Angelonia Archangel The most generous blooms, vibrant colors, glossy dark green foliage—Archangel delivers the biggest summer impact at retail and in the landscape. Archangel boasts a more robust habit and flower three times larger than other varieties. This well-branched beauty thrives in extreme heat, humidity and drought.

Pink

Purple

Raspberry

White

Coleus Henna Serrated foliage with chartreuse to copper color.

Coleus Indian Summer Multi-color leaves red, green and brown.

Coleus Redhead Displays bright red leaves, truest red color.

Coleus Wasabi Holds it’s brilliant color without spotting or fading.

Henna

Indian Summer

Redhead

Wasabi

Cosmos These varieties have been around for quite some time, however this is the first time we have offered them in a 4.5” pot. Nice upright habit reaches a height of 24”.

Dahlia Dahlinova Series Intense flowers, attractive foliage and uniform habit.

Cosmic Orange

Sonata Pink

Sonata White

Yellow

Geranium Calliope Very popular. Truest red ivy/ zonal cross.

Heliotrope Topez Nice fragrance. Great for containers.

Impatien Patchwork Series Distinctive patterned flowers make shade areas showy.

Ipomoea Marguerite Large heart shaped chartreuse leaves.

Dark Red

Topez

Peach Prism (3 colors in series)

Marguerite

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Nemesia Poetry Sweet fragrance and loads of flowers for early Spring. Low maintenance and branches very well. Best performance in cool weather. Great compliment for Pansies and Violas.

Pericallis Senetti Series Great early season eye catcher. Vibrant colors.

Blue

Baby True Blue

Lavender Pink

White

Osteospermum 3D Series World’s only commercial double flowering Osteospermum. Unique but similar growing habits as other Osteos. Flowers stay open and make a great impact on retail and landscape. Upright and grow 8-12” tall.

Perilla Magilla Bringing this one back! Striking multi-color accent.

Berry White

Magilla Purple

Pink

Purple

Portulaca Toucan Series Multi-color leaves red, green and brown. Great heat and drought tolerant plant.

Fuchsia

Scarlet

Yellow

Lobelia Laguna Only color we had missing in our Lobelia selection.

Calibrachoa Superbells

Cherry Star

Grape Punch

Sweet Tart

Millium Aureum Bright lime green grass. Great for containers.

New Guinea Impatien Infinity Series Perform gorgeously in shaded or sunny areas throughout the garden. Bred by Ludwig Kientzler this collection is the largest flowering. Below are new colors we’ve added to our selection.

Aureum

Dark Pink

Electric Coral

White

Light Purple

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Pennisetum Vertigo Large, rich burgundy foliage great for containers.

Petunia Supertunia Antique white petal with dark chocolate veins/eye.

Scirpus Heat tolerant annual grass. Great for beds and patios.

Vertigo

White Russian

Zebra Rush Grass

Verbena Superbena Royale Series The flowers are sweetly fragrant and the exceptional branching creates cascades of flower clusters. Early compact habit of the Royale line makes it great for 4.5” pots at retail but it still becomes a vigorous spreading plant for the consumer.

Chambray

Iced Cherry

Peachy Keen

Burpee Home Gardens Overview There has been a lot of talk in the news and in trade publications about Burpee’s new program. Burpee has been providing home gardeners with seeds for success for over 125 years. Today, Burpee is the most widely recognized and accepted brand in the garden center. Awareness of this brand is over 80%. Burpee Home Gardens will deliver exceptional retails sales at a premium price to compareable items. Meadowridge, Inc. has put together 2 products that use Burpee Home Gardens Vegetables.

12” Burpee Home Gardens “To Go” This is a line-up of ready-to-go gardens for larger containers. “To Go” gives shoppers the fastest way to harvest the freshest vegetables, and a great way for you to move into higher margin sales. These come with custom Burpee Home Gardens “To Go” tags as well as signage to highlight this item in your garden center. The following varieties will be available in a 12” patio planter: Eggplant Burpee Hybrid Pepper Baron Pepper Better Belle Pepper Flavorburst Hybrid Pepper Jalapeno Gigante Tomato Bush Champion II Tomato Bush Early Girl II Tomato Celebrity Tomato Fourth of July Tomato Fresh Salsa Hybrid Tomato Phoenix Tomato Tumbler

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6” Burpee Boost Boost = high nutrition vegetables. Available in a 6” pot and ships in a 6 pack tray. These come with custom Burpee Home Gardens Boost tags as well as signage for your garden center displays. The following varieties will be available in the Boost program: Cucumber Gold Standard (500% more Beta-carotene) Pepper Sweet Heat (65% more Vitamin C) Tomato Cherry Punch (30% more Vitamin C and 40% more Lycopene) Tomato Power Pops (55% more Lycopene and 40% more Carotenoids) Tomato Solar Power (300% more Beta-carotene) Salad Healing Hands Salad Mix (20% more Lutein, 30% more Beta-carotene, 30% more Carotenoids and 70% more Anthocyanins)

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6 pack Wave Petunias all come with a handle (with UPC) and are available in a 3 pack tray.

Easy Wave Great Lakes Mix

Easy Wave South Beach Mix

Easy Wave The Flag Mix

Wave Purple Classic

Mixed combinations with uniform flowering time and vigor.

Here is a larger option for Wave Petunia lovers!

Peppermint Mix

These come in 6” branded wave pots, available in a 6 pack tray. Colors include: Easy Wave Blue Easy Wave Red Easy Wave White Wave Purple Classic Wave Rose

Potunia Perfection Mix

Easy Wave Red, White & Blue

Cutting edge! Like superheroes, Mighty Mato Grafted Tomatoes are stronger, faster, more able to fend off foes than regular tomato plants—and their harvests are bigger! Mighty Mato goes above and beyond the call of duty, defending against pests, diseases, temperature extremes, and poor soils while producing long, abundant harvests of tasty fruit! Grafting joins the top part of one plant (the scion) to the root system of a separate plant (the rootstock). As their tissues heal, they fuse into one super plant that combines the rootstock’s vigor and disease resistance with the scion’s exceptional fruit quality. Consider the benefits of Mighty Mato Grafted Tomatoes versus non-grafted tomatoes:

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Extreme vigor means better growth and more fruits Increased disease resistance means healthier plants Tolerates environmental stress from temperature extremes and poor soils More abundant fruit production over a longer period Non-GMO (non genetically modified organisms)

Varieties available: Tomato Beefsteak Tomato Big Beef Tomato Black Krim Tomato Brandywine

Tomato Cherokee Purple Tomato Early Girl Tomato Mortgage Lifter Tomato Sun Sugar

Mighty Mato is available in a 6” pot which comes in a 6 pack tray. Custom tags are used and signage is available upon request.

Ivy Geranium Precision Trailing Ivy. Available in 8 colors.

Pansy Trailing Pansy is great for early color baskets.

Scaevola Bombay Nice uniform habit. Available in blue or mix.

Strawberry Great way to grow strawberries, in a basket!

Blue

Cool Wave Yellow

Blue

Everbearing

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Strawberry Jar (comes with Strawberries)

6” Turquoise Ceramic Planter (comes with mixed Succulents)

10” Seed Combination Planter

10” Tall Tapered Square (comes as mixed combinations)

We strive to help you differentiate. When it comes to containers, our focus is on finding new and unique shapes, materials and colors for our customers. Our goal is to offer products to our customers that are one of a kind set them apart from their competitors.

14” Umbrella (hole for patio umbrella)

Multiple techniques yield the best crops. “Going green” isn’t just a slogan at Meadowridge, Inc. Our production team, headed by Production Manager Kevin Cook and Head Grower Scott Gruppen, is incorporating “best practices” in controlling diseases and insect populations using the latest in biological controls. The techniques and products have been put into place to offer our customers an environmentally friendly flower crop for the buying public. Customers have shown eagerness to support growers who demonstrate an environmental awareness and who incorporate “green and sustainable” practices into their production methods. “Getting young plants off to a great start with the latest in biological alternatives is one way Meadowridge strives to give our customers the best products we can,” says Scott.

Eric Nelson, Salesmen

Scott Gruppen, Head Grower, has been with Meadowridge for 6 1/2 years.

Meet the newest member of our sales team! Eric Nelson joined the Meadowridge team in November of 2011. He has spent the last 22 years in the green industry in several capacities. As far as education goes, he earned a bachelors degree from Buffalo State College and a Masters degree from Indiana University Bloomington. He has been a Michigan Certified Nurseryman since 1993 and is a Retail Sales Pro through the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association. He has worked at Austin’s Nursery, Northland Evergreen Farms, Frens Nursery, Lincoln Nurseries and Bloomin’ on Bluestar garden center. He is a frequent speaker for garden clubs, Fredrick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park and West Michigan Home & Garden Show. He is the past President of the West Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, Board Member and Secretary for the Association of Grand Rapids Landscape and Professional Member of the Marketing Committee of Grand Rapids Association. Eric brings a wealth of knowledge to our company and customers and we are excited to introduce him to you. Eric will be covering mainly new accounts in Ohio, Central and Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and some areas in Michigan.

We are improving to better serve your needs! This past summer and fall we were busy! A big project that began in July was reconfiguring our shipping area and process to facilitate traffic flow in a safer and more efficient manner. Now complete, this project will contribute to a faster turn around between order placement and shipment of product, as well as keeping our employees safer during shipping. We purchased and installed ten new 93% efficient heaters throughout our greenhouses to handle the heavy heating load in the cold winter months. In February 2011, we applied for a USDA energy grant, which was a success! This grant money helped us install another 34,000 square feet of energy curtains. Energy curtains help us save 32% in our heating costs by preventing heat from escaping through the roof of the greenhouse during the night. All of the improvements were made with the goal of being more efficient and keeping our costs down.

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