Exploring Terra Nova
Wild Echinacea purpurea (coneflower) is a rugged native of North America that thrives in nearly any well-drained soil, from wooded thickets to the open prairie. Today–with a little help from TERRA NOVA® –hybrid Echinacea escapes a strictly purple past to sport a rainbow of designer looks.
These high-impact, low-maintenance perennials are propagated through the process of tissue culture, which is neither cheap nor swift, but guarantees your plants come true. These patented, premium varieties have been selected for their cut flower quality, unique forms, and striking shades.
Echinacea and a novel array of foliage and flowering perennials are now available for for Spring 2025 delivery to your farm.
Established in 1992 and based in Canby, Oregon, TERRA NOVA® is a tissue culture propagator and a grower of both annuals and perennials. Throughout their 25+ year history, they have constantly focused on breeding, marketing, propagation and licensing efforts.
Echinacea
Terra Nova is well known for its pioneering breeding in Echinacea, bringing us such stars as Echinacea SUPREME™ 'Cantaloupe' and Echinacea FRESCO™ 'Apricot'.
SUPREME ‘Cantaloupe’ is a crowd pleaser, as well as one of the three nominated perennials for the 2013 Medal of Excellence Readers' Choice Award of Greenhouse Grower magazine.
Heuchera & Heucherella
Terra Nova is the premier breeder of Heuchera and Heucherella. We have selected tall varieties in a rainbow of designer colors. They will amaze you with their long lasting leaves.
Take a look at Heuchera GRANDE™ 'Amethyst’ and 'Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. The design possibilities are endless.
Dicentra
Bleeding hearts are always in short supply as they are a bit fussy to propagate. Terra Nova's advanced tissue culture techniques have overcome these challenges to offer Dicentra in a range of colors and sizes for different uses.
‘Ruby Gold’ (pictured) is the first gold foliage Dicentra spectabilis with true red flowers. The stems are strong and upright, the flowers are large and numerous but the color… WOW, brilliant red with a touch of unusual orange!
Geum 'Firestorm'
TERRA NOVA®'s improved version of Geum 'Fireball'. This vigorous, compact and long blooming plant is easy to grow in almost any garden. Sensational!
Rudbeckia 'Little Henry'
Displays the same charming blooms of 'Henry Eilers', but it is one third shorter! Still good for cut flowers, but now fits well into the average landscape. This narrow, upright grower makes a great specimen in the border. The very appealing quilled, gold flowers bloom summer until frost.
Actaea 'Black Negligee'
The foliage of Actaea (previously Cimicifuga) is lacy but sturdy and long-lasting. This black leaf variety should be perfect for your next goth bride.
Beautiful purple-tinted, white flowers project 2' upward and carry an exotic perfume of grape and jasmine. While it can take shade, give it full sun with lots of water in most states for the darkest foliage.
Aralia 'Sun King'
This underused perennial offers big, bold, tropical-looking chartreuse foliage that holds up surprisingly well when cut. It looks like a shrub but is a tough perennial that will get bigger each year.
Fast-growing and deciduous. Purple berries follow small clusters of white, satellite-like flowers in late summer. Performs well in containers or the landscape.
Acanthus 'Whitewater'
]Acanthus 'Whitewater' may seem an unusual choice for cut flowers, but my recent trials have shown Acanthus can last more than 2 weeks after harvest when cut fully mature. These ghostly spires have never been seen in the floral trade. Acanthus itself is tough as nails in the proper location.
How To: Fall Planting