plant named ‘Garnet Globes’

Botanical classification:hybrid (L.).

Variety denomination: ‘Garnet Globes’.

The first offer for sales was by Walters Gardens, Inc on Feb. 5, 2024. Walters Gardens, Inc. obtained the new plant and all information relating thereto, from the inventor. No plants of‘Garnet Globes’ have been sold, in this country or anywhere in the world, by any name, nor has any disclosure of the new plant been made more than one year prior to the filing date of this application, and such sale or disclosure within one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the inventor and would be a 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) exception.

The present invention relates to the new and distinct hardy, herbaceous,plant,‘Garnet Globes’ hybridized under the direction of the inventor on Aug. 13, 2020, at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Michigan. The new plant is a single seedling selection from the controlled cross between the unreleased, proprietary hybrid known as 19-313-2 (not patented) as the female or seed parent and the unreleased, proprietary hybrid known as 19-334-2 (not patented) as the male or pollen parent. During the trial process, the new plant was assigned the breeder code labeled 20-146-1. The parents have a complex mixture of species in them, believed to be comprising the species:, and

‘Garnet Globes’ was first asexually propagated in the late summer of 2021 by sterile shoot-tip tissue culture and later by shoot-tip cuttings at the same nursery in Zeeland, MI. The resultant evaluations of the new plants have found both propagation methods to produce stable and true-to-type plants in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

‘Garnet Globes’ differs from its parents as well as all other hardy herbaceousknown to the applicant in many combined traits. The most similarknown to the applicant are: ‘Blackberry Merlot’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 33,498, ‘Cranberry Crush’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 21,984, ‘Heartthrob’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 24,760. ‘Holy Grail’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,478, ‘Mars Madness’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 27,838, ‘Sultry Kiss’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,300, ‘Summer in Paradise’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,730, ‘Valentine Crush’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 35,170, ‘Vintage Wine’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 27,839, and ‘Watermelon Ruffles’ U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 18/445,451.

The female parent has a compact habit with dark burgundy foliage, and the flowers are pink. The male parent has a compact habit, dark green foliage, and red flowers.

Table 1 below includes comparisons of thecultivars that are closest known to the inventor:

‘Garnet Globes’ is a unique hardy herbaceouswith the following combined traits:

The following descriptions and color references are based on the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common dictionary terms are used. The new plant,‘Garnet Globes’, has not been observed in all possible environments. The phenotype may vary slightly with different environmental conditions, such as temperature, light, fertility, moisture, and maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The following observations and size descriptions are of a three-year-old plant in the loamy-sand, open-field full-sun display garden of a nursery in Zeeland, MI with supplemental fertilizer and water as needed. The plants are of natural habit and were not treated with plant growth regulators, nor were they pinched at any time in the growth year.