10/15/2009
Product Profiles
Adriana Heikkila
Amaranth Stoneware Ltd.
Tired of the paint peeling, chipping or fading off plastic on garden accessories? Amaranth Stoneware products are handcrafted, weatherproof, fade-resistant stoneware that will beautify your garden year after year. They are guaranteed not to crack or fade no matter what the temperature.
Aquascape Inc.
Combining science with simplicity, Aquascape’s complete new and improved line of water treatments make it simple to maintain a healthy, well-balanced water garden. Aquascape’s new pump-top liquid bottles and bubble tabs make dosing simple and affordable.
Bethel Organics
Real Organic-Real Easy Seed Starting Kit from Bethel Organics takes all the guesswork out of starting an organic garden. This kit includes: soil, seeds, Dot Pots, fertilizer, plant markers and an almanac. Available in a ready-to-go display or by the case.
BioSafe Systems LLC
GreenClean Granular Algaecide is a powerful contact algaecide that can be applied to ponds, water gardens, water-falls, and water containing live fish and plants. A copper alternative, GreenClean is EPA-registered and OMRI-listed for organic production. Environmentally friendly—breaks down into oxygen as it works, leaving no harmful residues.
Blubandoo Incorporated
Blubandoo cooling headwear and accessories contain non-toxic polymer cooling crystals that, when soaked in water, will quickly dry and keep cool for hours and even days. They are reusable and washable. Available in hats, visors, neckbands and doo-rags.
Coastal Distributors Inc.
Use waterproof Butterfly Tags as unique flower greeting cards, decorative additions to floral arrangements, or on plants. To use, simply bend the wings back and attach to a stem, then release the wings to secure. Butterfly tags can be printed on the reverse for branding or you can handwrite a personal message.
Daniels Plant Food Products
Daniels’ patented technology extracts the nutrients from seeds to formulate a concentrated liquid fertilizer that mixes instantly with water. The revolutionary plant nutrition of Daniels products meets the feeding requirements of all plants, even specialty crops.
Easy Gardener Products Inc.
Each variety of new Jobe’s Organics with Biozome fast-acting, 100% organic granular fertilizer contains a unique blend of microorganisms. Biozome quickly breaks down even complex materials and minerals into basic nutrients and trace elements that plants can readily absorb. Jobe’s Organics yield healthy soil and plants.
EasyPro Pond Products
The Eco-Series Waterfall Diffuser is a new addition to the Eco-Series line for DIY customers. All products are roto-molded for strength and durability. The Waterfall Diffuser spillway kit is an ideal starting point for streams and in block walls, pools and fountains. The vertical rib design creates a 23 in.-wide diffuser that can be used in multiples for wider applications.
Ecological Laboratories Inc.
Control algae and eliminate green water with Microbe-Lift Algaway 5.4 for Fountains. This product is safe for use with fish and plants when used as directed. The contents treat more than 1,400 gallons.
Feeney Inc.
Enhance your garden settings with CableTrellis wall-mounted and free-standing trellises. Sold in easy-to-order, easy-to-install kits with durable, powder-coated aluminum support frames and sleek, stainless steel cable and rod vine grids. They offer simple, elegant design details with exceptional versatility, easy installation and recycled materials.
Four Star Greenhouse Inc.
Growing only 8 to 10 in. tall, Proven Selections’ Gypsy White achillea thrives in full sun and heat. Tiny white flowers cover the plant late into the season and withstand rain exceptionally well. Gypsy White achillea is an excellent choice for containers or the landscape.
Itsaul Plants
Ajuga Dixie Chip is a beautiful tri-colored variation of Chocolate Chip ajuga. Medium blue flower spikes occur in the spring. Great as a standalone groundcover or in rock gardens and walkways. The most dramatic, crisp variegation occurs with each new flush of growth in the spring and fall.
Jackson & Perkins
Lady Bird Johnson chose this elegant rose for its energetic and tantalizing fragrance. A large-flowered, coral-orange hybrid tea with a striking, warm bloom color; great vase life; and long stems, Lady Bird makes a fabulous cutting rose. This variety produces huge, multi-toned blooms and large, healthy foliage.
JRM Chemical Inc.
Create glimmering floral or candle arrangements in clear vases and bowls. Two types cover all decorating styles: Deco Beads for traditional and Deco Cubes for contemporary. The translucent, water-storing gel beads, in six colors, are available in attractive retail packaging with merchandise displays.
Lazy Hill Farm Designs LLC
The most recent design in birdhouses is the Rustic Retreat. A campsite for the birds with the added bonus of a lift-up roof for easy cleaning. Hand-crafted from Northern White Cedar, this birdhouse is available in the pictured 6-hole version and a smaller version.
PanAmerican Seed
Debonair Dusty Rose petunia produces beautiful flowers painted in special one-of-a-kind colors that are wonderful in pots, combo planters and baskets. The petunia flowers become lighter in higher light conditions.
Proven Winners LLC
Proven Selections Graceful Grasses Baby Tut, a petite Egyptian papyrus, is a fast, elegant grower that will reach heights of 18 to 24 in. tall and 30 in. wide. Baby Tut is a water garden-friendly grass that can be planted in the landscape, as well as mixed containers. Grows best in full to part sun.
Renee’s Garden Seeds
Double Cosmos Rose Bon Bon offers extra fancy, uniformly double blossoms packed with frilled petals in a rich romantic rose. This exceptionally beautiful and carefree new cosmos produces 3-in. flowers that bloom non-stop on long stems. Butterflies love to visit these lovely blossoms.
Simple Pleasures
Tulip Play Girl is a White Triumph Tulip with strawberry brushed edges. This variety keeps the white with red edge appearance until the end of the flowering period. Reaches a height of 18 in.
Steel Heart Ltd.
Lifelike metal lilies are just one of many exclusive varieties of tin flowers from Steel Heart. The rusted lily single-stem flower pictured is 4 ft. tall. Also available in tulip, daffodil, iris, coneflower, sunflower, lotus, cattail, rose and daisy.
Summit Chemical Company
Summit Mosquito Dunks are America’s most popular biological mosquito killer. Mosquito Dunks kill mosquito larvae for 30 days and won’t pollute water, or harm pets, livestock, fish or wildlife.
The Perennial Farm
Passion Flower Vine Passiflora caerulea Waterloo Blue is sure to attract attention. With an elegant, long-season display of showy blooms, it has a soft fragrance and sports shiny green, attractive foliage. It’s beautiful when trained to fences, posts, latticework and trellises. Plant in ordinary, well-drained soil.
Vitamin Institute
SUPERthrive’s 50 vitamins and hormones revive and rejuvenate shrubs and trees. Used by park systems, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and plant society members with satisfied results. Also for use on indoor plants, seedlings, bulbs and lawns.