Classic City Winners highlight plants that thrived through heavy rains and heat in Athens at the University of Georgia trials.

The WMARS Display Gardens delivered season-long color, strong performance, and a deep bench of top-rated annuals.

Expanded beds and steady summer heat gave UT’s 2025 trials a chance to highlight reliable, high-color performers in both sun and shade.

Terra Nova varieties received distinctions from 2025 trials at Penn State University and the University of Tennessee Gardens.

Celebrating 20 years, NDSU’s trial gardens highlighted dependable performers and crowd favorites under a slightly wetter-than-average summer.

Despite a rain-soaked summer and flooding challenges, WCROC’s 2025 trials still delivered a strong Top 10 list.

Mast Young Plants used its 2025 trials to test fertilizer strategies, water-storing polymers, and potential program additions under a hot, relatively dry summer.

Heat, humidity, and high rainfall put begonias, vinca, sweet potatoes, and more to the test in Raleigh.

With nearly 3,200 trial entries, Metrolina’s 2025 public trials highlighted durable color and strong performance across seasons.

The cotton leafhopper, or cotton jassid, is an invasive pest that targets cotton, okra, eggplant, soybeans, and ornamentals like hibiscus.

The Garden at Elm Bank highlights how plants in their 13 trial beds held up under a hot New England summer.

A hot, rainy Wisconsin season put roses, zinnias, kale, and compact annuals to the test at Boerner Botanical Gardens.

Trial managers share ideas, tools, and habits they’re bringing back to their programs from the 2025 International Plant Trialing Conference.