Hort Couture Day at Raker Gardens

Date: 8/12/2010
Location: C. Raker and Sons, Litchfield, Michigan

Hours: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Pig roast for lunch.

There will be tours of the gardens and the greenhouse facilities all day as well as a full day of speakers on the following topics:

“New Varieties for 2011”, Jim Monroe, Hort Couture
“The HC Trialing and Product Development at Raker”, Paul Karlovich & Jessica DeGraaf, Raker
“Developing the HC Brand Distribution”, Gerry Raker

There are several opportunities to see their varieties in row trials, sponsor landscape beds, mixed containers, basket trials and in a sneak peak into their private trials. They will have new exclusive varieties for 2011 from excellent breeding partners such as Westhoff, Danziger, Kerley and Heuger.

There are also trials and sponsor beds from a wide variety of industry leading companies including Syngenta, Ball, Benary, Sakata, Fides, Takii and many others.

Visit www.trialgardens.raker.com to see pictures of the Calibrachoa basket trials, beds and much more.