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

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.

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.

Similar in shape to Helmond Pillar, but with bright golden foliage and red new growth. Great garden architecture. Bright orange-red autumn foliage is stunning. Proven to be burn resistant in side by side tests with other yellow leaved barberry.

Bright and cheery, this new barberry has unique tangy orange foliage that is often accentuated by a distinctive chartreuse margin. Stronger growing than other variegated cultivars, it is colorful in the landscape from spring to fall. Certified Wheat-rust resistant.

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.

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

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!

Shining silver leaves with black, jagged edges, dark green veining and an explosion of burgundy to black in the center characterize this striking cultivar. Small, coral red blossoms are an occasional added bonus. This dense, upright mounding plant shines in shade containers.

Like a cool, silvery pool that shines in the shade, the large leaves of Europa™ are flooded with shimmering silver, rimmed in black, and splashed with lavender in the middle and just inside the leaf edges. Small, coral red blossoms are an added bonus late in the season.

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 Lemon features, showy 2-3" semi-double and fully double yellow 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 salmon flowers make them an eyecatching display for containers. Flowers all summer.

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

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

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

Fully double blooms in red on plants with shades of green colored foliage.

Fully double blooms in yellow on plants with shades of green colored foliage.

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.

Large, double, pink and white 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.

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.

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.

Another winner from our South African friends, this superb true blue Daisy is more compact and free flowering than older varieties. Yellow centers and blue petals make this a spirited addition to containers or beds.

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.

Native perennials are trending, and Bluestar is the classic North American perennial! ‘Storm Cloud’ is a very exciting new variety that performs well for both northern and southern growers. In spring, new stems emerge near-black with leaves that are very dark green with silver veins. The stems stay dark throughout spring. Light periwinkle blue, star-shaped flowers completely cover the foliage in late spring, and rebloom for many weeks afterward. Although the main interest of this plant is in spring, it maintains a great garden presence throughout the summer and fall. Its wide, mounded habit lends itself well to be used in place of shrubs in the landscape. Younger plants will have more of a vase-like habit, but make sure to give this plant some space for when it reaches its mature size. This easy care, heat and humidity tolerant, deer resistant perennial is an excellent choice for gardeners looking for low maintenance or native perennials.

Improved yellow-leaf caryopteris. Sunshine Blue® II caryopteris is a new, improved cultivar. It replaces the original Sunshine Blue® caryopteris as it has proven in our trials to be brighter, hardier, and more adaptable. Vivid yellow foliage holds up to the heat of summer and offers bold, beautiful contrast when blue flowers begin to appear in late summer. Also known as blue mist spirea, despite the fact that it is not remotely related to Spiraea.

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.

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.

Young Junior is smaller than the original, less brittle, and has attractive silver-green leaves. Great for mass plantings, containers or mixed into perennial gardens. It flowers from mid-summer to frost.

The earliest blooming of the Lo & Behold® series.

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.

Rich purple blooms on a compact plant. If you love the compact habit of ‘Miss Ruby’ and ‘Miss Molly’ you're sure to love ‘Miss Violet’, too. She has all these great attributes plus loads of dark purple-violet flowers. It's another great butterfly bush from Dr. Dennis Werner of NCSU.

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.

'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 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.

This dynamic plant shifts its coloration through the seasons as it reacts to varying light levels and daylength. The large blossoms open lemon yellow and transition to a vibrant pink, with both colors continuously present at once on the plant. Its fully mounded habit results in fabulous containers, but this colorful calibrachoa is also easy to mix with other annuals in container recipes. Like all Superbells, it blooms continuously all season without deadheading.

Calibrachoa Superbells ‘Miss Lilac’ has lovely lavender colored blooms that will cover the plant from spring until frost. It's trailing habit is great to use as a spiller in hanging baskets and combinations. It is also beautiful when used on its own or in the landscape. Use in sunny areas.

Abundant, small white with a yellow-eye petunia-like flowers all season on cascading growth; low maintenance.

Abundant large pink flowers all season on healthy cascading growth.

Loaded with large, richly hued flowers from spring through fall, ‘Plum’ is an exceptionally lovely variety that brings depth and drama to combos.

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.