What's New? - Garden Gate Nursery

Great New Favorites For Your Garden
Some of these smorgasbord of flowers are new to the industry and some are just new to us.  Whichever it be, we hope you enjoy this color feast.  Of course, this is by all means not all our new plants.
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A New Guinea Impatient that is ruffled!!!!

Ruffles Impatients adds a new look and feel to a standard shade plant.  Ruffles keeps beautiful blooms all season long and does not require deadheading.

VEGETABLES

​Pennisetum "Cherry Sparkler:  Stripes of pink, burgundy, green, and white explode in graceful arches in this sister to 'Fireworks' and 'Skyrocket'. For the best colors, plant it in full sun. 'Cherry Sparkler' features a mix of white and pink blush seed plumes. It is not hardy.  Light:Sun   Height:36 inches 

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Lantana)  Bandana® Orange Sunrise   Lantana displays and beautiful mix of orange and yellow flowers. Bandana® OrangeSunrise is a well branched plant that has a nice mounding growing habit. Try Lantanas in a hanging basket or in a mixed combo planter.  Height: 1-2 Feet     Spread: 2-3 Feet 

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Superbena Sparkling Cherry--I have PRETTY BLOOMERS.Unique bicolor ruby and white splashed flowers.
Continuous Bloom or Rebloomer-Long Blooming-Deadheading Not Necessary
Attracts: Butterflies-Trails Up To:  14 Inches-Spacing:  8 - 12" 

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Dragon’s Breath Celosia was the talk of the California Spring trials circuit!  This variety is vigorous and blooms later, but puts on a fantastic show of color for mid-late summer and early fall. Worth the wait! Extra-large brilliant red plumes are a lovely foil to the maroon foliage. Dragon’s Breath celosia is perfectly suited for 10” to gallon containers and looks marvelous in large landscape beds. Height: 24", 16" spread.




New from Proven Winners, Calibrochoa "Holy Moley" This Superbells offers a novel, two-toned bloom with yellow petals splotched with bright pink. 


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Littletunia:  All the colorful, flowering abundance of standard petunias, but with daintier flowers.   Many mini petunia varieties are trailing, making them especially attractive in baskets and window boxes.
 
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​Our 'Crazytunia Star Jubilee Petunia Plant is striking; this splendidly purple blossom sometimes so darkly purple as to appear black.  New from Proven Winners







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​Crazytunia--Good Night Kisses features burgundy with cream edge. With a trailing, mounded habit, it will work well in containers  as well as hanging baskets.






​PILLAR Climbing GERANIUMS, a Garden Gate Favorite, are what is in our BIG Large 24" Containers.  Plant with Supertunias for a large "Wow" effect.  This is a new Pink Variety which we trialed last year and love.  








​Glow Blue Stardust Petunia is a compact plant featuring light blue blooms with star-shaped white striping. This variety has a spread of 12-14 inches, requiring a space of 8-12 inches to properly grow, and an optimal height of 8-10 inches.






​For a couple of years Easy Wave Red Velour (such a beautiful deep red) appeared on the market.  This year we have another new color-- yellow.   Waves come from seed.
  • Wave is the most versatile of all large-flowered spreading petunias – perfect for solo and mixed planters and baskets, gardens and landscapes. 
  • Easy Wave is more mounded with more controlled spread than Wave varieties





​Purple Lobularia:  Abundant, fragrant, purple flowers on ball-shaped, semi-trailing plant. Height: 4-8 in. Spread: 15-30 in. Spacing: 15-20 in. Aggresive plant.  It's not just another allysum.  You won't believe your eyes!
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​Dianthus Jolt!!  This is an Interspecific dianthus with brightly colored and large, showy flower heads on strong stems that perform extremely well all summer long. Jolt is the most heat tolerant dianthus on the market, sporting very showy, bright pink fringed flowers.  An All American Award Winner last year!!!





The newest take on osteos,  Osteospermum 4D™ Series is by far the coolest and most impressive collection of osteospermum out there!  If you’ve ever grown osteospermum before, they always close at night,  not these guys. Our 24/7 Osteospermum remain smiling in bloom all season long, 


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Early Springs Lobelia  has improved heat performance. Early Springs will flower profusely around the country from early spring and into the warmer days of early summer. For northern areas of the country with milder summers, Early Springs Lobelia can bloom all the way in to fall.  New color--Magenta!
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Isn't this sad!!!  All these flowers and only one new vegetable.  It's name is GYPSY. Gypsy performs well under moderately warm conditions. It is a medium-green hybrid that yields overall uniformity. Gypsy has a strong root system and downy mildew intermediate resistance. Gypsy yields excellent, smooth, dome-shaped heads with medium-small beads.

This doesn't mean we don't like veggies.  We love them.  Sun Sugar yellow tomatoes can't be beat as a cherry tomato.  My favorite is Parks Whopper--it's fairly early and quite large.  Of course we wouldn't be a garden center without Early Girl and Sweet 100's.  People ask me what is the best tomato--my answer is any that get's ripe!  And, don't forget all those colored peppers!