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January 2025 

One of the current gardening trends is the shift towards less formality, aiming for a more naturalistic look with a milder colour palette. The latest Salvia splendens Estella Coral from Van Hemert & Co fully fits whithin this movement and is a breeding breathrough in many ways.

This plant innovation shows a fully new habit compared to the known splendens types. Estella Coral is bigger, bushier, well-branched and therefore suitable for wildlife- inspired gardening or landscaping where vigour is required. 
In addition to its innovative plant shape, also the flower colour is completely new in this bushy salvia type from seed.

In addition to the innovative plant habit, and earliness, rose also is a breaktrhough in terms of colour in this bushy splendens type. Therefore the Fleuroselect jury decided to award this variety with the coveted Gold Medal. 

Estella Coral is part of a series of four, together with red, white and purple. All colours are also available in a mix.

Seed is available as of 1st of april 2025.

August 2024

Our Agastache Beelicious Pink has won a Gold KVBC Medal in 2024, and became first place for 'Plantarium Groen-Direkt best novelty 2024'!

With it's compact growth of 50 cm width and 70-80 cm height and big pink flowers it's not only an eye catcher in a border or container, but is also attractive for bees and butterflies. The leaves smell like anice licorice. Agastache Beelicious Pink flowers from July until September. 

Vitroflora Grupa, Dobrcz in Poland, will be bringing this on the market for retailers. In the Netherlands it's represented by Plantipp BV based in IJsselstein.

Read more on the Plantipp website : Agastache Beelicious Pink | Plantipp

January 2024

Looking for a distinctive, early-flowering plant to style your garden? Coreopsis Corusco Cream-Red from Van Hemert & Co is a true must-have for your garden. Showing many cream with burgundy flowers, this innovative dwarf variety is a very welcome addition to the existing Coreopsis range. Corusco Cream-Red is low-maintenance, attracts bees and butterflies and is drought tolerant. This new winner with striking colour combination and compact plant shape can be enjoyed as of early spring throughout summer. A Gold Medal winner symbolizes a breakthrough in breeding. Our judges praised the unique, eye-catching colour combination and the early flowering habit. This brand-new Coreopsis is not only suited for direct sowing, but also for easy production of young plants in pots and containers.

Seed available as of April 1, 2024. Contact us for more information: marketing@vanhemertseeds.com