We’ve teamed up with Syngenta Flowers for another exciting pre-intro for 2021! Geranium Calliope® Dark Red is the most popular color in the Calliope® medium series and an AAS winner. The new Calliope® Medium Dark Red Dark Leaf is a darker foliage version of this popular variety, and the first […]
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2021 Pre-Intro Variety: Petunia Headliner™ Enchanted Sky We’ve teamed up again with Selecta One for an exciting pre-intro for 2021! Headliner™ Enchanted Sky Petunia is the newest addition to the uber-popular Sky collection and we’ve got the cuttings! Due to release in 2022, MYP is offering this exciting new petunia […]
Garden mums are the largest floriculture crop sold between the first of July and the end of September. Within garden mums, there’s a lot of diversity in day length response and flower forms. At MYP we carefully track mum trends and extensively trial mum varieties in order to help growers […]
Unique patterns and colorations have spurred increased sales for one of the oldest and most loved variety of flowers on the market: petunias. In this year’s trial gardens, we were particularly interested in learning about the performance of breeders’ series. Consumers love unique-colored petunias, but these plants don’t always exhibit […]
Visitors to our 2020 summer trial gardens vote for their favorite new varieties. We’ve tallied their votes and are eager to announce the top 5 visitor favorites! #1: Petunia Bee’s Knees Our trial garden visitors were buzzing about Petunia Bee’s Knees from Ball FloraPlant all summer long, so we weren’t […]
Featuring over 2000 varieties including over 150 new additions, Mast Young Plant’s trial gardens are now welcoming visitors as part of The Michigan Garden Plant Tour. One of the highlights of our visitors’ experience is seeing over 500 combination planters, deco pots, and hanging baskets where industry favorites, breeder mixes, […]
We’re pleased to introduce our 2020-2021 program and catalog! We’re making you priority with an expanded and enhanced catalog experience featuring: Updated variety list representing industry-best genetics and performance See pp. 144-145 for an updated drop and replacement listing, which is the culmination of ongoing rigorous trialing focused on identifying […]
In honor of our colleague & friend Albertano Hernandez Albertano “Tano” Hernandez, production manager at Mast Young Plants, passed away unexpectedly from COVID-19 while in Mexico visiting his family on June 16, 2020. Tano took great pride in not only getting a job done on time, but also in getting […]
Quick Blocks: Building Better Combos Introducing Quick Blocks, an innovative product line Mast Young Plants is debuting for 2021 that allows growers to turn combos even faster! The Quick Blocks product line features Syngenta genetics with outstanding results in our spring 2019 and 2020 trials. These triple-stuck large (4″x6″) new […]
Mast Fusion Offers New Genetics, More Options New for 2021: updated Mast Fusion varieties for customers seeking smaller quantities of new genetics. While our typical sell increments are 33 (geraniums), 50 (most everything else) and 49 (for several large items), Mast Fusion trays of 51 include 17 each of 3 different […]
Introducing Feathered Friends™ Feathered Friends™, a brand new series of Ajuga representing a worldwide breeding breakthrough from Garden Solutions, will undoubtedly be both extremely popular and exceptionally hard to find once it debuts in 2021. Mast Young Plants is pleased to announce our semi-exclusive distribution of Feathered Friends™ for 2021! Feathered Friends™, named […]
CAST spring trials offer a predictable rhythm to our work in this industry; a kickoff of sorts to the spring planting season around the country. This year is different. Like many others around the globe, we’ve found ourselves adapting to a dramatically altered landscape that included the cancellation of CAST 2020. […]
Are you looking for a particular color of your favorite variety? Interested in adding some additional product to an order to qualify for Master Box shipping? Curious about upcoming seasonal offerings? Have after-hours availability questions? Mast Young Plant’s live availability is accessible on our website and allows you to customize your search […]
Dahlightful® Dahlias Available for 2020 Featuring gorgeous double blooms set off by deep chocolate foliage and exceptional tolerance to most powdery mildew strains, Dahlightful® Dahlias are now available as rooted liners at Mast Young Plants! Customers love Dahlightful® Dahlias because they can enjoy the gorgeous flowers all summer […]
Innovative Value Providing customers with the most reliable and economic shipping options is one of the ways that Mast Young Plants makes you priority. Our innovative Mast Young Plants Master Box provides superior shipping quality and value to customers with qualifying orders. Master Boxes are palletized shippers measuring 48″ long x […]