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Hi and welcome to the Ball FloraPlant area in the Gardens at Ball in West Chicago. This is where we grow all of our new varieties for 2025. One of the most exciting I'm standing next to here is our Solera Interspecific Geranium Series. We're launching this for 2025 with five colors. What's great about the interspecific nature of these geraniums is that it allows for better heat tolerance in both the containers and the garden throughout the summer. These are also available from our new state-of-the-art farm, Yeca Flora, which is located in Mexico which allows us to have trucking to the border, ensuring you the highest quality cuttings when you need them. I'd also like to call out this Fun Fusions combination featuring Solera. This is our new combinations inspiration program where you can see Solera working really well with this Lobelia, Bacopa, and also an Ipomoea. You can find more of our Fun Fusions combination inspiration on the Ball FloraPlant website. Right here you can see Solera also featured in our garden beds alongside a very exciting new introduction and that is Ageratum Monarch Magic. We absolutely love this Ageratum because unlike what you commonly see in a seed Ageratum, it's got a very open habit and it's very spreading so it can be used in the landscape as well as containers, hanging baskets, and even combinations. The thing that is truly incredible about this is just how attracted to this plant monarch butterflies truly are. Almost every day I receive photos from people all across North America who are trialing this plant of monarch butterflies all over it. So it truly is a unique and exciting new Ageratum. For 2025, Ball FloraPlant has two new Angelonia series. The first is called Angelonia AngelFlare. It features three colors including this truly incredible true black. What's great about this series is it's got an upright spreading habit which makes it perfect for combinations, containers, hanging basket, and in-ground. You can see it featured here in our new MixMasters "We've Got Flare" as well as a new Fun Fusions mix with Scaevola and AngelMist White. So this is a really great heat-tolerant item to last all summer long. Another new series of Angelonia that we have is called Guardian Angel. You can see it along the back here. It is our tallest and most vigorous series of Angelonia. This works great as a back of the border item as well as a thriller item in combinations, sizing up and coloring up a little bit earlier even for growers in the north. It's launched with two colors. My favorite being Berry Sparkler, the bi-color. Both exciting new series of Angelonia for 2025. What better way to end our tour of the Ball FloraPlant gardens than with our new Mandevilla collection Tropica. Tropica features four series as well as one novelty collection for all of your Mandevilla needs. We have Tropica Modesto, which is a compact bush series. Then we have Tropica Medio, which is your medium bush. Tropica Grande is your medium vining. And then Tropica Grandiosa is your large vining Mandevilla. We also have Tropica Unico, which is our novelty collection of Mandevilla with some really, really cool colors and plants within that collection as well. We hope to see you in the Ball Gardens here this summer, but in case we don't, be sure to check out our brand new Ball FloraPlant website to learn all about these new varieties and many more.