2012 FlameProof Cinc.. - Dallas Arboretum Trial Gardens
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Companies in trial<br />
<strong>Dallas</strong><br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong><br />
Plant <strong>Trial</strong>ss<br />
FLAME PROOF AWARDS 2011-<br />
12<br />
Awarded only to those plants that survived<br />
from spring to fall, through the extreme<br />
conditions of a Texas summer,<br />
and scored exceptionally high!<br />
Bulb <strong>Trial</strong>s<br />
All America Selection<br />
(only <strong>Trial</strong> in Texas)<br />
Annual <strong>Trial</strong>s<br />
Container <strong>Trial</strong>s<br />
Basket <strong>Trial</strong>s<br />
Perennial<br />
Woody Collections<br />
Hidden <strong>Trial</strong>s<br />
PPA Hosta Heat <strong>Trial</strong><br />
3,452 varieties in trials 2011<br />
6,118 varieties in trials <strong>2012</strong><br />
Alternanthera<br />
Little Ruby<br />
Ageratum<br />
Artist series<br />
Acalypha<br />
Tiki series<br />
Plug Connection<br />
well-branched, fastfinishing<br />
habits<br />
Tiki Firestorm<br />
Tiki Lava Flow<br />
Tiki Peach Whirl<br />
Tiki Island Sunrise<br />
Tiki Tahitian Halo<br />
Tiki Tropical Tempest<br />
Tiki Jungle Cloak<br />
Acalypha<br />
Tiki Lava Flow<br />
Athena-GroLink<br />
Annual-Sun or Shade<br />
Perfect Meatball<br />
Bronze red foliage all<br />
summer<br />
The hotter the redder<br />
18” x 18”<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Annual<br />
Full Sun<br />
Still best Ageratum we’ve<br />
trialed<br />
Blue<br />
Blue Violet<br />
Purple<br />
Highest Scoring 2011<br />
Plug Connection<br />
well-branched, fastfinishing<br />
habits<br />
Highest scoring<br />
summer plant of 2011<br />
trials!<br />
4.44 overall<br />
Angelonia<br />
Alonia Blue<br />
Angelonia<br />
Angelmist series<br />
Angelonia<br />
Serena Series<br />
Alternanthera<br />
‘Brazilian<br />
Red Hots’<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Danziger<br />
Sun<br />
3.08 overall<br />
16 weeks in above<br />
average color<br />
Did good in-ground<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Ball Floraplant<br />
Sun<br />
16 WIBAA<br />
Purple Stripe 3.81OAA<br />
Purple 3.71 OAA<br />
Fragrant & more<br />
vigorous<br />
Did good in-ground and<br />
in containers<br />
Annual- Seed<br />
PanAmerican Seed<br />
Historically our best variety overall<br />
Doesn’t cycle & Heavy flowering<br />
Blue (new) 3.59 for 16<br />
Lavender<br />
Lavender pink<br />
Purple<br />
White<br />
Foliage doesn’t get chlorotic in<br />
summer<br />
Athena-GroLink<br />
Annual-Sun or Shade<br />
24 x 36<br />
Spreads!<br />
Hot bright pink and<br />
cream variegated<br />
foliage!<br />
Honorable Mention<br />
Begonia<br />
Whopper series<br />
Begonia<br />
BIG series<br />
Begonia<br />
‘Babywing Bronze<br />
Leaf White’<br />
Begonia<br />
Dragonwing series<br />
Ball Exclusive<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
Shade to Full Sun<br />
Catalog says 15” tall? 40” x<br />
24”<br />
20% Bigger than Big….<br />
3” wide flowers<br />
Red or Rose Flowers in<br />
bronze or green leaves<br />
Benary Seed<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
Shade to Full Sun<br />
36x24<br />
Heavy flowering<br />
I think it does best in light<br />
shade<br />
Containers are wonderful<br />
Huge flowers<br />
Bronze and Green leaf forms<br />
Annual-Partial Shade<br />
PanAmerican Seed<br />
18”H X 12”W<br />
Finally a bronze leafed<br />
medium vigor begonia<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
PanAmerican<br />
Better in shade<br />
Historically our best<br />
Pink<br />
Red<br />
I’m telling you BAPs for BAGs
Caladium, Strap<br />
Cinderella<br />
Begonia<br />
Gryphon<br />
Begonia<br />
Braveheart<br />
Rose Bicolor<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
Syngenta-Goldsmith Seeds<br />
24”H X 18”W<br />
Partial Shade to Full Sun<br />
Big and upright<br />
Never stops flowers<br />
Super vigorous<br />
Pots or bedding<br />
Hard as hell to find!!!<br />
4.13 OAA for 16 WIBAA<br />
Begonia<br />
Ikon Bronze<br />
Abbott Ipco<br />
Shade or Sun<br />
Dark green border<br />
Pink splashes are<br />
heavier in full sun<br />
Annual to houseplant<br />
PanAmerican Seed<br />
Shade<br />
Silver foliage<br />
Fast growing<br />
Well-drained<br />
Floranova<br />
Seed<br />
Why didn’t we get this<br />
year?<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved<br />
Caladium, Strap<br />
Highlighter<br />
Caladium, Strap<br />
Iceberg<br />
Caladium, Strap<br />
Mount Everest<br />
Caladium, Strap<br />
Cranberry Star<br />
Classic Caladiums<br />
Full Sun or shade<br />
A whole different<br />
color caladium!<br />
My favorite color….<br />
GREEN!<br />
Classic Caladiums<br />
Full Sun or shade<br />
A whole different<br />
color caladium!<br />
My favorite color….<br />
GREEN!<br />
Should have been<br />
called….<br />
Abbott Ipco<br />
Shade<br />
Its Big! Taller than some<br />
fancy leaves<br />
Super bunching<br />
Abbott Ipco<br />
Shade or Sun<br />
It looks like Candidum<br />
with red freckles<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved<br />
Coleus<br />
Big Red Judy<br />
Coleus Colorblaze<br />
Alligator Tears<br />
Cleome<br />
‘Senorita Blanca’<br />
Cleome<br />
Senorita Rosalita<br />
Proven Selections<br />
Annual-Full Sun<br />
No flowers<br />
Dark red foliage doesn’t<br />
burn or fade<br />
My favorite red coleus<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Full sun to shade<br />
Perfect habit<br />
Great even variegation<br />
Works well in combos<br />
Great color and habit<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Full Sun<br />
A new white flowered<br />
form<br />
Thornless! Makes us Happy!<br />
Annual - Veg<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Full Sun<br />
Heavy flowering<br />
Compact habit<br />
Better branching<br />
3 ft. tall and wide<br />
Flowers in quarts nicely<br />
Colocasia<br />
‘Black Coral’<br />
Coleus<br />
Wasabi<br />
Coleus<br />
Sultana<br />
Coleus<br />
Henna<br />
Plant Haven<br />
Zone 7<br />
Full Sun or light shade<br />
Dark purple foliage that<br />
shines<br />
Dwarf plants (looks<br />
better at the store than<br />
Diamond Head)<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Ball Floraplant<br />
Full sun or shade<br />
Screaming GREEN!<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Ball Floraplant<br />
Full sun or shade<br />
Great foliage color<br />
Ruffled foliage<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Ball<br />
Full sun<br />
Great foliage color
Cuphea<br />
Vienco series<br />
Cuphea<br />
Cuphoric<br />
Convolvulus sabatius<br />
Moroccan Beauty<br />
Colocasia<br />
‘Maui Gold’<br />
Annual-Veg GGG<br />
Sun<br />
Huge flowers-Upright facing<br />
Mounding<br />
Purple-Red<br />
Red<br />
Burgundy<br />
Lavender<br />
White<br />
Purple pink<br />
Salmon-Purple<br />
4.00 OAA<br />
18 WIBAA<br />
Better in containers<br />
Syngenta-Veg<br />
Annual-Full sun<br />
Container mixer<br />
Use like Euphorbia<br />
Combine with Euphorbia<br />
Drought tolerant<br />
OAA 3.50<br />
WIBAA 10<br />
GGG<br />
Perennial/Annual-Veg<br />
Blue flowers on trailing<br />
plants<br />
Full sun to shade<br />
Evergreen foliage<br />
Perennial zone 7<br />
Plant Haven<br />
Zone 7<br />
Full Sun or light shade<br />
Bright Gold leaves that<br />
don’t burn in sun<br />
Very shiny<br />
Can’t wait to mix them<br />
Euphorbia<br />
White Manaus<br />
Euphorbia<br />
Diamond Frost<br />
Euphorbia or<br />
Chamaesyce<br />
Cyperus<br />
King Tut<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Athena-GroLink<br />
Our favorite for<br />
garden display<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Heat & Humidity no<br />
problems!<br />
Full sun!<br />
Fine textured<br />
Not showy alone<br />
Think of it as ‘Baby’s<br />
Breath’ for the<br />
South!!!<br />
Historic Best<br />
White Manaus-Athena<br />
Diamond Frost-Proven<br />
Winners<br />
Best of 2011<br />
Diwali Mystery-Danziger<br />
Honorable Mentions<br />
Euphoric White<br />
Breathless Blush<br />
Breathless White<br />
Proven Winner<br />
Annual<br />
Sun<br />
It grow FAST!!!<br />
Loves it hot and wet<br />
Container made<br />
Gaillardia<br />
Galya series<br />
Gaillardia<br />
Galya Corneto<br />
series<br />
Gaillardia<br />
Galya Spark<br />
series<br />
Evolvulus<br />
Blue my Mind<br />
Danziger-Veg<br />
Annual Full Sun<br />
Blazing Sun<br />
Wildfire<br />
18 weeks in full<br />
color<br />
Danziger-Veg<br />
Annual Full Sun<br />
Flame<br />
Yellow<br />
18 weeks in full<br />
color<br />
Danziger-Veg<br />
Annual Full Sun<br />
Amber Spark<br />
Tangerine Spark<br />
Yellow Spark<br />
Coral Spark<br />
Red Spark<br />
18 weeks in full<br />
color<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Summer Annual<br />
Finally a compact version<br />
One of the best container<br />
plants in Texas, but needed<br />
a more grower friendly<br />
version!<br />
Have in trials this year!<br />
Patio Gerbera<br />
Gerbera<br />
Drakensberg Daisy<br />
Gazania<br />
‘Sunbathers’ series<br />
Florist<br />
For shade in large pots<br />
Gerbera<br />
‘Garvinea’<br />
series<br />
Perennial zone 8 south<br />
Florist – Flamingo Holland<br />
Full sun to light shade<br />
Sizes per variety vary<br />
Great color<br />
Heavy blooming<br />
Great in containers<br />
www.Garvinea.com<br />
Perennial<br />
Plug Connection<br />
½ dollar sized flower<br />
Long stems<br />
6 Colors currently<br />
Carmine<br />
Orange<br />
Pink<br />
Scarlet<br />
Buttermilk<br />
White<br />
It really surprised us<br />
Ecke<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Gold Coast<br />
Sunset<br />
Big and vigorous<br />
Flowers are large<br />
Stays open longer<br />
Heat tolerant<br />
Needs well drained soil<br />
<strong>Arboretum</strong> Approved
Helichrysum<br />
Silver Leaf<br />
Yellow<br />
Heliotrope<br />
Scentropia<br />
Deep Blue<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Suntory Flowers<br />
Highest Scoring Plant<br />
in containers 2011<br />
4.38 OAA<br />
16 WIBAA<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Syngenta Flowers<br />
3.19 OAA<br />
18 WIBAA<br />
Heliotrope a.<br />
Simply Scentsational<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Scented<br />
Grows like verbena<br />
No mildew problems<br />
Blooms all summer<br />
2011 Hottest summer on<br />
record! DID GREAT!<br />
4.03 OAA<br />
18 WIBAA<br />
Gomphrena<br />
Fireworks<br />
PanAmerican Seed<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
4ft tall by 3ft<br />
Drought & heat<br />
loving!<br />
Flowers all summer<br />
Screaming purple<br />
Not for 4”<br />
BAP for BAGS<br />
Lantana<br />
Lucky Pot of Gold<br />
Lantana<br />
Luscious series<br />
Hemigraphis<br />
‘Moonlight Imp.’<br />
Helichrysum<br />
Outback Silver<br />
Sunburst<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Ball Floraplant<br />
Full Sun<br />
Compact plants<br />
Heavy flowering<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Highest scoring series<br />
Luscious Citrus Blend<br />
Luscious Lemonade<br />
Luscious Grape<br />
Luscious Tropical Fruit<br />
Luscious Pina Colada<br />
Annual for Sun or<br />
Shade<br />
10 x 48<br />
Trailing!!!<br />
Bluish purple foliage is<br />
great as groundcover<br />
or in container<br />
Hanging Basket<br />
Heat and drought<br />
tough!<br />
Annual-Veg.<br />
Ecke<br />
Highest Scoring Plant<br />
in containers 2011<br />
4.38 OAA<br />
16 WIBAA<br />
Overwintered<br />
Otomeria<br />
O’premeira<br />
Ornamental<br />
Pepper<br />
Sangria<br />
Mecardonia<br />
Golddust<br />
Laurentia<br />
Avante-garde<br />
series<br />
Danziger-Proven<br />
Selections<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
African native<br />
Related to Penta<br />
Looks like Penta<br />
crossed with Phlox<br />
Heat Tolerant!<br />
Well-drained soil<br />
4 colors<br />
Baby Pink- best of<br />
series<br />
Pink<br />
Ruby<br />
White<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
PanAmerican Seed<br />
Full Sun<br />
Great color<br />
Trailing habit<br />
HOT<br />
Keeps fruiting<br />
Annual/Perennial-Veg<br />
Proven Selections<br />
Sun or shade<br />
Smaller habit and flower,<br />
but more floriferous<br />
Great cascading out of<br />
containers<br />
Flowers all summer<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
Thompson & Morgan<br />
Full Sun to light shade<br />
Blue – Best of series<br />
Dark Pink<br />
Pink<br />
Pink with Dark Eye<br />
Violet<br />
White- Best of series<br />
Flowered all summer<br />
Lacy mounding foliage<br />
Normal year it might of won<br />
<strong>FlameProof</strong><br />
Best in containers<br />
Pennisetum purpureum<br />
Prince & Princess<br />
Pennisetum setaceum<br />
Cherry Sparkler<br />
Pennisetum setaceum<br />
Sky Rocket<br />
Pennisetum setaceum<br />
Fireworks<br />
Perennial-Veg<br />
Sun<br />
Incredible color<br />
Thick leaves<br />
Prince taller<br />
Perennial to zone 7<br />
WaterWise<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Itsaul<br />
White green foliage with<br />
a blush of pink<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Itsaul & Proven<br />
Selections<br />
White variegated purple<br />
fountain grass<br />
Great color in full sun<br />
Brighten containers<br />
White seed heads<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Itsaul<br />
It’s variegated Purple<br />
Fountain Grass<br />
Variegated pink and<br />
bronze foliage<br />
As growth ages it turns<br />
solid bronze<br />
Shear occasionally
Pennisetum<br />
purpureum<br />
#Tift 125<br />
Pennisetum purpureum<br />
Vertigo<br />
Pennisetum<br />
purpureum<br />
Princess Molly<br />
Pennisetum<br />
purpureum<br />
Princess Caroline<br />
Perennial-Veg<br />
UGA Tifton<br />
Sun<br />
GIANT purple corn<br />
like plants that grow<br />
straight up<br />
Architectural to 15 ft.!<br />
Nah nah nah nah<br />
4.28 OAA<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Perennial-Veg<br />
Sun<br />
More upright foliage<br />
that spikes out<br />
5 ft. by 3 ft.<br />
Heat and drought<br />
tolerant<br />
3.94 OAA<br />
Perennial-Veg<br />
Sun<br />
Smallest of the<br />
group<br />
18-24” tall<br />
Thinner dark folaige<br />
Great for mass<br />
planting<br />
Perennial-Veg<br />
Sun<br />
Smaller plants<br />
Forms tight mounds<br />
Doesn’t like to be<br />
crowded or shaded<br />
3.94 OAA<br />
Salvia<br />
Mystic Spires Blue<br />
Salvia<br />
Wendy’s Wish<br />
Salvia farinacea<br />
Sallyfun series<br />
Danziger<br />
Annual?-Veg<br />
This one keeps<br />
blooming!<br />
Even the white is nice<br />
Favorite S. farinacea<br />
series<br />
Blue Emotion<br />
Blue Tune<br />
White<br />
Purslane<br />
Pazazz series<br />
Annual/Perennial-Veg.<br />
Ball Horticulture<br />
Basically dwarf form of<br />
Indigo Spires<br />
Perfect as annual or use<br />
as perennial<br />
Best blue salvia I’ve<br />
tested!!!!<br />
Proven Selections<br />
Annual-Veg. Full sun<br />
to light shade<br />
Big! 4 ft in a season<br />
Plum violet flowers all<br />
summer<br />
BEST INTRO 2010<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Danziger<br />
Sun<br />
Vigorous and prostrate<br />
Fast growing<br />
Large flowers<br />
Jumbo White<br />
Jumbo Yellow<br />
Pink Glow<br />
Red Flare<br />
Salmon Glow<br />
Tangerine<br />
Vivid Yellow<br />
Tecoma<br />
Bells of Fire<br />
Spathoglottis<br />
Mai Tai<br />
Scoparia<br />
Illumina<br />
Lemon Mist Imp.<br />
Scaevola<br />
Surdiva series<br />
Annual? - Sun<br />
Plug Connection<br />
Fast growing<br />
Compact habit<br />
Floriferous<br />
Redder during cooler<br />
weather<br />
Hort Couture-Vet<br />
Coolest intro 2011<br />
Full sun or shade<br />
Flowers all summer<br />
Tropical – prefers heat &<br />
humidity<br />
3 ft. tall by 2 ft. wide<br />
Many other varieties in<br />
trials <strong>2012</strong><br />
Container only<br />
Suntory<br />
Perennial – Veg<br />
Sun<br />
Super fine textured plant<br />
Lemony yellow flowers<br />
Great for containers<br />
Drought tolerant, but…<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Suntory Flowers<br />
Sun<br />
Did well in containers<br />
and in ground<br />
Blue 4.22 for 18<br />
Light Blue 4.09 for 18<br />
White – 2.83 for 12<br />
Torenia<br />
‘Summer Wave<br />
Large Silver’<br />
Torenia<br />
‘Summer Wave’<br />
Proven Winners<br />
Annual-Sun Most vigorous<br />
Full sun or shade<br />
Heat tolerant<br />
My go to plant for baskets<br />
It’s a “horticultural slip cover<br />
for the landscape”<br />
Amethyst<br />
Blue<br />
Large Violet<br />
Tecoma<br />
Sparky<br />
Tecoma<br />
Lydia<br />
Annual-Veg<br />
Suntory Flowers<br />
Did well in pots and in<br />
ground<br />
Annual?-Sun<br />
Plug Connection<br />
Fast growing<br />
Compact habit<br />
Floriferous<br />
Redder during cooler<br />
weather<br />
Annual? - Sun<br />
Plug Connection<br />
Fast growing<br />
Compact habit<br />
Floriferous Pale yellow flowers<br />
Blooms earlier<br />
Will take light shade
Verbena rigida<br />
Verbena bonariensis<br />
‘Little One’<br />
Verbena<br />
Princess Blush<br />
Southern Living Plant<br />
Collection<br />
Full Sun<br />
Definitely perennial<br />
Tolerated heat and<br />
humidity<br />
Gets huge<br />
Evergreen<br />
Bloomed all summer<br />
Verbena<br />
Princess<br />
Dark Lavender<br />
Grimes/Kieft/Takii<br />
Perennial - Seed<br />
Rhizomatous<br />
Drought Tolerant<br />
Vigorous!<br />
“Kudzu Queen” Award!<br />
Proven Selections<br />
Annual<br />
Blue flowers all<br />
summer<br />
Great combo plant<br />
Sterile!!!!<br />
Short and more<br />
compact than seed<br />
grown varieties<br />
HEAT TOLERANT<br />
Southern Living Plant<br />
Collection<br />
Full Sun<br />
Definitely perennial<br />
Tolerated heat and<br />
humidity<br />
Gets huge (she’s the<br />
bigger sister)<br />
Evergreen<br />
Bloomed all summer<br />
Got the Point?<br />
Zinnia marylandica<br />
Double Zahara<br />
series<br />
www.dallasplanttrials.org<br />
Favorites & Data<br />
Suppliers area<br />
Downloadable presentation<br />
<strong>Dallas</strong> Plant <strong>Trial</strong>s on<br />
FaceBook<br />
Vinca<br />
Cora Cascade<br />
Strawberry<br />
Goldsmith Seeds<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
Rocking the trial garden<br />
right now<br />
jturner@dallasarboretum.org<br />
Annual-Seed<br />
PanAmerican seed<br />
Full Sun<br />
Completely double flowers<br />
20” x 20”<br />
Cherry<br />
Fire<br />
Strawberry<br />
Duo Mix
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