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Argyranthemum - Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy is no shrinking violet when it comes to floral displays in often bleak, cooler growing seasons. This is one of the first daisies to feature multi-color blooms on the same plant! You’ll be driving the blues away as Miss Daisy’s perky flowers open a bright pink, fade to yellow and then whiten as they age. Create a living bouquet in a pot or flower bed.
Asiatic Lily - Lily Looks
Lily Looks™ are the newest and best breeding of Asiatic Lilies. They have more blooms, improved colors, and stronger stems. This means a brighter, longer lasting lily for your patio or your garden. Keep moist, but do not allow to become soggy. Enjoy indoors in a sunny location before planting outside.
Begonia - 'Gryphon'
The powerful Gryphon is a mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion. Likewise this superb foliage begonia combines similar majestic beauty with strength and durability. The showy plants deliver enough "WOW" to make a legendary garden statement or a dramatic focal point in mixed or solo containers in shady spots. In cooler or coastal climates they can take more sunlight.
Calla Lilies - Calypso
The dazzling colors of these new callas are sure to start another Calypso Craze! Vibrant waves of flowers will dance through the garden like the undulating ruffles of an exotic calypso skirt. Like something out of a storybook, the phenomenal colors of these new Calla Lilies are sure to captivate the colorful spirit of any gardener bored with the ordinary. Great for cut flowers!
Coleus - 'Henna'
This Coleus is a versatile decorator of the garden because it can take sun or shade. This new 'Henna' variety has the rich tones and detailed patterns reminiscent of the exotic body decorations of India. Use Coleus in mixed planters or in a mass along the border. It can brighten up a dark corner or add excitement to a mixed container on your deck.
Colocasia - 'Kona Coffee'
The rich, bold foliage of 'Kona Coffee' is sure to wake your garden out of its doldrums. A result of the breeding program at the University of Hawaii, the unique, compact habit of this colocasia adds a special versatlility. It not only makes a great accent plant for garden beds, but at a 2'-3' ultimate height, it is also compact enough to be used in mixed containers. What better way to spruce up your garden or patio than with the extra perkiness of a 'Kona Coffee'!
Dahlia 'Fireworks'
The new VIVA! 'Fireworks' Dahlia brings exciting new color combinations that have never been seen in Dahlias. Unlike other varieties, 'Fireworks' explodes with stripes of colors on each petal. Selected by the English seed house and breeders, Thompson and Morgan, these new Dahlias have superior breeding that you will be sure to enjoy. Needs more shade in Southern regions. Use in flower beds or containers.
Geranium 'BIG ORANGE'
Now gardeners have a reason to fall in love with geraniums all over again! ‘Big Orange’ Geranium is a hot, new cross of zonal and ivy geraniums, combining the best traits of both. And unlike other geraniums, ‘Big Orange’ won’t get its color squeezed out as summer temperatures begin to rise… definitely a geranium that’s hard to beat for beds, baskets and borders.
Geranium 'BIG RED'
A true red geranium has long been a goal for geranium breeders the world over. VIVA! is excited to bring you the best new true red geranium ever hybridized. The color is a great achievement, but the other important attributes that add to its glory are its tolerance for heat and drought, its heavy flowering, and the vigor that sustains these attributes. Enjoy Big Red in flower beds, baskets, window boxes, or mixed containers gardens.
Geranium 'TexMex'
VIVA! TexMex is one hot tamale! Some Geraniums will whimper in the heat of the summer, but TexMex will keep going strong. This new bi-colored geranium has fiery hot red and pink blooms with dark foliage which will add hot color to your garden. Will do well in planters and window boxes, as well as garden beds. Makes a strong border plant.
Kale Kaleidoscope
Here's a phemomenal breakthrough in kale breeding that will have you looking at your flower beds through "kaleidescope eyes." A beautiful garden accent or container plant ‘Kaleidoscope’ Kale flaunts it's purple-green foliage with highly ruffled edges that are variegated with magenta-pink margins. Take a closer look and you'll see that even the veins of the leaves are this magenta-pink. The color is best when grown under cool temperatures and more lavender when grown in warmer temperatures.
New Guinea Impatiens - Windmill
Masses of blossoms with a breakthrough color pattern will breeze through the "windmills of your mind" as you become totally captivated by their garden performance. The easy-to-grow Windmill New Guinea Impatiens brings plentiful blooms to flowerbeds, but they are equally at home in patio containers or hanging baskets. Plant now and watch your shady spots breeze into garden magic!
Pennisetum - Fireworks
Seldom has a new easy-to-grow plant drawn as many 'oooh' and 'ahhh's' as 'Fireworks' - it has explosive color that will brighten up any garden or patio. The past few years we have seen 'grasses' become the rage of outdoor landscaping. Bold and brassy multicolor leaves make this an easy highlight. Dense round clumps to 4' wide of fountain-like reddish brown leaves. Good for dry locations such as gravel beds and rock gardens.
Pennisetum - Sky Rocket
Your garden will be more than an "afternoon delight" when the arching pink plumes of Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket' are in flight. This exciting new green and white variegated grass will burst into your garden with accents of color and texture. Try planting against darker backdrops to take best advantage of the explosive color or plant in containers to showcase the pendulous seeds heads.
Perennial
Perennials are the plants that come back to flower, spring after spring. VIVA! has gathered together today's most stunning Echinacea and Heuchera varieties. We're talking great color and fantastic foliage.
More great VIVA! Perennials varieties are available regionally.
Petunia Crème Brûlée
Creamy custard with a sugary caramelized crust describes a mouth-watering color addition for flower beds! Petunia ‘Crème Brûlée’ offers new opportunities for color mixes with other plants. With a blooming season that is much longer than regular petunias. You can enjoy ‘Crème Brûlée’ in flower beds, baskets, window boxes, or mixed containers gardens.
Petunia inc-RED-ible
RED flowers that brighten containers as well as borders? RED petunia blooms that continue to blossom through the entire growing season? Flowers not affected by day-length means you can have the rich RED color of petunias earlier than ever? Vibrant, ruby-RED tones on a petunia that blooms from early spring through fall…now “that’s inc-RED-ible”! Feed VIVA!’s ‘inc-RED-ible™’ Petunia every 2 - 4 weeks. Absolutely inc-RED-ible container or border performance!
Petunia Lemon Zest
All petunias want to be rose colored – that is sort of the natural color of the wild petunia. Breeders have spent years developing all the other flower colors – with yellow being the hardest color to make. When we saw this Lemon Zest, we just stopped dead in our tracks. It is a GREAT color. It’s bright – the petunia holds the flowers up where we can see all the color – we really like this flower! And it is yellow!
Petunia Orange Zest
Now there’s a new petunia with all of the energy, gusto, and color of tree-ripened oranges. ‘Orange Zest’ Petunias will spice up the garden with a bounty of tangerine-colored blooms with mounds of color. Use in patio planters, baskets, window boxes, or borders. Remember to keep well fed and juicy blossoms will refresh the yard from Spring through Fall.
Petunia Rhythm and Blues
While America’s favorite bedding plant may have ancestors from Argentina, new ‘Rhythm & Blues’ Petunia brings a funky soul bounce to the garden. Striking picotee edging surrounds jazzy blue flowers on compact plants. Easy to care for. Use in mixed containers, borders and baskets. Add a little food on a regular basis and the blossoms won’t miss a beat!
Petunia Strawberry Zest
You'll want to stroll through "Strawberry Fields Forever" once you catch a glimpse of the way that 'Strawberry Zest' petunia blooms in flower borders, containers or hanging baskets. Like the other petunias in the "Zest" line, it is compact, easy-to-grow, and jam packed with color!
Premium Color
VIVA! Premium Color are a mix of the best annuals and perennials (depending on your Zone). We really do travel the world over, searching for the prettiest, most colorful, most robust, and yes, nicest smelling plant varieties. We narrow down the playing field for you, so you don't have to spend your time trying to figure out which of the many varieites out there are really the best.
Heliotrope 'Scentropia'
More great VIVA! Premium Color varieties are available regionally.
Rudbeckia 'Cinnamon Bear'
As cute as Baby Bear in the Goldilocks story and with an 8"-10" size that's "just right", 'Cinnamon Bear' Rudebeckia is ideal for growing in containers, beds and borders. Well-branched plants remain compact throughout the growing season with large 4"-6" blooms from late Spring till frost. Hardy to zone 5 and also heat tolerant, Cinnamon Bear never finds the climate too hot or too cold, but always "just right".
Rudbeckia 'Tiger Eye'
'Tiger Eye' Rudbeckia is a big, bright splash of color that stands out all season long. Every university, arboretum, and private plant trial that grew 'Tiger Eye' rated it a top performer. Even late in the season when other Rudbeckias and most of the garden was fading, 'Tiger Eye' still looked fabulous. Enjoy the finest new breeding in Rudbeckias.
Snapdragon - Snap Daddy
Now there's an exciting, new snapdragon for the entire growing season! Often considered to be cool season flowers, 'Snap Daddy' Snapdragon is more than just a cool cat, it really beats the heat! The variegated foliage and bright-yellow flowers make this a tough garden plant even in the heat. Great for use in sunny flower borders or even as a focal point in mixed containers. ‘Snap Daddy’ is a superb accent for flower beds and can also be used as a cut flower.Hardy to Zone 7 and colder with protection.
Snapdragon - Snap Happy
It's true! Some really do like it hot. 'Snap Happy' along with it's sibling 'Snap Daddy' are the first snapdragons to take the heat. The plants are amazing with a long flowering period lasting the entire season.'Snap Happy' is upright and branching with a compact growth habit to 16". The attractive variegated green and cream foliage is complimented by multiple magenta flowers. Superb garden or container accent. Hardy to Zone 7 and lower with protection.
Sun Loving Caladium
“Strap Leaf” Caladiums can take full sun and tolerate hot conditions. Great foliage color brightens gardens and patios. We suggest a rich, moisture-holding soil.
SunPatiens®
VIVA! SunPatiens – Finally! An Impatiens for Full Sun!
These are like the old fashioned tall landscape plants that will grow and bloom and grow and bloom and did we say they will grow and bloom? GREAT in the garden… oh – and they take FULL SUN in HOT spots! An Amazing flower. EASY to grow – plant in full sun, water and you’re done.