News » 10.09.2025 - UK: Earley Ornamentals unveils 2026 bedding and perennial catalogs

Earley Ornamentals has unveiled its 2026 Bedding and Perennial catalogs, with a specific focus on climate resilient varieties for UK growers.

Offering an expanded, performance-driven range designed to meet the evolving needs of professional growers, the range is tailored to UK growers navigating changing climate conditions, shifting consumer preferences and the continued demand for impactful seasonal colour.

Simon Earley, Managing Director of Earley Ornamentals, commented on the 2026 range: "We've carefully selected new varieties and colours for reliable commercial performance across all seasons. The new introductions span both seed and cutting raised varieties, with particular expansion in Vegetables, foliage interest and early and late-season flowering lines. The catalogues are designed to support growers with greater flexibility, efficiency and standout product appeal."

A key focus for 2026 is on varieties that perform well in the UK's increasingly unpredictable climate. Foliage Heroes is a newly introduced collection featuring reliable groundcover, texture and companion planting. Similarly, the Super Bloomers collection features a premium selection of high-quality, robust and prolific flowering plants – ideal for gardens and commercial projects.

New seed-raised summer flowering
New bedding options include several standout summer flowering seed-raised varieties, including two Dianthus, Dwarf Divinity Mix, a natural dwarf with a non-stretching habit that flowers early with large, serrated flowers, and ultra-compact Supra Mix, which tolerates heat and cold well, flowering in the first year with abundant ruffled flowers.

For a lower-cost alternative to hybrid Gazanias, try Gazoo, a vigorous plant that delivers vibrant colours, large flowers and a mounding habit.

New Petunia Shake F1 offers unique colours and patterns, featuring a flowering style that falls between grandiflora and multiflora. Benefitting from a compact, mounded habit, it also tolerates heat and weather conditions.

Setting the standard for cost-effective, high-density seed production of New Guinea Impatiens, Florific Mix is uniform, well-branched, with large, flat flowers.

A high-impact foliage choice is Coleus Premium Sun, offering vibrant colour and easy production. Its compact, well-branched habit is ideal for efficient, high-density production.

Another new variety is Dichondra Emerald Falls. Compact and cascading with a denser habit than Silver Falls, its rounded, medium-green foliage hugs close to trailing stems – ideal for hanging baskets or as low-growing groundcover.

Two new on-trend colours, Blue Pearl and Light Pink, have been added to easy-to-grow Impatiens, Beacon.

New cutting-raised summer flowering
For cutting-raised summer colour, new Calibrachoa varieties include the early-flowering Sel MiniFamous series and for late spring, Sel Rave, offering excellent basket performance, compact growth and prolific flowering.

New introductions of Dahlia, including Dalaya Garden, Maxi and Midi ranges, offer strong performers in retail pots.

Sel Dalaya Garden is a vigorous, high-impact plant idea for landscapes and large containers, offering bold flowers and season-long performance. Dahlia Maxi is compact with vibrant, double flowers and tubular petals. Dahlia Midi is also vibrant and compact, making it suitable for early-season colour and ideal for medium-sized containers.

A new vibrant quartet offering compact growth is the Dianthus Sel series, including IT-Girl, which features radiant pink flowers, and Peach Party, which delivers gentle warmth. Pink Kisses has an exceptionally long flowering period, while Purple Wedding delivers prolific blooms and a subtle fragrance.

Lobelia Firefly produces vibrant pink bicolour flowers and a compact, trailing growth ideal for hanging baskets, with good heat tolerance and extended flowering.

Nemesia varieties remain popular with UK consumers, and new additions, Marshmallow, Raspberries & Cream Imp and Coral Kiss, deliver a compact early-season, free-flowering trio that provides vivid colour and uniformity.

Pelargonium continues to be a strategic line, with a broadened offer that includes the new Angel, which features small, pansy-like flowers in a vivid, deep purple, with darker centres and light lilac and pale pink edges. It grows to a medium size with a compact habit.

Another new Pelargonium, and an excellent choice for containers and bedding, is Regal Grandiflorum, Regalia. Vibrant with a bushy habit, this compact plant produces large trumpet-shaped flowers that provide an extended flowering season.

New Verbena introductions are the early-flowering compact Sel Drums and semi-trailing, Lascar series, both of which offer vibrant colours, good branching and weather tolerance, making them reliable summer performers.

The Calibrachoa range has been expanded with the vibrant new shade Calibrachoa Colibri Purple Bling, along with two new colours, Cranberry and Spark Pink, added to Calibrachoa Lia. Two additional colours have been introduced to the popular Fuchsia Bella range – the early-flowering single flower, Martha, and the medium-to-late-flowering double, Sonja. Marguerite Simba features three new colours: Bright White, Dark Red and Peachy Pink, and Osteospermum, Senoritas has been extended with seven striking new shades. The aromatic Pelargonium Mosquitaway includes three fresh new colours, while four new colours have been added to the Regal Elegance range. Petunia Surfinia also benefits from two new colour options.

New seed-raised autumn flowering
New autumn seed-raised varieties include Cyclamen lines, Mini Petit Moulin and Super Serie F1 Dragon, which is the first of its kind to produce true blue flowering cyclamen.

New mid-season Primrose Novelty mixes include Dante, featuring exceptionally large flowers, Flamenco, with its vibrant, ruffled flowers and Rosebud, offering double, rosebud-shaped flowers in bold, bright colours.

Further enhancing the winter-to-spring offer is the addition of a new colour, Peach Shades, to the retail leader, Pansy Premier F1.

New cutting-raised autumn flowering
Cutting-raised autumn introductions extend the foliage category further with additions such as Calocephalus brownii, Carex Evergold, four new varieties of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, Ellwood's Empire, Ivonne, Pelt's Blue and Snow White, and Euonymus fortunei, Emerald Gaiety, Emerald 'n' Gold and Harlequin, each low maintenance, offering distinct variegation and shape.

Erysimum, which continues to show strong performance in the UK market, is enhanced with the addition of Bowles' Mauve and new Sel Leya – both offering long flowering, pollinator value and ease of production.

There are also two new Lithodora diffusa varieties – Grace Ward, which forms a low, dense mat with trailing, rich blue flowers and Heavenly Blue, which grows taller with a cascading habit and deep blue flowers. Both varieties flourish in sunny, acidic, well-drained soils.

Supporting structure and textural interest are introduced by new additions, Festuca cinerea Kitty Dark Blue, Helichrysum italicum Curry Plant, and aromatic herbs such as Mentha spicata Spearmint, all of which cater to the trend for sensory and multifunctional gardening.

Other noteworthy introductions include Muehlenbeckia complexa Becki, a fast-growing climber with wiry stems, small green leaves and subtly scented green-white summer flowers. Santolina chamaecyparissus Nana offers a silvery-grey, compact and aromatic form with a bushy habit. Taxus baccata Repandens is a hardy evergreen with dense, spreading dark foliage, pendulous branches and vivid red arils for year-round structure and winter interest. And Thuja occidentalis Golden Globe, a dwarf shrub with rounded, yellow-green foliage, is perfect for small gardens and formal planting.

Favourite, Pericallis Senetti also gains five striking new colours, ideal for impulse sales in large pots during the shoulder season.
 

 

Source: www.floradlaily.com

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