New Annuals for 2025
Osteospermum Akila Hawaii Sunset Mixture
An exciting segregating mix
from the Akila series has
vibrant bicolours, including
yellow/gold with a pink
centre; orange/bronze with
a pink-purple centre; rose/
mauve with purple centre
and bronze/scarlet with
purple centre. The plant’s
excellent branching helps
it fill containers and the
seed quality ensures high
germination success. Plants
are also drought tolerant
once established — perfect
for cool-season and coastal
gardens.
Garvinea Sweet Series
Key features of this series include:
high colour impact, numerous large
flowers, great weather tolerance and
strong resistance to pests and diseases.
These plants bloom continuously from
spring to frost. New varieties Sweet
Maggie (shown) and Sweet Blaze deliver
a punch of colour to this series.
(Zone 7)
Geranium
Big EEZE Pink Batik
Pink Batik’s striking dark pink mosaic
pattern will mesmerize anyone on
its super-sized blooms covering a
neatly rounded habit. It’s also a great
garden performer with heat and
humidity tolerance and is a 2024
All-American Selection Winner.
Dahlia Venti
Magenta + White Eye
Venti is a vigorous dahlia series for
landscapes or large-size containers
and makes an excellent thriller when
paired with other sun-loving plants.
The new Magenta + White Eye is a
bicolour pink-and-white blossom that
pops against deep green foliage. Dahlia
attract pollinators, too — Venti’s doubleflowered
form is the perfect landing pad
for butterflies.
Angelonia Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel is 30 per cent taller and
more vigorous than Archangel Angelonia. It
also flowers earlier, so northern landscapers
are supplied with inputs sooner to meet
their markets’ needs. Huge flowers are
vibrant against glossy, dark-green leaves
on tall stems. It thrives in extreme heat
and humidity and is an excellent upright
component for large-size commercial mixes.
Petunia Supertunia Tiara
This captivating, saturated flower
emanates a white, luminescent glow
from the centre, drawing consumers
in for a closer look. No deadheading
is needed to keep this petunia in
bloom from spring to fall. Its vigour
is impressive for a novelty petunia.
Available in pink and blue.
Calibrachoa Lia Abstract
Lemon Cherry
Intriguing abstract pattern of yellow
and red blooms displayed on strong,
weather-tolerant plants. This special
variety has been outstanding at trial
sites all across Canada. Its mounding/
trailing habit makes beautiful baskets
and mixed containers.
Helianthus annuus
Sunfinity Double Yellow Sunflower
Double the sun and double the garden fun with this
truly innovative double-flowered vegetative Sunflower.
Get endless blooms all season long with the Sunfinity
promise of unmatched garden performance and a high
resistance to powdery mildew throughout the summer
season. Vigorous plants with well-branched habits are
versatile in both large patio containers and in ground.
Salvia Salgoon Series
These sturdy and robust plants offer abundant, firm flower spikes and are heat tolerant.
The flowers are arranged in dense, elongated spikes that add a dramatic, eye-catching
element to any garden. The series offers a uniform range of vivid colours, including newly
added Lake Como (purple-blue), Lake Blueberry (deep blue) and Lake Flamingo (pink).
(Zone 8)
Petunia hybrida
Dekko Maxx Pink
The maximum vigour of this pollinatorfriendly
petunia is ideal for landscape
coverage and colour. Flowering from
mid-spring to summer, its smaller
bloom size and low spreading habit
delivers outstanding durability in the
toughest landscape conditions.
Lobelia erinus
F1 Masterpiece Blue with Eye
The industry’s first lobelia F1 hybrid from seed
on the market flowers very early, with large,
striking blue flowers with a white eye, and
displays a well-formed, mounding plant habit.
With excellent heat tolerance in summer and
impressive field performance, it looks its best
in beds and fields but is also very suitable for
pot and container production.
Impatiens hybrid
Sol Luna Prime series
This series does it all—tolerates full sun
to full shade, looks stunning in containers
or hanging baskets, and is spectacular in
landscape beds. Abundant, large blooms
make an outstanding show all summer long.
Available in six colours, well-matched in habit
and bloom time.
Vinca Titan-ium
Get extra protection from the fungal
disease aerial Phytophthora with new
Titan-ium Vinca. The plants are fast
to flower with superior branching and
large-size blooms. Available in eight
colour options, these flowers attract
pollinators like bees and butterflies.
Plants are water-wise, heat-tolerant
and are generally low maintenance.
Scaevola Stardiva
This is the first-ever series of Scaevola
aemula with star-shaped rather than
fan-shaped flowers, lending a larger,
fuller appearance to the blossoms.
They are borne prolifically on compact,
densely mounded to semi-trailing plants
that are extremely durable in sun, heat,
humidity, rain, drought and wind.
Calibrachoa MiniFamous
Uno Funtopia
The medium-compact habit of Funtopia
Pink and Funtopia Blue makes it great
for hanging baskets and containers. The
tie-dye-like pattern is fresh and modern to
attract attention in your garden designs, and
the semi-double flowers are whimsical and
sweet. They’re great for adding a textural
element with other sun-loving plants.
Heliopsis hybrid Punto Rosso
Yellow-orange flowers with a red centre contrast nicely with the dark
foliage. Long lasting blooms were bred for improved retail shelf appearance and also offer deer resistance. (Zone 3)
ThinkPlants/Kientzler Young Plants
Salvia Noble Knight
With its striking purple-to-blue blooms and exceptional flower power, this salvia is a must-have in your landscape. Its weather-tolerant flowers ensure continuous attractiveness. The perfect choice for first-year blooms. (Zone 3)
Delphinium grandiflorum Hunky Dory Blue
Heavily branched and very floriferous with large blooms, Hunky Dory is one of the most
uniform series of Delphinium grandiflorum. F1 vigour leads to excellent germination and young plant performance, eliminating the need to multi-sow and providing a uniform, speedy and efficient crop. (Zone 4)
Hibiscus Summerific Cookies and Cream
Cookies and Cream emerges in late spring already showing its dark foliage — the perfect backdrop to early season perennials. Slightly cupped six- to seven-inch bright white flowers will appear beginning in midsummer. (Zone 4)
Walters Gardens/Proven Winners
