P. Allen Smith's Platinum Plant Collection for 2025 | Vite Greenhouses

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March 31, 2025

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Gardening expert P. Allen Smith is a renowned and respected authority when it comes to plants. So when he makes a recommendation, you can be sure it will be a winner in your garden. The following Proven Winners plants have been named his "Platinum Collection" for 2025. He will be showcasing these superior varieties in magazine articles, during book tours and TV appearances, and on his website, where they will also appear as his Top Picks for 2025. These plants have been chosen for their visual color and impact, superior performance, and low maintenance. You can find each of them at Vite Greenhouses. Ask for them on your next visit.

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Bacopa

Sutera hybrid

Snowstorm® Giant Snowflake®

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.

4"-8"

8"-10"

n/a

Bidens

Bidens ferulifolia

Goldilocks Rocks®

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.

12"-14"

10"-14"

9-11

Calibrachoa

Calibrachoa hybrid

Superbells Cherry Star™

‘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!

7"-10"

8"-10"

9-10

Superbells® Lemon Slice®

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

6"-10"

12"-24"

9-11

Superbells Pomegranate Punch™

Velvety red flowers dramatically accented with black eyes and yellow centers densely cover cascading plants all season long. Easy to work with, these trailing stems weave their way through their neighbors in container collections creating a fabulous display. This color packs a lot of punch when combined with shorter, dark red container Dahlias.

6"-10"

8"-10"

9-11

Superbells® Yellow Chiffon™

Abundant, small petunia-like flowers all season on cascading growth; low maintenance.

7"-10"

8"-10"

9-11

Coleus

Plectranthus (Coleus) scutellarioides

ColorBlaze® Lime Time®

Sun tolerant and bright chartreuse foliage is great in landscapes and containers.

20"-36"

12"-16"

10-11

Lantana

Lantana camara

Luscious® Berry Blend™

These vibrant pink and yellow flowers with rich, dark foliange will turn that boring bed or container into a trip to Cancun during Spring Break. Heat and drought tolerant, of course, but also fragrant.

24"-36"

20"-30"

9-11

Lobelia (Trailing)

Lobelia erinus

Laguna® Sky Blue Imp.

Soft blue flowers all season on cascading, well-branched plants; excellent in combinations.

8"-10"

6"-8"

9-10

Mecardonia

Mecardonia hybrid

10.

GoldDust®

Mecardonia Golddust is great in landscapes and containers. Its small green leaves are covered with yellow nemesia-like flowers from May through October. The plant has excellent heat tolerance.

2"-5"

12"-16"

9-11

Petunia

Petunia hybrid

11.

Supertunia® Black Cherry

This unique Supertunia has dark red blooms with black throats. Its abundent flowering and trailing mounding habit make a great choice for combinations or used on its own in pots, window boxes or hanging baskets.

8"-12"

10"-18"

10-11

12.

Supertunia® Bordeaux™

Flowers are a unique soft pink with deep plum venation.

5"-7"

8"-12"

9-10

13.

Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum®

Bubblegum-pink flowers on vigorous, mounding plants are perfect landscape fillers. Blooms all season and low maintenance.

16"-24"

18"-24"

Spider Flower

Cleome hybrid

14.

Señorita® Rosalita®

This heat and drought tolerant plant adds dramatic height to landscape beds; sterile flowers, and thornless, stickyless, "smell-less" foliage adds to the appeal for this great garden performer.

24"-36"

20"-24"

8-11

Summer Snapdragon

Angelonia angustifolia

15.

Angelface® Blue

Blooms all season; heat and drought tolerant plants; grape-scented foliage; low maintenance.

18"-24"

12"-18"

10-11

Sweet Alyssum

Lobularia hybrid

16.

Snow Princess®

This sterile Lobularia is extremely vigorous, and beacuse it puts no energy into setting seed it has an incredibly long bloom time. Creates a beautiful hanging basket or window box and is a perfect filler in combination. New in 2010.

14"-20"

9-11

Verbena

Verbena hybrid

17.

Superbena® Peachy Keen

Verbena ‘Superbena Royale Peachy Keen’ produces tons of gorgeous clusters of salmon/coral colored flowers throughout the season. It has a mounding spreading habit that makes it a great plant to use as a filler in combination pots and hanging baskets. It's spreading habit will fill in middle ground and spill over the sides. It is more vigorous in it's growth habit than its predecessors.

6"-10"

12"-14"

8-11

Hosta

Hosta hybrid

18.

Shadowland® Empress Wu

Huge dark green, deeply veined leaves of good substance can measure more than 1½ feet wide and long. Strongly upright habit, forming a very tall and wide clump. Pale reddish violet flowers appear just above the foliage in early to midsummer.

36"-48"

5'-6'

3-9

Shasta Daisy

Leucanthemum superbum

19.

Amazing Daisies® Banana Cream

The 4-5" wide flowers are lemon yellow when they open, brightening to light butter yellow and finally to creamy white as they mature. Cut flowers last up to two weeks! This plant has nicely compact, dark green foliage and increased disease tolerance.

15"-18"

18"-24"

5-9

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