A new cultivar of Ajuga plant named ‘Parpar’ that is characterized by its foliage that emerges dark burgundy in color and matures to yellow-green with apricot-burgundy colors as they mature; creating multi-colored foliage that exists at the same time, its foliage that is vibrant red in winter, and its high resistance to sun scorch and thrives in full sun in the summer in Michigan.

‘NCORNSP-030ILPL’ is a moderately compact and loosely upright variety of Ipomoea batatas with a moderate growth rate and is well branched. It is distinguishable from other ornamental sweetpotato cultivars by its burgundy palmate, very deeply lobed leaves with 5-7 lobes, a moderately-compact habit and semi-erect mounding plant architecture. The burgundy leaves, very deep lobing, short internodes, and the plant architecture, which promotes good plant production in the greenhouse for wholesale distributors, distinguishes ‘NCORNSP-030ILPL’ amongst the current ornamental sweetpotatoes in the marketplace. ‘NCORNSP-030ILPL’ has been shown to be less vigorous than Ipomoea batatas ‘Margarita’ and ‘Mackie’ and is suitable for use as a landscape or containerized plant.

A new and distinct Chamelaucium cultivar named ‘SIRIUS’ is disclosed, characterized by abundant, large white flowers and flower buds flushed salmon pink. Petals have a semi-erect attitude. Flower production begins in winter. The new variety is a Chamelaucium, normally producing cut flower stems, or as a garden or container plant.

‘VALCOSTA2’ is a new and distinctive Ctenanthe plant which is characterized by foliage with large laminae borne on long, upright petioles that arise directly from the base of the plant, a light greyed-green adaxial laminar surface with broad portions of the lamina adjacent to veins prominently colored with a mixture of dark green to yellow-green, an abaxial laminar surface which is colored with a mixture of dark greyed-purple and brown and lightly suffused with yellow-green at the margins, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation. The new variety is typically produced as an indoor ornamental plant.

‘VALCOSTA2’ is a new and distinctive Ctenanthe plant which is characterized by foliage with large laminae borne on long, upright petioles that arise directly from the base of the plant, a light greyed-green adaxial laminar surface with broad portions of the lamina adjacent to veins prominently colored with a mixture of dark green to yellow-green, an abaxial laminar surface which is colored with a mixture of dark greyed-purple and brown and lightly suffused with yellow-green at the margins, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation. The new variety is typically produced as an indoor ornamental plant.

The invention relates to the field of Portulaca umbracticola, specifically, the variety designated ‘DAPORUMDBL’. The variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’ is characterized by its unique full flowers with extra petals in the flower center. Plants exhibit low fertility with very low seed production and scant pollen. The present invention relates to plant parts, including cells and any propagative material of the new variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’, and use of any of the plant parts for reproducing the new variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’. The present invention relates to methods using any plant parts of ‘DAPORUMDBL’ for the purpose of deriving additional new Portulaca varieties. The present invention relates to seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing ‘DAPORUMDBL’ with any other Portulaca variety or other plant. The present invention also relates to methods to produce new varieties of Portulaca umbracticola and ornamental plants using the variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’ and applying plant breeding techniques.

A new and distinct variety of Maple tree being small to moderate-sized with red leaves, hardy in USDA Zones 4 to 8, and having an upright, narrow, oval habit, is disclosed.

A new and distinct variety of Cercis plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘NC2014-5’, is disclosed. The new variety is characterized by its profusion of light-purplish-pink-colored flowers. Small, green colored foliage which aligns in an attractive overlapping pattern along the stem is formed and moderately slow growing, upright, dwarf growth habit is displayed.

A new and distinct variety of Cercis plant, referred to by its cultivar name ‘NC2014-10’, is disclosed. The new variety is characterized by its profusion of bright, purple-colored flowers. Plants of the new variety exhibit golden colored, semi-glossy foliage that transitions to green as it ages, and provide moderately vigorous, semi-upright, and semi-compact growth habit.

A new and distinct cultivar of Ilex plant named ‘RutHol5’, characterized by its upright, narrow form with widest spread in the middle of the canopy that narrows towards the top; a height-to-width ratio of about 3.2; reddish colored new growth, and resistance to spider mites, Tetranychus urticae.