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Ready to grow a gorgeous garden? Start with these top award-winning annuals, perennials, and shrubs which are ready to flourish in your containers and landscape. Retailers across North America are stocking up on all of the National Plants of the Year for 2020.
National Plants of the Year are selected by these criteria:
- Easy to Grow – It shouldn’t take an expert to grow beautiful flowers.
- Outstanding in containers and landscapes – Delivers a knockout performance in containers and landscapes.
- Readily Available – Easy to find locally or online.
- Iconic – Possesses an iconic style and performance unmatched by lookalikes
Gem Box® inkberry holly (Ilex glabra) is a ground-breaking alternative to boxwood. Though it grows native across much of eastern North America, we’ve selected Gem Box for its dense, neat, rounded shape and ability to stay lush and full all the way to the ground. It makes a perfect evergreen, semi-formal accent to pollinator or native plant gardens, or plant it as a durable low hedge. Does not require pruning or trimming to maintain its shape.
- USDA Zone: 5 – 9 (-20?F/-28.9?C)
- Exposure: Full sun, Part Sun
- Type: Evergreen
- Bloom Time: Spring
This breeding breakthrough has giant 12″ flowers of dark burgundy and silver pink blooms that will color your garden for over 4 months from early summer to fall frosts!
Invincibelle® Ruby is a spectacular landscape shrub that never gets out of bounds. Handsome as a specimen, or use as an attractive low growing hedge plant.
- Awards: Bronze Medal, Plantarium 2016; Green Thumb award, Direct Gardening Association
- USDA Zone: 3 – 8 (-40?F/-40?C)
- Exposure: Full sun, Part sun
- Type: Deciduous
- Bloom Time: Summer
Today’s new modern rose must be easy, and Oso Easy® roses are just that!
Double Red makes a pleasing mound growing 3′ tall and wide. This sister seedling of Rose Double Knock Out has green foliage stays attractive all season long. In early summer, buds open up to striking double red blooms. Hardy and free flowering, reblooming well into fall with no need to deadhead. Warm, fiery red blooms give your garden design a lift while being tough and hardy in the landscape.
- Awards: Bagatelle Rose Trials 1er Prix, Prize of the Public and Certificat de M’rite; Le Roeulx Rose Trials Gold Medal; Lyon Rose Trials 1st Prize and Prize for Rebloom and Disease Resistance; Monza Rose Trials City of Monza Prize and Gold Medal; +4 more
- USDA Zone: 4 – 9 (-30?F/-34?C)
- Exposure: Full sun
- Type: Deciduous
- Bloom Time: Summer
Why Proven Winners?
Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs are bred, tested and selected to bring you more success with less effort. From longer bloom times and easy-care petite sizes to lush foliage and grand blossoms on sturdy stems, the most enviable gardens begin with our distinctive white pot.