latest Spring catalogue

It’s Spring
time.....
Spring is finally upon us and gardeners are
rejoicing. As always, we are ready for a big
spring at Pohlmans with many new exciting
and unique additions.
Our Production Manger has been travelling
the world searching for new and improved
breeding and has found some exciting
products to compliment our current ranges.
All our new lines are extensively trialled on
site first to ensure they hold up and perform in
our climate.
One of the stand out additions this season
is a breakthrough in Mandevilla breeding.
Our new Illusions range sees the traditional
climbing variety transformed into a small
shrub and pot variety.
Our popular Gourmet Vege range also has
some great new additions. The new Pizza
mixed pack has everything you need in
the one pack to create authentic Italian
cuisine and the new Pumpkini is versatile
dual purpose vegetable – Harvest early as a
zucchini or leave it to mature and harvest as
a pumpkin.
Signature adds
more stunners
The rising popularity of the Signature Series range brings a
selection of exciting new and unique varieties and proven
garden winners into the spotlight. Some new and exciting
colours open up the 2013/14 Spring season.
GERANIUM
BUSH MIXED
Pelargonium x hortorum
The best seed Geraniums on the market hit the premium range. This series
is praised for its unique bright, bi-coloured blooms and very vigorous, bushy
growing habit. With its distinct leaf zoning and large colourful blooms, these
are a very impactful inclusion in garden beds, borders and containers.
Availability: Aug – All year
If you haven’t already tried our online
ordering, now is the time to ensure you don’t
miss out on stock this spring - be the first to
secure your orders! Easy, convenient, live
availability, 24/7. Many of our customers
have converted to the new ordering system
and are experiencing the many advantages.
The nursery is full and our team are ready to
help you bring great quality and an extensive
range of exciting products to your customers
this season.
We look forward to working with you to
achieve a very successful spring.
Regards
The team @ Pohlmans
PETUNIA
AVALANCHE MIXED
Petunia x hybrid
Petunia Avalanche is the original spreading perennial Petunia. With masses
of flowers and improved wet weather tolerance, Avalanche will simply outshine ordinary Petunias with their sheer durability. Their well-mounded and
full habit is particularly conducive to premium hanging basket production. A
true mounding habit provides an ever-cascading effect.
Availability: Aug – All year
Quality Selection.
Quality Product.
PETUNIA SONGBIRD MIXED
Petunia x hybrid
Petunia Songbirds combine large, slightly ruffled
flowers with a tight compact habit that produces an
abundance of continual colour. This Petunia’s key
attributes include an amazing resistance to harsh
weather, especially heavy storm rains and wind
damage. Their climate adaptability as well as the bold
colour palette of orange, white, yellow, deep blue,
burgundy and blue ice, make this is a versatile and
proven garden performer.
Availability: Aug – All year
AFRICAN DAISY
WATERFALL
Osteospermum ecklonis
Wide, open daisy flowers in an
irresistible blend of soft pink, rose
and white, smother the naturally
compact stems of this Waterfall mix
of Osteospermums. These drought
tolerant, delightful cape daisies
flower all summer long.
Availability: Aug – All year
PETUNIA MIDNIGHT
Petunia x hybrid
Introducing the first black Petunia from seed
on the market! The deep black flower with
contrasting dark green foliage makes
this variety a stand out in any setting.
A sensuous, shimmering black
flowering beauty with burgundyreddish undertones on a compact
mounding habit.
Availability: Aug – All year
Hand selected for the best performing genetics combined with
garden performance to provide the most eye catching displays
of colour annuals. These premium varieties are for the person
looking for something a little different. Sold in a larger cell than
the ‘quick start’ range in order to decrease establishment time of
planting to flower.
Talk to our friendly staff on [07] 5462 0477 if you need further information
New mixes & more visit
the gourmet family
Do it yourself! Grow your own! You can now create your own self-sustainable
vegetable garden with Pohlmans’ Gourmet Vegetables. This range produces
advanced vegetable seedlings in a 4cell pack for quicker establishment,
minimum wastage and earlier harvesting. This proves to be a cost effective,
fun and rewarding way to get fresh produce from your own garden.
PIZZA MIX
A true Mediterranean mix of three different tasty herbs and a capsicum.
Experiment with cooking authentic Italian and Greek cuisine with this
versatile 4-cell pack containing thyme, oregano, basil and capsicum.
Perfect for those just starting out their herb and veggie garden! A great
addition to window sill gardening or as an addition to your herb garden.
Availability: Aug - May
Thyme - Thymus vulgaris
Oregano - Origanum vulgare
Basil - Ocimum basilicum
Capsicum - Capsicum annuum
PATIO SQUASH
Cucurbita pepo
Squash, or pumpkin as we know it down under, is relatively
easily to grow in a home garden. Fantastic new breeding
from Pohlmans has developed less trailing vines that enable
tighter harvests on vines in less space. Suited for container
patio gardening and smaller gardens. This squash produces a
butternut coloured pumpkin shaped fruit with deep orange flesh
has a unique sweet melon scent and a sweet nutty taste.
Availability: Aug – Nov
The Gourmet Vegies range was first developed to supply the customer
with a carefully selected gourmet product that could be taken out of the
chef’s kitchen and used at home. Available in 4cell advanced size punnets
for better seedling establishment, giving customers confidence in strong
growth and a quicker harvest, they are considered the best of the best for
their variety, taste & health benefits.
FRUIT
SALAD MIX
A mouth-watering summer addition
of four sweet tasting melons in the one
convenient pack. Each pack features a red
and yellow-fleshed watermelon, rockmelon
and honeydew melon. Delicious and packed with
nutrition, Pohlmans melons may be mini but they are full of flavour.
Availability: Aug - Feb
Honeydew - Cucumis melo
Rockmelon Mini - Cucumis melo
Watermelon Mini Red - Citrullus lanatus va lanatus
Watermelon Mini Yellow - Citrullus lanatus va lanatus
PATIO
PUMPKINI
Cucurbita pepo
Pumpkini produces bright yellow, round fruit that weighs approx 500g at ideal harvest time.
This unique, dual purpose variety can be grown as a zucchini or as a pumpkin. It can be
harvested small as zucchini or left to mature to larger 1 kg pumpkins.
Availability: Aug - Nov
For further enquiries regarding the new ranges and current
varieties contact Pohlmans Nursery on
[07] 5462 0477 or sales@pohlmans.com.au
www.pohlmans.com.au
Long lasting
pieces of
beauty
With the success of the family brand of
10Pots & 6Pots, Pohlmans are always
endeavouring to improve
their flagship brands and continue
to offer you a better quality & priced
product.
SALVIA BLUE
LAGOON & PINK PARADISE
Salvia nemorosa
These first-year flowering perennials produce compact and
well-branched plants topped by vibrant coloured flowers. A
new variety, where elongated spikes of deep blue and dark
pink blooms tower over the fragrant, dark green foliage. Also
has proven traits of being drought, frost and heat tolerant.
Availability: Oct - May
AGASTACHE PARTY TIME
Agastache aurantiaca
Agastache Party Time is an improved series providing a great
upright and compact habit with wispy summer flower power. This
delicate perennial is comprised of three compact and uniform varieties - lavender, peach and raspberry - all vividly coloured flowers.
Agastache Party Time is also known as a medicinal and fragrant
herb, with excellent heat and drought tolerance. A very useful herb
in mixed container plantings or in the garden bed.
Availability: Sep - Feb
Introducing the brand
new Patio Edibles
The demand for patio vegetables has hit Australia
like a whirlwind. Retailers are demanding high quality
vegetables that can be grown in pots and containers
where there is limited space available.
For this reason we have introduced this exciting new range named Patio Edibles.
Featuring a combination of existing and new lines with creative breeding from a variety of
patio vegetables including edible chillies, sweet capsicums, eggplants and tomatoes.
CAPSICUM
Snack Orange and
Snack Yellow
Capsicum annum
TOMATOES
Totem, Sweet ‘n’ Neat
Yellow, Sweet ‘n’ Neat
Scarlet and Tumbling
Tiger
CHILLIES
Hot Banana, Hot Salsa, Hot Taco and Hot Joker
Capsicum annum
These attractive plants boast edible fruit with medium to hot heat, sold in fruit nearly
ready for harvest. The popularity of chilli is ever increasing in cooking as families
experiment with spiciness and new flavours. Can be transplanted into feature pots
making them ideal for patio plantings, where they will provide edible fruit all summer
long.
Availability: November
Pot size: 140 & 175mm
Lycopersicum esulentum
Tomato Totem is a compact tomato that
will produce an abundance of small bright
red fruit throughout the season. As a heavy
cropping variety they may need to be
supported as the fruit matures.
Tomato Sweet ‘n’ Neat are very neat,
compact tomato plants with bounds of
bright red and yellow cherry sized fruit.
They feature a short production time and
are great for patio or kitchen use.
Tomato Tumbling Tiger is a cascading
tomato that can be used for ornamental
containers and is great for hanging baskets.
A high yielding variety with sweet flavoured
fruit that produces masses of small, round,
unusual red and green striped 2-5cm fruit.
EGGPLANT
Ivory & Jackpot
Solanum melongena
Prolific cropping variety yielding an average of 80g sized produce. ‘Jackpot’ a dark purple
fruit and ‘Ivory’ a clean white fruit, perform over a long cropping period. Exceptional early
establishment and good vigour makes this suited to containers and open ground in warm
sunny locations.
Availability: November
Pot size: 175mm
Availability: November
Pot size: 175mm
Mini edible capsicums ready for
the picking is what these great
Snack varieties provide. With
small fruit produced on plants of
proportional compact habits that
suit pot production. They yield
an amazing amount of fruit for
a compact plant. Fruit colours
include orange and yellow to
satisfy different sweet and spicy
flavours.
Availability: November
Pot size: 140 & 175mm
A myriad of
Magic Mixes
Looks good
enough to eat
Magic Mixes are a fresh, innovative
gardening concept designed
to better utilize colour in any
environment!
They are perfectly matched for
colour, habit, vigour and flowering
timing. Each pot mix contains two
to three varieties, ready to grow in
baskets, containers, pots or straight
into your garden! With over 15 varieties
to choose from, you can’t go wrong with
Magic Mixes.
PETUNIA DOUBLE DELIGHT
Petunia x hybrid
Magic Mixes wouldn’t be complete without the addition of
the spectacular Petunia Double range. This compact plant
produces an abundance of tightly formed, layered double
flowers. There is a delightful soft blend of pastel colours
including pink, purple and white, making this an elegant
addition to the patio, feature pot or in hangers.
Availability: October
Pot Size: 175mm
POHLMAN’S NEW
PETUNIA TURKISH
DELIGHT
Petunia hybrid
PETUNIA HALLOWEEN
Petunia x hybrida
With impressively large flowers in a colour mix of black
and orange – Petunia Halloween is aptly named for
its drama. Just like Halloween, this variety should be
celebrated for its versatility and vibrancy.
Availability: October (Halloween)
Pot Size: 175mm
Extraordinary blend of striking
stars and contrasting
colours ensures that
Petunia ‘Turkish Delight’
stands out from the crowd.
Gold star-shaped patterns with
cerise edges contrast strongly
against the dark velvety purple
trumpets. This compact,
upright Petunia has a robust
habit and superb weather
resistance which ensures a
brilliant performance throughout
summer. Plant them in beds,
containers and baskets for a
magnificent display of brillance
Height: 25-30cm Width: 25-30cm Position: Full Sun Availability: Oct
‘The Plant People’
Contact our friendly staff for
further information on
[07] 5462 0477
A magnificent
splash of
colour
Living Colour is our
decorative plant range,
which is increasingly
popular, and ever
expanding, with new
varieties and proven
winners. These high
quality products are
specifically selected
for their implusive
nature with their long
term flowering displays
and great garden
performance.
CELOSIA TWISTED
Celosia cristata
COREOPSIS
CALYPSO
GAILLARDIA
SUNBLAZERS
Coreopsis hybrid
Coreopsis hybrid
Celosia Twisted provides strikingly
brilliant and unique cockscomb
crested heads on tall flower spikes
that never stop flowering. An intense
colour which keeps producing
multiple heads of impulse colour.
An exciting and unique introduction with similarities to a
compact summer Chrysanthemum, only hardier. These are
easy to grow flowering perennials (treated as an annual) with a
compact habit and will bloom until winter frosts in containers.
All Calypso Coreopsis’ are huge bloomers of bold colours, have
a long flowering window and have self-cleaning flowers.
Sun-loving, drought tolerant and long blooming Gaillardia, which
is also called the ‘Blanket Flower’, is the perfect perennial
for long hot summers. Flowers are 2-3 inches wide, bloom in
blazing warm shades, often bicolour, with serrated petals and a
prominent center. The plants go dormant in the winter but come
back in early spring. New are the tubular petals with flared open
yellow tips.
Availability: November (Xmas)
Pot Size: 140mm
Availability: November
Pot Size: 140mm
Availability: November
Pot Size: 175mm
VINCA PINK SPLASH
Catharanthus roseus
Vinca Pink Splash has the perfect blend of strength, beauty and
was bred to handle extreme conditions including phytophthora
disease and wet conditions. The Pink Splash’s massive sized
flowers and purely stunning blooms of dark and pastel pink
petals, make this a real eye catcher.
Availability: November
Pot Size: 175mm Hanger
PETUNIA TURKISH
DELIGHT
Petunia hybrid
Extraordinary blend of striking stars and
contrasting colours ensures that Petunia
‘Turkish Delight’ stands out from the
crowd. Gold star-shaped patterns with
cerise edges contrast strongly against
the dark velvety purple trumpets.
LEWISIA MIXED
Availability: October
Lewisia cotyledon
DIVINE CARNATIONS
Lewisia is a perennial which flowers in the
first season without the need for a cold period,
re-blooming up to 4 times a season and brings
to the market an excitingly fresh, almost exotic
annual for rockeries, beds and containers. It
features succulent dark green leaves, which
form a neat, low rosette, topped by clusters of
pastel pink, rose, salmon, orange, white and
yellow and bi-colour patterns.
Dianthus caryophyllus
Availability: October
Pot Size: 140mm
The success of our current Carnation range has prompted
the introduction of some stunning, versatile and tough
outdoor varieties for landscape or patio features. As a series,
Divine Carnations provide different habits for different uses some for their scented brilliance, some for their sheer flower
power and some for their unique colour. All can handle harsh
outdoor conditions from autumn through to early summer.
Availability: October
Pot Size: 140mm
Life Indoors keeps
colouring up
Pohlmans are continuing the trend of adding more
colour to the Life Indoors range for the 2013 Spring
season. These great new additions bring some
vibrant flowering lines to the range.
Begonia
er
ic Glaci
Rex Nord
BEGONIA REX
African Sunset, Inca Night and
Nordic Glacier
Begonia Rex African Sunset
Our fantastic range of Rex Begonias just keeps getting better,
with new breeding developing unique, metallic like colours.
With three new varieties producing bright leaf colours and
smaller leaves than the common Rex Begonias, these newer
varieties are easier to maintain in smaller pot sizes. Additional
benefits include excellent branching, excellent outdoor
performance and a high tolerance to diseases and pests.
Their striking colours will amaze you!
Begonia Rex Inca Night
LAMIUM LIGHTS
Lamium maculatum
Lamium Lights provides the great contrast
of indoor foliage colour with delightful
dainty flowers. With their silver and green
foliage mounded under clusters of soft
white and purple flowers (which appear
throughout spring and summer) these
are a great addition as a hanging pot,
combination planters or in the garden/
landscape as a ground filler. Fairly tolerant
of dry shade once established and with
great heat tolerance this is a versatile low
maintenance plant. The combination of
silver and pink brings that hard to fill shady
spot to life.
Availability: November
Pot Size: 130mm
Availability: November
Pot Size: 130mm
Pohlman’s Sweet Taste.... Delightfully sweet tasting, the fruiting range of Sweet Taste provides seasonal, high quality edible
produce. Quick to harvest, growing your own produce has seen a resurgence given the nutritional benefits and economical
savings. Fresh, healthy and convenient, Sweet Taste is a Pohlmans favourite.
Variety
Available from
Bay Tree laurus nobilis
August
Blueberry Britewell
September
Blueberry Powder Blue
September
BoysenberrySeptember
Currant Black
September
Currant Red
September
Feijoa Sellowiana Pineapple
September
Fig Black Genoa
August
Fig Brown Turkey
August
Fig Preston
August
Gogi Berry
August
GooseberryJuly
Grape Black Muscat
September
Grape Chardonney
September
Grape Menindee Seedless
September
Grape Pinot Noir
September
Grape Red Globe
September
Grape Semillion Blanc
September
Grape Shiraz
September
Grape Sultana
September
Variety
Available from
Grape Waltham Cross
September
Grape White Muscat
September
Guava Strawberry
September
Guava Yellow Cherry
September
LoganberryAugust
Mulberry Black
September
Passionfruit Banana
September
Passionfruit Edulis Black
September
Passionfruit Golden Nugget
September
Passionfruit Grafted Banana
August
Passionfruit Grafted Black
August
Passionfruit Grafted Sweetheart August
Passionfruit Pandora Red
September
Passionfruit Pink Cheek
September
Passionfruit Sweet Heart
September
Pomegranite Galusha Rosavaya September
Pomegranite Wonderful
September
Raspberry Chilcottin
July
Raspberry Heritage
July
YoungberryAugust
Snapshots of
natural beauty
Pohlmans Tree & Shrubs range has been chosen
for its quality, beauty and their ability to suit our
harsh climate. In a first, Pohlmans introduce A
breakthrough in Mandevilla breeding sees this
traditional climbing variety transformed into a
small shrub and pot variety.
Breedingugh
Breakthro
MANDEVILLA
ILLUSIONS
A breakthrough in Mandevilla breeding
sees this traditional climbing variety
transformed into a small shrub and
pot variety. This provides a whole new
dimension for uses of this fantastic
flowering line. With its medium compact
shrub habit and no tendrils, this can be
grown as a feature or patio pot or used
as a shrub, hedge or a long lasting,
tough colour addition to the landscape.
Outstanding colour range unmatched in
the market: white (slightly climbing), hot
pink, pink, red and rose.
Availability: November
Pot Size: 140mm
LOTUS RED FLASH
Lotus berthelotii
Red Flash is a ground cover with a difference, providing both foliage and flower
colour with contrasting affects. Producing exotic scarlet red flowers that
resemble a parrot’s beak, the texture of their delicate foliage will soften the
look of any planting. The grey foliage blooms in spring. The exotic fire red flame
coloured leaves bloom early spring and thrives in sunny locations.
Availability: November
Pot Size: 140mm
AUSTRAFLORA GREVILLEAS
Bon Accord, Coral Baby, Jelly Baby,
Charlies Angels & Bonnie Prince Charles
Proven Australian-bred Grevilleas from Austraflora will hit the market in
volumes this spring as Pohlmans have responded to demands to have the best
performing Grevilleas more available. To make these popular varieties more
readily available we have converted these to our volume 140mm range.
BABY GREVILLEAS:
‘Jelly Baby’ provides a mass of small jelly-pink flowers covering a dense, low
mounding ground cover from late winter to summer,
complimented by soft grey foliage.
‘Coral Baby’ is a dense, shapely-mounded shrub,
massed with small soft pink and cream fowers,
covering the foliage throughout winter and spring.
‘Bon Accord’ is an erect or arching dense shrub
with net-like foliage creating a brilliant bird habitat.
Its brilliant waxy red flowers appear from early
spring to late winter.
‘Charlies Angels’ is a compact native ground cover
producing numerous bunches of waxy red & yellow
flowers throughout the year.
‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ is a free flowering, compact
dwarf shrub with dark green leaves and showy
clusters of waxy, spidery, red and yellow flowers.
Availability: August
Pot Size: 140mm
HYDRANGEA
STRAWBERRIES & CREAM
and BLUEBERRIES &
CREAM
These free flowering, very compact mounding
bushes with rich dark green leaves are very
different from most other modern Hydrangeas.
Perfect as a flowering houseplant but can be
planted outside after it has finished blooming. Have
a look for yourself at the impact of these unique
flowering beauties.
Keep an eye out for
our Frangipanis
Darwin varieties
are back
this season
Strawberries & CreamTM is a lace cap Hydrangea
with dramatic red/white lace cap flowers
contrasting against large dark green foliage. A
multitude of flowers cover the whole bush all
season long.
Blueberries & CreamTM – is a lacecap hydrangea
with a difference – it has beautiful blue blooms
offset with a cluster of light pale blue flushed buds
in the center.
Free flowering and very compact in habit, the blue
blooms are beautifully offset by the rich dark green
foliage.
Availability: October/November
Pot Size: 140mm & 175mm
If you haven’t got an account but would like to find out further information about the ordering system,
simply email mhudson@pohlmans.com.au and we will help you through the process
CHRISTMAS
CATALOGUE OUT SOON
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PO Box 478
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Queensland
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