Sunny Border has introduced many new plant varieties into the trade over the past 60 years. The best known is Veronica "Sunny Border Blue," which was hybridized by Robert Bennerup in the 1940's. Grown throughout the temperate world, it is the finest form and longest blooming of all Veronicas. In 1993, it was selected as the "Perennial Plant of the Year" by the Perennial Plant Association.    Today, we have over 25 acres of container grown perennials, at four different locations. At peak production, each acre averages 100,000 pots. We grow over 2,500,000 plants a year, with 2,000 varieties in production, and another 1,000 on trial.

We recently finished construction of an 11,000 sq. ft. propagation house. This custom facility was engineered by Dr. John Bartok of the University of CT, and purchased from GroWell Greenhouses of Cheshire, Connecticut. This house joins another 30,000 sq. ft. of houses already used in propagation.    Sunny Border continues its proud growing tradition with its line of Sunny Border Gold plants, grown in the gold pots.

The market for our plants is the Northeast corridor, from Virginia to Maine, west to Ohio, and a small amount of business to the south and west.    Propagation continues 12 months of the year. We use five primary methods of production, 75% vegatatively: tip or basal cuttings, division, root cuttings, tissue culture and seeds.    Peak propagation is from early April to the end of June, although fall/winter propagation is also common.