Our Breeders
AB Cultivars
Presenting AB-Cultivars from The Netherlands.
Combining superior genetics and breeding know-how, breeder; Arie Blom has developed unique, improved selections. Selections that rival and complement today’s most popular perennials. Having completed his graduate work in plant breeding at the University of Florida, Gainsville and working in a tissue culture laboratory in California, breeder Arie Blom, unlike many other breeders from the Netherlands knows the vastly different, often extreme climates we experience in the US. His knowledge of plant genetics along with his creativity and practical experience in the US will certainly afford him great success in the extremely competitive new perennial market.
At the moment there are eight Echinacea cultivars in production.
Breeder Arie Blom of AB-Cultivars is pictured above in a field of Echinacea ‘Pink Double Delight’, his first introduction. Check out this video of Arie talking about his breeding. Oklahoma Gardening TV interviews Arie Blom
Handelskwekerij Maas & van Stein
The brothers Dick and Frenk Maas have grown thousands of perennial varieties on their family-run perennial farm near Lisse in The Netherlands. Several new perennial selections have been developed and trialed for superior traits and performance.
Plants Nouveau will be introducing new selections from their farm. For more information, please visit our section on Verbascum ‘Flower of Scotland’.
Sinclair A. Adam, Jr
Plants Nouveau is proud to represent Sinclair A. Adam, Jr. famed plants-man and owner of Dunvegan Nursery, in the exclusive introduction of his much awaited, newly selected line of ground covering foam flowers.
Dunvegan Nursery, established 1989, is owned and operated by Sinclair and Kirsten Adam. Sinclair has 30 years experience in horticulture, and herbaceous plants, and has taught at The University of Vermont, Brandywine Conservancy, The Brandywine Valley Association, Longwood Gardens, The Barnes Foundation, and Temple University.
Sinclair has presented a number of topics in horticulture at ASHS, IPPS, PPA, The New England Greenhouse Conference, US National Arboretum, and other venues, and he holds Degrees in Plant Science from U. of Wyoming, & U. of Vermont. Kirsten has 20 years of experience in horticulture, a BA in Art History from U. of VT, and a reputation for her skillful and efficient propagation techniques, and resulting crop quality.
Sinclair’s passion for breeding with native plants is known throughout the industry by such innovative introductions as Tiarella ‘Erika Leigh’, ‘Laird of Skye’, ‘Brandywine’ and ‘Oakleaf’. His latest introduction, Phlox paniculata ‘Shortwood’ honors our very own perennial “Doctor Ruth”, Stephanie Cohen and is positioned to be one of the most disease resistant pink summer phlox selections ever introduced. Sinclair’s love of plants and eye for distinctive selections affords him the ability to select superior plants that have been TESTED, VERIFIED and are TRUE to their descriptions.
Visit Dunvegan Nursery’s website
North Creek Nurseries
Catering to wholesale growers, retail mail-order companies, public gardens, conservation organizations, landscape restoration projects and retail growers throughout the United States, North Creek is considered a go-to source for native perennial plants, which account for 60 percent of production at the nursery.
“We’ve been native plant-focused since 1988 when the nursery started,” says Steve Castorani, who, with then-partner Dale Hendricks, built greenhouses on the Landenberg property and 10 years later acquired a farm in Oxford with an existing greenhouse operation.
Today, the nursery includes 6.5 acres of production greenhouses at both locations and a shipping facility at the Oxford site. North Creek also produces many native plants in larger Landscape Plugs™ that are used in restoration projects and by highway departments, municipalities and conservation societies. We pride ourselves on providing beautiful plants and exceptional service to customers throughout North America.
Learn more about North Creek Nurseries
Plants Nouveau is proud to be helping North Creek introduce Helianthus ‘Sunshine Daydream’