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Plant Development Services: Color, Southern Style
Plant Development Services offers two new introductions from the Southern Living Collection, bright red, Majesty Shrub Rose and Autumn Sunburst, a new addition to the Encore Azalea series. Developed by Conard-Pyle, the disease-resistant Majesty produces velvety, deep-red, semi-double blooms and reblooms spring until fall. Great for containers and small spaces, Majesty grows compactly to 3 feet by 3 feet. One of four new Encore Azalea varieties, Autumn Sunburst™ offers brilliant bi-color blooms and a compact habit. Like all Encore Azaleas, Autumn Sunburst blooms in the spring, summer, and fall. Autumn Sunburst grows 4 feet tall by 3.5 feet wide and is cold-hardy to USDA zone 6A.
Meet the Cast
Kip McConnell
Kip McConnell, director of Plant Development Services, has built a career in the horticulture industry in areas including plant marketing and patents, retail merchandising, landscape design, and plant production and evaluation. He currently directs a team that specializes in marketing strategy, plant naming and trademarks, grower network coordination, quality control, and packaging design.
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Company Info
 Working closely with the nation’s top growers and breeders, Plant Development Services introduces plants that have a high impact on the marketplace. Plant Development Services is the introducer of Encore® Azalea, the Southern Living™ Plant Collection, and the Sunset Western Garden Collection. For more information on Plant Development Services, visit our website. Phone: 888-922-7374
Episode Directory
Garden Idol 2012
Meet the Judges
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Your host, Lloyd Traven, introduces this season's irreverent panel of expert judges. Get ready for their no-holds-barred, expert opinions on how this year's new plant introductions will perform in the landscape, in your greenhouse or nursery, and in your garden center.
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Garden Idol 2012 Conard-Pyle
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Popcorn, introduces cream to yellow flowers to the Drift series, a knee-high version of the Knock-Out rose with excellent cold hardiness and disease resistance.
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Sunshine Daydream is the first ever AARS winner from the "no spray" trials, with large, double, buttercream flowers.
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Garden Idol 2012 Monrovia
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An exciting discovery, this attractive sport of Little Rascal® Holly is a more upright grower, still having a dense, rounded form. Shiny dark green foliage takes on attractive purple-burgundy tone in fall and winter.
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Garden Idol 2012 Bailey Nurseries
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Add totally awesome color to your garden with First Editions® Sapphire Surf™ Bluebeard. This compact, low-maintenance shrub features an ocean of deep blue flowers from late summer through early fall.
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This amazing new Physocarpus is fit for a queen with fabulous foliage in orange, yellow and gold tones. In fall, the foliage transforms to regal red and royal purple.
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Garden Idol 2012 Hines Growers
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Hines brings two Bloomtastic! new introductions: Lavender Veil Butterfly Bush and Amazon Queen Bahama Bay Hibiscus.
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Garden Idol 2012 Plant Development Services Inc.
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Plant Development Services offers two new introductions from the Southern Living Collection, bright red, Majesty Shrub Rose and Autumn Sunburst, a new addition to the Encore Azalea series.
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Garden Idol 2012 Hort Couture
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Fiery Hells Bells Petunia and wavy Under the Sea Coleus headline Hort Couture's 2012 introductions.
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Garden Idol 2012
The Finalists
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Which of our 11 hot new introductions will be Garden Idol 2012? Your votes decide.
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Garden Idol 2012
And the Winner Is...?
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The winner of Garden Idol 2012 is revealed. Your votes have been counted, and the winner is...
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Vote Now!
Plant Development Services, Inc: Some like it hot!
Breeding isn't all about surviving the cold. Plant Development Services, Inc. develops great plants for southern gardens. What are you northern gardeners more jealous of?
The votes are in.....
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Mild winters
I wish Nandina, Camellias, Loropetalum and some of those amazing Hydrangeas would survive in my landscape!
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Longer blooming seasons
I know they've introduced Encore Azalea varieties hardy to zone 6. I can't wait until they reach zone 5!
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Resources
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Plant Development Services introduces a new, high-performance, true red, shrub rose.
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This coral-pink, white edged flowerer is the latest addition to Plant Development Services' Encore Azalea series.
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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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