Homeowners have always enjoyed looking out over their own well-manicured garden or landscape. Yet, creating such a pleasant atmosphere on one’s property can often become a difficult experience, whether updating a landscape’s design or starting from scratch with a new installation project.

“Today’s new crop of low-maintenance perennials, annuals and shrubs is making a big impact in the garden and on homeowners themselves,” says Linda Guy, new product development director of Novalis Plants that Work. “Bred to withstand heat and humidity, and thrive in challenging locales and conditions, these plants — like the ‘Pink Double Knock Out’ Rose — give homeowners confidence to experiment with design and installation creativity.” Easy-care plants also give people inspiration to take a more active role in the care and maintenance of outdoor spaces.

When undertaking a challenging garden or landscape task, completing the project successfully can be accomplished with simple solutions to three of the most common landscape issues facing homeowners. Hardworking plant breeders and growers like Novalis Plants that Work are turning out innovative new plant genetics and an ever-growing, wide array of plant offerings that solve these common landscape challenges.

Problem: Areas of the garden overwhelmed with sun, heat and humidity.

Solution: Plants bred for heat and/or humidity.
Due to varying sun exposure across a property, pockets of the landscape can become scorched by sun, heat and humidity, no matter in which region of the country or USDA Zone one lives. A southerner all her life, Guy understands the demanding environmental conditions for plants grown in sun, heat and humidity. Guy believes that the Novalis Plants that Work — Bring on the Heat program is a favorite because it addresses specific plant needs related to hot and humid conditions while delivering a robust group of plants that tolerate this type of challenging environment. The program, which can be found in independent garden centers across the country, was designed to provide gardeners with a wide variety of top-notch, heat- and humidity-tolerant plants with dark and variegated foliage, and lush bright flowers that are hardy in even the hottest, brightest zones of the country. As the names states, these plants are fitted for specific landscape needs and help to improve gardeners’ confidence in choosing, buying, and planting new as well as favorite varieties.

Problem: What to do with unique, small-scale areas of the garden.

Solution: Plantings for small spaces and special places
Whether rooftop gardens, pathways, walkways, patios, rock gardens, water gardens, terraces, cracks, or crevices, accent plantings embellish the garden area and add life, color, texture, detail, and harmony as well as a natural appearance to the landscape. Incorporating these kinds of plants into a creative garden design for areas that are small or unique in shape serves as garnish, the final decorative touch to the space. “Some cities are giving tax incentives to people willing to install rooftop gardens because it cuts down on the need for air conditioning and heating,” says Guy. “So, Novalis is growing plant material such as drought-tolerant groundcovers, little Hens and Chicks, and sedums from Mexico that gardeners seem to love having planted in these tiny places and distinctive applications.” Home gardeners can choose from a diverse palette of varying color and foliage with the Plants that Work in Nooks & Crannies line when creating their own artistic garden accents.

Problem: Short-lived, feeble annuals that will not last.

Solution: Finer, genetically superior, color bedding plantings.
When used in containers, garden beds and borders, annual color varieties are a bright, rich and vibrant outdoor design component. Yet, numerous annual plant selections cannot survive the first chilly night or burst of extended warmth that many regions of the country are experiencing from frequent spells of environmental instability. Guy says her Plants that Work by Color varieties are cultivated to address the need for more robust plant material. “They accentuate outdoor living, provide solutions for garden beds and borders, and address high-demand for new collections of unparalleled quality in every region of the country.” Ensuring plant selections for the lawn and garden stem from professional growers who trial each new variety provides superior-performing, garden-worthy, annual color plants with heat and cold tolerance.

Guy recommends seeking premium genetic plants in a rainbow of color and form at local independent garden centers to achieve year-round color and diversity for the lawn and garden. “With more than 150 delightful varieties in our program alone, such as Osteospermum Doris Daisy, finding plants for spectacular beds, borders and containers can be an easy and fun weekend pastime for homeowners and their kids.”

“We believe the Plants that Work name serves as a clear tell-tale for gardeners,” says Guy. “The name directly addresses homeowners’ primary fear — that plants won’t grow or perform well in their gardens — and assures them that the plants they purchase will work beautifully in their individual locales.”

To learn more about plants and gardening tips, log onto www.plantsthatwork.com.

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