High Availability: We’re Ready When You Are

Our goal in planning and production is having availability of grower ready liners throughout the season, especially the busiest growing weeks. Find out how you can count on Four Star for plant availability when you need it most.

Every year, Proven Winners® debuts several new, exciting annual varieties based on years of testing. At Four Star, we incorporate these new varieties into our production alongside established “Classics”— top selling varieties such as: Angelface® Blue Angelonia, Diamond Frost® Euphorbia, Supertunia® Bordeaux™ Petunia, Superbells® Dreamsicle® Calibrachoa and Laguna® Sky Blue Lobelia. 

Dennis Crum, Director of Growing Operations, is particularly proud of the system Four Star has developed to ensure grower ready liners when they’re needed.  “We believe in full service to growers, and that means having high quality liners available at peak weeks.  We’ve built our system around this concept,” he explains.

Plans change, but we have the liners

As a grower himself, Crum understands how growers’ needs change from week to week during the growing season: “No matter how hard growers try to have their production plans in early, there are always some last-minute changes, new programs thrown in, or in some cases, disasters that change your plans.  With our availability, growers can count on us to be able to supply them when they need the material.”

He stresses that Four Star’s availability is not a clearinghouse of old material, but rather, the result of a program developed over the years using data from past and present sales to forecast what varieties will be in demand, week by finish week. Four Star then gears its production accordingly.

“It’s amazing that out of all the speculation we do, how little shrink we actually have and how much this benefits our customers,” he notes.  Growers needing liners on short notice or throughout the season have benefitted.

High availability for exciting new varieties

Besides having availability of best sellers, we’ve made sure there will be supplies of many new 2020 Proven Winners varieties, including:

• Blue My Mind® Evolvulus
  
• Heart to Heart™ series Caladium
  
• Superbells® Blackcurrant Punch™ Calibrachoa
  
• Superbells® Yellow Calibrachoa
  
• Graceful Grasses® Prince Tut™ Cyperus
  
• Diamond Frost® and Diamond Snow™ Euphorbia
  
• Sunstar™ series Pentas
  
• Supertunia® Lovie Dovie™ Petunia
  
• Supertunia® Mini Vista™ Violet Star Petunia
  
• Supertunia® Raspberry Rush™ Petunia
  
• Supertunia® Royal Velvet® Petunia
  
• Supertunia Vista®  Bubblegum®  Petunia

SUPERBELLS® BLACKCURRANT PUNCH™ Calibrachoa	SUPERBELLS® Yellow Calibrachoa	GRACEFUL GRASSES® PRINCE TUT™ Cyperus
SUNSTAR™ Rose Pentas	SUPERTUNIA® RASPBERRY RUSH™ Petunia	DIAMOND SNOW® Euphorbia
SUPERTUNIA® MINI VISTA™ Violet Star Petunia	SUPERTUNIA® ROYAL VELVET® Petunia	SUPERTUNIA VISTA® BUBBLEGUM® Petunia

See all the outstanding new Proven Winners and Proven Selections® annual varieties by checking the New Plants section of our website here.

Check daily for liner availability

Need to order liners last minute?  It's easy to check on Four Star liner availability daily. Just call or check our website here for updates.

For more information about Four Star’s ability to supply your operation throughout the season or on short notice, contact us at 734-654-6420 or mail@pwfourstar.com.