Welcome to Plants Nouveau
We introduce novel, NEW plants; Can give you and your plant Worldwide recognition; Pay for all introduction costs, so there is NO cost to you; Evaluate all new plants in sites around the world to ensure success; and have the premier horticulture e-letter.
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Our New Plant Introductions:
Echinacea ‘Marmalade’ – New for 2011
Echinacea purpurea ‘Avalanche’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Coconut Lime’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Milkshake’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Pink Double Delight’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Raspberry Truffle’ – New for 2011
Helianthus x multiflorus ‘Sunshine Daydream’ – New for 2011
Heuchera ‘Dark Chocolate’- New for 2011
Heuchera ‘Stainless Steel’ – New for 2011
Lobelia cardinalis ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’
Phlox paniculata ‘Lord Clayton’
Diva-rellas series of clumping Tiarella cordifolia – New for 2011
The River Series of Tiarella cordifolia
Tiarella cordifolia ‘Delaware’
Tiarella cordifolia ‘Octoraro’
Tiarella cordifolia ‘Susquehanna’
Tiarella cordifolia ‘Wissahickon’
Verbascum ‘Flower of Scotland’
Why Plants Nouveau?
Founded by Angela Treadwell-Palmer, Plants Nouveau has the expertise and worldwide contacts to successfully introduce your new selections to the World. Negotiating legal issues, creative marketing, researching production protocols and establishing and maintaining world wide relationships is what we do.
Evaluation Is a Top Priority!
Plants Nouveau will evaluate your selection in many different regions of the U.S. and abroad to achieve maximum exposure to extreme climatic conditions.
We Pay for Everything!
When you choose Plants Nouveau, we pay for all costs associated with protecting and marketing your new selection. There is no cost to you. Just sit back and collect your share of royalties.
At Plants Nouveau we realize they are YOUR plants and we know we would not have the honor of introducing them for you if YOU hadn’t given them to us so, PLEASE…call every day, email every hour, request visiting rights. Don’t be afraid to ask ANYTHING! Our main goal is to have open communication with our breeders and for them to be happy. If they are happy, they keep coming back to us with new plants. See, it’s easy to do that when that’s your main goal, so choose Plants Nouveau for that very reason – We LOVE our BREEDERS!
And finally since the motto of Plants Nouveau is “Responsible introductions. Sustaining tomorrow’s gardens”, we will not EVER introduce a plant that may harm or have the potential to harm wild lands. We will make every effort to avoid introducing invasive plants (in accordance with the Center for Plant Conservation regulations).
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Attention Growers!
Buy our new plant introductions from the following wholesale nurseries:
Attention Homeowners:
Buy Plants Nouveau new plant introductions from the following mail order nurseries:
Plants Delights |
Great Garden Plants |
Dutch Gardens |
White Flower Farm |
Park Seed |
Klehm’s Songsparrow Farm |
— Angela’s Garden Notes —
Echinacea purpurea ‘Milkshake’ – The best double white coneflower for the mid-border
Here’s another fantastic new double white coneflower. This one surprised even me. At first glance, I was not a fan, but having grown it in my garden, I now think this could be the best double white selections for the mid-border. Another piece of brilliant breeding, I present Echinacea ‘Milkshake’, from Arie Blom of AB-Cultivars. Milkshake is “regular” sized. It’s not tall, it’s not short, it’s just the right size for all you coneflower traditionalists out there.
The trait that surprised me the most about Milkshake is that the blooms DO NOT age. Seriously…I’ve never seen anything like it. It started blooming in June, 2007 in my garden and I thought, it’s a taller, poor man’s ‘Coconut Lime’, but then all of the heavy, seriously double, white pompom blooms opened fully and there they sat, perfectly white and untouched through June, through July through August and even September. They show no signs of browning or petal discoloration. It’s as if they are fake flowers. This would be a fantastic cut flower because it would last in a vase for 8 weeks. Imagine that!
Size: 30-36” tall by 24-36” wide
USDA hardiness Zones: 5(4) – 9
Sun/shade: Full sun.
Soil: Average garden soil, well drained.
Moisture: moist, but well drained to get established, once established, it is very drought tolerant.
Disease and Pests: None known.
Landscape use: Mixed border, foundation plantings, mass plantings, urban gardens, cutting gardens.
Market appeal / Uniqueness: Pure white, fully double blooms are held high atop strong, sturdy stems that do not age until fall. It’s as if they are fake flowers.
Propagation methods: Tissue culture
Bloom time: Late June for 14 to 16 weeks.
The plant is also very sturdy and strong. Each mature plant holds 40 to 50 blooms (the same ones since early June…) high with great confidence and no sign of flopping. The blooms are the size of Coconut Lime’s , but they are almost true white, with a hint of say, french vanilla milkshake-y-ness. The ray petals are long and drooping and the cone has white to creamy white, double flowers covering the entire surface.