Award-winning Plants for 2013
NATIONAL AWARDS
All-America Selections
Flower Award Winners:
- ‘South Pacific Scarlet’ canna
- ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ echinacea
Bedding Plant Award Winners:
- ‘Pinto Premium White to Rose’ geranium
- Profusion 'Double Hot Cherry'
- Profusion 'Double Deep Salmon’ zinnia
Vegetable Award Winners:
- 'Melemon’ melon
- ‘Jasper’ tomato
- ‘Harvest Moon’ watermelon

All-America Rose Selections
- Francis Meilland(TM) hybrid tea rose
Hosta of the Year (American Hosta Growers Association)
- 'Rainforest Sunrise'
Ivy of the Year (American Ivy Society)
- Hedera helix ‘Minigreen’
Perennial Plant of the Year (Perennial Plant Association)
- Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’ (Solomon’s seal)
Tree of the Year (Society of Municipal Arborists)
- Quercus virginiana (Southern live oak)
Garden Club of America Plant of the Year
- Cercis candensis (Eastern redbud)
REGIONAL AWARDS
Cary Award Program (New England)
- Abies veitchii (Veitch fir)
- Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera' (threadleaf falsecypress)

Florida Garden Select
- Agave lophantha ‘Splendida’ (center stripe agave)
- Alocasia x portidora (giant elephant ear)
- Crossandra infundibliformis ‘Orange Marmalade’
- Handroanthus umbellatus (yellow trumpet tree)
- Plumeria pudica (bridal bouquet)
- Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’
- Tripsacum floridanum (dwarf fakahatchee grass)
Georgia Gold Medal Plants
- Torenia fournieri (wishbone flower)
- Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’ and ‘Minimus Aureus’ (golden sweetflag grass)
- Muhlenbergia capillaris (pink muhly grass)
- Polyganatum odoratum ‘Variegata’ (variegated Japanese Solomon’s seal)
- Gardenia jasminoides (compact gardenia)

Georgia Native Plant Society Plant of the Year
- Sassafras albidum
Plant Select (Rocky Mountain and Plain States)
- Arctostaphylos x coloradensis ‘Chieftain’ (manzanita)
- Crambe maritima (curly leaf sea kale)
- Echinacea tennesseensis (Tennessee purple coneflower)
- Linum narbonese (Narbonne blue flax)
- Sedum sediforme (Turquoise Tails blue sedum)
Oklahoma Proven
- Euonymus bungeanus (winterberry euonymus)
- Vitex agnus-castus (chaste tree)
- Nepeta x faassenii ‘Walker’s Low’ (catmint)
- Helenium ‘Dakota Gold’