BRANDED PROGRAMS
HANDPICKED FOR YOU®
Sheridan Nurseries is a proud partner of SynRG™, a group of 5 independent regional growers, working together to support garden centres with unique opportunities to drive market differentiation. The Handpicked for You® program gives members access to plants that are trusted favourites, regionally tested and certified to thrive so customers can plant with confidence.
WHAT MAKES HANDPICKED FOR YOU® PLANTS GREAT?
New Plants Selected for Independent Garden Centres
The founding Handpicked for You® growers search the world for promising new plants to undergo trials and be offered to independent garden centres.
Local & Regional Trials Select Reliable Plants
Handpicked for You® plants undergo trials at regional grower locations and are evaluated by you – the local independent garden centre – before they are awarded the Handpicked for You® trust mark.
Reliable Plants Mean Greater Customer Success
Each plant is evaluated on 10 core performance criteria as well as 18 additional factors designed to assess their suitability for your customer’s yard.
Good for the Environment, Good for Your Customers
Handpicked for You® plants are selected to be non-invasive and disease resistant as well as low maintenance and easy for your customers to grow. The Handpicked for You® trust mark was developed and is managed by Syn-RG®, LLC.
BRANDED COLLECTIONS
Choose from a wide selection of over 1000 varieties of quality plants, including trees, shrubs, perennials and even tropicals, as well as innovative plants in our branded programs.
Proven Winners® searches the world to provide vibrant flowering annuals, perennials and shrubs that deliver beautiful garden performance. Proven Winner’s® bright and colourful plants are trialed and tested to be easy to care for and long blooming.
The Endless Summer® Collection consists of five beautiful re-blooming hydrangeas. For those with an appreciation for fine outdoor living, no other hydrangea compares to Endless Summer®, the world’s first hydrangea bred to bloom all season long, season after season. No wonder it’s the world’s best-selling hydrangea.
Raymond Evison® has spent six decades searching for, breeding and developing best-in-class clematis. Clematis varieties are assessed continuously for over 7 years before release. They look for distinct flowers, good colour, growth habit, disease resistance, flowers per plant, repeat flowering/flowering season, uniformity/stability between plants….and of course beauty.
The Endless Summer® Collection consists of five beautiful re-blooming hydrangeas. For those with an appreciation for fine outdoor living, no other hydrangea compares to Endless Summer®, the world’s first hydrangea bred to bloom all season long, season after season. No wonder it’s the world’s best-selling hydrangea.
Bloomin’ Easy® is a response to younger homeowners who appreciate the value of a beautifully landscaped yard, but think tackling such a project is too difficult, time consuming and beyond their expertise. Growers select plants that offer exceptional beauty and colour—plants that are resilient and lower maintenance.
New Gen Boxwood® A new generation of plants that have proven themselves through years of observations, trialing, and research. New Gen provides exceptional plants that have better resistance to Boxwood Blight and Boxwood Leafminer.