Looking for something different to add to your garden this summer? We’ve got some fresh new products that we’re pleased to introduce for 2010.

Osteospermum – Zion
The Zion™ series is an all new-breed for 2010. These varieties have medium to high vigor, large colorful flowers, good summer performance, and great garden appeal. Best used in medium to large pots and mixed containers.

Cyperus papyrus ‘King Tut™’ — Egyptian Papyrus
From the “Graceful Grasses” collection from Proven Winners®, this tall grass can be used either in the back or middle of a container to add height and drama. It features large heads of pendulous leaves and greenish flower spikelets that can measure 1′ across. Heat tolerant and low maintenance – a great choice for something different.

Cyperus Involucratus ‘Baby Tut™’ — Umbrella Grass
This beautiful plant also comes from the “Graceful Grasses” collection from Proven Winners®. A water garden friendly-grass that can be planted in the landscape as well. It provides textural interest and is low maintenance and heat tolerant.

Cleome hybrid ‘Senorita Rosalita™’ — Spider Flower
This heat and drought tolerant cleome or “spider plant” adds dramatic height to landscape beds. It’s a great garden performer. The magnificent dark leaves on the 3-5 feet tall upright branches are topped by clusters of bright, lavender pink flowers. And they bloom with abandon from late spring through fall. Heat tolerant, no thorns, sticky substances or smells common in other cleomes and no need to deadhead. Plant in full sun in a place where water drains freely through the soil.

Ipomoea ‘Illusion™ Midnight Lace’ — Sweet Potato Vine
Great foliage component plant in combinations and trails wonderfully over the side of a container. Excellent heat tolerance and good vigor. Brantim also carries Ipomoea in ‘Emerald Lace’.

Euphorbia ‘Breathless’
The all-new Breathlesss euphorbia series is durable, low-maintenance and long-lasting in containers and in-ground plantings. These versatile, heat-tolerant, fine-textured varieties fill in fast, make stocky and mounded plants and display a showy mass of self-cleaning flowers all season long in all summer conditions. The white variety is comparable to Diamond Frost Euphorbia and seems to have a tighter and more compact plant habit.

Leucanthemum ‘Broadway Lights™’ — Shasta Daisy
A big show off. This plant puts on a performance that lasts from summer through fall without a single intermission. Forms a tight mound of upright stems, then an entire troupe of flower buds appears as if by magic. One by one they gradually open to reveal a circle of pale butter yellow petals, inside of which is a big, bright golden center. Then, in the light of full sun to part shade, the petals gradually begin to change colors. Butter yellow turns vanilla, and for the finale, the petals turn pure, glowing white. From garden bed to container combination or patio pot solo, this is a true garden trooper. No need for extra water or deadheading to look its best.

Heliopsis ’Summer Sun’ – Perennial Sunflower
This is the most compact Heliopsis availableand is a taller item that adds height and drama to any container. It features bright yellow flowers that attract butterflies and look great as cut flowers. Heat tolerant and low maintenance, this is a happy sunflower plant for any garden.

Diascia hybrid ‘Flirtation™ Orange’This sweet plant features charming orange flowers that bloom profusely all season. Great for early spring colour in containers, this plant is low maintenance and takes full to part sun.

Geranium Caliope Dark Red
This geranium has an outstanding velvety red flower color. Calliope is a vigorous grower with a mounding to semitrailing growth habit. Outside it is excellent in ground beds,baskets and patio containers. It makes great combination containers when mixed with other bright yellow and blue varieties. Calliope has excellent heat tolerance in the landscape and does well in both full sun and partial shade areas.

Viola ‘Violina’
The vigor of the Violina viola surpasses other violas, maturing at 6″ in height with a width of up to 14″. An abundance of uniquely colored blossoms bloom both in fall and early spring. Outstanding in hanging baskets and patio plants.

Osteospermum ‘Voltage’
This unique clear yellow variety will stop traffic – it’s the first osteo in bloom and the last out of bloom. Voltage Yellow features very flexible stems that show well, making it ideal for large baskets and containers. This low-energy variety has excellent branching and a low, spreading habit that makes Voltage Yellow ideal for landscapes.

Calibricoa “Mini Famous’
A uniform series with large flowers, early flowering, semi trailing habit, medium vigor, and the performance you expect from MiniFamous.