Testimonials

There’s no better endorsement of a plant than the experiences of the people who grow it. Over the years, we’ve received wonderful feedback from media, gardeners and landscape professionals throughout USA, Australia and New Zealand who have shared their success stories, favourite varieties and the enjoyment that our distinctively different plants have brought to their gardens.

From spectacular displays of colour and beautifully fragrant blooms to outstanding garden performance and low-maintenance appeal, these testimonials reflect the qualities that make our plants so popular. Every garden is unique, but it’s always rewarding to hear how our plants have flourished in a wide range of climates and growing conditions, bringing lasting beauty to gardens landscapes, large and small.

Whether you’re looking for inspiration, comparing varieties or simply seeking reassurance before choosing your next plant, we hope these genuine experiences from fellow gardeners give you the confidence to discover the perfect addition to your own garden.

The Flower Carpet roses have performed magnificently all through the drought and with the neglect that we give them!

The easy-care and prolific blooming of these Flower Carpet roses goes with my busy life.

I’ve spent years looking for a rose that will take abuse from landscape gardeners, home owners, pets, kids and toys and that will flower for nine months of the year. Flower Carpet rose has proven to be the ideal plant.

The impossible dream – that’s what I used to call a disease-free rose which is full of flowers throughout the year. Now comes Anthony Tesselaar with the next best thing in the beautiful Flower Carpet roses. Put them in tubs, in pots, in hanging baskets, in rockeries or borders – they grow quickly and easily with masses of long-lasting, colourful blooms.

In 3 weeks, my Scarlet Flower Carpet roses doubled in size! They are growing like crazy and the foliage is thick and beautiful. I would definitely buy more of these roses and highly recommend them to others. These are a good choice for any gardener!

All Flower Carpet roses are growing well in the hot, humid sub-tropics, with no disease problems and masses of flowers for 6-8 months of the year. Staff simply take to them with hedging shears to heavily prune in February and then another light touch up in August each year.

Landscaping in the Western Plains outside of Melbourne is always a challenge. At Delfin’s property, Caroline Springs, Flower Carpet roses are used extensively to provide long term colour throughout the development. The unique tolerances of Flower Carpet roses allow planting too many non irrigated areas such as roundabouts and traffic islands that may otherwise lack colour and vigour. After three years of development at Caroline Springs, initial plantings of Flower Carpet roses continue to stand the test of time. This is a recommended species for low maintenance mass plantings to feature areas.

I would definitely recommend this Flower Carpet rose. It was quick to green up and very fast to bloom. Although we have had a very wet spring and early summer, it has shown no signs of disease or other ill effects. Dark glossy leaves and bright blossoms create a very pleasant effect. Continual blooms, good performer.

What a beautiful rose! My Flower Carpet Scarlet rose is an electric red color and showed ups so beautifully in my flower bed. It is disease and insect resistant and gracefully sweeps over the ground with its carpet of flowers.

Within a few days after planting my Flower Carpet Scarlet, new growth had emerged. By the first week of May, both of my Scarlets were full of blooms. This rose is so easy – almost too good to be true!

This Flower Carpet is very strong and holds up during bad rain and wind. I would have never considered buying a rose, but it was given to me as a gift. I would love to purchase more to line my yard with. Even my neighbors have commented on how beautiful they are.

I’ve always rated the Flower Carpet roses – their bright colour is great in my garden, and their flowering time is later than my other roses. So they nicely fill a slot in the summer rose flowering calendar.  I grow all but one of the Flower Carpet roses. I especially like the White rose, and grow this at edges of the garden.

Am I the only one sick to death of standard iceberg? Why do landscapers not use standard White Flower Carpet roses? They are the far better performers and they are trouble free.

I ordered some other roses from HSN and I wasn’t too satisfied. Your Flower Carpet roses were better by far!! They bloomed abundantly and are extremely healthy.

I planted my Flower Carpet Pink rose in May. Despite two killing frosts that destroyed my vegetable garden and a very unseasonably cool spring, the rose bush grew beautifully. It has been a profusion of buds and flowers. It is now near the end of August and is still blooming, with more buds shooting every day.

A few days after planting Flower Carpet Coral, we got pounded on by sheets of rain but the plant held up very well  I was impressed! It seems to be very hardy.

My other roses have taken a lot longer to become established than my Flower Carpet Scarlet & Pink Supreme. Flower Carpet also continued to bloom through the fall.

I have a few J&P roses and a few generic roses from Wal-Mart and Lowes. I found that Flower Carpet Pink Supreme had more blooms by far, even in the first year.

The Flower Carpet rose is one of the great success stories of the garden industry.  It is a marketing phenomenon.  In the early 1990’s it was unknown – now, in all its variations, this rose is being enthusiastically grown the world over by occasional and dedicated gardeners alike.

…Flower Carpet roses are tried and true performers that have proved to be super tough and reliable, producing phenomenal numbers of blooms. GOLD shares all the of the characteristics that made the collection instant favourites.

Vibrantly colorful Tropicanna canna thrives in full sun; this variegated canna will brighten up and fill (a barren) space in no time flat!

My Tropicanna cannas fill out beautifully and even when they’re not in bloom they add lots of interest to my containers.

The Tropicanna cannas did exceptionally well.  The “black” ones were over 6 feet tall!  The others didn’t get as much sun but still did well. This is officially my husband’s favorite plant in the yard. When they were growing he would go check them everyday to see how much more growth they had. He loves the color contrast and the blooms are just magnificent!

Canna Tropicanna ‘Black’ was the big success, and has quickly become a dense stand of healthy foliage and flawless blooms. I’ve never seen cannas do so well in my garden! Some of the stalks were blown over during a nor-easter, but the damage was inconsequential and I ended up using the broken stems in a vase to enjoy them longer. Each canna performed admirably through both standing water and drought once they were established.

The Tropicana cannas did very well for me…the one with darker colored leaves did better than the lighter colored ones but I was pleased with them and was able to recommend them once or twice on my radio show for folks who had pools and wanted to get a tropical look.

Canna Tropicanna (also known as ‘Phasion’) must be seen to be believed. Who could have dreamed up colors like this–deep purple foliage striped with yellow, pink, and red with golden-orange flowers to boot? When backlit by the sun, the leaves glow so brightly you’d swear they’re radioactive.

I have all three of the Tropicanna Cannas varieties. I have had them for several years now, and have had to divide them because they have outgrown their containers.  They loved all the rain this summer, and were gorgeous, and still are.

The black Tropicanna cannas looked beautiful.  We are in zone 7 and I typically leave my cannas in the ground and they come back faithfully every year – can’t wait to see next year’s blooms!

My Tropicanna cannas were amazing! They were absolutely beautiful. In fact, I often get compliments on the foliage colors and blooms. They’re perfect in containers and I have some in my garden too to add more interest.

If you think cannas are your grandma’s garden plant, think again. These large tropical plants have both colorful leaves and flowers make a bold statement in the garden or container and are so easy to grow.

The striped leaf of Canna Tropicanna, with its gold, pink and red tones, shines like stained glass when back lit by the sun.

Canna lilies bring drama to summer gardens.  New gorgeous varieties such as Canna Tropicanna have brought this plant back to popularity.  

The Fairy Magnolias are doing really well, nice and green and new growth on all three of them. The Fairy Magnolias – the best one is about 4′ x 4′, another is 4′ tall and maybe 2 1/2′ wide, the smallest is 2 1/2′ tall and about that wide.

The Fairy Magnolias are incredible!  I have 4 and they are just getting HUGE!  I am going to have to move one out of a bed as it is overtaking it.  I planted one at my mom’s house and it is near a stream.  It is literally 25′ tall and 10′ wide.  It blooms better than anything.  It was so covered with blooms this year.

Even though our summer has been hard (even hotter and dryer than usual), my Fairy Magnolia made it through the summer.

The Fairy Magnolia tree is bushing out beautifully and is doing very well despite our harsh winter.

Fairy Magnolia Blush has performed very well in a 5 gallon container in our growing area. Great habit and form with a large flower.

I love the compact size and shape of these Volcano phlox. They were easy to grow and I particularly like the purple with white eye variety. I would rate them as “excellent” against other phlox I’ve grown.

This Volcano phlox is suitably named, as it erupts into bloom and pours forth wonderful colors! It wasn’t bothered by powdery mildew and it looks to be a good spreader with a strong root system. The rain hasn’t spoiled the blooms either. This is a nice addition to the phlox family.

I was highly impressed by the continuous blooming of the Volcano phlox once it started. Visitors to my garden immediately commented on the beauty and fragrance of the blooms.  The plants bloomed well into fall until the first very hard killing frost.

I liked the fact that these phlox are low growing and therefore can be planted in the front of the border. They are also mildew resistant. I would definitely recommend Volcano phlox.

This is a very durable plant, unlike other plants I have. We have had a lot of rain and these Volcano phlox did great against the poor weather conditions. They have bloomed non-stop too.

The Volcano phlox was a delightful addition to my garden. The flowers were bright and cheerful and I can’t wait to add more next year!

A very good plant for borders and under trees.  Smaller flowers combine to form large clusters. Volcano Phlox does well in full and part sun and has been very easy to maintain and will look good in any landscape design. It’s also non-stop flowering!

I recommend Volcano phlox for its blooms and strong performance, and ease to grow. The flowers are beautiful and the plant doesn’t need a lot of fussing over.

My Volcano phlox grew like wildfire. The vegetation is very attractive and seems to be drought resistant too. The flowers are terrific too – very bright.

A mind-numbing, eye-hemorrhaging, variegated alstroemeria has been unleashed at Southern California nurseries this spring. I reached for the camera phone when I saw big displays at two nurseries over the weekend. Alstroemeria Rock & Roll. The tag predicts that it will be “Sure to attract attention.” Ya think?

This was perhaps the most startling plant I saw, a new variegated Alstroemeria from New Zealand. Each leaf of Alstroemeria Rock ‘n’ Roll has a broad white to cream splash in the center and plants are topped by vivid orange-red flowers. You can’t miss it.

Rock & Roll alstroemeria’s foliage is spectacular and some gardeners are using it as a substitute for hostas which don’t like the summer heat in their area. Serious crush on the foliage but the blooms are pretty wonderful too! For those of you with refined taste who are fond of understated pastel flowers, please avert your eyes lest you be offended by the brashness of this foliage/flower combination. I’m crazy about the thing! Sources say it’s hardy to zone 8, 8b, or 9. Alison and I think that we’ll keep ours in pots and drag them in during the coldest part of the winter just to be on the safe side.

‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is a new Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria) that caught my eye. The blazing red-orange flowers were hard to ignore on the big, bushy plants clothed with contrasting snowy white leaves edged with a few brushstrokes of green. With such light-colored leaves, this Peruvian Lily will probably appreciate some shade where leaves will be safe from sunburn and where the pure white will glow richly in the shadows. The dramatic flowers are even more showy than the foliage, making the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Peruvian Lily stunning in or out of bloom. Grow this glamorous plant in Zones 8 – 11 and give it space to grow 30” to 40” tall.

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