In line with current circumstances, once again, SelectaOne presents their latest bedding and balcony plant products and highlights for the 2021/22 season in the form of a virtual tour. The platform is accessible to all at any time via: https://sortenschau.selecta-one.com
Visitors can use the platform from the comfort of their own home or office to find out about their latest range. In a series of new videos, the team introduces new, exciting varieties and concepts, explains their benefits and passes on cultivation tips and tricks.
They want to highlight the following new varieties and concepts for the 2021/22 season:
Verbena Mr. LavaLava
With its exceptionally bright orange-red flower color, Verbena Mr. LavaLava attracts all eyes. It convinces with its earliness and wide branching. Its growth is flat and creeping, making it ideal for covering areas and as a ground cover. But it also fits to hanging baskets. It can be combined in many ways and always stands out with its unique flower color and strong signal effect. For the consumer, it has a continuous flowering period without a summer break. A unique appearance and therefore a real highlight. With this unique Verbena, the company will enter the race for the FleuroStar Award 2021/22 this year.
SKYfamily Petunias
The SKYfamily has some eagerly awaited new additions: The tried and tested Glowing Sky, with its bright red color and typical starry sky pattern. This variety is the only one of its kind on the market. It is also joined by: Pink Sky, Cherry Sky and Carmine Sky. They provide all the color variants in this pattern in superior quality and from a single source. These varieties are easy to produce – using similar production methods to the Famous series. The tried and tested SKYfamily marketing concept is compatible with and applicable to all SKY varieties.
Drums® Verbena series
This series has delighted growers since its first year and demand for it has exceeded expectations. The series meets all the expectations of a modern product thanks to its ease of production – no pinching and virtually no inhibitors are required. Early-blooming and compact, highly productive per unit of land, strong POS presence, excellent flowering continuity in the home – the Drums varieties are redefining Verbenas. The series currently comprises seven varieties and is now being expanded to include Drums Red White – a high-contrast addition to the two-tone varieties. The series is backed up by an attention-grabbing marketing concept with the slogan, “Drums – take the lead.”
Pelargonium Sunrise® Holly
The new Sunrise Holly is a green-leaved zonal Pelargonium in an extraordinarily beautiful novelty color. Although it grows slightly more vigorously, it still fits in fantastically with the Sunrise® series. Its water-colored blooms in delicate pink blending into white are completely on trend and create a truly romantic look. This variety has very large blooms, is well branching and reliably early.
Pelargonium Moonlight® Ruby Lee
Ruby Lee is an extremely beautiful color addition to the Moonlight® range. Its striking deep red color with pink/purple edging immediately catches the eye. The color is all the more radiant in contrast with its dark-colored foliage. This highly robust variety has extra-large umbels, whose intense velvety red color creates a very refined impression. It is also easy to produce.
Pelargonium Moonlight® Thelma & Louise
The two new Moonlight varieties Thelma and Louise make a great combination. Both varieties are part of the Moonlight series because of their dark foliage, but in contrast to the other varieties, they are single-flowered and therefore self-cleaning. Both varieties have a compact growth habit, although Thelma is a little more compact than Louise. As such, they perform very well in mass production. These striking eye-type varieties will win you over with their beautiful early flowers, healthy-looking dark green foliage and round composition.
Planta Morgana concept
The new “Planta Morgana” concept showcases drought-tolerant plants that even cope well during increasingly dry summers with low rainfall. In summer 2020, they collaborated with LVG Heidelberg to test the B&B range for heat tolerance. The concept highlights varieties that received a “good” or “very good” rating for the “overall impact” and “irreversible plant damage” criteria, even when given half the normal amount of water over the summer. The varieties include: Delosperma, Portulaca, Sedum, Annual Phlox and Lantana. Not to mention various Pelargoniums, Calibrachoa and pot carnations that stood up to the drought and performed extremely well.
Dianthus Diantica® Violet Blue
The Diantica Violet Blue variety has a wonderful bluish-violet color and early, uniform flowers with a distinctive color pattern. Violet Blue is an excellent variety for baskets due to its trailing yet neat structure. The variety has a wide, straight growth habit and is very sturdy. It has a light scent and beautiful dark foliage, making it an absolute eye-catcher.
Osteospermum 3D Nanuk
The pure white 3D Nanuk is an impressive and high-performing new variety in the double-flowered Osteospermum series. What’s unique about the 3D varieties is that the flowers do not close. It's also a uniform series that is easy to cultivate.
Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Neo Flaming
The new calibrachoa variety “Flaming” is right at home in the MiniFamous Neo series. It is a wonderful hanging variety with a good structure and early blooms. The play of colors in this variety makes a special enhancement to the Neo series. The changing flower colors adapt to different light and temperature conditions.
Erysimum Leya series
The five new Erysimum varieties from the Leya series will really catch the eye in spring. Their fresh, modern colors are clear and bright, making them extremely attractive. They're also popular for their light scent. They flower early and have a long flowering period. The structure of the Leya varieties is compact to moderate. They only require a very small amount of inhibitors, if any, during production, which makes them suitable for an energy-saving crop management approach, i.e. cold cultivation. This enables growers to achieve a high level of output per unit of land. The Leya varieties make a fantastic addition to springtime mixes, balcony boxes and even flower beds.
Dahlia Dalaya® Meena Kalea
This 2021 newcomer exhibits bright white petals around a delicate yellow center and resembles the two-tone type of most of the Dalaya Meena varieties. They are well known for their unusual, playful two-tone varieties. Kalea has excellent branching characteristics as well as being highly vigorous, making it suitable for production in larger-sized pots, generally between 13 and 17 cm. Its outdoor performance is just as great as the other colors in the Dalaya Meena series. Kalea is the perfect Dahlia, attracting a multitude of insects and bees right through into autumn.
Selecta Show Gardens 2021:
As in previous years, the Selecta show gardens are open from June to September 2021. Visitors must register in advance by emailing info-de@selecta-one.com or by contacting their designated Selecta sales representative. The latest coronavirus regulations apply.
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