Cut Flowers
Stay profitable from spring through frost with Proven Winners® ColorChoice® shrubs
What makes Proven Winners® ColorChoice® flowering shrubs the choice of gardeners makes them ideal for cut flower growers, too:
- unique colors
- bigger flowers
- longer bloom times
- disease resistance
Season after season, you can rely on the beauty and productivity of these flowering shrubs to bring top dollar and repeat business to market.
Spring
When your customers have spring fever, you’ll have the cure – in bunches. From traditional cuts like forsythia to the unexpected (and astonishingly fragrant) hardy abelia, look to these varieties to jump-start the season. All are suitable for forcing.
Sweet Emotion® abelia Zone 4 |
Show Off® forsythia Zone 5 |
Bloomerang® lilac series Zone 3-7 |
Scentara® lilac series Zone 2-8 |
Double Take® quince series Zone 5-9 |
Estrellita Little Star® firecracker bush Zone 4 |
Steady Eddy® viburnum Zone 5-8 |
Summer
The competitive wedding and farmer’s market season requires you to stand out from the crowd. Find your niche with a selection of colorful stems in all sizes and styles, from old-fashioned and elegant to contemporary and quirky. Many are reblooming, ensuring the longest sales window.
Pinky Winky Prime™ hydrangea Zone 3-8 |
Sugar Shack® buttonbush Zone 4-10 |
'Sweet Summer Love' clematis Zone 4-9 |
'Scentsation' honeysuckle Zone 4-9 |
Panicle hydrangeas (Limelight Prime®) Zone 3-8 |
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Smooth hydrangeas (Incrediball®) Zone 3-8 |
Let's Dance® hydrangea series Zone 5-9 |
Sugartina® 'Crystalina' summersweet Zone 4-9 |
Sweetshrubs ('Aphrodite') Zone 5-9 |
Reminiscent® Roses (Coral) Zone 4-9 |
Fall
Color is king in autumn, as a chill comes into the air and the events season starts up. While fabulous foliage never goes out of style, a program that includes the unexpected color of purple callicarpa and red viburnum provides a delightfully unexpected selection of cuts for designers and hobbyists alike.
Pearl Glam® beautyberry Zone 5-8 |
Proud Berry® coral berry Zone 3-7 |
Gatsby Pink® oakleaf hydrangea Zone 5-9 |
Temple of Bloom® seven-son flower Zone 5-9 |
Glitters & Glows® viburnum Zone 4-8 |
Brandywine® viburnum Zone 5-9 |
Red Balloon® viburnum Zone 4-8 |
Winter
Wintertime brings a market hungry for greenery and colorful branches. From individual stems for anchoring seasonal containers to bundles of fragrant evergreens for wreaths and swags, these shrubs ensure your season ends on a high note.
Arborvitae (Spring Grove®) Zone 5-8 |
Sprinter® boxwood Zone 5-9 |
Arctic Fire® series Zone 2-7 |
Arctic Sun® dogwood Zone 4-8 |
False cypress (Soft Serve®) Zone 5-9 |
Blue Holly (Castle Spire®) Zone 5-7 |
Winterberry holly (Berry Heavy®) Zone 3-9 |
Foliage
Foliage cuts round out bouquets and displays. A wide range of exceptional colors and textures means these productive shrubs aren’t just ordinary filler.
Waxwing™ mirror bush series (Orange) Zone 9-11 |
Center Stage® crapemyrtle series Zone 6b-10 |
Kodiak® diervilla series Zone 4-7 |
Jazz Hands® loropetalum series Zone 7b-9 |
Ninebark (Ginger Wine®) Zone 3-7 |
Kindly™ Japanese privet Zone 7-9 |
Fine Line® buckthorn-fern-leaf Zone 2-7 |
Winecraft series & The Velvet Fog® smokebush Zone 4-8 |
Yin® & Yang® viburnum Zone 7b-9 |
Midnight Wine Shine® weigela Zone 4-8 |
Wine & Roses® weigela Zone 4-8 |
Wintercreeper (White Album®) Zone 5-8 |