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Agave Dianthus bracteosa ‘Calamar’ ...................................................6 x allwoodii ‘Frosty Fire’ ..........................................19 ‘Kissho Kan’ ...............................................................6 Dieffenbachia victoria-reginae ‘Porcupine’ .......................................7 x leopoldii .................................................................7 ‘Emily’ ......................................................................19 x Manfreda ‘Blood Spots’ ..........................................7 Dionaea Alocasia muscipula ‘Cup Trap’ ...............................................20 ‘Regal Shields’ ...........................................................7 muscipula x ‘King Henry’* .....................................20 ‘Tiny Dancers’ PPAF ..................................................7 Alternanthera Fern ‘Grenadine’ PP#16442 ............................................8 Platycerium ‘Mai Tai’ PP#20263.................................................8 bifurcatum ‘Netherlands’ .........................................24 Anemonella Geranium thalictroides ..............................................................9 ‘Havana Blues’ PPAF ...............................................26 Asarum maximum ‘Ling Ling’ ................................................9 ‘Pink Penny’ PP#17656 ........................................26 Brunnera ‘Sweet Heidi’ PP#19533 .......................................26 macrophylla .............................................................11 Hosta macrophylla ‘Dawson’s White’ .................................12 ‘Blue Cadet’ .............................................................28 Canna ‘Richard Wallace’ .....................................................15 Ophiopogon ‘Wyoming’ ................................................................15 japonicus ‘Dwarf Black Mondo’ ..............................32 Colocasia Philodendron Gigantes™‘Dragon Heart Gigante’ .......................16 ‘Jungle Whispers’ ...................................................34 Gigantes™ ‘Noble Gigante’ ...................................16 Sarracenia Gigantes™‘Victorious Gigante’ ..............................16 ‘Puckered Up’ PPAF ................................................16 ‘Yellow Jacket’ .........................................................36 Cortaderia Sedum selloana ‘Blue Bayou’ PPAF ....................................17 SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Blue Pearl’ .........................36 selloana ‘Pumila’ .....................................................17 Tiarella Crinum ‘Bradley’ ...................................................................17 cordifolia ‘FM Mooberry’ Diva-rella™ PP#22189 ....37 ‘Stars and Stripes’ ...................................................17 cordifolia ‘Sherry Kitto’ Diva-rella™ PPAF .................38 ‘Summer Nocturne’ .................................................18 cordifolia ‘Stephanie Cohen’ Diva-rella™ PPAF .........38 Special Thanks for Contributions to the Catalog Kathy Saul, ItSaul Plants; Marc Laviana, Sunny Border; Plant Haven; Great Plant Picks; Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery; Walters Garden, Inc.; Gardino Nursery; Chris Hansen, Great Garden Plants; Gerald McCormack; North Creek Nurseries; www.learn2grow.com; Troy Marden RootShield® RootShield®, Biological Fungicide is used in all production at AG 3, Inc. The benefits include *Forms a protective barrier on the root system to defend against root rotting fungi, *Colonizes outer root surface and its surrounding soil particles, *Feeds on products released by the roots, removing the pathogen’s food supply, *Is a living organism, which will continue to grow with the expanding root system providing extended protection against root rotting fungi, *No adverse affects to humans, animals or plants, and *Listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMR) for use in organic production. BREEDERS AG3 works close with breeders and breeder representatives to bring the latest and greatest varieties to our customers. Nico Rijnbeek Marco van Noort LariAnn Garner Brian Williams Marco van Noort is one of a third generation LariAnn Garner has had an enduring interest For years Brian Williams would of growers that operates a nursery with his in tropical plants since her teenage years. Two dig his collection of elephant wife, Heidy. Most of the plants they propagate of the first plants she grew were aroids, so it is ears every fall and replant in are rooted cuttings and are sold to perennial no surprise that, when her interest and focus spring. The severe winters nurseries all over Europe. Since visiting breeder turned to plant breeding, LariAnn chose aroids and frozen soil of his Louisville, “Ernst Pagels” in north Germany, Marco was as the plant family to work with. She has Kentucky garden meant certain infected by the breeder virus. He was taught the been hybridizing using species in the genera death to a tropical tuber, so he little details on how to produce the best, the most Philodendron and Alocasia since the late 1970s, was surprised to find a few beautiful, the strongest and the most healthy and since then has expanded her work to that would survive and sprout plants. He still uses the same techniques ‘Ernst include the genera Anthurium, Caladium and in spring. He began breeding Pagels’ used in breeding his plants - “Simple” Bees. Typhonium. Her skills are augmented by her with those, selecting for more Marco has been working with ‘Simple’ bees since degrees of Bachelor of Science in Botany and vivid colors and a variety of he was 14, it is a break in his day and his hobby Master of Agriculture in Plant Physiology from sizes, all of which can survive to work with them. Marco believes that breeding the University of Florida. LariAnn's primary goal a zone 6 winter. Then he with bees is the traditional way of breeding and has been to develop tropical hybrids that are cold selected well-behaved plants although not the fastest it is the best method to resistant enough for gardens in zones 10 through that did not produce runners. create the next ‘great’ plant beauty. Marco works 8. Even more importantly, her objective is to Now he shares his garden with Nico Rijnbeek of Rijnbeek & Zoon, BV in produce aroid hybrids that are as exotic as the hardy selections (Alocasia, the Netherlands to get his product into the US rarest and most difficult to grow species, yet that Colocasia and Canna) through market through a collaboration with AG3, Inc. can be grown by any gardener with basic skills. tissue culture liners. Bobby & Richard Saul, Leeann Connelly ItSaul Plants Shearouse The Saul brothers first launched Saul Nurseries, Leeann Connelly Shearouse opened Tropical Inc. over 20 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia to Pond & Garden 25 years ago. The Florida supply the local landscape market. Robert based nursery soon began shipping aquatic and (Bobby) Saul earned degrees in horticulture unusual plants hybridized by Leeann all over the and agronomy from the University of Georgia world. In 1996, she became the contributing and ran a landscaping business before entering editor for Pond and Garden magazine. In 1998, the nursery business. Richard Saul has a degree she was awarded the Banksian Medal from the in business from North Georgia College. His Royal Horticultural Society in London, England. constant interest in plant breeding and his keen In 2002, Leeann opened the Loxahatchee wildlife eye for unusual sports on plants have lead to the rescue center and hospital. The purpose of the introduction of several new varieties through center is to rehabilitate and return to the wild ItSaul Plants. injured and orphaned wildlife. The royalties that Leeann received from her hybrids sold in this catalog go to support this center. TABLE OF CONTENTS Agapanthus ‘Bird of Paradise’™........................................................... 14 Echinacea africanus ................................................................................. 6 ‘Blueberry Sparkler’™ .......................................................14 ‘Big Sky™ After Midnight’ PP#18768.............................21 ‘Blue Heaven’ PP#14989 .....................................................6 ‘Blushing Bride’ .................................................................... 14 ‘Big Sky™ Harvest Moon’ PP#17652 .............................21 ‘Blue Yonder’ ........................................................................... 6 ‘Carolina Pink’ ...................................................................... 14 ‘Big Sky™ Jupiter’ PPAF ...................................................21 ‘Stevie’s Wonder’ ..................................................................... 6 ‘Ermine’ ................................................................................14 ‘Big Sky™ Solar Flare’ PP#22133 .................................. 21 ‘Storm Cloud’ .......................................................................... 6 ‘Freckle Face’ ........................................................................ 14 ‘Big Sky™ Summer Sky’ PP#18783................................21 ‘Summer Skies’ .......................................................................6 ’Intrigue’ ............................................................................... 14 ‘Big Sky™ Sundown’ PP#17659.....................................

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