Parks Brothers Farm is now a Stepables® authorized dealer.
Stepables are plants that tolerate foot traffic.
31 Varieties – Carefully Chosen for the South
Do Your Customers Want Low Maintenance Lawns?
Are They Looking for an Attractive Alternative to a Traditional Lawn Grass?
Stepables may be the exact product they are looking for.
Give us a call at (800) 334-5770 or use the e-mail form to find out how you can order Stepables today.
SPECIAL OFFER: Initial orders of 20 flats or more will receive a FREE POP package consisting of the familiar yellow Happy Guy with attachable brochure holder and 100 brochures.
Five Benefits of Stepables that Drive Sales
- Low maintenance grass alternative
- Different varieties to meet consumer tastes
- Great as a landscaping accent
- Attractive packaging
- Point-of-purchase materials available
Recommendations for Ordering: Order by the end of the 2nd week of December 2009
Stepables will be available early March 2010.
We have picked out 31 varieties from the Stepables collection. We researched with plant people in the South to select the varieties that will hold up to southern heat and humidity. Here is a list of the varieties we have chosen.
- Purple New Zealand Bur (Acaena inemis Pururea)
- New Zealand Bur (Acaena microphylla Blue Haze)
- Red Leaf Thrift (Armeria maritima Rubrifolia)
- Mini Kenilworth Ivy (Cymbalaria aequitrilobia)
- Variegated Pennywort (Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes)
- Blue Star Creeper (Isotoma fluviatilis)
- Miniature Brass Buttons (Leptinella gruveri)
- Black Brass Buttons (Leptinella x Platt’s Black)
- Mazus reptans Alba
- Creeping Wire Vine (Muehlenbeckia axillaris)
- Little Star Creeper (Pratia pedunculata)
- Super Star Creeper (Pratia pedunculata Alba)
- Irish Moss (Sagina subulata)
- Scotch Moss (Sagina subulata Aurea)
- Goldmoss Stonecrop (Sedum acre)
- Baby Tears Stonecrop (Sedum album chloroticum)
- Mossy Stonecrop (Sedum lydium)
- White Diamond Stonecrop (Sedum pachyclados)
- Miniature Stonecrop (Sedum requieni)
- Archers Gold Thyme (Thymus citricodorus)
- White Creeping Thyme (T. praecox Albiforus)
- Red Creeping Thyme (Thymsu preecox Coccineus)
- Pink Chintz Thyme (Thymus praexox)
- Wooly Thyme (Thymus praecox Pseudolanuginosus)
- Miniature Thyme (Thymus serpyllum Elfin)
- Magic Carpet Thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
- Bronze Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens Atropurpureum)
- Veronica Turkish (Veronica liwanesis)
- Veronica Georgia Blue (Veronica penduncularis)
- Veronica Golden Creeping (V. repens Sunshine)
- Veronica x New Century
STEPABLES® – NEW FROM PARKS BROS. FARM FOR SPRING 2010
STEPABLES® are tough, earth-friendly, easy-to-maintain perennials that take foot traffic. These little green heroes can liberate your customer’s landscapes from that not-so-green mower, cut down on the use of chemicals and create lovely beds of color!
In addition to the traditional use in landscaping and perennials beds, STEPABLES® are also great for walkways, patios, retaining walls, rock gardens, herb gardens, mulch replacements and children’s play areas.
Parks Brothers is growing a nice assortment of the most popular, toughest and most drought tolerant varieties of STEPABLES®.
