MERCHANDISING Setting the Scenes Syngenta Flowers set up several displays setting the scene for its many horticultural offerings. Syngenta Flowers' pastel-colored HI Hydrangeas took to the clouds with inflatable jetliners and a cloth-lined sky. Lantana Bandolista flowers - they come in Coconut, Mango, Pineapple and Red Chili colors - were set in a scene stylized to the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, where skeleton couples swooned to music played by skeleton mariachis. T-shirts with the same design theme and plant name were handed out to visitors. Syngenta's Fun House Papaya and Fun House Potpourri petunias were set off by plantings in stylized planters (Were they hot air balloons, or gondolas on a Ferris wheel?) and a funhouse mirror. Zinnia Zydeco's desirable traits include its tolerance of heat and drought, which makes it a good offering for the South. Syngenta presented the plants with a backdrop of a plant-laden ironwork balcony typical of historic buildings in the South. Added to this was a piano painted a shade of blue that complemented the plants. 14 | LAWN & GARDEN RETAILER | JUNE 2022