Using unique, carefully structured treatment procedures, plant foliage is grown first for vigor, with the focus then moving to generating the Southern Belle's trademark prolific blooms. The end result a strong plant with excellent blooms from the day the plant arrives at stores then delivering more weeks of blooming beauty into the gardening season. In essence, we've take a favorite traditional flower and made it better with a relentless focus on premium quality, says Fernlea U.S. Operations Manager Jeff Howe. Every member of our Florida greenhouse staff views quality as paramount and every measure is taken to ensure each plant meets these high standards . Southern Belle plants will be available beginning in February in Florida, and offered throughout the Southern U.S. as the season progresses.
Foliage is a rich medium green.
Plants will be sold in 5 pots and are marked with large tags, color-coded to the blooms for easy identification by consumers. Established in 1939, Fernlea Flowers today is one of North America's largest suppliers of garden plants. With greenhouse locations in the U.S. and Canada, Fernlea grows flowering annuals, vegetables, and holiday crops. With a special focus on regional benefits for gardeners across North America, Fernlea recently launched Icicle Pansies , an extremely hardy pansy variety for the Northern U.S. and Canada. If all the plants grown by Fernlea in one year were planted 6 inches apart, they would stretch across the U.S. 13 times.