Spring Trials at PanAmerican Seed Week 16 - 18 Venhuizen, The Netherlands
Introduction “During the Spring Trials here at PanAmerican Seed in Venhuizen, The Netherlands we presented our new varieties for the 2018 season plus our leading varieties in well established products. What follows in this presentation is a reliable review about what we showed. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for you continued support of our products and look forward to working with you in the 2018 season.”
Jean-François Ignasse – Sales Manager Europe Jf.ignasse@panamseed.com
Highlights of the outdoor presentations – Cool Wave & Sorbet
NEW! Sorbet XP Deep Orange
Angelonia Serena and Serenita Serena is: • The first Angelonia from seed • Easy to produce in plugs and to finish • Low maintenance and easy care in the landscape New! White Improved: Same crop time as old White, with faster secondary flowering. Serenita Sky Blue
Serenita Raspberry
Serenita is: • A more compact and controlled version of Serena with the same crop time • Less PGRs required
New! Serena White Improved
Serena new White Improved (L) vs. old White
Alternanthera Purple Knight (L) and Purple Prince (R)
Alternanthera Purple Knight (L) and Purple Prince (R)
• Purple Prince is compact and easy-to-grow with ruby/burgundy foliage. Ideal accent plant for mixed containers and landscaping carpet. • Purple Knight is excellent in the landscape as a vigorous bedding plant. • Both are very heat tolerant including drought and rains, low- maintenance.
Begonia Dragon Wing - endless summer delight • Dragon Wing keeps on pumping out the colour in gardens and planters all season. • Unique and beautiful arching, pendulous habit is spectacular in hanging baskets, large containers and commercial landscaping plantings. • Angel-wing leaves and large blooms give Dragon Wing a dramatically different look 2Sep2016
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Calibrachoa Kabloom®
Kabloom® Deep Pink
Kabloom® White
Kabloom® Yellow
• The first Calibrachoa from seed! • Kabloom® has a medium vigour and will spread or trail to approximately 50 to 75 cm. Suitable for production in 10.5 cm pots and upwards. • Supplied as easy-to-sow pelleted seed with an 80% minimum germination standard. • Kabloom® Deep Blue
Full culture advice available via this link
Fuseables provide you instant and innovative combination solutions
• Perfect for hanging baskets and large patio containers. • Now with a guaranteed 90% germination which grows with normal bedding production. • Only 8 to 12 weeks from sow to finish! • Find more Fuseables products here Calibrachoa Fuseables Paradise Island in Precision Multi-Pellet Seed
Celosia First Flame
New! First Flame Scarlet • • • •
New! First Flame Mix
First Flame Red (Left) vs. Fresh Look (right)
First Flame finishes 10 to 14 days earlier than competition – reduced production costs. Branches like a regular C. plumosa to produce full blooms. New! Scarlet: Series model features bright colour that holds well in sun, high light. Great habit matches Red and Yellow. New! Mixture: Three bright colours: Red, Yellow and NEW Scarlet.
Coreopsis new primed seed form
New! Primed seed form for all PAS Coreopsis seeds: Coreopsis SunKiss • Deliver reliable plug production • Uniform quality in plug trays that improves your order fill rate • Uniform finished plants
Dianthus interspecific - Jolt
New! Jolt Pink Magic
Jolt Pink
Jolt Cherry
Jolt - Outstanding Summer Colours! Continues to flower without setting seed. The most heat-tolerant Interspecific Dianthus series, deliver striking colours and all-season performance. Standouts in landscapes, gardens and premium containers.
Dianthus interspecific - Rockin’ Red
• Vivid and Dynamite RED colour, durable performance and overwintering possibility. • Opens the door to premium product sales for mid-spring, autumn decorating season and landscaping. • Elegant flowers, slightly scented flowers top full, long-lasting plants
Gerbera Revolution and Mega Revolution
Revolution Yellow with Light Eye Improved
Revolution Salmon Shades Light Eye
Revolution Red with Light Eye Improved
Revolution Bicolor Rose White
Revolution series - The most uniform gerbera you can grow! When it comes to uniformity of flowering window across a complete color range. Revolution is the leading standard size pot gerbera. Mega Revolution series - Vigorous, bushy plants with very large flowers, beats competing series for both plant vigour and flower size. Revolution Bicolor Red Lemon
Lavandula Bandera Pink Bandera series: • First professional-quality seed L. stoechas series offers compact to medium habit with good branching and uniformity. • Easily fills 10-cm pots to big containers. • Short harvest window New! Bandera Pink: Large, soft pink flags on spikes with deep rose flowers. Perfect partner to Bandera Purple.
New! Bandera Pink Lavandula Bandera Purple (left) and Bandera Pink (right)
Bandera Purple
French Marigold Bonanza, Fireball and Strawberry Blonde
Fireball
Bonanza Bolero Improved
Strawberry Blonde
French Marigold comparison – Gold and Flame
Bonanza Bonanza Gold Orange
Hero Gold Orange
Chica Chica Orange Gold Bonanza Bolero Improved
Bonanza Flame
Hero Flame
Bonanza Orange
Chica Flame Chica Orange
French Marigold comparison - Harmony
Bonanza Harmony
Hero Harmony
Bonanza Harmony has bigger flowers, uniformity in color pattern, flower size and plant habit. Hero harmony has many upright off-types, not consistent in color, flowers are smaller.
African Marigold Taishan
Marigold Taishan is 20% shorter peduncles and 15% thicker stems than the competition. Less stretch on the bench, and less breakage in shipping and at retail.
Ornamental Oregano - Kirigami
Oregano Kirigami is the first professional seed variety of this type: perfect eye-catching patio plant! Holds better in shipping and at retail: dense, slightly trailing plant has tighter, fuller habit than standard cutting varieties. Exceptional heat/drought tolerance, Continues flowering from spring to autumn. Non-culinary, not edible plant.
Osteospermum Akila
Akila is the most compact seed series for easy, nopinch production with best uniformity and top-selling colours. 5% higher germination than competitors for higher yields – it's the best seed-grown Osteo for both habit and seed quality. Matches or surpasses cutting varieties.
New! Grand Canyon Mixture: First multicolor segregating mix includes popular colours like yellow, rose-reds, purple, lavender, cream and white.
Akila Grand Canyon Mixture
Trailing Pansy Cool Wave – The most spreading color • The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading color for spring and autumn • The most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy – great in hanging baskets, big containers and combos • Cool Wave Production Handbook
Cool Wave Fire New! Cool Wave Morpho
Cool Wave Violet Wing
Petunia Grandiflora Ez Rider Ez Rider Deep Salmon
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Ez Rider White
New Ez Rider Red Improved (left) vs. Limbo Red (right)
Ez Rider Deep Pink
Ez Rider Blue
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Ez Rider Rose
Ez Rider Red Ipd
Ez Rider Blue (L) vs. Limbo Blue (M) vs. Duvet (R)
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New! Red Improved: Darker, truer red colour; shorter, denser and betterbranched plants; and strong, long plant holding. Averages 3 days faster to flower, with faster secondary blooms. Ez Rider series: genetically shorter, more controlled plants need less PGRs. Perfect for high-density programs. Ez Rider series has 6 colors and 1 mix Click here to see full color range
Spreading Petunia Tidal Wave • Award-winning Tidal Wave petunias create an extremely full plant covered with an amazing number of blooms.
• An excellent landscape performer with terrific Botrytis tolerance and quick recovery from rain. • Tidal Wave forms a dense, mounded hedge, 40 to 55cm tall.
Tidal Wave Purple Tidal Wave Red Velour
Tidal Wave Silver
Vinca F1 Titan and Valiant • Vinca F1 Valiant series give growers and landscapers better option where aerial Phytophthora is a concern. •
Makes well-branched, market-ready plants with large flowers that deliver big colour impact.
• Heat, cool, drought, sun and salt tolerant.
Titan Really Red Titan Blush • Vinca F1 Titan® series has exceptional uniformity, superior branching, and the biggest flowers in the best colours. • Flowers up to two weeks earlier than the competition when weather is cool. Vinca F1 Valiant series
Viola Sorbet – new XP varieties
Sorbet XP Yellow Blotch Improved Sorbet XP Yellow Blotch Improved
Sorbet XP Deep Orange
Sorbet XP Red Blotch Sorbet XP offers you extra: • Performance: Fast Flowering, floriferous; short Stem, strong Branching • Precision: Uniform & Consistent in color, habit, timing and location • Profit: More Sales with Low Cost
Sorbet XP Blue Blotch Improved
Sorbet XP True Blue
Viola Sorbet and Sorbet XP– fantastic unique colors
Sorbet XP Raspberry
Sorbet XP Delft Blue
Morpho
Sorbet XP Yellow Pink Wing
Sorbet XP Morpho
Sorbet Honeybee
Sorbet Yellow Violet Jump Up
Viola Sorbet trial overview – XP mixtures
Sorbet XP blueberry Sundae Mix
Sorbet XP Raspberry Sundae Mix
Sorbet XP Mixtures have been upgraded this year with our newly introduce varieties. 12 professional mixtures offer you best seasonal choices and most color impact.
Zinnia Zahara and Double Zahara
Zahara Sunburst
Zahara Red
Double Zahara Yellow
Double Zahara Yellow (L) vs. Profusion Double Yellow (R)
Double Zahara Raspberry Rippple
Zahara Starlight Rose
Sunflower Miss Sunshine, Balad and Celosia cristata Dracula
Sunflower Miss Sunshine
Celosia cristata Dracula
Sunflower Balad Snapdragon Snapshot Appleblossom
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Snapdragon Snapshot, Impatiens Divine, Ornamental Peppers
Snapdragon Snapshot Appleblossom
Divine Lavender Improved
Ornamental Peppers Blaze Ex-Plant assortment including their market leading Ornamentaa Peppers are now part of our product range. You can find all of our ornamental Peppers from our 2018 catalogue.
Divine Red
SimplySalad® and SimplyHerbs
SimplySalad® Cress
SimplySalad® Arugula
• SimplySalad® Arugula is perfect for bunching – includes mix of lobes and smooth shapes. Baby leaves have mild, nutty flavor; become spicy as they mature or in high temperatures. • SimplySalad® Cress has rosette-forming plant, leaves have a great lobed shape and spicy flavour perfect for salads or braising
SimplyHerbs collection • New Precision Multi-Pellets for SimplyHerbs Basil, Try Basil and Sage. • For Growers producing these varieties, this offers reliable plug production, improved order fill rate, uniform quality in plug trays and improved margin, meaning more sales.
Welcome to 2017 Flower Trials®!
New! French Marigold Bolero Improved
New! Double Zinnia Zahara Mixture
FLOWERTRIALS® REGISTER OPENING TIMES: 13 - 16 JUNE 2017 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 08:00 - 18:00 Friday 08:00 – 16:00 Download here our 2018 catalogue, 2018 new varieties brochure and 2018 Seed Production Information Guide
New! Viola Sorbet XP Deep Orange
PanAmerican Seed® Flower Trials location: Kruizenmuntweg 51 1435 DD Rijsenhout The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0)228 541 844