Sampling Some of the Star Performers in Ontario Trials

摘要

Here in southwestern Ontario, we have just experienced a wetter than usual summer, with cooler than average temperatures especially at night. The continuously rainy days and nights and the cooler temperatures put the plants in the Sawaya Garden Trialsthrough new Mother Nature stress or benefit tests, depending on the varieties.Some varieties like the lantanas, angelonias, portulacas and scaevola were slow in the beginning of the season, but picked up the pace beginning in mid-July. They had much larger flower sizes due to the cooler temperatures.The double flower impatiens, for example, were like miniature roses and there was no downy mildew in our trials; however this was a problem in other gardens.