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.

Abelia Sweet Emotion
Sweet Emotion®
abelia

Zone 4
Show Off Forsythia
Show Off®
forsythia

Zone 5
Bloomerang Dark Purple
Bloomerang®
lilac series

Zone 3-7
Scentara Double Blue lilac
Scentara®
lilac series

Zone 2-8
Double Take Peach Quince
Double Take® 
quince series

Zone 5-9
Estrellita Little Star firecracker bush
Estrellita Little Star® 
firecracker bush

Zone 4
Steady Eddy viburnum
 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
Pinky Winky Prime 
hydrangea

Zone 3-8
Sugar Shack buttonbush
Sugar Shack®
buttonbush

Zone 4-10
Sweet Summer Love Clematis
'Sweet Summer Love'
clematis

Zone 4-9
Scentsation honeysuckle
'Scentsation'
honeysuckle

Zone 4-9
Limelight Prime® panicle hydrangea
Panicle hydrangeas
(Limelight Prime®)
Zone 3-8
Incrediball smooth hydrangea
Smooth hydrangeas
(Incrediball®)
Zone 3-8
Let's Dance Blue Jangles hydrangea
Let's Dance®
hydrangea series

Zone 5-9
Sugartina Crystalina summersweet
Sugartina® 'Crystalina'
summersweet

Zone 4-9
Aphrodite sweetshrub
Sweetshrubs
('Aphrodite')
Zone 5-9
Reminiscent Coral Rose
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 Beauty Berry
Pearl Glam®
beautyberry

Zone 5-8
Proud Berry beautyberry
Proud Berry®
coral berry

Zone 3-7
Gatsby Pink hydrangea
Gatsby Pink®
oakleaf hydrangea

Zone 5-9
Temple of Bloom Seven-son flower
Temple of Bloom®
seven-son flower

Zone 5-9
Glitters and Glows Viburnum
Glitters & Glows®
viburnum

Zone 4-8
Brandywine viburnum
Brandywine®
viburnum

Zone 5-9
Red Balloon viburnum
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.

Spring Grove Arborvitae
Arborvitae
(Spring Grove®)
Zone 5-8
Sprinter Boxwood
Sprinter® 
boxwood

Zone 5-9
Arctic Fire
Arctic Fire®
series

Zone 2-7
Arctic Sun dogwood
Arctic Sun® 
dogwood

Zone 4-8
Soft Serve false cypress
False cypress
(Soft Serve®)
Zone 5-9
Castle Spire blue holly
Blue Holly
(Castle Spire®)
Zone 5-7
Berry Heavy winterberry holly
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 orange mirror bush
Waxwing™ mirror
bush series
 (Orange)
Zone 9-11
Center Stage pink crapemyrtle
Center Stage®
crapemyrtle series

Zone 6b-10
Kodiak orange diervilla
Kodiak®
diervilla series

Zone 4-7
Jazz Hands bold
Jazz Hands®
loropetalum series

Zone 7b-9
Ginger Wine ninebark
Ninebark
(Ginger Wine®)
Zone 3-7
Kindly Japanese privet
Kindly™
Japanese privet

Zone 7-9
Fine Line Buckthorn-fern-leaf
Fine Line®
buckthorn-fern-leaf

Zone 2-7
Winecraft Black smokebush
Winecraft series & The
Velvet Fog® smokebush

Zone 4-8
Yang viburnum
Yin® & Yang®
viburnum

Zone 7b-9
Midnight Wine Shine weigela
Midnight Wine Shine®
weigela

Zone 4-8
Wine & Roses weigela
Wine & Roses®
weigela

Zone 4-8
White Album wintercreeper
Wintercreeper
(White Album®)
Zone 5-8

 

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