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BananAppeal® Small Anise Tree

Illicium parviflorum PIIIP-I BananAppeal in April 2018. Plants already showing incompatibility with our soil or climate conditions. Photo: SK Reid. Trials staff were excited to learn a new genus and family when we received a request to evaluate this cultivar.
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Harlow Carr Rose

Rosa Harlow Carr at first bloom in April 2016. (Before treatments began; 20% ET0.) Photo: SK Reid. This is a fragrant, pink David Austin shrub rose. Like so many English roses, it attained greater height and width in our region than advertised by the breeder.
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Bordeaux® Rose

Rosa Bordeaux in April 2016 with brilliant red blooms and dark glossy foliage. Photo: SK Reid. This shrub rose was a good performer overall, with no significant differences in growth between treatments.
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Lone Star® Rose

Rosa Lone Star in April 2016 full of blooms and buds. Photo: SK Reid. Lone Star is a yellow-flowered shrub rose that started its second year strong, but had foliar issues throughout the growing season.
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Coral Drift® Rose

Rosa Drift Coral in April with heavy show of blooms. Photo: SK Reid. One of three Drift roses in the trials this year, Coral, Pink, and Red, this one had perhaps the splashiest floral display but combined with the greatest susceptibility to powdery mildew.
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Red Drift® Rose

Rosa Drift Red in April 2016 in full bloom. Photo: SK Reid. Red Drift showed good disease resistance and good tolerance of the thrips damage common to all the roses grown in our field, flowering on and off from April to October (Table 11).
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Leia Pineapple Lily

Eucomis Leia on 20% ET0 in August 2016. Photo: SK Reid. This flowering bulb showed excellent pest and disease resistance at all irrigation levels (Table 5).
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