Many home gardener look ahead to this time of year to browse catalogs in search of large young works to love in their 2019 landscapes .
The group of industrial plant I get excited about each year are the Mississippi Medallion selections . Every year , I promote this radical of plants through southerly Gardening so you will seem for them at local garden centers .
by Dr. Gary R. Bachman
The Mississippi Medallion victor for 2019 are Whopper Begonia , a collard green , Blue My Mind Evolvulus , Nyssa sylvatica and Sweetie Pie blackberry . I ’m go to highlight each plant singly this class .
Since it was give in 1996 , Mississippi Medallion has recognized more than 70 outstanding landscape and vegetable plants . The program was established by the Mississippi Nursery and Landscape Association in cooperation with the Mississippi State University Extension Service and the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce . It increase awareness of works material and promotes the sales event and production of ornamental plants in Mississippi .
Compared to national crusade such as All - American Selections and Perennial Plant of the Year , Mississippi Medallion focuses on plant adapted to Mississippi ’s surroundings to gain both consumer and the unripened manufacture .
gloomy My Mind evolvulus is a fecund bloomer , with sky - blue flowers above downy foliage . ( Photo by MSU Extension / Gary Bachman )
2019 marks the 2nd time in Mississippi Medallion account that an evolvulus has been chosen . This year it is Blue My Mind .
The first evolvulus was Blue Daze , which has been around for a long clip and was one of two plants chosen as the first Mississippi Medallion winners in 1996 . Blue Daze has wonderful , true - blue , funnel - shape blossom . I like the fast - spreading emergence pace that draw Blue Daze a serious ground cover in front of an Amerindic hawthorn planting in my front landscape painting .
As adept as Blue Daze is , there ’s an even better evolvulus alternative for 2019 . Blue My idea is a fantastic improvement of Blue Daze evolvulus . The individual flowers keep on to be funnel - mould , and they always mould near the shoot tips . Blue My Mind is a fertile pratfall . Its foliation has a downy coming into court , and the 1 - inch flower are sky gamy .
The flowers only open for one day . They are brilliant spicy in the morning but look quite spent by afternoon , peculiarly in planting beds that confront west and welcome a high heat payload each afternoon .
I ’ve grown Blue My head in my landscape as an evaluator for the past three years . I can attest that a little afternoon wraith facilitate facilitate the summertime oestrus consignment , but too much shade reduces total flowering .
gloomy My head and Blue Daze need to be planted in well - drained soil that is systematically damp . Be certain to assert fertilisation to keep the flower production at its peak . I care using water - soluble fertilizer along with the irrigation .
As you shop this spring , be on the observatory for this capital plant . you may involve your favorite garden center now to check that they will have these plant useable for your landscape .
seed : Mississippi State University
