This Week In The Test Garden-August 31, 2012

Plant Of The Week: Bacopa Betty White

I am sure all the other breeding companies are thinking "why didn't we use that name" but Greenfuse beat them to it. Betty White has been one of the nicest of the 17 new bacopa we have in the trial this year. In our garden bacopa tend to go out of flower in the heat of July. While Betty had less flowers it was still blooming to an acceptable level. This looks to be a very good improvement in Bacopa.

Ball Trial Garden: Last week we made a quick visit to Balls trial garden located in West Chicago, IL. It is a very pretty garden with some good head on comparisons.

 I saw the Danziger Cleome (the tag was missing but I am pretty sure it was due to the lack of thorns) doing very nicely which was a good confirmation. This was one of our early plant of the weeks. In our garden it has grown to a huge size and needs more than the 12" by 12" spacing we gave it.

The Archangel Burgundy, another one of our past plant of the weeks, was also looking nice.and continues to look nice in our garden and out performs the other new Angelonia. This is a good confirmation that it will work in a wide range of climates.