News & Awards

Coprosma ECLIPSE ‘Aldawn’ launched worldwide

The IPM Essen 2024 exhibition saw the main launch for Coprosma ECLIPSE ‘Aldawn’ outside of the UK. HortWeek have a feature on it this month. Coprosma ECLIPSE ‘Aldawn’ is an eye catching foliage plant with glossy, semi- evergreen leaves. Each leaf has a brown centre with attractive red-pink margins creating year-round interest. Small, white flowers blooming in Summer through to Autumn…

Out of the Long Grass and into the Wind The journey to market for two new miscanthus introductions, RED ZENITH, and SUNLIT SATIN by Brian Robinson. “What do you think?” asked mother pointing at a promising seedling that caught her eye. Is there another question that so encapsulates a test for your horticultural experience to date, as can you recognise…

Ulmus article by Andrew Brooks on Resistant Elms

Elms for the future During the last century, Dutch elm disease (DED) devastated elms across Europe and North America, instigating the development of resistant cultivars in most countries, with the notable exception of the UK. From 1980, these cultivars have gradually appeared in commerce in Britain. However, owing to new phytosanitary controls and post-Brexit import bureaucracy, supplies have dwindled, prompting…

HortWeek Mention for Genesis- Bob Askew’s list of top cultivars from our catalogue

Click on the link below and Login to see Bob Askew’s article talking about his top picks of cultivars from our Catalogue. https://www.hortweek.com/top-cultivars-genesis-plant-marketings-catalogue/ornamentals/article/1808027

Hydrangea PETITE LANTERN wins Bronze at Plantarium Exhibition.

Petite Lantern is a compact growing Hortensia with numerous flowers. It starts flowering in July. The color starts with lime and changes to white and ends with a tremendous dark pink color in October. This Petite Lantern reaches a height of 80 cm and will be about 40 cm width. This makes the Petite Lantern the ultimate landscape plant in…

Pittosporum BANNOW BAY ‘Breebay’ Wins Silver Medal at Plantarium!

Pittosporum BANNOW BAY ‘Breebay’ Wins Silver Medal at Plantarium! Bred by Annette and Pierce Breen of Bannow Bay Nurseries in Ireland, the Pittosporum Bannow Bay ‘Brebay’ was awarded a Silver Medal at the Plantarium/Groen-Direkt Autumn Fair this week. Year-Round Foliage This compact and very well branched Pittosporum enjoys a colour which changes throughout the year from shades of green in summer…

RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 3rd place.

RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 3rd place. Salvia Pink Amistad beat strong competition to win 3rd place in the Chelsea plant of the year awards. The plant was bred in Argentina by Rolando Urio and will be marketed worldwide by Genesis. UK Salvia experts Middleton Nurseries made the entry and commercial supplies will be available from the Newey group…

Genesis Plant Marketing plant breeder Fred Yates wins the RHS Reginald Cory Cup

Penstemon PentasticTM Pink (‘YAPMINE’) Penstemon PentasticTM Rose (‘YAPROSE’) Penstemon PentasticTM Red (‘YAPRUBY’) The plant breeding achievements of Fred Yates long plant breeding history were recognised by the RHS with award of the Reginald Cory Cup. Excerpt from Hort New This prestigious award is given to encourage and reward the production of new garden hybrids. Since 2005 it has…

Palnteria.eu Article

..AND IN THE BEGINNING… As we head towards 2022, we are delighted to talk exclusively to Nigel Judd, M.D. of Genesis Plant Marketing to see how they view the coming year, and beyond. Q: ‘Your company has grown in stature and awareness in recent years. Has there been a magic formula for this continued progress?’ A: ‘There has…

Dryopteris wallichiana JURASSIC GOLD ‘Hollasic’ You Tube

Check out the You Tube video promo for JURASSIC GOLD!With Peter Van Rijssen from Concept Plants