazing in the landscape and make a taller filler or flowering thriller for the container. Intense color, very drought tolerant and bloom very late into seaon. They can also be cut before frost as a dried flower. There are so many uses for Budacious- we are still learning what an amazing annual this truly is. All varieties grow 18 inches tall with large flower heads. Floriferous and easy!
Outrageous Orange
Prismatic Purple
Radiant Red
South of the Border
™ ipomoea
All four of our Sweetpotato Vine varieties are like nothing else in the marketplace. Chihuahua is the plant that started our company and is still a top seller as the most compact Ipomoea available. We have excellent stock production and we are very confident that you will love all four of these beauties.
Black Bean
Chipotle
Chihuahua
Refried Beans
South Beach
™ lantana
Our Lantana breeding brings the most compact genetics in the market. Unique colors, free flowering and require no pinching so they flower much earlier that other varieties. Be sure to plan this into your production for the easiest Lantanas you will ever grow.
Compact Gold Bullion
Compact Coral
Compact Heat
Compact Hot Pink
Compact Mango
Compact Purple Sky
Jewels
™ lewisia
Jewels are an easy to grow, year-round product for the innovative grower. Amazing color, evergreen foliage and perennial in many regions. Jewels are perfect for early Spring sales and long blooming. Mixed colors in seed.
Nautica
™ lobelia
Bring the heat with our Nautica Lobelia. The breeding criteria is to develop large flowered, mounding varieties that exhibit pubescent leaves that refract heat. This keeps Nautica looking cool all summer. Early flowering, strong stems and bright unique colors only add to the excitement about our Lobelia collection.
Blue Skies
Flow Blue
Lilac Pink
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Double Trouble
™ petunia
These double picotee Petunias will cause fights in the aisles at the garden center, arguments at the register overcustomers wanting to pay more. They are truly Double Trouble! Amazing performance, huge flambouyant flowers and rich grandiflora fragrance make these something really special. We are redefining the double petunia with this new breeding project that has performance in heat like nothing in the market.
Cambridge Corsage
Dublin Double
London Loop
Turnberry Twist
Kensington Knot
Glamouflage
™ petunia
Glamouflage is one of our best introductions ever. These perfect growing Petunias combine electric leaves with big, bright flowers. Every combo looks cooler with a Glamouflage as a component. The NEW Pink Lemonade is very early flowering and has bright golden variegation. All three have tremendous summer performance.
Blueberry
Pink Lemonade
Grape
Panache
™ petunia
The only vegetative Petunia grandiflora varieties in the market. Large flowers, sweet fragrance and a graceful habit like no other varieties. We get rave reviews from growers every year. The ultimate basket petunia!
Aubergine Halo
Blue Denim
Coral Reef
Lemonade Stand
Little Black Dress
Marshmallow
Tickled Pink
Venetian Red
Blue Zebra Looking for a Wow flower to get your Spring sales started? There is nothing like Blue Zebra. The rich blue veins create an effect that customers can’t resist. Considered one of the most beautiful Primula ever bred, this plant loves cool growing early in the season and combines well with our Party Girl Primrose, Hip Hop Violas and other early spring favorites make our Spring Bling Color program the kickstarter for your season. One of our favorite Hort Couture plants!
™ primula
Party Girls
™ primula
Party Girls are an amazing breeding development. These double primula are seed grown so they are a great savings compared to other double varieties. The Party Girls are way beyond just a double primrose. They have beautiful pictoee edges, unique color combinations and huge flowers. One of a kind is an understatement when it comes to the Hort Couture Party Girls!
Surprise Blue
Bachelorette Button
Rave Orange
Valentines Day
Mannequin
™ salvia
The first polyploid Salvia farinacea on the market. Blue Mountain is an amazing landscape annual or a perfect thriller for the container garden. Up to four times the size of Victoria Blue Salvia. The NEW Blue Valley has the huge flowers of Mountain but on a compact plant. Superb heat tolerance, early flowers and perennial in warmer zones. A must have!
Blue Mountain
Blue Valley
White Mountain
Crushed Velvet
™ senecio
Crushed Velvet is the biggest Dusty Miler on the market. It is a polyploid with big stature and large, soft leaves that are heavily corrugated and have a thick coat of indumentum that makes them glisten in combos or the landscape. Big enough to be a thriller in pots, Crushed Velvet is super easy to grow and is a standout plant. Grown from cutting instead of tissue culture like other newer varieties in the market.
Hip Hop
™ Viola
Looking for the perfect plant to get people in the store for Easter? Our Hip Hop Violas are one of our favorite Hort Couture flowers. Great for both early spring and fall production, the elongated flowers are so different. Nice growth habit in production and long blooming on the benches or in the mixed container.
Bluebunny
Cranbunny
Honeybunny
Razbunny
Jewelry
…other amazing annuals from Hort Couture
Alternanthera Chardonnay
Angelonia PINSTRIPE™ Vintage Pink
Calocephalus Silver Tumbleweed
Cyperus A Lil in Da Nile
Euphorbia BLING™ White
Homocladium Ribbons & Curls
Kalanchoe Cupcake
Pseuderanthemum Stainless Steel
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CulinaryCouture
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Welcome
culinary couture
How do you change the world? Innovation is the answer. At Hort Couture, we are dedicated to having an unprecedented collection of edibles that will change the trajectory of the home garden. Our industry is stagnant in providing the growers, retailers, chefs and consumers the same mundane commodities. Those days are over. We hope you enjoy this catalog and the cutting edge, novelty edibles that we are bringing to the marketplace.
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Garnish‌ violas bred for excellence in the kitchen but also in the container garden or bed.
Garnish
™ edible flowers
Edible flowers are an important part of the modern culinary experience. We have the finest in new breeding selected for taste, shelf life and amazing aesthetics. The category will continue to grow as consumers become more confident in growing their own food. We have some amazing projects coming in the GARNISH™ category. There are eight colors of Violas and four colors of Nasturtium in the collections.
Chrysanthemum GARNISH™
Viola GARNISH™
Nasturtium GARNISH™
“The Garnish brand is one of the product lines that really makes Culinary Couture different. We want the consumer to realize with all of our varieties that it is possible to combine beauty and taste with nearly all edible herbs, flowers & veggies. Our company hallmark is to marry these traits and the results have exceeded anything we could imagine.”
Mixology
™ patio tomatoes
Radical innovation in tomato breeding gives birth to the MIXOLOGY™ Tomatoes. This tomato series revolutionizes the patio tomato. Dwarf, indeterminate, colorful fruit and amazing taste make these perfect for container gardening. The Bloody Mary types even sport bright golden foliage that shines as a thriller in containers.
Apple Martini
Bloody Mary
Cosmopolitan
Hair of the Dog
Dirty Martini
“These are flavorful tomatoes that redefine the entire patio tomato market. The retailer has a wonderful opportunity to entice their customers with a new category of tomatoes. The flavorings in Mixology are sophisticated, aromatic and sweet.”
Fruit Cocktail
™ tomatoes
We are proud of the unqiue breeding we offer in our novelty tomato collection. With amazing breakthroughs in flavors, our FRUIT COCKTAIL™ series is something that you will want to have on the menu or your production plan. All are heavy producing with fruity undertones and high brix levels. Innovative!
FRUITCOCKTAIL™ Cherry
FRUIT COCKTAIL™ Mandarin
FRUIT COCKTAIL™ Melon
Pesto
™ basils
PESTO™ Basils represent the most significant improvement in basil in 30 years. We have evaluated thousands of seedlings looking for high oil content, disease tolerance, summer performance and, of course, the most beautiful basils on the planet. We know you will love these special varieties!
Bambino Green
Bambino Purple
Black Patina
Holy Basilica
Macchiato
Millefiori
Nero de Genovese
Thai Baby
Edibliss
™ brassicas
We are the market leader in taking the Brassica from edible to ornamental edible. We call this Brassicology™The science of making cole crops sexier! We have some amazing projects coming in the EDIBLISS™ category.
“The mixing of ornamental and culinary brassicas is a project that will change the trajectory of our company. These have a place at the grower, retailer, farm and table.”
Broccoli Burgundy Spires
Cabbage Heavy Metal
Cabbage Golden Dragon
Cabbage Ruffles
Cauliflower Cumulus
Cauliflower Irish Skies
Chard Swiss Chocolate
Kale Italian Black
Kale Italian Blue
Kale Italian Lace
Kale Italian Pink
Kale Blanc
Kale Cabernet
Kale Merlot
Mustard Moonshine
Headstart
™ kale
HEADSTART™ represents the development of kale that has a morphology more like a cabbage and is the superstar of the new innovations from Culinary Couture. By developing kale varieties which form branches that create a head, several remarkable things happen to kale that revolutionize the product. First, the tightly packed, soft leaves are much more tender than anyone can imagine for a kale. Consider the analogy of what the tender shoots on the inside of a celery plant taste like compared to the outer pieces and add to this that the sugar content is now concentrated into a smaller leaf area making our kale varieties sweeter than anything in the market. Currently, kale production consists of stripping the course leaves and packaging. These new kale varieties can be neatly packaged and displayed without leaf damage, less sanitary issues and easier, more efficient production and logistics. Our innovation with these type kales reaches into Curly, Tuscan and Russian kale types to provide the consumer with gorgeous colors, tastes and textures that will please anyone’s culinary requirements. This innovation is the first ever kales developed in the world of this type. Neon is bright colored and very easy to grow.
Zest
™ herbs
There is almost no differentiation of improvement in the marketplace in culinary herbs. Many are still offering the same varieties from decades ago. Culinary Couture is changing the pallette with improved varieties that will give your customers better results, more vibrant dishes and improved production. ZEST™ will spice up any menu or garden.
Allium Chubby Chive
Arugula Crimson Lace
Cilantro Confettii
Fennel Licorice Towers
Parsley Italian Stallion
Sage Intensia
Sage Silver Sabre
Santolina Kalamata
Oregano Enduring
Thyme Perpetual
Patio Perfect
™ peppers
Bring your customers something new for their containers this Spring with our veggies that are perfect for containers, vertical garden spaces and patios. Eggplants, cucumbers and peppers that are unique, beautiful and slower growing are all part of our PATIOPERFECT™ brand. The HC pepper breeding is very unique!
Demon Red
Heat Waves
Pillar
Aromatique™
Count Dracula
“Consumers love to try new hot peppers. Contact us for images to create excitement on your social media platforms with our amazing new pepper offerings. We are excited to bring so many cool things to the market”
Hot Flash‌ Superb flavoring and strong performance in a wide variety of colors. The best Habanero series you will find!
HealthSmart
™ peppers
Culinary Couture has many unique products to help the independent grower and retailer. The new HealthSmart™ Peppers have great potential. These Chili peppers have the reputed ability to inhibit the conversion of sugar when ingested after a meal. This has huge inplications for TypeA diabetic individuals. Though not approved yet by the FDA, they are approved by similar agencies in other countries most recently in Japan. This is a very exciting discussion about how our food can be the key to health and the garden center has a wonderful opportunity to have a place at the table for this discussion. Our industry can grow with a clean, healthy, local food message. HealthSmart™ comes in hot, medium and mild strains and they have a nice chili pepper flavor. Be sure to make this a part of your 2019 planting plan. .
HEALTHSMART™ Mild
HEALTHSMART™ Medium
HEALTHSMART™ Hot
Hot Stuff
™ lettuce
HOT STUFF™ Lettuce is a revolutionary product that brings heat tolerance and product longevity to a new standard. The Hot Stuff series grows beautifully into small manageable heads with high leaf count and compact morphology that will take heat and humidity unlike any lettuce varieties every developed. Your customers will see the difference and be back looking for more! All summer lettuce production in the home garden or commercial field is now a reality.
Baby Green Crunch
Baby Red Ball
Baby Green Frills
Baby Red Crunch
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Baby Coral Crunch
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Merchandising‌ Hort Couture offers a very comprehensive assortment of marketing and merchandising tools. Our brand has great style and the visual merchandising opportunities are endless. Call us anytime to discuss how we can assist you in making your Hort Couture displays the highlight of your store.
We are the only brand of annuals and culinary plants that is exclusive to the independent grower and retailer. We are proud of our commitment to support our industry and its small business spirit.
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