New AAS Winners Include Salvia, Echinacea, and Pepper
All-America Selections, North America’s most well-known and respected non-profit plant trialing organization, has five new AAS Winners available now for the 2023 garden season. Brokers, growers, and retailers have plenty of time to add these impressive winners to their product mix in order for consumers to find them for next year’s garden.
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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.
The newest AAS Winners are:
- Echinacea ‘Artisan Yellow Ombre’ (PanAmerican Seed/Regional winner)
- Leucanthemum ‘Carpet Angel Daisy’ (Green Fuse Botanicals/Regional winner)
- Pepper cayenne ‘Wildcat’ (Bayer/Seminis Seeds/Regional winner)
- Salvia ‘Blue by You’ (Darwin Perennials/National winner)
- Watermelon ‘Rubyfirm’ (Partner Seeds Co., Ltd./Regional winner)
Echinacea ‘Artisan Yellow Ombre’ is a great plant for anyone wanting vibrant color all season long in their perennial garden, or to use as a cut flower. This is the first F1 hybrid echinacea series that comes in individual colors. This winner, with an intense golden yellow bloom along with graduated colors of yellow is a gem in the garden. AAS Judges were impressed with the uniform growth habit, vibrantly colored flowers and multi-branched plants that produce a prolific number of blooms. Pollinators will flock to this echinacea, and gardeners will love this low-maintenance, long-blooming beauty. Hardy in zones 4a to 10b.
Leucanthemum ‘Carpet Angel Daisy’ is the first-ever groundcover Shasta Daisy as well as the first ever AAS Winner from this breeder. Green Fuse Botanicals’ First Light Perennials is a program of first-year flowering perennials that are daylength neutral meaning earlier blooms that continue all season long. Large 3-inch flowers boast a second inner frilly bloom, adding to the unique look of Carpet Angel. Growing only to a height of 6 inches, this unique leucanthemum can act as a groundcover spreading up to 20 inches wide. Fantastic branching on this new AAS winner means more flower stems sporting beautiful pure white blooms that look like angels dancing over a carpet of dark green foliage. A little deadheading of spent flowers will reward you with even more blooms. Hardy in zones 4a-10b.
Pepper ‘Wildcat’ is a cayenne pepper with extra-large, 2-3 ounce, fruits. A high yielding plant with nice thick, fleshy walls that were thicker than comparisons. The 8-inch fruits are straighter than traditional cayenne fruits with a great smoky flavor and peppery sweetness and a mild pungency of 500 to 1500 Scoville units. Ease of harvest combined with a very even growth habit and mild heat level makes this a good multi-purpose plant for everyone’s garden.
Add a touch of blue to the garden with beautiful new AAS Winner Blue by You salvia. This perennial features rich blue flowers that bloom up to two weeks earlier than the comparison. With excellent winter hardiness and heat tolerance, Blue by You will be a new favorite in perennial, pollinator, cutting, and container gardens. Bursting with bright blue blossoms from late spring into fall, you’ll get repeat blooms throughout the season when spent blooms are removed. Adored all season long by hummingbirds and butterflies. Bonus: it is not favored by deer or rabbits. Hardy in zones 4b – 9a.
‘Rubyfirm’ is a new little cutie watermelon is a small, personal sized melon that is about the size of a cantaloupe. Boasting very sweet and crisp flesh with minimal seed pips means a tasty summer delight. Each Rubyfirm plant will yield two to three fruits on its long vines.
Learn more at https://all-americaselections.org/category/aas-winners/.
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