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Garden Idol: the hottest new introductions as you've never seen them before! A no-holds-barred look at new plants and how they fit into your business delivered by your judges from landscape, garden retail, consumer press and municipal development.
Novalis rocks it out with five hot musical debuts for 2010. Will Carex 'Everest' move mountains with the judges, or is Linda Guy counting on Phlox to take them to the Candy Shop? The judges discover a Sweet Sensation, but will controversy over others' past hardiness claims plague Linda's performance?
This is Garden Idol!
HOW VOTING WORKS:
Garden Idol airs right here on the ANLA Knowledge Center Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from April 19 and ending May 9. Once released, each company’s voting will remain open for one weeks’ time. You will have to complete a brief (we promise!), free site-registration to vote. Check back frequently to vote for your favorite introductions! Scroll down the page to find more information about these hot introductions.
Based on your votes, one finalist from each company will continue on to the final round where you will pick this year's Garden Idol!
Meet the Cast
Linda Guy
Director of New Product Development
Linda began her career managing Magnolia Nursery, Mobile, AL, developing her love for Deep South native flora and the rare plants of their 40-acre collection garden. As Director of New Product Development for Carolina Nurseries and Novalis®, Linda travels extensively around the world, collecting and trialing plants. Linda is widely respected in the industry for her botanical expertise and enthusiasm for gardeners everywhere, and married to J. Guy, president of Carolina Nurseries.
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Chris Beytes
Chris “Seacrest” Beytes is editor and publisher of GrowerTalks and Green Profit magazines. A former wholesale greenhouse owner, Chris now travels North America and the world for Ball Publishing, seeking out the latest news, trends and ideas. Although partial to hydrangeas, his favorite plant is Pedilanthus tithymaloides, which will probably never win a beauty contest.
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Katy Moss Warner
Katy spent 24 years developing the horticultural programs at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando Florida. Before retiring, she was Director of Horticulture and Environmental Initiatives. She has served the American Horticultural Society as Board Chair as well as President/CEO. She is currently President Emerita of the American Horticultural Society. In addition, she serves on the Board of America in Bloom and travels America judging towns and cities for that program.
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Justin Hancock
Justin W. Hancock is the senior garden editor for the Better Homes and Gardens web site, www.bhg.com, and a serious plant lover. He's been a gardener all his life and has worked on garden books, magazines, and web sites for the last fifteen years. He lives in Des Moines, Iowa (where he's also the co-owner of a retail garden center, Loki's Garden).
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Calvin Bordine
After receiving his B.A. and B.S. from Michigan State University, Calvin worked at multiple garden centers and retailers before returning to Bordine Nursery. Those retailers include Crate&Barrel, Hicks Nurseries, Bachman’s, Country Market (now Stauffers) and NordicTrack. His family business is celebrating its 70th year in business and has 4 permanent retail locations and 3 seasonal stores around the metro Detroit area. In addition to retail, Bordine’s has a large growing facility (750,000 ft2 of greenhouse) with a state of the art propagation area. In addition to his professional life, Calvin has biked across the country, run a marathon and is the father of 6. Check out their video marketing on YouTube.
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Joseph Hillenmeyer
Joseph Hillenmeyer, the principle at Joseph Hillenmeyer+ Associates, is a ninth generation nurseryman. His family background in horticulture led him to work with the Don Shadow Nursery (TN) and time working with a nursery in New Zealand and an arboretum in Western Turkey. In 2001 Joseph opened his garden design firm in Lexington Kentucky affording him the opportunity to continue to travel the world studying Garden Design and Horticulture.
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Company Info
 Novalis Novalis®, which means ‘to cultivate new ground’ in Latin, is a consortium of 16 professional nursery and greenhouse growers selling exclusively to independent garden centers, re-wholesalers and landscape professionals in the U.S. and Canada. Novalis® regionally grows and sells distinctive, high-quality annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees under its solution oriented Plants that Work® brand umbrella, providing coordinated marketing and merchandising support for increased consumer sales. Phone: 888-845-1988
Episode Directory
Round 2: Bailey Nurseries
Round 3: Monrovia Growers
Round 5: Spring Meadow Nursery
Round 6: Ball Ornamentals
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Round 4: Novalis Voting
Your vote counts towards keeping a contestant in the competition so make it count.
The votes are in.....
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Phlox Candy Store Series
The best mildew resistant Phlox to date! Clusters of deliciously scented flowers begin to bloom in early summer filling the garden with a sweet fragrance until fall. The Candy StoreTM series alleviates all the common concerns associated with garden Phlox.
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Mahonia 'Soft Caress'
Few plants offer the texture that ‘Soft Caress’ provides the shade garden. Slender, bamboo-like foliage forms an evergreen, medium-sized shrub. In early winter racemes of bright-yellow flowers stand atop the foliage like fingers of light.
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Weigela 'Rainbow Sensation'
Before the first flowers appear, Rainbow SensationTM will brighten your garden with its attractive, variegated foliage. Dense clusters of soft- pink, funnel-shaped flowers bloom in profusion in May. Gently arching stems add grace to the garden.
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Symphoricarpus Sweet Sensation
Plump, rose-pink berries ripen in early fall, as the last of summers’ small pink flowers swell into pearls. As the leaves fall, each arching stem is adorned with the decorative berries which remain on slender branches through the winter.
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Carex 'Everest'
Fountains of narrow leaves with wide, pure-white leaf margins spill over to form compact clumps. A shade-loving grass, ‘Everest’ is lovely pouring on to a path, or when used as an architectural element in containers or window boxes.
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Drakensberg Daisy Series
With one parent from the high mountains of South Africa, these vigorous and hardy plants work equally well in containers or at the front of the border. Initially bred to work in full sun in the landscape setting. 18” spikes of non-stop blooms atop dark green foliage from summer to hard frost.
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Resources
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Learn more about this new Phlox series from Novalis.
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Learn more about this new Mahonia from Novalis.
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Learn more about this new Weigela from Novalis.
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Learn more about this new Symphoricarpus from Novalis.
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Learn more about this new Carex from Novalis.
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Learn more about this new series of Gerbera Daisies from Novalis.
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Publishing Team
Project and Editorial Design: Jonathan Bardzik, ANLA
Visual and Video created by Fresh Brew Studios
Steve Kendall, Producer
Josh Miller, Producer
Graphic Design created by The Design Works
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