ThinkPlants features more than 40 new varieties

Added on 07 August 2023

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ThinkPlants features more than 40 new varieties

ThinkPlants has released a 2023/2024 New Varieties catalog as a supplement to its 2022/23 book. The team at ThinkPlants has launched more than 40 new introductions this year and is highlighting these new varieties in a separate catalog. The new book, along with many of these new varieties, was displayed at Cultivate’23 in Columbus, OH. The catalog is now available online here.

“Since the ThinkPlants launch in 2018, we have continued to build our portfolio and gain new breeder and young plant producer participants,” says Joey Wiseman, Director at ThinkPlants. “We are so proud to now be 16 members strong and still growing. It is exciting to walk through a mass merchant store, or an independent garden center and see beautiful ThinkPlants-promoted perennials at retail, and available to consumers. There are a whole chain of companies and people that make this happen, and ThinkPlants has worked hard to help connect all those dots.”

Some of the new introductions for 23-24 include:

Agastache ‘Pink Pearl’ PPAF: This new Agastache from Terra Nova Nurseries has very large flowers and is uniquely floriferous. It is a stand-alone in its bloom power. Unrooted cuttings of this new introduction are available out of Danziger Guatemala. “This is the single best Agastache I have seen come to market. With the importance of adding new pollinator crops, this should be in every perennial program,” says Wiseman.
Echinacea ‘Prairie Blaze’: This new launch from Syngenta Flowers is the first open-pollinated seed Echinacea available in novelty colors and optimized for mass production. This series has a good range of colors and matches well with the Prairie Splendor Compact for habit and bloom timing. “We had a great display of these new Echinacea in the ThinkPlants Cultivate booth,” Wiseman says. “The Prairie Blaze Orange Sunset really stood out at the show.”