Greenwood Plants has launched its Climadapt climate resilient nature-based solutions this week in Halle 7, stand 7C23 at the IPM ESSEN horticultural trade show, running until 30 January.
The range is “built on botanical knowledge and horticultural innovation to deliver plants bred to meet the challenges of urban design in a changing climate”, Greenwood states.
Developed by leading plant experts, the range offers plants bred and selected for the enhanced ecosystem services they provide, including soil health, water resilience, biodiversity, urban cooling, and phytoremediation.
When fully integrated from design to delivery, the plants support development of resilient, sustainable green spaces and “enhance the adaptive capacity of the built environment as it faces more extreme weather events”.
Futureproof planting
The expanding range provides futureproof planting that supports urban greening, addressing practical amenity market concerns around cost, maintenance and survivability of landscape planting, to create sustainable landscapes that endure.
Greenwood is partnering with leading plant breeder Pinnacle Plants International to bring the Climadapt range to the amenity market with distribution rights in the UK and selected European markets under the Urbaflora and Bellecour marques.
The first nine products are:
• Agave Urbaflora ‘Hale and Hardy’
• Cotoneaster Urbaflora ‘Urban Carpet’
• Cotoneaster Urbaflora ‘Urban Runner’
• Dispropsis ‘Shade Runner’
• Hedera algeriensis ‘Bellecour’
• Hydrangea anomala Urbaflora ‘Terra Firma’
• Lonicera Urbaflora ‘Precipice’
• Quercus Urbaflora ‘Grace’
• Rubus Urbaflora ‘Happy Wanderer’
“Innovation is one of our core values, informing how we look for new ways to support our clients,” said Glenn Devenish, Greenwood Plants CEO. The range has been selected and bred to thrive in future climatic conditions while offering practical environmental services, adding value to the work our clients do.”
Plant innovation
Urbaflora was developed by Pinnacle Plants International in 2022, with the intent of developing the latest in plant innovation through its specialist plant breeder network. Launched in France in 2022, Bellecour has achieved strong sales in its home market and is aimed at building on this success in the UK.
“We are striving to identify and develop rare and exciting plants which can offer novel environmental benefits beyond aesthetics,” said Kevin Hobbs, Pinnacle’s managing director. “We are confident that partnering with Greenwood will bring us to the attention of designers, specifiers and landscapers to deliver positive change across the urban design spectrum.”
Climadapt will be available for delivery from June 2026. Further varieties are in development and planned for release in January 2027.
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