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Coming Soon to a Nursery Near You Gardening expert Keith Miner offers sneak previews for some plants soon-to-be-featured at your local nursery. From "The Dirt On..." episode DTDO-112

Nurseryman Keith Miner stopped by The Dirt On to give us a peek at the latest and greatest plants hitting the nursery this year. If you're always on the lookout for something new to plant, keep your eyes peeled for these beauties.

Nursery specialist Keith Miner with DIY host Ahmed Hassan

Yucca filamentosa 'Colorguard'

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Brugmansia 'Miner's Claim'

Q: Where do "new" plants come from?

Keith Miner: One of the most common ways new varieties are found is through a "sport," or an offshoot from a plant that has a new characteristic. I actually discovered a new plant walking through the nursery where I work. A brugmansia sent out a variegated sport and I took that sport and propagated it. Since I found it, I got to put my name on it. It's called Brugmansia 'Miner's Claim' and it's a stunning plant with bright, variegated foliage and huge trumpet-like flowers.

New plants are created every day it seems, and here are some of the plants I'm most excited about this year:

Chondropetalum tectorum 'Cape Rush'

• Michelia crassipes
  This plant looks like a camellia or a southern magnolia. It's much more versatile than other Michelias because you can grow them as a tree or espalier them.

• Chondropetalum tectorum 'Cape Rush'
  This is very dramatic in the landscape. It will get 6 feet tall, 3 feet wide at the base and can arch out 6 feet across. It will grow brown seed heads that weigh it down, giving it a great weeping look. It looks similar to horsetail but it stays clumped instead of spreading out into neighbor's yards like horsetail can.
  

  Aristolochia elegans 'Dutchmen's Pipe'

• Aristolochia elegans 'Dutchmen's Pipe'
  This is not a new plant but it hasn't really been on the nursery scene until now. They are difficult to grow from cuttings so they've started propagating them in Petri dishes from the plant's tissue. Now that they are easier to propagate, they're more readily available.
  

  Coleus 'Argentine Hybrids'

• Coleus 'Argentine Hybrids'
  These varieties have new, vibrant color combinations with huge leaves. The colors are brighter and they have wider bands of color in the leaf.

• Agapanthus hybrida 'New Blue'
  The flowers are a little bigger than the standard agapanthus flowers and they have a spider-like form. This plant will also bloom later so it can help you extend your blooming season, keeping color in the yard for much longer. (Not pictured.)
  

  Leucadendron salignum 'Summer Red'

• Leucadendron salignum 'Summer Red'
  This plant is just coming out of Australia and into the United States. It grows bright red bracts at the top so it really sets itself apart in the landscape. There is also a 'Winter Red' variety with bracts that turn blackish purple in the winter.
  

  	Coprosma 'Pink Splendor'
  	Yucca filamentosa 'Colorguard'

• Coprosma 'Pink Splendor'
  This plant has bright, luxuriant variegated foliage with a tinge of pink. It's very versatile and looks great in tropical or Mediterranean gardens.

• Yucca filamentosa 'Colorguard'
  There are a lot of new yuccas out right now with different versions of the variegated leaf but this is the brightest yucca on the market.

• Correa pulchella 'Variegata'
  Variegated Australian Fuchsia
  This is not really a fuchsia but the flowers make it look like one. It's evergreen so you'll always enjoy the foliage but it also produces lots of blooms that start in fall and last through spring.

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