Gardening Your guide to beautiful flower
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Gardening Your guide to beautiful flower
FREE! TAKE ONE Gardening Easy Tips for Spring Your guide to beautiful flower gardening 'Surfinia Deep Red' Powered by 1 Beautiful Contents gardens for beginners Everyone wants to have the garden of their dreams, and with this guide from Suntory, you can make your dream a reality. Inside, you’ll find information on our most popular varieties, complete with growing tips. Suntory’s plants will deliver strong performance year-round, from spring to frost. We’ll also introduce you to SuntoryCollection.com, our online home where you’ll find everything you need to know about Suntory varieties. This guide will also teach you about some of the online tools available, including the Virtual Combo Designer, which lets you see your vision before even picking up your gardening tools. Not near a computer? Don’t forget our mobile sites! They’ll give you all the information you need wherever and whenever you need it. Suntory’s varieties have been beautifying gardens all over the world for years. Now you can bring that beauty to your own home and be well on your way to having the garden you always dreamed of! Switzerland France 4 Basic planting and care Follow these secrets to success to keep your plants beautiful and healthy. 6Q&A Find expert answers to frequently asked care questions. United Kingdom 8 YESS! - Your Easy Suntory Solution All you need to know about Suntory varieties is available through YESS. 10 Suntory breeders bring beauty to life Discover what sets Suntory varieties apart. 12Senetti Cool-weather plants offer vibrant, early color. 14 Rome Sun Parasol Gorgeous, tropical mandevillas come in a wide range of colors and forms. 16Surfinia Top-performing petunias go the distance. 18 2 France France United Kingdom Switzerland Million Bells Try these calibrachoas for carefree color. 3 Watering is important, but wait until the soil is dry before doing so; otherwise this could lead to root rot. Keep pouring until it drains out the bottom of the pot, but avoid hitting the flowers or leaves directly. Most plants need some kind of fertilizer enhancement to ensure best growth. Ask your garden retailer which kind is best. Make sure to not touch the flowers, leaves or stems when fertilizing, as they can be burned by the fertilizer. 'Surfinia Summer Double Pink' Basic planting and care Cut any dead flowers from the plant immediately using scissors. This makes sure all energy is focused on new blooms and helps prevent disease and fungus. Be careful to remove the entire flower and not just the petals, or there will be fewer flowers later. For a strong flush of blooms in the future, cut the plants back boldly. Cut leaves and stems along the pot and leave about 6 inches of growth from the soil line. Most plants are best kept outdoors where they can get the most direct sunlight. A 10-inch pot will be the ideal size for most Suntory plants, filled with well-drained soil and a slowrelease fertilizer. Ask your garden retailer which brand of fertilizer to use. If you’re using a pot, you’ll want to keep 1 to 1.5 inches of space between the top of the soil and the rim of the pot. This makes it easier to regulate water levels. To increase the number of shoots that grow, trim the parts overflowing from the pot with scissors. This will allow new shoots to grow from the side and multiply the number of branches and flowers. This process can be repeated two to three times. 4 t Pink' 'Million Bells Bouquet Brillian 5 Q: How should I care for my plants in the summer? A: Water in the morning. If you wait until later, temperatures will climb and watering can cause root rot. If temperatures climb past 87°F, water the floor around pots to help lower the temperature. Plant stands also help avoid direct heat from the ground. plants don't receive rain, water the surface of the leaves to wash anything off. Q: How do I protect against disease and insects? A: Remove dead flowers and leaves to keep plants clean. Put pots on racks to keep insects from invading the soil and improve airflow. If Q: What do I do if plants are growing slow or not flowering? A: Move the plant into stronger light and make sure you’re not overwatering. Q: What do I do if I find disease or insects? A: Cut off the affected portions of the plant immediately, especially if you find insect eggs. Be sure to wear gloves. Answers to common Q&A: questions Q: What should I do about watering while I’m away? A: Water plants daily in the summer, but only every two to three days in winter. Try putting pots in a shallow tray filled with water and move them into the shade. You can also ask your garden retailer about automated watering kits. Q: What do I do in heavy rain periods? A: Increase airflow to ward off mold and other diseases. Cut plants back to avoid damping or steaming in hot, humid conditions. 6 Q: What do I do if leaves are turning yellow? A: This could be a sign of overwatering, or that plants are getting too much or not enough fertilizer. Q: How should I care for my plants in the winter? A: Leave plants in the sun, but be sure to protect them from frost. Reduce watering and stop fertilizing completely. Move your plants into larger pots in spring. This gives them more room to grow. Add a base fertilizer. Nierembergia 'Summer Spl ash White' 7 YESS! –Your Easy Suntory Solution! Suntory’s digital resources make gardening easy and fun. Virtual combo designer Not sure what to do with all of the flowers in your garden or on your patio? Suntory’s Virtual Combo Designer lets you plan your ideal design virtually. DOWNLOAD FREE APP HERE! Available on any of Suntory’s websites, the designer comes in a "Container" and a "Garden" version. Detailed instructions guide you through the process, which begins with selecting your container type. Then select which varieties you want with a simple drag-anddrop feature. The Designer arranges the selected varieties in the desired pot, letting you plan the perfect arrangement without breaking a sweat. The Virtual Combo Designer is even available as an app for the iPad or Android tablet, letting you design beautiful combinations on-the-go. Suntory mobile sites Get all the planting information you need when you need it by visiting Suntory’s collection of mobile websites from your smartphone. m.suntorycollection.com is a great place to start! The home page displays each Suntory Collection brand of varieties. Select a plant brand and you’ll have access to videos, plant characteristics, planting and care tips and more. If a particular brand has its own website (such as Senetti or Sun Parasol), you’ll be linked directly to that site. 8 Suntory websites Visitors can find information easily across all of Suntory’s websites, from suntorycollection.com, to senetti.com and sunparasol.net. The landing pages offer two entrances for users, one for gardeners and one for professional growers. With a navigation menu on the left and colorful links to other parts of the “Your Easy Suntory Solution” portal, easy-to-find information is just one click away! Video channel The Video Channel on the Suntory Collection website offers a wide variety of helpful videos, including tips on planting and caring for your garden. Search for videos by category through a dropdown box on the left navigation menu. The channel’s Video Catalog contains complete information on The Suntory Collection lineup. A “Before and After” section features details and ideas on how to brighten up a garden display at the home, whether at a front entrance, balcony or back patio. 9 Suntory breeders bring to beauty life A s the world leader in the food, beverage and hospitality industries, Suntory enjoys sharing its zest for life. Based in Osaka, Japan, Suntory is best known for introducing whiskey to Japan and has built a reputation for introducing the finer things in life. As a result, Suntory’s breeders have created “topshelf” varieties by putting customer satisfaction and enjoyment first. The biotech boom in the 1980s led Suntory’s breeders to take an interest in flowers. Before, they were focused on ingredients for whiskey, wine, beer and nonalcoholic beverages. Suntory approached the flower business with a fresh perspective without any preconceived ideas or traditions in the 10 horticultural trade. Embracing their corporate motto, “Yatteminahare!” (Go for it!), Suntory’s breeders left their laboratories in Japan and ventured to find the most promising plants. They scaled rocky cliffs, trudged through low marshes and jungles — even risked their lives to find plants with promising characteristics. While most flower breeders were selecting varieties that could produce seed, Suntory chose plants for the best garden performance and impact. All Suntory varieties are produced vegetatively from cuttings. The first big introduction was Surfinia — the first vigorous, vegetative petunia, which reinvented the category. Next came Million Bells calibrachoa — a completely new genus with a wide color range and high flower count. Soon to follow were beautiful vegetative verbenas — Tapien and Temari — creating a whole new category, and then Summer Wave torenias. Exciting recent introductions are Sun Parasol mandevillas and Senetti pericallis. Each year, Suntory’s breeders evaluate thousands and thousands of hybrids in the search for something truly special and new. Beauty, performance and innovation are what you’ll find in Suntory’s breeding. The breeders, who are the artists and scientists behind it all, get the most satisfaction when you enjoy their creations. Learn more Suntory Flowers’ message, “Kantan, Kirei, Jobu,” means “Easy to grow, gorgeous, longevity” in Japanese. With a passion for making gardening easy and enjoyable for you, Suntory develops: • The best-performing varieties • Exciting new plants and forms • Resources to help you succeed For education and inspiration, visit www.suntorycollection.com. 11 Senetti® Unmatched color for early spring in vivid blues, magentas and violets. Baby Blue Bicolor Thrives in cool temperatures down to 35o F. Cut back for a fresh reblooming. Full sun/Partial sun. Blue Bicolor Baby Senetti® Compact plants covered with smaller flowers. Same conditions as Senetti. Kick off spring with Senetti pericallis! These plants are cool. In addition to thriving in lower temperatures down to 35°F, Senetti provides high-impact color when you need it the most. In vivid blues, magic magentas, ultraviolets and stunning bicolors, Senetti is unique for its vibrant color early in the season. Plant Senetti in early spring with other cool companion bedding plants, such as pansies, primulas, violas, osteospermums and nemesias. The best season to grow Senetti is early spring through early summer. In climates where frost does not occur, it will safely grow through the winter months outside. Plants thrive in full sun to partial shade. After blooming has finished, you can cut back the old blooms by removing 50 percent of the height of the plant and then repot into a larger container or into the landscape. Reblooming will start again in three to four weeks, provided temperatures during the day and night are kept as cool as possible. High summer temperatures (85-90°F) will stop the reblooming. Make Senetti part of your early spring tradition! 12 Baby Magenta For more information about Senetti, visit www.senetti.com. Violet Bicolor For a fresh reblooming, cut back Senetti by 50 percent after flowers start fading Magenta Bicolor Blue and Magenta 13 Pink Sun Parasol® Original Group Revolutionary genetics bring new colors and superior garden performance. Sun Parasol® Garden Crimson Compact, upright habit. Bush type but also a natural climber. Full sun. The very first bedding plant mandevilla! Bred for landscapes. Plant in baskets, patio containers and beds. No trellis required! Full sun. Stars & Stripes Sun Parasol Garden Crimson is perfect for your landscape beds From the Mediterranean to the Swiss Alps, sunny Florida to cool Canada, Suntory’s Sun Parasol mandevillas are captivating gardeners all over the world and have become the most fashionable plant for patios, balconies and hanging baskets. Mandevilla is now a major plant category, thanks to revolutionary Sun Parasols that demonstrate superior performance and offer the widest range in colors and forms, including the first true reds. The Sun Parasol collection has grown to include nearly 20 varieties in four different types. While some are more upright and bushy, others have the classic trailing vine. Find Sun Parasol at your favorite garden center. Sun Parasol® Giant Group Pretty Pink Gorgeous, premium mandevilla for stunning display all summer. Perfect for trellis. Biggest flower. Full sun. Sun Parasol® Pretty Group Beautiful vining plant, with glossy thin foliage and high flower count. For more information about Sun Parasol, visit www.sunparasol.net. 14 Giant Crimson Giant White Giant Pink Pretty Crimson Perfect for baskets, trellises & balconies. More cold tolerant than other dipladenia types. Full sun/Partial sun. 15 Surfinia® Trailing Bouquet Salmon Surfinia® Bouquet Searching for a garden superstar? Look no further than Surfinia, the world’s leading petunia based on outstanding garden performance. Surfinia petunias literally changed the global landscape when they debuted, reinventing petunias and gardening with annuals in general. While traditional seed-based petunias would be finished by August, Surfinia was bred with unprecedented vigor from wild species to go the distance from early spring through fall. Flower petals and leaves are more durable to withstand weather extremes and disease. And plants fill out beds, baskets and containers quickly. Surfinia is actually named after the surf for its spreading habit, creating colorful drifts, like waves on the shore. Gorgeous in beds and baskets. Stunning all season. Most vigorous, fastest growing on the market. Low-growing plants. Height - 5-7" Spread - up to 8' Surfinia petunias are an excellent choice for beginning gardeners. Just water, fertilize and place in full to partial sun. Summer Double White For more information about Surfinia, visit www.suntorycollection.com. Petunias stay full but more contained. Easy to maintain. Full of flowers. Height - 8-12" Spread - 12-15" Surfinia® Mounding Perfect for patio planters. Surfinia® Summer Double Weather tolerant. Produce beautiful mounds of blooms. 16 Lavender Lace Deep Red Height - 12" Spread - 15" Baby varietiesDeep haveRed smaller flowers. Double-flowered petunias. Tidy mounding habit. Outstanding heat and rain tolerance. Patio Coral Pink Height - 8-12" Spread - up to 15" 17 Terra Cotta Million Bells Mounding® Bouquet Pink Gorgeous mounding habit. Impervious to heat and rain. Easy to maintain. Height – 9-12” Spread – up to 20” Full sun. Bouquet Brilliant Pink Bouquet Cream Trailing Magenta Million Bells are the perfect choice for carefree, colorful baskets. Million Bells Bouquet® Compact plants full of flowers. Bloom profusely. Easy to maintain. Height – 8-12” Spread – up to 12” Full sun. 18 Million Bells Trailing® Did you know colorful calibrachoas were not available to gardeners until Suntory introduced Million Bells in 1993? Before then, no one had ever heard of calibrachoa and the plants were not commercially available. Today, the Million Bells line has grown to include five classic trailing varieties, 14 mounding and four compact Bouquet types across the entire color spectrum. And the entire world affectionately refers to calibrachoas as Million Bells. Try them in your baskets, patio containers and window boxes this spring. For more information about Million Bells, visit www.suntorycollection.com. Beautiful in baskets, profuse bloomers. Amazing, lush cascades of color. Height – 2-6” Spread – up to 48” Full sun. Wine Tropical Delight 19 A dozen more delightful Suntory varieties! Violina viola Sungelonia angelonia Marietta bidens Summer Splash nieremebergia Princettia euphorbia Surdiva scaevola Lofos lophospermum Ilumina scoparia Temari verbena Find your favorite today! www.SuntoryCollection.com Angel Earrings fuchsia Crackling Fire begonia Sunvillea bouganvillea