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grow in their garden. All would love to use less fertilizer, water and pesticides. When this is the objective, tough annuals fi t the bill, especially when combined with tough herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses. We hope to continue our quest to identify and select annuals that can survive and thrive under tough conditions. Tough annuals can be used in
marketing programs: At the 2010 California Spring Trials, EuroAmer- ican had a section of plants under a program named “Ecovation.” These plants were marketed as drought tolerant and tough, though the pro- gram focused largely on the Cali- fornia climate. It will be great to see this extended to rest of the country. The move toward more sustain- able landscaping could provide an impetus
to expand breeding
priorities. I’d like to encourage breeders
will to take a closer look at tough annuals such as Verbena bonariensis or Datura spp. that grow in gardens with such little care! GPN
Art Cameron is director of the MSU Horticulture Gardens, trial garden director and professor of horticul- ture at Michigan State University. He can be reached at cameron@
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