Tres Chic Tropicals

2012

Alocasia „Sting Ray‟

A new way of thinking about tropical plants… The Independent Garden Retailer is looking for ways to differentiate their

product offerings. We offer your company an innovative program with our

Tres Chic Tropicals™ Collection. Here is what makes it special:

Unique Varieties Not in the Box Stores

High Quality Standards from the Best Growers in Florida

Ability to Cross Merchandise with other Hort Couture Products

Innovative Shipping Methods that Insure Quality and Value

Merchandising The merchandising support that Hort Couture provides for our tropical assortment is without compare

in the industry. Point of purchase materials, stylish tags and packaging, on-line information and much

more to help give the independent garden retailer a competitive edge in the market. Visit

www.hortcoutureplants.com or call us at 866.955.HORT to learn more about our merchandising tools.

Production

Our finished plant production in Florida is in the very capable hands of the very best growers in the

market. A1A Tropicals, Butlers Foliage, Excel Farms and Kraft Gardens make up the dream team of

alliance partners in our program in South Florida. All follow strict protocol to insure quality and the

proper packaging of our brand. We welcome your visits to see the quality of our plants first hand.

Shipping We have redefined the way plants are shipped from Florida. We offer many flexible plans to get your

plants to you on time no matter how large or small the order is. The diverse mix of shipping options

we offer are:

We specialize in shipments on our Stackables™ shipping racks that provide retail ready

product that is easy to unload and makes efficient use of space.

We have product available through our regional ALLIED WHOLESALE GROWER network

that puts our Tres Chic Tropicals program in your area ready to ship with our Annuals and

other plants. This provides low minimums and high quality plants to your door quickly.

We offer FedEx Freight shipments on smaller orders to allow smaller retailers access to our

plants and to expedite your special requests.

We will accommodate LTL shipments with pickup at our dock facilities to give you the

option of combining our plants with other orders you have coming from Florida.

We offer full truck loads on our own trucks direct to your location to give the larger

retailer the efficient delivery and price margins desired.

Hort Couture wants to be your preferred source of tropical plants from Florida. Feel free to contact us

anytime with your ideas on how to improve our shipping and logistics to your garden center.

Acalypha Copperplant is easy to grow, bright and bold. A perfect combination to make your pots sizzle this

Spring. We have three varieties that your customers will love!

Kilauea

Copperhead

Tahiti

Alocasia Looking for something different to add dramatic texture to your combination planters? Our Fabulous

Foliage™ Elephant Ears are the ultimate in bold texture for pots that no box store can duplicate! We

have three new varieties for 2012. ELEGANT ELEPHANT™ is a great hybrid of A. amazonica & A.

macrorrhiza that has rich purple backs to the huge leaves and a heavy corrugated texture. „Loco‟ is a

new variant of „Polly‟ that is radically different and very cool. Last we have „Nile High‟ that is like a big

African Mask with pink-orange stems and represents something very new and different. We ship these

in our STACKABLE™ box so they arrive retail ready to your store.

Baroque Sword™ Borneo Giant Elegant Elephant™

Nile High Sting Ray

Tip: Consider an “Elephant Ear” display in your store with a nice selection of varieties to

show the diversity and beauty of the family. Nearly impossible to ship to the box store

so capitalize on this at your IGC.

Anigozanthos The VELVET™ Series of Kangaroo Paws are great for adding unique texture and color to your

containers. We have learned to grow the plant in Florida weather conditions and have a gorgeous crop

for Spring 2012. Dare to be different!

Amber

Gold Ruby

Canna The combination of bold foliage and hot flowers makes Canna a favorite of consumers and retailers.

Look great in our tasteful packaging. All three are easy and gorgeous!

Bengal Tiger

Australia

All of our Canna are from tissue culture stock to lessen the problem of virus in Canna. We will be adding more

varieties to our assortment for 2013. Make Hort Couture your Canna source!

Citronella Citronella plant often gets lost in the greenhouse at the garden center when people are really buying it

as a patio plant. The remarkable FROSTED™ Citronella Geranium not only has a strong lemon fragrance

but also is a gorgeous plant with its variegated leaves and compact habit.

Tip: Add this plant to mixed containers to not only

add texture but to also keep the mosquitoes off the

patio. Now that‟s a great idea!

Colocasia Colocasia are tolerant of so many environments and are so easy for the consumer to be successful. We

love the corrugated leaves, interesting stems all on a plant that is just the right size for most containers.

Mojito

Diamond Head

Blue Hawaii

Cordyline Our CENTERPIECE™ Cordyline Collection is full of unique varieties and brings hot colors to your pot

“thrillers”. Flamingo Road is new for this year and promises to be a sought after plant!

Red Star

Mocha Latte

Flamingo Road

Fashionista Ferns™ Order our Fashionista Ferns individually or as an assortment. The coolest varieties that will add to your

mixed container sales for shady areas. Available all year in both quarts and gallons.

Austral Gem Blonde Frond Blue Star

Brilliance Crocodile Tiger

Getting Ferns into you flowering Spring Annual sales

area will increase your sales. These ferns are available for

most of the year for indoor greenhouse sales as well.

Great packaging and the hottest varieties!

Emina

Hibiscus

The INGENUE™ Hibiscus Collection is a sensational product for the IGC.

Exciting colors on petite plants that are perfect for table top color or in

mixed containers. The flowers are amazing and the demand for this product

has been superb since its introduction last season. Add some pizzazz to your

tropical sales this year.

We also have selected varieties of LUAU™ and KLAHANIE™ Hibiscus in

our assortments to give your customers a great selection to choose from.

INGENUE™

Banana Orange Sherbet

INGENUE™

Electric Blue

INGENUE™

Exotic Sensation

INGENUE™

Red Zinger

INGENUE™

Rose Colored Glasses

INGENUE™

Yellow Submarine

KLAHANIE™

Nicole

LUAU™

Peach Mai Tai

LUAU™

Pipedream Tangerine

Our Hibiscus are grown in one gallon containers with three cuttings per pot and produced under 55%

shade to give you an exceptionally high quality product. This strict protocol combined with the fun

flowers and our vibrant packaging makes this a knockout product in the retail store! Above are a few of

the varieties you will receive in assortments. There are many other unique varieties that will show up in

your collections as well. We promise a fun assortment that will excite your customers.

Mandevilla The PERGOLA™ Mandevilla are one of the finest genetics offered by Hort Couture. Unique chimeras in

the flowers that excite your customers and perform great all Summer. Exclusive to the IGC!

Surprise

Red Surprise

Perfect White

Perfect Pink

Mandevilla VOGUE™

The VOGUE™ Mandevilla are Dipladenia type plants with few tendrils, compact habit and loads of

flower power. All three colors are superb performers that are great in mixed containers, landscape

applications or as a patio specimen. Fabulous color for your garden center.

Ginger

Ruby

Audrey

Musa Our Banana selection is an exciting mix of the hardest to find varieties in the market. These varieties

offer dramatic texture and great vigor. Ship retail ready in our Stackable box that protects stems.

Ensete

Basjoo

Siam Ruby

Orchid The PATIO & GARDEN™ Orchids revolutionize the mixed container by bringing the orchid off the

coffee table and outside on the patio. These tough orchids will thrive all summer and continue to

bloom like a Geranium would. A sensational product that is exclusive to the IGC!

Sweet Sangria

Cosmopolitan

Banana Daiquiri

Tequila Sunrise

Passiflora Our new OBSESSION™ Passion Flowers are going to be hot in 2012. Four luscious flowers that are early

blooming with glossy foliage and climbing habits. Available as assortments or by variety.

Bicolor Blast

Mars Red

Blue Moon

Cosmic Pink

Phormium CENTERPIECE™ Phormium are a great addition to any patio tropical program. We have a special

growing technique that is producing gorgeous plants in Florida that rival any California grown New

Zealand Flax. CENTERPIECE™ might the ultimate “thriller” for extravagant pots!

Apricot Queen

Rainbow Sunrise

Flamingo

Sundowner

Wings of Gold

Sunny Succulents™

The Sunny Succulents™ from Hort Couture are a great addition to your mixed container sales. With

packaging that matches our other products, you will find selling our succulent assortments easy and

fun! Low maintenance and oh so easy. Combine with other products for efficient shipping!

Aeonium Zwartkopf Crassula Campfire Echeveria Black Prince

Echeveria Perle v Nurnberg Echeveria Ruffles Echeveria Shaviana

Echeveria Topsy Turvy Kalanchoe Flap Jacks Sedum adolphii

We now offer our Sunny Succulents™ in both quarts and gallons and in mixed 6” containers. Liners are

also available on these varieties and many more from C. Raker & Sons.

Topiary Couture™ Hort Couture offers a quality line of topiary that will give your mixed containers a unique look and

create value added products for your garden center. Tasteful packaging that cross merchandises with

other Hort Couture products. Available across America from our Allied Wholesale Growers exlusively.

Bellaparone Duranta Eugenia

Gardenia Hibiscus Tibouchina

Hort Couture 1212 Lake Drive

Daniels, West Virginia 25832

866.955.HORT