Petunia Circus Range

When the Circus comes to town it brings fun, excitement and a riot of colour. Turn your garden into a ‘circus’ this spring with United Nurseries stunning perfomers. Juggle the creative colours to produce a show in the garden, breathe warmth into your garden beds with Fire Eater red, make your own Sideshow alley or mix together a Strongman, a Juggler and an Acrobat for a fantastic show stopper. Great early, free flowering, multiflora petunia for garden and landscape use. These petunias are well branched, uniform in habit, have good disease and weather tolerance making them great performers in the garden. Available in punnets and pots, fun to mix and match for an entertaining spring/summer garden.

Petunia Circus Acrobat – Bright pink
Petunia Circus Big Top – Bold red and white stripes
Petunia Circus Clown – Deep rose and white stripes
Petunia Circus Fire Eater – Brilliant red
Petunia Circus Juggler – Violet with bold white stripes
Petunia Circus Ringmaster – Bright red with contrasting white edge
Petunia Circus Sideshow – Rose with contrasting white edge
Petunia Circus Strongman – Deep blue
Petunia Circus Tightrope – Deep blue with bold white stripe
Petunia Circus Trapeze – Crisp white.

Petunia Raspberry Blast

United Nurseries new release Petunia Raspberry Blast spreads to 45cm and makes a colourful living mulch or fantastic for a cascading pot display.
Petunia Raspberry Blast has been bred to give higher disease resistance.

Wild Things Range

Wild Things series are individual, colourful, different and ever so slightly untamed. Pansy Wild Things range bloom in spontaneous colours with ruffled petal edges. Pansy Wild Things have good weather resistance for autumn/ winter period. Variation of colour shading may occur within the mix.

Pansy Bossa Nova Mix – combined mix of Dervish, Jive, Tango and Watussi
Pansy Dervish Mix – Mauve petal with white edging, yellow centre with dark face bleeding to fine veins.
Pansy Jive – Yellow petal with white edging, yellow centre with dark face bleeding to fine veins.
Pansy Tango Mix – Pink/mauve petals, yellow centre with a dark face bleeding to fine purple veins.
Pansy Watussi Mix – Pink and lemon petals, yellow centre with dark face bleeding to fine veins.
Viola Cha Cha – striking bright yellow viola with black face and stripe.

Digger's Heirloom Releases

Capsicum Chinese Giant – Capsicum annum

Huge sweet bells of emerald ripening to ruby. Listed in 1902 by Burpee's Seed Co. Grow in a sunny position. Plant 100cm apart. Matures in 16 weeks from transplant.

Celeriac – Apium gravelolens var rapaceum

Celeriac is a root vegetable with a sweet, nutty flavour reminiscent of parsnip. It has received new focus on Television cooking programmes. Steam and slice to serve with salad dressing, grate into salads,steam, fry, bake or boil in soup. High levels of potassium and vit A, B and C. Leaves can be used as a stock or soup flavouring. Grow in a sunny position but shade in summer. Plant 20cm apart.  Matures in 14–28 weeks.

Cucumber Japanese Climbing – Cucumis sativus

An early fruiting cucumber, which produces fine flavoured fruits, for fresh eating or pickling. The long burpless cucumbers are prolific - continuous picking of the cucumbers will encourage it to produce more. Good for trellising which is a benefit for small vegetable garden areas, it reaches 1 metre.  28 fruit/plant.
Grow in full sun position. Plant 100cm apart. It matures in approximately 50 days.

Mizuna Red and Mizuna Green – Brassica rapa

Mizuna Red with deep red and Mizuna Green with lime green, delicate feathery leaves that add a spicy tang to garden salads. Sow frequently to keep up a supply of young leaves with a distinct mustard taste. Plant in full sun position, 30cm apart. Matures in 30 days.

Strawberries

Additions to the strawberry range are Kamu and Amsterdam Roze – please refer to Strawberry Page.

Truss Tomatoes

United Nurseries have added another Truss tomato to the two new varieties of great tasting truss vine tomato introduced last spring season.  Added to the Gourmet and Cupid Truss is the Ebony Truss tomato

Ebony Truss Tomato

Produces interesting mahogany coloured fruit with great flavour.

Tomato Truss Cupid

Tomato Cupid truss tomato fruit size and shape is that of a strawberry and has the appearance of a row of hearts.  Tomato Cupid is a winner of taste-buds, with its sweet and flavoursome taste. In the past this deep red, gourmet tomato variety was exclusive to commercial growers to provide for vegetable retailers, but now is available for the home gardener. Ideal fresh or in any dish where flavour and presentation are important.

Tomato Truss Gourmet

The Gourmet tomato has undergone extensive trials at United Nurseries Tasmania to ensure that the tomato lives up to its reputation. Gourmet had a good mid season set, of even medium fruit on strong truss formation. Gourmet ripens well on the vine with real Tomato flavour. For best results Gourmet truss tomato requires strong staking and may benefit from truss ends removing to prevent over yield.

After trials and recommendations, United Nurseries feel confident that the consumer will have a satisfactory outcome with the trusted Gourmet truss Tomato. The Gourmet has been bred for resistance to Verticillium, Mosaic virus and Fusarium.

Hints on Vine Truss Tomato storage

With vine truss tomatoes the grower will notice that the first fruit on the branch ripens first and then progressive fruit ripens down the branch. The fruit will require a slight colour tinge, a change from the green stage before picking, to progress with ripening. The fruits may be picked separately and the remainder left on the vine to continue towards ripening stage.

Tomatoes taste best at room temperature. Tomato fruit will continue to ripen after picking, due to temperature, not sunlight. Do not crowd, place in a single layer is best.

Calibrachoa MiniFamous™Double

The MiniFamous™Double Calibrachoa not only looks great with its double bell shaped blooms and mounding habit, but is also low maintenance. This Calibrachoa requires no dead heading, it is self cleaning; dead blooms drop when they have reached the end of their life span. Locate in a sunny position.

Osteospermum Double

Osteospermum Double produces full daisy heads with double rows of petals. It has a sturdy and compact basal branching which produces a neat, round shape that does not look leggy and untidy. Osteospermum Double reach a garden friendly height of 25 to 28cm, width 36 to 51cm and look great in a garden bed or container. Just like its cousin, the African Daisy the single petalled Osteospermum, it is tolerant to summer sun and heat. Flower blooms stay open continuously, even in dull light, which is unusual for daisy bloom plants. Osteospermum Double has an extended growing season spring through to autumn.  Locate in a sunny position.

Trixi ® 3 in 1

Trixi ® 3 in 1 is a range of plants which have 3 different plants growing harmoniously in the one pot to create an attractive display. This product is ideal for attractive displays in pots and hanging baskets, to decorate an outdoor area.  Various combinations are available. Locate in a sunny position. Combinations and pot sizes of product may vary from state to state.

This season as well as great plant releases, United Nurseries has a fresh new look. Catch our new labels in the stores.

As always United Nurseries can satisfy all your gardening needs this spring, providing you with a selection of vegetables and herbs to suit any garden or gardener.  Whether you have a large garden or only an inner city balcony, United Nurseries products will add interest and excitement to your gardening, cooking and entertaining this spring and summer.