Garden Superstars for Spring 2012

Low maintenance plants and sustainable garden products ensure garden success this spring. 

It's that time of year again, the top Garden Superstars for Spring have been released and the list includes new plants, products and the professionals to put it all together for gardening success. 

Here is the first in our line of superstars, BOLD colors from Hines Growers. Look in any fashion magazines and you will see that bold color palettes dominate.  

“Colors like purple and orange are showing up in many home gardens,” says Suzi. 

She likes the new Bloomtastic! dwarf butterfly bushes, Buddleia Lavender Veil and Purple Splendor, from Hines Growers. 

These compact, easy to grow, low maintenance plants are perfect in containers and hanging baskets or mass planted in the landscape. “The butterflies and hummingbirds love the profuse, richly-colored and very fragrant blooms.”

This Spring, choose plants that have lots of color, are low-maintenance and attract wildlife!

Hot Pink! A Color for All Seasons

Pantone, the gurus of seeing color in our future, has picked Honeysuckle for its color for 2011.

Don’t you love it. A flower! The color experts call it – “Courageous. Confident. Vital."

They say “the bold spirit of Honeysuckle” will “lift you and carry you through the year. It’s a color for every day – with nothing “everyday” about it.”

We know the power of "hot pink"! It's my favorite color, and we’ve used it everyday here at the Garden Media Group as our signature color for more than 20 years! And it suits us!

According to Pantone, “Honeysuckle emboldens us . . . with verve and vigor" and "is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life.

No wonder we love it so much.

“In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®.

So start seeing hot pink for spring and expect big things to happen.

Suzi, GMG