Every year, the professional, volunteer judges for All-America Selections select only the top garden performers that become AAS Winners. This year brings a wide variety of annuals, edibles, and perennials to the market, all of which have been “Tested Nationally & Proven Locally.”
Now it’s time to try these newbies in your garden! Each AAS Winner has or will soon have a “Where to Buy” button to aid in your shopping ease. Once you try them, you are welcome to leave your comments and reviews at the bottom of each AAS Winner page. Happy Gardening!
Basil Treviso
This award-winning basil is an outstanding choice for any kitchen garden, boasting a tight, compact, and highly branched habit perfect for larger containers. Not only does it offer delicious, slightly anise-flavored leaves, but it also stays tender longer—resisting bitterness after harvest and maintaining excellent leaf quality late into the season.
The AAS Judges love its vigor, heat tolerance, and notably slow-to-flower nature. The bright foliage resists oxidation, making this cultivar an ideal, high-performing selection for superior, fresh-tasting pesto all summer long. Deliziosa!
Bean, pole Majesty
This outstanding (and majestic!) purple pole bean delivers on all fronts: high yield, superior quality, and rugged performance. Plants maintain dense, dark green foliage with notable resistance to insect damage and excellent recovery from summer heat stress. The pods are beautifully straight and uniform in size, making them easy to harvest due to their superb contrast against the leaves.
Best of all, the beans boast a delicious, sweet flavor and tender, non-bitter texture. This early-maturing variety is a must-have for vertical gardening, guaranteeing a consistent and rewarding harvest all season long.
Coreopsis SunGlobe
Bring brilliant, season-long color to your sunny spots with this outstanding Coreopsis. Praised by judges for its great habit and impressive bloom quantity, this variety is a true workhorse in the garden. It produces tons of fluffy, golden yellow, semi-double flowers on sturdy stems slightly earlier than comparisons.
The plant maintains a tidy, compact, and densely branching form, delivering multiple flushes of vibrant gold from spring through fall. Ideal for borders or containers, this Coreopsis is built to perform, making it a fantastic addition to any landscape.
Dianthus Supra Cherry Picotee F1
Introduce Dianthus Supra Cherry Picotee to your garden for an unparalleled display of color and vigor! This interspecific hybrid joins the Supra series, delivering profuse, eye-catching blooms on a wonderfully compact, bushy plant. Judges praised its excellent habit and strong heat and drought resistance, keeping the foliage green and the flowers vibrant all summer.
The unique, fringed blooms feature a lovely picotee pattern, opening with dark cherry centers and soft pink edges. Supra is an easy-care winner that requires no deadheading, ensuring three seasons of spectacular, fancy color in your landscape, garden beds, and containers.
Heliopsis Sole Giatto
Bring sunshine to your garden with Sole Giatto, a remarkably compact False Sunflower perfect for containers, borders, or any sunny spot! Standing 20 inches tall and wide, this highly floriferous perennial explodes with gorgeous, long-lasting, bright yellow blooms from late spring right through fall.
Bred for extended appeal and continuous garden performance, Sole Giotto effortlessly attracts beneficial pollinators while resisting deer and rabbits. Hardy in Zones 3-8, this vibrant and easy-care plant is ideal for adding reliable, cheerful color to any landscape.
Kale Rubybor F1
This outstanding kale is a dual-purpose showstopper as it won a Gold Medal award in both the ornamental and vegetable trials…a first occurrence in the AAS trials! Rubybor delivers all-season beauty right to your plate! Its rich, deep purple foliage and uniform, compact habit make it a standout ornamental in any garden or container.
Unlike many kales, this selection maintains its excellent color and tidy, bushy shape with shorter internodes, making it ideal for smaller spaces and Southern heat. Best of all, the bountiful (trials show plants yield twice the leaf weight of other reds), beautiful leaves are exceptionally tender and non-bitter, providing a continuous harvest of delicious, high-quality greens from spring until frost. It’s a rare plant that’s perfectly suited for both landscape design and dinner.
Rudbeckia Claire Orange F1
Introducing Claire™ Orange, the world’s first pollen-free F1 hybrid Rudbeckia! This compact, early-flowering beauty boasts a tidy, uniform habit and an abundance of bright, clear orange blooms that truly stand out. Inspired by its namesake, the central “eye” remains perfectly clean, free from pollen.
Enjoy its exceptional vigor, impressive floriferousness, and remarkable heat and disease tolerance, which ensure a long-lasting, vibrant display even in challenging conditions. Claire™ Orange delivers “clean” beauty and reliable performance, transforming your garden with effortless cheer.
Sedum Spectacular
This exceptional Sedum spectabile grown from seed delivers the rock-solid garden performance typically found only in vegetative varieties. The plants are remarkably sturdy, full, and do not flop, maintaining a tight, compact, mounded habit perfect for borders or containers. Noted for its excellent vigor and uniformity in both height and spread, this variety flowers slightly earlier than its comparisons.
It produces generous, light pink flower clusters set against attractive, light green foliage, guaranteeing an excellent garden performer that provides reliable color and structure for your landscape.
Squash, winter Butter Lamp F1
This mini, pumpkin-shaped butternut squash delivers both charm and performance, making it perfect for any garden. The strong, healthy plants boast excellent resistance to Powdery Mildew, heat, and insect pressure. This exceptional, early maturing variety features short vines, requiring less garden space than traditional types.
It produces abundant, uniform 15-30 oz fruits with attractive exterior color and rich yellow flesh. Beyond its adorable appearance, the squash offers a smooth, sweet, nutty, and buttery flavor, with superb storability to enjoy your harvest well into winter.
Tomato BadaBing! F1
A new era for home-grown tomatoes is here with Tomato BadaBing! F1, the game-changing, large cherry (almost cocktail-sized) tomato that’s ready to take center stage in your garden! This incredible new variety offers unprecedented protection against Septoria Leaf Spot, Early Blight, and Late Blight, ensuring your plants stay amazingly healthy all season long.
You’ll enjoy early-season tomatoes with outstanding flavor, boasting juicy, crack-resistant 1.5″ bright red fruits. Despite being an indeterminate plant, BadaBing! F1 stays a manageable 40 inches tall. Bred for superior garden performance and robust disease resistance, this truly unique and reliable tomato promises an effortless, predictable, and bountiful harvest. Get ready for “more bang for your buck” and a summer full of delicious, healthy tomatoes!
Zinnia Profusion Double White Improved
Need pure white color that holds up through the hottest summer? This Gold Medal award-winning Zinnia Profusion Double White features impressive, large, double flowers (2.5-3 inches in diameter) that create a lush, full look. Bred for superior performance, this variety is exceptionally sturdy, disease-resistant, and thrives in diverse climates, even enduring high night temperatures.
Enjoy continuous color and an immaculate appearance from spring through frost, all without the hassle of deadheading. For a compact, powerful plant that is 14 inches tall and 20 inches wide, Profusion Double White is the ultimate choice for reliable, season-long beauty.
