Proven Winners® and Proven Selections® Plants - Displayed by Common Name in Ascending Order - Page 1 of 6

A spring flowering shrub that’s as fabulous at the end of the season as it is at the beginning! Sweet Emotion Blaze abelia shares the same USDA zone 4 cold hardiness and powerfully fragrant flowers as other Abelia mosanensis, but what really sets it apart is the stunning fall foliage. In spring, Sweet Emotion Blaze is covered in an abundance of pink flowers that smell great and attract pollinators. In autumn, the fresh green foliage transitions to a vibrant blend of yellow, orange, and red, lighting up the garden or landscape. That’s not all; this abelia has superior branching and an improved habit for an excellent container presentation.

Heat tolerant plants with large salmon orange and lavender blue daisy flowers. The mounded habit really holds the flowers up for great flower presence. It works well in hanging baskets, window boxes, patio planters and landscapes.

A very cool evergreen that adds elegance to your garden all year round! This narrow columnar selection of ‘Wintergreen’ has excellent hardiness and dark green winter foliage color. More narrow than Emerald Green. Selected by Art Boe of Faribault, MN, it is resistant to winter burn. The tight, columnar habit makes this a great specimen or screen for narrow sites. Use as a bold accent plant in mixed borders.

Delicate, bright green, needlelike leaves on arching stems with a trailing habit. This fern will create a dense fluffy look in containers.

‘Monch’ is treasured for its lavender-blue daisy-like flowers and its willingness to produce them nonstop all summer and into fall (if the spent flowers are removed). Foliage is an attractive gray-green.

This Baby's Breath produces nonstop clouds of dainty white flowers that float atop lush, densely branched grey-green foliage. Fantastic in beds, border, and containers, and a must-have for cut flower arrangements.

Snowstorm Blue delivers a dark blue Sutera with a larger bloom that resembles the size of Giant Snowflake. It is an extremely prolific bloomer, and the color will stay stable from early spring through summer. Makes a stunning hanging basket. New in 2010.

These ‘living carpet’ plants are vigorous, versatile, and superb as solo plantings or in combos. Easy to grow, much-loved, and much publicized by consumer magazines and TV programs.

Abundant pink flowers grace trailing plants all season long. Spreading habit works as well in landscapes as it does containers.

Large flowers create a snowstorm of color all summer long.

Improved golden barberry. Sunjoy® Citrus barberry is an improved Berberis ‘Aurea’ - better looking and faster growing means more profitable! Neat, rounded habit results in a uniformly ball-shaped plant that looks nice in a container. This plant was evaluated for over five years in full sun to ensure excellent burn-resistance.

Orange is happy. Orange is cheerful. And there's no orange-r barberry than Sunjoy Neo™. Tom Ranney of NCSU brings us this eye-catching, jaw-dropping new selection that is bright and colorful all season, positively electric in spring. Dense, semi-dwarf habit makes it an ideal selection for landscape or garden beds.

Seedless and semi-evergreen. Thanks to the innovative breeding of Dr. Tom Ranney and his team at the NCSU research station, we now offer a second sterile, dark-leaf barberry: Sunjoy Todo®. The wide cross that resulted in its sterility also conferred deep purple glossy foliage that persists through the year, especially in warmer climates. Attractive orange flowers develop fruit, however, seeds are hollow and non-viable.

Pesto Besto is the most amazing seed basil you’ve ever seen. This is truly a game-changing plant—it is the most downy mildew resistant seed grown Italian sweet basil. Downy mildew is a disease that often plagues basil. This large, vigorous plant produces a high yield of usable, deliciously aromatic leaves. The more you harvest, the better it grows. It’s time to make the switch from your old basil to Pesto Besto. You’ll never look back! Basil is notorious for being quite susceptible to downy mildew. Pesto Besto, however, has excellent resistance to Downy Mildew, which will keep plants growing and producing for home gardeners throughout the entire season. This is an amazing improvement in basil.

For best flavor and leaf production, harvest and or pinch regularly to promote fresh tender growth. If heavy flowering happens late in the season that will likely affect taste, but when it is actively growing new leaves and shoots it will have its best flavor.

‘Midnight Masquerade’ produces a sturdy clump of deep burgundy purple leaves. The dark color of the foliage is most pronounced in direct UV sunlight. This variety's dark foliage can be enjoyed all season, but in bloom, the overall effect is stunning.

Rich lavender purple flowers have pure white interiors and are produced on dark stems just above the foliage. An improvement on other varieties, this superior selection boasts a fuller, more refined habit, more vibrant flower color, and a more consistent, floriferous flowering performance. A must-have addition to the sun perennial garden!

Deep rose pink tubular flowers appear in late spring and early summer. Compared with 'Pink Pearls', this variety has darker, redder flowers.

Like all of our Penstemons, this one takes the heat and humidity in stride but is also very cold hardy. It continues to provide terrific color in the landscape all season long.

Thick and deep green, glossy leaves with a silver overlay. Beautiful as a mono-culture that also makes an exceptional thriller in combination planters with Snow Princess, Supertunia Vista vareities and vigorous Superbena varieties. A great option in areas where impatiens will struggle.

Vigorous and heat tolerant with abundant pink-colored flowers all summer, great plant to fill open shady spaces.

Vigorous and heat tolerant with abundant pink flowers on bronze foliage all summer, great plant to fill open shady spaces. Unique and beautiful arching, pendulous habit is spectacular in hanging baskets, large containers and commercial landscape plantings. Best performance in partial sun (4 hours or less per day).

Extremely vigorous with a dense habit and heat tolerant. Abundant red flowers all summer.

Vigorous and heat tolerant with abundant red flowers on bronze foliage all summer, great plant to fill open shady spaces. Unique and beautiful arching, pendulous habit is spectacular in hanging baskets, large containers and commercial landscape plantings. Best performance in partial sun (4 hours or less per day).

A spectacular new fragrant vareity of begonia which makes the ideal hanging basket plant. It produces an abundance of scented double flowers iin soft yellow with apricot accents during the summer months.

These begonias prefer moist but not wet, well draining soil. These are not hardy, but the corms can be dug up, stored for the winter and replanted the next spring.

These vigorous plants feature double pink flowers and dark foliage. They perform well in landcapes and in containers. These are very dense, upright, globe-shaped plants that will flower all summer.

These plants are versatile working in both sun or shade, which makes them a wonderful unifiying plant to use in both sun and shade beds. Unlike older begonias, these are quite vigorous. They can tolerate some drought conditions, but will look their best with more consistent moisure and regular feeding. They love the heat and are self cleaning so the plants look very clean. They do not need to be deadheaded to bloom all summer long. What's not to love!

These vigorous plants feature double red flowers and dark foliage. They perform well in landcapes and in containers. These are very dense, upright, globe-shaped plants that will flower all summer.

These plants are versatile working in both sun or shade, which makes them a wonderful unifiying plant to use in both sun and shade beds. Unlike older begonias, these are quite vigorous. They can tolerate some drought conditions, but will look their best with more consistent moisure and regular feeding. They love the heat and are self cleaning so the plants look very clean. They do not need to be deadheaded to bloom all summer long. What's not to love!

These vigorous plants feature double white flowers and dark foliage. They perform well in landcapes and in containers. These are very dense, upright, globe-shaped plants that will flower all summer.

These plants are versatile working in both sun or shade, which makes them a wonderful unifiying plant to use in both sun and shade beds. Unlike older begonias, these are quite vigorous. They can tolerate some drought conditions, but will look their best with more consistent moisure and regular feeding. They love the heat and are self cleaning so the plants look very clean. They do not need to be deadheaded to bloom all summer long. What's not to love!

‘Funky Pink’ blooms range from bubblegum pink to deep rose, many marked with luminous golden streaks and haloes. The petals are layered on top of one another, creating an almost hose-in-hose look. Stunning!

Reaching just 8 to 12 inches high, Funky PInk spreads (or cascades) up to 18 inches over the sides of baskets and pots. The foliage really contributes to the beauty of the presentation: it is a bold shade of olive green, very large, and nicely toothed. Funky® Pink won't often be out of bloom, but when it is, the foliage is shown to great advantage!

Reaching just 8 to 12 inches high, Funky® Scarlet spreads (or cascades) up to 18 inches over the sides of baskets and pots. The foliage really contributes to the beauty of the presentation: it is a bold shade of olive green, very large, and nicely toothed. Funky® Scarlet won't often be out of bloom, but when it is, the foliage is shown to great advantage!

Solenia Apricot Reiger Begonia features amazingly large camellia-like double apricot orange flowers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to mid fall. It's succulent heart-shaped leaves remain green in color throughout the year. Offers self-cleaning flowers, mildew resistance and can take the full sun in all but the hottest gardens. It will leave you in a daze every time you see it!

Solenia Dark Pink Reiger Begonia features amazingly large camellia-like double dark pink flowers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to mid fall. It's succulent heart-shaped leaves remain green in color throughout the year. Offers self-cleaning flowers, mildew resistance and can take the full sun in all but the hottest gardens. It will leave you in a daze every time you see it!

Solenia® Light Pink Begonia Plants bears oodles of full, double, light-pink blooms measuring 3 inches wide and sitting upon glossy foliage. This heat-tolerant plant can be grown in and out of doors. Thrive in high light, higher humidity, and have a tolerance to mildew.

Solenia Yellow Reiger Begonia features amazingly large camellia-like double yellow flowers at the ends of the stems from mid spring to mid fall. It's succulent heart-shaped leaves remain green in color throughout the year. Offers self-cleaning flowers, mildew resistance and can take the full sun in all but the hottest gardens. It will leave you in a daze every time you see it!

Showers of slender white, bell-like blossoms on well-branched plants are perfect for porches and patios. The upright mounding plants, with their easy-care disposition and long blooming habit, are designed for hanging baskets and large containers. This vigorous variety can easily handle the heat of the summer garden.

Prepare to be dazzled by the big, wide-open blooms, handsome foliage, and nonstop flowering of this new trailing Begonia! Santa Cruz™ Sunset is an exciting choice for any climate, especially hot, long-summer areas that have stressed other Begonias. With blooms from spring until frost, it's ready to dazzle in baskets and planters!

Produces cascades throughout the summer. Abundance of 2½" to 3" double Apricot-colored flowers.

Illumination Golden Picotee features, showy 2-3 inch semi-double and fully double blooms in designer shades of salmon, coral, gold and orange. The dramatic cascading plants are heat tolerant and easy to grow.

Illumination Lemon features, showy 2-3" semi-double and fully double yellow blooms. The dramatic cascading plants are heat tolerant and easy to grow.

Illumination Lemon features, showy 2-3" semi-double and fully double orange blooms. The dramatic cascading plants are heat tolerant and easy to grow.

Produces cascades throughout the summer. Abundance of 2½" to 3" double Rose-colored flowers.

Fully double, dark rose flowers all season.

Fully double, yellow and fire-red flowers make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

The favorite for reliable, colorful blooms. One of the easiest and most rewarding tuberous Begonias! Rich colors in many flower forms, all with large, showy green foliage.

Fully double, red flowers on coffee-colored foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers or the landscape. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, pink flowers on coffee-colored foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers or the landscape. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, yellow flowers on coffee-colored foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers or the landscape. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, vibrant orange flowers on green foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, vibrant pink flowers on green foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, vibrant red flowers on green foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, vibrant two-toned pink flowers on green foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

Fully double, bright white flowers all summer.

Fully double, vibrant yellow flowers on green foliage make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

Strong heat tolerance and pure white, self-cleaning flowers that set little seed are the highlights of this all-season bloomer. Large blossoms on densely mounded plants are highly attractive to pollinators.

Pollinators can’t resist the fiery red blooms of this high impact, low maintenance, heat tolerant annual. It makes a dense splash of color planted at the front of garden beds and also grows well in container recipes paired with other heat lovers like Luscious® lantana and Superbena® verbena. Since the self-cleaning flowers set little seed, the plant’s persistence in the garden is greatly reduced.

Goldilocks Rocks Bidens features beautiful yellow daisy flowers at the ends of the stems from late spring to mid fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. It's tiny deeply cut ferny leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Mixing well with other medium-vigor varieties in recipes, the improved genetics of these Bidens produce larger, sunfast, true yellow flowers.

Vigorous and heat tolerant with striking scarlet and yellow flowers in the summer months and muted orange petals in early spring and fall. Densely mounded, more compact habit with improved powdery mildew resistance.

 

Fun, vibrant colored vines are excellent for hanging baskets and trellises and have a stunning display when both colors are planted together. They have excellent heat tolerance.

This annual vine, will give you color all summer long, while climbing happily up whatever support you give it. Fast growing and fun, kids and adults alike will love it.

A new treasure to have your garden glittering with golden color! Large golden yellow star-shaped flowers completely cover the habit with well-branched stems prolonging bloom. This vigorous selection abounds not only with flowers but foliage as well. A robust clump of foliage with large leaves ensures longevity in the landscape. Crucially, the leaves are highly resistant to Septoria leaf spot with no damage through six years of trials.

Densely packed narrow blue-green succulent leaves grow in a symmetrical fashion from sprawling fleshy stems. Striking texture and color, perfect for a sunny, low-water garden. Easy care and drought tolerant but will tolerate irrigation. Attractive in containers. Evergreen.

Soft powdery blue, spiky foliage that keeps its color year round makes this grass a top pick. ‘Elijah Blue’ is a small, clumping grass with a rounded habit. In early summer, wheat-like seed heads are produced on tall, spikey stalks in great numbers.

Dark and dreamy! You're sure to love this new Caryopteris with its extremely dark glossy foliage, compact habit and rich blue flowers.

And now for something completely different: the prettiest pink caryopteris we've ever seen! Coming to us from Gavriel Danziger in Israel, this plant boasts large, glossy, spearmint-green foliage and spires of pure-pink flowers, stacked in neat layers along the stem. It is not quite as hardy as conventional caryopteris, its fast-growing, easy-blooming nature makes it perfect for containers and summer color options in cooler areas.

Sky Dew® Gold ornamental blueberry has such appealing bright gold foliage that the flowers and berries are almost an afterthought. Its display gets even more interesting as the summer nights start to cool, and the golden foliage starts taking on rich hues of orange and red. The affect is simply thrilling; seeing something so colorful and cheerful puts a smile on your face.

A low-growing daisy with extravagantly lacy foliage, and petite, blue flowers with a yellow eye. Blooming throughout even the hottest weeks of summer. They are attractive to bees and butterflies. Deeply cut, dark green leaves are aromatic when bruised.

This series brings knockout color to any shady location. With just a little light, these strong growers create a bounty of star-shaped blooms atop medium green foliage. White brilliant flowers bloom profusely throughout the season.

This series brings knockout color to any shady location. With just a little light, these strong growers create a bounty of star-shaped blooms atop medium green foliage. A true dark blue beauty with a white center.

This new shrub is idea for those small narrow beds along the house. Use it for creating narrow attractive hedges or privacy walls around your patio or deck. Unlike the species, this plant is not weedy or invasive. This plant has great architecture.

Yes, you read that right: Fire Ball Seedless euonymus is the only seedless, sterile, non-invasive burning bush (Euonymus alatus) on the market! Leave it to the one and only Dr. Tom Ranney and his crew at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in North Carolina to develop this truly innovative, game-changing plant. It has all the durability and inferno-red color that you expect from burning bush but no risk of spreading into wild areas like conventional burning bush. For this reason, Fire Ball Seedless will be entirely replacing the original Fire Ball euonymus in the Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs line.

A truly compact variety of burning bush. Unforgettable Fire® euonymus is a truly compact form of burning bush with dense, fine branching and smaller leaves. Outstanding fall color. Developed by Michael Hayman of Louisville KY.

Uniquely horizontal branches produce an abundance of dark purple-blue flowers. The flowers radiate outward and downward like a pinwheel, and are continuous from mid summer to frost. This is a sterile variety that will not produce unwanted seedlings.

Miss Ruby is a sweetheart of a plant noted for its compact habit and remarkable vivid, rich pink blooms. The flower color is unlike any other Buddleia. This new butterfly bush has silver leaves, and has a compact growth habit.

Pugster Blue® butterfly bush offers true blue flowers, appearing from summer through frost.

Meet Pugster Pinker™ butterfly bush - the newest member of a unique series that offers full-sized flowers on dwarf plants. This compact butterfly bush reaches just 2'/.6 m tall and wide but has the large, full flowers normally seen on a much larger plant. It blooms non-stop from early summer through frost with very rich pink flowers, each with a tiny bright orange eye in the center.

Full-sized flowers on a compact butterfly bush! Pugster White® buddleia offers huge white flower spikes for a classic look that is especially enjoyable on summer nights.

A butterfly bush unlike any other! Mop Top is a dwarf spring-flowering butterfly bush that brings elegance and whimsy to the garden. Known as fountain butterfly bush, this Buddleia alternifolia selection lives up to its name with long, slender, weeping branches that are covered in lavender flowers in spring. Mop Top butterfly bush is a hardy down to USDA zone 4, a whole zone hardier than Buddleia davidii selections.

Buttonbush has long been prized as a native, but it was way too big for most landscapes. Not anymore! We've cut the size in half and added colorful red fruit and glossy foliage. Add in cool looking, fragrant white flowers and you've got a delightful plant that shines from spring to fall.

'Bottle Rocket' is a fancy leaf variety with a bright red center and primary veins, white panes and a green margin. It can be grown in both sun and shade conditions.

Heart to Heart® 'Burning Heart' is a bronze fancy leaf variety with pink to orange spots and represents a completely new color for caladiums. It scored high in trials around the country. 'Burning Heart' is intermediate to tall in height. It works well in combination and patio planters. 'Burning Heart' works well in landscapes either in the shade or full sun however it’s full rich color is expressed best in sun. Its unique color compliments almost any other plant in patio, combination planters or landscapes.

'Lemon Blush' is a fancy-leaved introduction with rose red center and wide chartreuse margin - a new look in caladiums. It is a part shade to shade plant.

'Raspberry Moon' is a fancy-leaf variety with a light green to yellow background and it features blotches of dark green and raspberry pink to red which can cover most of the leaf. It performs best in part shade to shade.

'Snow Drift' is a fancy leaved variety with bright white leaves and deep green veins. It is nice in combination patio planters or in shaded landscapes. It performs best in part shade to shade.

'Snow Flurry' grows well in part shade to shade. It is a white fancy-leaved introduction with beautiful pure white coloration and veins. The dark green background contrasts well with the white veins and splotches.

‘Superbells Blackcurrant Punch’, is a gorgeous two tone velvety deep burgundy with a dark throat. It's unique colors make it outstanding to use both monoculture or in combinations. This new variation on Blackberry Punch™ is a real knockout. It has excellent disease resistance, an early bloom time, large, visible flowers, a dense habit and vivid coloration.

Abundant large blue flowers all season on healthy cascading growth.

‘Superbells Blackberry Punch’, is a gorgeous two tone velvety deep purple with a dark throat. It's unique colors make it outstanding to use both monoculture or in combinations. It is fantastic when used with pinks and purples.

Abundant blooms of red with yellow stars. Flowers all season on healthy cascading foliage; low maintenance.

Abundant small cherry red flowers all season on healthy cascading growth.

‘Superbells Cherry Star’ boasts beautiful cherry pink flowers with yellow throats that come out in a star pattern. Covered in blooms all season long, its vigorous mounding / trailing habit will quickly fill in sunny window boxes, combination planters and hanging baskets. No deadheading is required and very low maintenance and disease resistance makes Superbells a winner!

Abundant small petunia-like flowers all season on healthy cascading foliage; low maintenance.

Abundant small petunia-like flowers all season on healthy cascading foliage; low maintenance.

New genetics have improved the flowering and habit on this variety. Larger, more vivid flowers bloom earlier on a tighter, better branched structure.

A beautiful addition to our Superbells® Star collection, Evening Star becomes covered in cool lavender blue blossoms, each featuring a perfectly shaped gold star throat and deep blackish purple eye. It doesn’t require deadheading to keep right on blooming all summer long. Try it in your hanging baskets and combination containers too.

Calibrachoa ‘Superbells Grape Punch’ has delicious purple blossoms with dark throats that look good enough to eat! Covered in blooms all season long its vigorous habit will quickly fill in sunny window boxes, combination planters and hanging baskets. No deadheading is required. Very low maintenance and disease resistance makes Superbells a winner!

The small, petunia-like flowers are fun and flirty, with a soft yellow base overlain with pink splotches. Flowers are abundant and bloom all season on cascading growth; low maintenance.

Abundant, small petunia-like flowers all season on cascading growth. Flowers are mottled yellow and cherry-red star bi-color. Very different!

The small, petunia-like flowers are fun and flirty, with a soft yellow base overlain with blue-purple splotches. Flowers are abundant and bloom all season on cascading growth; low maintenance.

Vigorous home gardener performance with large flowers that appear early in a trending color for pastel or vintage style recipes.

Totally unique and distinct color pattern - Bright gold flower with a clean white star.

Everything you’ve loved about Superbells Magic® Pink Lemonade, but in double form. This dynamic, color-shifting calibrachoa opens lemon yellow, then takes on soft pink tones as it basks in the summer sun. The overall effect is like two pastel calibrachoas co-mingling in one captivating combination. It’s stunning in hanging baskets, window boxes and upright containers where it mixes beautifully with other flowers. Try pairing it with Superbena® verbena or Goldilocks Rocks® bidens. Like all Superbells® calibrachoa, Superbells Magic® Double Grapefruit blooms from spring into fall without deadheading.