All-America Selections (AAS), North America’s most well-known and respected non-profit plant trialing organization, has announced eight new AAS Winners available for 2024. Brokers, growers, and retailers will want to add these proven garden performers to their assortments.
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Celosia ‘Burning Embers’ (Sakata Ornamentals)
Burning Embers is a new celosia bred for its gorgeous bronze foliage with dark pink veins that contrast nicely with the vibrant pink flower plumes. Plants are well branched and produce more flowers over a longer bloom time.
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Petunia ‘SureShot White’ (Ball FloraPlant)
The versatile SureShot petunias are garden gladiators that can withstand any bizarre weather conditions. Whether you plant them in garden beds, containers, or hanging baskets, these beauties will thrive, come rain or shine, heat or cold. Their vibrant white blooms cover the plants, attracting bees and other pollinators to their lightly fragrant blossoms.
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Petchoa ‘EnViva Pink’ (Selecta One)
Flowers have a nice iridescent shimmer that toughed it out even when conditions got tough. All season long, EnViva stayed in glorious color even during the heat of the summer. Large flowers bloom from Spring through Fall in garden beds, containers, and hanging baskets.
Solarscape seed-propagated impatiens provide unbeatable color in full or partial-sun garden areas. Vibrant pink satiny blooms cover the mounded plants non-stop all season, adding a bright and pleasing tropical appeal to the garden.
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Geranium ‘Interspecific Big EEZE Pink Batik’ (Dummen Orange)
The Big EEZE geranium series is known for its superior container performance, medium vigor, and heat tolerance. The newest addition to the series, Pink Batik, is an AAS National Winner that is sure to impress gardeners with its unique coloration and minimal maintenance requirements.
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Pepper ‘Red Impact’ F1 (Bayer Vegetable Seeds)
This AAS Winning pepper is easy to grow and produces thick, sweet walls, even when green. It is also much sweeter than other varieties and loaded with fruits for a high yielding gem. Red Impact plants are upright and tidy, with a strong disease package that protects your investment.
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Broccoli ‘Skytree’ (Bayer Vegetable Seeds)
Skytree broccoli’s upright stems make it easy to harvest, and its deliciously tender stems and florets are sure to please even the most discerning broccoli lover.
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Broccoli ‘Purple Magic’ (Sakata Seed America)
From its beautiful purple color, tight uniform heads, and bright beads to its great broccoli flavor, this easy-to-grow broccoli is also stress and heat tolerant.
All AAS Winners are trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grow new, never-before-sold entries next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class. Only those entries that have superior garden performance, better than the comparisons, are granted the AAS award designation.
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The newest AAS Winners for 2024 are:
Broccoli ‘Purple Magic’ F1 (National Winner)
Broccoli ‘Skytree’ F1 (Regional Winner)
Celosia ‘Burning Embers’ (National Winner)
Geranium ‘Interspecific Big EEZE Pink Batik’ (National Winner)
The first AAS Winner for 2024, announced in July, was Marigold ‘Siam Gold’ (National Winner).
All AAS Winners are marketed through social media, public relations, and trade shows and are proudly grown in AAS Display and Introduction Gardens across North America. In addition, the AAS office creates and maintains a wide variety of marketing pieces and resources such as: