Geranium Brochure

Geranium
Portfolio
Americana Rose Mega Splash
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Ultimate Selection, Unbeatable Support
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Product Forms: Callused Cuttings
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Rocky Mountain Series
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Classic™ Series
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Americana Series
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Calliope and Caliente Series
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Fidelity® Series
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Tango Series
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Contessa™ Series
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Freestyle® Series
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Temprano™ Series
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Built on a deep understanding of geranium genetics and a passion to innovate, Syngenta
Flowers has been a leader in vegetative geranium breeding for nearly 30 years. From our
rich history, including our Fischer and Goldsmith heritage, we’ve built a strong record of
delivering best-in-class varieties to the marketplace — from the introduction of the original
Tango™ in 1986 to the more recent breakthrough of Calliope® Dark Red.
Cascade™ Series
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Blizzard™ Series
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Blooms All Summer™ Guaranteed!
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Tips for Selling Success
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As you browse these pages, you will see a portfolio that raises the performance standards
for all who use them — grower, retailer and consumer. For grower-friendly varieties that
garner high customer loyalty and drive repeat sales, look to Syngenta Flowers.
Geranium – Iv y
Since the beginning, we’ve been driven to breed game-changing geraniums. When the
Americana® series burst onto the scene, it made a big impression with its manageable
habit and robust garden performance. The Rocky Mountain™ series blazed a new trail for
strong vigor and branching. And, of course, the hybrid-geranium craze began with our own
Caliente® and Calliope series.
Geranium – Hybrid
Exotic Collection
Caliente Pink
A Rich History of Breeding Success
G e r a n i u m – Zo n a l
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Ultimate Selection,
Unbeatable Support
Drive Profitability with
Callused Cuttings
The entire GoldFisch® geranium portfolio is available in your choice of product forms. Start
your program with rooted, unrooted or callused cuttings to meet your production needs
and preferences.
Nobody knows callused cuttings better than Syngenta Flowers. Through our Fischer
lineage, we’ve proudly served geranium growers with callused cuttings for more than a
decade, and their popularity continues to grow. Sales of callused cuttings have grown every
year since their introduction.
Regardless of which product form you choose, your investment is backed by the industryleading knowledge and rapid, relevant responsiveness of the Syngenta Technical Services
team. Grow GoldFisch geraniums with confidence: answers and advice about propagation,
finishing, disease management, insect control, plant nutrition and more are well within reach.
Contact our team anytime at [email protected] or log on to the
Technical Services web portal at www.goldsmithseeds.com for these and other resources:
• Weekly
Tech Tips
• White
Papers
• Video
Library
As the pioneers of callused geranium
cuttings, we truly understand the
unique value they offer:
• Quicker
turns: Reduce your total
production time by an average of
three weeks vs. unrooted cuttings.
• Lower
production costs:
Callused cuttings eliminate the
need for traditional propagation
equipment and transplant labor.
• Strong
to the finish: Callused
cuttings begin with strong basal
branching early on and require
fewer plant growth regulators
(PGRs) for finishing.
Rooted liner
Unrooted cutting
Tango Dark Red
Callused cutting
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Rocky Mountain
Americana
The Rocky Mountain series is THE zonal landscape geranium! It is an award-winning
series and best-in-class performer with strong vigor and green foliage. Rocky Mountain
is available in a wide range of solid and novelty colors that shine on large, round flower
heads all season long. With robust vigor, Rocky Mountain fills premium container programs
quickly and abundantly. Uniform plants are bred for high-stress tolerance and versatility, so
growers, retailers and consumers can rest assured knowing their plants will perform well
under a wide range of conditions.
The Americana series was among the first to be specifically bred and selected for North
American conditions. With a robust and free-flowering habit, Americana burst onto
the scene, instantly setting itself apart from the small, European-type geraniums that
dominated the market at the time. Americana turns heads with a broad range of vibrant
colors including one-of-a-kind “splash” types. Its medium-bodied habit is well suited for sixinch and larger container programs. A long history of award-winning garden performance
helps growers and retailers sell with confidence, and drives high consumer loyalty.
Rocky Mountain
Dark Red
Americana Dark Red
Rocky Mountain Violet
Rocky Mountain White
Rocky Mountain Salmon
Classic
Acclaimed for its reliable performance, the Classic series has set the industry standard
for more than 50 years. Classic exhibits large, full flowers and green foliage with moderate
plant vigor. Classic is ideal for six-inch pots and larger container programs because of
its well-branched, full habit. Its bright color options have won several awards from top
universities. With grower-tested, proven genetics, Classic has the varieties growers count
on for outstanding performance.
Classic Salmon
(Schoene Helena)
Classic Red
(Diablo)
Classic Pink
(Blues)
Americana White Splash
Americana Pink
Americana White Splash
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Caliente Orange
Caliente Pink
“If you’re going to use geraniums,
you should choose the very best
variety you can find. Caliente is,
in my experience, exactly that.”
Calliope Lavender Rose
Calliope Dark Red
Calliope Hot Pink
Calliope Scarlet Fire
Calliope Burgundy
Calliope Lavender Rose with Bombay White scaevola
Calliope Dark Red with Bombay White scaevola
Calliope Dark Red
Jimmy Turner, Senior Director of Gardens, Dallas Arboretum
Source: Neil Sperry’s Gardens magazine, January/February 2012 issue
Caliente Dark Rose
Caliente Coral
Caliente Hot Coral
Caliente Lavender
“Calliope Dark Red is a winner
in our garden, one that lasted
through the heat and continued
flowering. Once you see the
flower color of Calliope Dark Red,
you, too, will have a whole new
favorite geranium.”
Jimmy Turner, Senior Director of Gardens, Dallas Arboretum
Source: Neil Sperry’s Gardens magazine, January/February 2009 issue
Caliente Rose
Caliente Fire
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H e at Lov e r s
From the innovators of hybrid geraniums, Calliope and Caliente offer best-in-class garden
performance. Calliope and Caliente have exceptional edema tolerance and superior
branching with unbeatable heat tolerance.
Calliope
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Exotic
Tango
Exotic represents a unique collection of novelty geraniums! The collection includes wellbalanced plants with showy, large blooms. Exotic varieties diversify geranium programs and
spice up mixed plantings with their variegated foliage and strong flower power. Retailers
and consumers will enjoy their free-flowering, season-long performance.
Tango is the perfect high-density geranium series. Tango features dark green foliage on
a tidy plant habit that shows off its large, bright flowers. This uniform series is offered in
a wide range of solid colors along with unique “splash” patterns. Tango exhibits excellent
heat tolerance and is highly efficient for simple, quick-turn summer production. With a long,
proven history of superior performance, Tango is a first-class choice.
The Calliope series has a double-flower form offering the look of a zonal geranium with a
punch! Heat-loving and drought-tolerant, Calliope will perform reliably in even the hottest,
driest summer conditions. Calliope features large flower heads in rich colors, which bloom
under full-sun and partial-shade conditions. Its superior branching fills containers quickly,
providing a premium-looking finish.
Wilhellm Langguth
Crystal Palace Gem
Tango Rose
Mega Splash
(Eclipse Rose Mega
Splash)
Fidelity
Calliope Dark Red
Calliope Lavender Rose
For the earliest flowering among compact geraniums, choose the Fidelity series. Fidelity
is perfect for high-density production with a naturally tight habit that requires little-to-no
plant growth regulators. Growers and retailers appreciate the well-branched habit and
shipping ease that Fidelity offers. Plants display multiple blooms at first flush in vivid colors
to optimize retail appeal.
Calliope Burgundy
Caliente
As the series that started the hybrid-geranium craze, Caliente is a trial award-winning
favorite year after year! Caliente offers continuous flower color on plants with dark green or
medium green foliage. The series is ideal for six-inch and larger containers, and premium
baskets. Caliente is heat-loving, drought-tolerant and self-cleaning for continuous, lowmaintenance color all summer long.
Caliente Fire
Caliente Dark Rose
Caliente Pink
Caliente Orange
Fidelity Dark Red
Fidelity Hot Pink
Fidelity Salmon
(Samba)
(Tiffany)
(Charmant)
Tango Salmon
(Montevideo)
Tango Dark Red
(Eclipse Dark Red)
Tango White
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D o u b le- Flow e r i n g I v i e s
S i n g le- Flow e r i n g I v i e s
Contessa
Cascade
The Contessa series offers a strong balance between
greenhouse dependability and enduring garden
performance. Contessa features large flowers in a
wide range of colors with a long history of awardwinning genetics. This series, with excellent branching
and maximum flower power, delivers for growers and
consumers alike.
The Cascade series displays stellar weather resilience
through extreme heat and edema tolerance.
Cascade grows vigorously to provide season-long
flowering and maximum blooms, which makes it
low-maintenance and retail-ready. As a traditional
European ivy geranium, Cascade flaunts striking
color and a trailing habit ideal for window boxes and
hanging baskets.
Contessa Burgundy Bicolor (Picasso)
Freestyle
Cascade Sofie
Blizzard
Freestyle is a semi-trailing series with crisp, clean
colors and large blooms. Freestyle displays excellent
edema and heat tolerance, which results in less leaftip yellowing under hot, dry summer conditions. Its
stress tolerance makes production easier and helps
ensure optimum shelf life at retail.
Freestyle Arctic Red
The Blizzard series is a top ivy choice for hot, humid
climates. Growers and retailers can count on strong
vigor and unbeatable branching. Consumers enjoy
high-impact, low-maintenance color: Blizzard features
huge blooms in bold hues on self-cleaning plants.
Blizzard offers unbeatable garden performance
throughout the season.
Blizzard Blue
Temprano
Kick off the season with the Temprano series.
Temprano is the earliest-to-bloom ivy series for faster
sell-through and quicker, more profitable turns. The
series features a compact habit, well suited to highdensity production. Consumers enjoy continuous
color with vibrant, semi-double flowers.
Temprano Dark Red (Ruby Dream)
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Calliope Dark Red
Blooms All Summer.
Guaranteed!
Syngenta Flowers stands behind its products. That’s
why we offer a consumer-oriented guarantee that their
hybrid geranium purchase will flower all summer long,
or their purchase price will be refunded.* Blooms All
Summer is the only end-consumer guarantee program for geraniums. This program was
specifically designed for our Calliope and Caliente series, due to their proven and awardwinning garden performance.
Participation is easy. We do the leg work for you! Syngenta Flowers handles the consumer
registration and any claims submitted by the end-user. Enjoy the guaranteed success of
these premium hybrid geraniums, and boost consumer confidence and value!
Please visit www.bloomsallsummer.com for more information.
* Restrictions apply Calliope Lavender Rose with Bombay White
Tips for Selling Success
Geraniums make fantastic combo elements! Whether you’re
designing retail-ready mixed containers or positioning plants
for consumers to mix and match on their own, geraniums
add a traditional and upscale look to combination planters.
The Calliope and Caliente series are particularly well suited
to mixed containers. With their exceptional branching habits,
these series play especially well with others. Plants weave
through the geranium canopy, creating an integrated and
balanced look.
Key series to pair with geraniums include:
•Techno® Heat lobelia
•Lanai® verbena
•Sidekick™ ipomoea
•Bombay® scaevola
Calliope Dark Red with Lanai Blush
White and Lanai Blue Denim
Caliente Fire
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