After a lifetime of gardening and nearly four decades as a garden columnist, I'm not easily excited by every new variety that comes along. And I sure never expected to get revved up about an annual ageratum.
But this winter there it was in the lineup of new plants in the Sweet Melissa Fashion Show at the National Green Centre, a trade show put on by the Western Nursery and Landscape Association.
Monarch ageratums are the result of crosses made by the University of Wisconsin's David Zlesak between our ordinary garden ageratum and an obscure ageratum from Mexico. The result: a new class of vigorous ageratums with exceptional garden performance.
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