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AAS Perennial Winners: Perfect Additions To Any Client Landscape
All-America Selections, a non-profit plant trialing organization has three new perennial AAS Winners, which will be available in the 2023 garden season. They are: Echinacea Artisan Yellow Ombre F1; Leucanthemum Carpet Angel Daisy; and Salvia Blue by You F1. The three floral winners would be the perfect addition to any client’s landscape decor. Newest Regional Winners AAS Perennial Southeast and Northwest Regional Winner, Artisan Yellow Ombre, is a plant for anyone wanting vibrant color all season long in a perennial garden, or to use as a cut flower. This is the first F1 hybrid echinacea series that comes in individual colors. It has an intense golden yellow bloom along with graduated colors of yellow. 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 clients will love this low-maintenance, long-blooming beauty. Hardy in zones 4a to 10b. The flora was bred by PanAmerican Seed. AAS Perennial West/Northwest and Mountain/Southwest Regional Winner, Leucanthemum Carpet Angel®, is the first-ever groundcover Shasta Daisy! 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 three inch flowers boast a second inner frilly bloom adding to the unique look of Carpet Angel. Growing only to a height of six inches, this unique leucanthemum can act as a groundcover spreading up to 20 inches wide. Fantastic ...
AAS Perennial Winners: Perfect Additions To Any Client Landscape
All-America Selections, a non-profit plant trialing organization has three new perennial AAS Winners, which will be available in the 2023 garden season. They are: Echinacea Artisan Yellow Ombre F1; Leucanthemum Carpet Angel Daisy; and Salvia Blue by You F1. The three floral winners would be the perfect addition to any client’s landscape decor. Newest Regional Winners AAS Perennial Southeast and Northwest Regional Winner, Artisan Yellow Ombre, is a plant for anyone wanting vibrant color all season long in a perennial garden, or to use as a cut flower. This is the first F1 hybrid echinacea series that comes in individual colors. It has an intense golden yellow bloom along with graduated colors of yellow. 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 clients will love this low-maintenance, long-blooming beauty. Hardy in zones 4a to 10b. The flora was bred by PanAmerican Seed. AAS Perennial West/Northwest and Mountain/Southwest Regional Winner, Leucanthemum Carpet Angel®, is the first-ever groundcover Shasta Daisy! 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 three inch flowers boast a second inner frilly bloom adding to the unique look of Carpet Angel. Growing only to a height of six inches, this unique leucanthemum can act as a groundcover spreading up to 20 inches wide. Fantastic ...
Popular Plantings For Landscapes In 2022
Reliable favorites, new introductions, and trends to watch. A new year means new plantings. What are the most popular favorites? What will “wow” your clients? What will be resilient in 2022’s as-yet unknown weather extremes? What might be in short supply? Here are some answers. 2021 Favorites First, let’s take a look at 2021’s most popular landscape plant choices. GoMaterials, which sources plants and trees for landscapers, analyzed their over 600,000 plant units specified last year. They then broke down the top choices of landscapers by region and type of plant. Here were landscaper favorites in Northern regions: Evergreens: white spruce, Norway spruce, emerald green arborvitae, and American arborvitae. Perennials: reblooming daylily, anise hyssop, Canadian anemone (or windflower), and big blue lilyturf. Shrubs: red twig dogwood, winter gem boxwood, goldflame spirea, and smooth hydrangea. Trees: common hackberry, red maple, maidenhair ginkgo biloba, and American linden. Here were landscaper favorites in Southern regions: Evergreens: slash pine, bald cypress, yew pine, and Japanese garden juniper. Palm Trees (in Florida and Texas): Florida royal palm, cabbage palm, needle palm, and European fan palm. Perennials: super blue liriope, softstem bulrush, and flax lily. Shrubs: Chinese privet, green island ficus, cocoplum, and new gold lantana. Trees: large-flowered magnolia, gumbo-limbo, dahoon holly, and southern live oak. New Winning Introductions As to new 2022 introductions that may one day become old favorites, look to the winners of All-America Selections (AAS). A non-profit, AAS conducts confidential and impartial trials each year of new, not-yet-introduced annuals, ornamentals, perennials, ...
Popular Plantings For Landscapes In 2022
Reliable favorites, new introductions, and trends to watch. A new year means new plantings. What are the most popular favorites? What will “wow” your clients? What will be resilient in 2022’s as-yet unknown weather extremes? What might be in short supply? Here are some answers. 2021 Favorites First, let’s take a look at 2021’s most popular landscape plant choices. GoMaterials, which sources plants and trees for landscapers, analyzed their over 600,000 plant units specified last year. They then broke down the top choices of landscapers by region and type of plant. Here were landscaper favorites in Northern regions: Evergreens: white spruce, Norway spruce, emerald green arborvitae, and American arborvitae. Perennials: reblooming daylily, anise hyssop, Canadian anemone (or windflower), and big blue lilyturf. Shrubs: red twig dogwood, winter gem boxwood, goldflame spirea, and smooth hydrangea. Trees: common hackberry, red maple, maidenhair ginkgo biloba, and American linden. Here were landscaper favorites in Southern regions: Evergreens: slash pine, bald cypress, yew pine, and Japanese garden juniper. Palm Trees (in Florida and Texas): Florida royal palm, cabbage palm, needle palm, and European fan palm. Perennials: super blue liriope, softstem bulrush, and flax lily. Shrubs: Chinese privet, green island ficus, cocoplum, and new gold lantana. Trees: large-flowered magnolia, gumbo-limbo, dahoon holly, and southern live oak. New Winning Introductions As to new 2022 introductions that may one day become old favorites, look to the winners of All-America Selections (AAS). A non-profit, AAS conducts confidential and impartial trials each year of new, not-yet-introduced annuals, ornamentals, perennials, ...
All-America Selections For 2021
With the endless variety of plants on the market, and new ones developed each year, how can a landscaper stay on top of the latest introductions that will be ideal for client gardens? Start with a search at All-America Selections (AAS), the oldest, independent testing organization of flower and edible varieties in North America. A non-profit, AAS was started in 1932 as a reaction to the new “Garden Club” movement of the 1920s and 30s. W. Ray Hasting, president of the Southern Seedsmen’s Association of Atlanta, GA, proposed the idea as a way for home gardeners to learn which new plant varieties were “truly” improved, as opposed to just being advertised that way. Separating Wheat From Chaff Today, AAS conducts confidential and impartial trials each year of new, not-yet-introduced annuals, ornamentals, perennials, and vegetables throughout North America. Plants come from a variety of retailers, like Bonnie, Burpee, and more. Every autumn, AAS accepts the new entries, which are then grown and tested in more than 50 widespread locations. Existing varieties are grown side-by-side to the new entries for one-to-one comparisons. Over 80+ trial judges—including horticulture professionals at universities, public gardens, extension offices, seed companies, breeding companies, retailers and commercial growers—look for significantly improved qualities. These qualities include: earliness to bloom or harvest; disease or pest tolerance; novel colors or flavors; novel flower forms; total yield; length of flowering or harvest; and overall performance. Only the best trial performers, those that are superior to their comparisons, are declared AAS Winners. Entries ...
All-America Selections For 2021
With the endless variety of plants on the market, and new ones developed each year, how can a landscaper stay on top of the latest introductions that will be ideal for client gardens? Start with a search at All-America Selections (AAS), the oldest, independent testing organization of flower and edible varieties in North America. A non-profit, AAS was started in 1932 as a reaction to the new “Garden Club” movement of the 1920s and 30s. W. Ray Hasting, president of the Southern Seedsmen’s Association of Atlanta, GA, proposed the idea as a way for home gardeners to learn which new plant varieties were “truly” improved, as opposed to just being advertised that way. Separating Wheat From Chaff Today, AAS conducts confidential and impartial trials each year of new, not-yet-introduced annuals, ornamentals, perennials, and vegetables throughout North America. Plants come from a variety of retailers, like Bonnie, Burpee, and more. Every autumn, AAS accepts the new entries, which are then grown and tested in more than 50 widespread locations. Existing varieties are grown side-by-side to the new entries for one-to-one comparisons. Over 80+ trial judges—including horticulture professionals at universities, public gardens, extension offices, seed companies, breeding companies, retailers and commercial growers—look for significantly improved qualities. These qualities include: earliness to bloom or harvest; disease or pest tolerance; novel colors or flavors; novel flower forms; total yield; length of flowering or harvest; and overall performance. Only the best trial performers, those that are superior to their comparisons, are declared AAS Winners. Entries ...
