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AAS Winners for 2018 #garden #flowergarden #vegetablegarden

New AAS Winners For 2018 Garden Season!

Flower Gardening, VegetablesJanuary 12, 2018gail

Looking for new varieties that are top garden performers?  Look no further than these All-America Selections (AAS) Winners for 2018.

After being trialed by AAS volunteer judges in more than 35 locations all over North America, the following new AAS Winners are proven performers, perfect for your 2018 garden!

 AAS Winners are available as seeds and plants from mail-order catalogs, websites and your local garden center.  Check here for some of the mail-order sources for AAS Winners!
South Pacific Orange Canna a 2018 AAS Winner - #orangeflower #pollinatorgarden #containergarden

South Pacific Orange Canna

South Pacific Orange offers an outstanding bloom color in an attractive, vivid bright orange that contrasts nicely with the bright green foliage. Pollinator gardens will love this addition that sports uniformly colored flowers over a long blooming period.

American Dream Sweet Corn a 2018 AAS Winner - #SweetCorn #Garden #BicolorCorn

American Dream Sweet Corn

With its excellent germination, very tender, super sweet kernels, this newbie will make a great addition to the home garden. American Dream matures producing vigorous, healthy plants with cobs that have good tip fill of bi-colored kernels.

FloriGlory Diana Cuphea - A 2018 AAS Winner - #containergardening #magentaflowers #PollinatorGarden

FloriGlory Diana Cuphea

Cuphea, commonly known as Mexican Heather, is an ideal plant for borders, mass plantings and containers. FloriGlory Diana has larger flowers, an impressive number of flowers and a darker, more intensely colored magenta flowers than others.

Gypsophila Gypsy White Improved - 2018 AAS Winner - #CutFlower #Garden #WeddingFlowers

Gypsophila Gypsy White Improved

Semi-double blossoms on this new, improved variety of gypsophila will make your garden sparkle! Not only are the flowers semi-double, but are also a bit larger in size and produce more flowers per plant, resulting in a fluffy white mound of beauty.

Super Hero Spry Marigold - 2018 AAS Winner - #GardenFlowers #Garden #ContainerGarden

Super Hero™ Spry Marigold

Super Hero™ Spry is a lovely compact (10-12 inches) French marigold with dark maroon lower petals and golden yellow upper petals perched on top of the dark green foliage. These stunning blooms make any garden fit for a Super Hero!

Ornamental Pepper Onyx Red 2018 AAS Winner - #OrnamentalPepper #RedFruit #Garden

Red Onyx Ornamental Pepper

Onyx Red is one of those stunning double-take plants that steal the show! The contrast between the diminutive black foliage and tons of shiny red fruits is striking and makes a bold statement in the garden. These plants are compact and well-branching too.

Pak Choi Asian Delight - 2018 AAS Winner #VegetableGarden #ChineseCabbage #EasytoGrow

Asian Delight Pak Choi

Asian Delight Pak Choi (or Bok Choy) outperformed the comparisons by leaps and bounds. This Chinese Cabbage forms small to mid-size (5-7 inch) heads that have a tasty, tender white rib and dark green, textured leaves and is slow to bolt!

Pepper cayenne Red Ember a 2018 AAS Winner

Red Ember cayenne Pepper

Add some spice to your life with this new cayenne pepper! Red Ember produces a large number of rounded end fruits on durable, medium-sized plants that mature early. The peppers are thick-walled but tastier than the traditional cayenne, with just enough pungency for interest.

Pepper habanero Roulette - 2018 AAS Winner

Roulette habanero Pepper

Roulette resembles a traditional habanero pepper in every way (fruit shape, size and color, and plant type) with one exception – No Heat! The one-ounce fruits are red with thick walls when it matures and a nice citrusy (no heat) habanero flavor!

Pepper Hungarian Mexican Sunrise a 2018 AAS Winner

Mexican Sunrise Hungarian Pepper

These peppers bring to the garden a full spectrum of colors from lime green to yellow then orange and red as the fruit matures. These earlier maturing conical pendant shaped peppers produce a thick-walled semi-hot fruit that can be eaten at any stage.

Tomato Chef Choice Red - a 2018 AAS Winner

Chef Choice’s Red Tomato

Chef’s Choice Red which produces globe-shaped, tomato-red beefsteak type tomatoes have just the right balance of acid to sugar. You’ll enjoy harvesting 30 or more scar-free fruits throughout the season from this disease-resistant plant.

Tomato cocktail Red Racer is a 2018 AAS Winner

Red Racer cocktail Tomato

Cocktail tomatoes have a good sweet/acid balance and are a smaller variety tomato (although larger than cherry or grape tomatoes). These tomatoes are uniform in size and mature as a cluster of fruits. Red Racer is small in size but big in taste!

Tomato Valentine a 2018 AAS Winner

Valentine Tomato

Tomato lovers will appreciate the sweet, firm flesh that is meaty enough to resemble a Roma tomato but in a smaller, grape-type fruit. These easy-to-harvest tomatoes can take the summer heat and keep on producing!

Queeny Lime Orange Zinnia

A “WOW” color in an easy-to-grow zinnia is what Queeny Lime Orange brings to the garden. Sporting lovely, large, dahlia-like blooms on a sturdy, compact plant, this variety provides cut flower gardeners and growers with a wonderful hue for today’s floral trends.

“This post is provided as an educational/inspirational service of the National Garden Bureau and our members. Please credit and link to National Garden Bureau and author member when using all or parts of this article.”
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