All-America Selections® - Displayed by Common Name in Ascending Year

A profuse bearer of long, sweet peppers that mature from yellow, orange, nd then to crimson red. Excellent for pickling, frying, or fresh in salads.

Plant produces high yields of solid 1 ½" deep green brussels sprouts. Compact plants has less subject to wind damage and can be sown later than other varieties and matures well in early frost. This variety has extra disease resistant tolerance.

Early, round heads with excellent holding. 2-2¼ lb heads. Yellow resistant.

Forms a small, open but tightly bunched, 6" rosette that is fan-shaped rather than round. The leaves are dark green, and the small, compact hearts blanch to an appetizing yellow color. Crisp and sweet. Slow bolting.

Old-fashioned double flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Reliable blooming, even as young plants. Biennial or short-lived perennial, allow to reseed. Flowers are produced lower on the flowering stems than in other cultivars.

Very early, pure white heads up to 2 lbs. Try raw with dips or broken into salads. Tie outer leaves over developing heads to prevent yellowing (Blanching).

Large, fragrant flowers. Ideal for flower or hummingbird gardens and containers.

All-America Winner. All-purpose variety with superb flavor, disease resistance and heavy yield on determinate plants. Crack-resistant fruits average 7 oz.

Dark, bronze foliage is set off by bright red, long lasting flower plumes.

‘Snow Lady’ is a terrific dwarf strain, producing a low mound with a long succession of large white yellow-eyed daisies. Great for edging, also excellent in tubs or mixed containers.

A profusion of brilliant golden-yellow, semi-double flowers, each flushed orange-yellow in the center, bring unbeatable color to perennial and cottage gardens. This is one of the earliest Coreopsis to bloom, beginning in late spring.

Wave Purple is a slight improvement over our Wave Purple Classic. It produces flowers earlier in the spring, which means plant lovers will enjoy Wave Purple’s magenta-colored blooms as soon as it’s safe to garden.

This award-winning variety has been judged the best yellow flowering petunia in its class.

Tall spikes of spectacular flowers bloom in a mix of hot colors including red, yellow and orange. Superb as cut flowers.

Bright flowers attract butterflies to the garden. Robust, heat-tolerant plants.

These bushy plants, 12" high and 15" wide, are simply smothered nonstop all season with cheerful, 2" daisy-formed blooms of freshest white (with frilly yellow centers). Ideal for mass plantings or containers!

This child-safe variety bears non-pungent fruit, making it ideal for indoor and outdoor use in both public and residential areas. The F1 vigour makes it excellent for large containers and landscape use where larger plants are preferred.

Wave Lavender has a hint of a blue center for a soft contrast against the vibrant bloom.

Bold purple foliage and deep maroon 8-12" flower plumes make a dramatic addition to your garden or landscape. Striking in large containers, at the center of a mixed planting, or as a cut flower. Seeds attract wild birds.

A striking display of bicolor flowers above neat, compact plants. Blooms maintain their fresh appearance even after heavy wind and rain.

These bright flowers keep coming all summer, and never need deadheading.

This is far and away the best Mealycup Sage ever grown, and it deserves a big planting in your sunniest garden spot! ‘Evolution’ really is a whole new generation for Salvia, with richer blooms, better branching, more compact plants, superb weather resistance, and an extra-long season of bloom. No wonder it won both Europe's Fleuroselect Quality Mark and the U.S.'s All-America Selection, the two top honors for seeds!

Very drought tolerant once established, Mesa Yellow shows intense, non-fading color all season on upright, well-branched plants that perform well in landscapes and mixed containers.

This variety is incredibly impressive for a seed grown Echinacea. It’s no surprise that it is a 2010 All America Selections winner. This first year flowering perennial reportedly keeps on blooming without having to be deadheaded, though you may still want to trim back spent flowers to maintain a tidy appearance.

In plant trial gardens, it was noted how floriferous the plants were. Each stocky, relatively short plant carried a bouquet of fragrant, 3-4”, deep purple-pink to near-magenta flowers on stiff, branched stems. More branches result in more flowers per plant and a showier display in the landscape. It was noted that the older flowers were nearly the same magenta color as the new flowers; the flowers held their bright coloration very well as they aged.

The brightest bell on the block is Orange Blaze Hybrid, a crunchy sweet pepper with early maturity, great disease resistance, and delectable flavor. Awarded an All-America Selection (AAS) for 2011, it is your best choice for fresh peppers all season long!

Neat, heavy blooming, 20" plants produce spikes of brilliant red flowers, continusously from spring until fall. They are hummingbird magnets. Flowers appear two weeks earlier, and hold better in wind and rain, than other salvias of this type.

This stunning first-year flowering echinacea captures the spirit of the North American plains by producing a delightful mix of flower colors from rich purple, pink, red and orange tones to lighter yellows, creams and white. This wide range of flower colors on well branched, durable plants are sure to please the color preferences of any gardener. As an added bonus, ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ does not require a lot of water and offers a wide range of uses from the perennial border, in a mass landscape planting, in a butterfly garden or as a cut flower.

Sparkle White gaura will bring a touch of airy elegance to the garden with its long slender stems sporting a large number of dainty white flowers tinged with a pink blush. This beauty is perfect mass planted in sun-drenched landscape beds, in groupings with other perennials or in larger containers. Home gardeners will appreciate that this season-long bloomer also has excellent heat tolerance and a more uniform flowering habit than other seed gauras.

This new hybrid dwarf sunflower produces no pollen, but blooms up to three times in a season with as many as twenty flowers per plant. The 5-6" flowers produced by Suntastic sunflower seeds have brilliant yellow petals surrounding a dark black disc that will appeal to florists and home gardeners alike. Bred for container growing, this All America Selections winner is ideal for patio growing, and will provide continuous color all summer. It begins to bloom just 65 days after sowing, so it’s way earlier than most other sunflowers in its class. Suntastic sets a new standard for dwarf sunflowers, and looks great in window boxes or mass plantings in the garden bed.

Bred for small gardens, determinate Fantastico will work great in hanging baskets, container gardens as well as in small gardens. Long clusters of sweet tasty fruits are held toward the outside of the plant, making them very easy to harvest but if you let them go a few days past peak, these little beauties resist cracking better than the comparisons used in the AAS trials.

A unique determinate bush tomato with well flavored half-ounce grape shaped fruit. High yielding plants produce up to 12 pounds of ripe fruit. Best grown in a cage to provide some plant support, but can also be grown in a large patio container or an 18-inch hanging basket.

With an outstanding deep red velvety flower color and great branching habit, Calliope® Medium Dark Red was unmatched in the AAS Trials when compared to other market varieties. Calliope® Medium Dark Red geranium is an interspecific hybrid with zonal-type flowers and leaves. This AAS Winner has a mounded, semi-spreading growth habit with strong stems supporting the flower heads that are loaded with deep red blossoms. These plants work great in containers, combination plantings, hanging baskets as well as in an in-ground landscape. Gardeners will enjoy exceptional landscape performance in normal conditions as well as in more challenging high heat and drought conditions.

This newest Profusion Zinnia winner is the fourth color in the single flower series to win the coveted AAS Winner award. Judges raved about the vibrant, perfectly true red color of this zinnia which doesn’t fade in summer’s intense rays. As one judge stated, “We have waited for years for this true red color in zinnias!” Gardeners will find many uses for the true red zinnia that’s easy to grow and a favorite of pollinators.

When one of the discerning AAS judges says, “I’d love to have this in my yard!”, you know you have a winner! 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. The list of winning attributes continues: a more uniform and stable color pattern, earlier to bloom and no deadheading required. These stunning blooms make any garden fit for a Super Hero!

A favorite edible flower in lovely shades of rose color, perfect for topping cakes or other culinary creations. The leaves are also edible and make a spicy green in salads. Pollinators love this pretty pink flower, too! Plants have a mounding habit and reach 14 inches tall. A 2020 All Americas Selection Winner.

A beautiful new bicolor addition to the popular Profusion series of Zinnias. This gorgeous Zinnia starts the season with a bold vibrant red center ring surrounded by golden-yellow outer petals. As the season progresses, the aging flowers morph into soft, beautiful shades of apricot, salmon, and dusty rose to bring a plethora of color to the garden, all from one variety! Trial garden visitors clamored over this floriferous and compact plant during the summer trials noting how well the plant continued to bloom new flowers over old so there was never a decline in the beauty presented by Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor.

Dragonfly pepper plants produce beautiful purple peppers that have thick, sweet walls, unlike the thin papery walls of other purples on the market. Similar to the beloved dragonfly that flits around your garden, this pepper transforms itself from a green pepper into a purple fruit that is as delicious at the green stage of maturity as it is when fully purple and mature. Overall, it’s a much better purple color than comparisons with above average, robust pepper flavor. Fruits are held high on the plant, keeping them from the soil. The 4-lobed fruits do not fade and if left on the vine, turn a beautiful, bright red color.

Not only does this type of verbena create a pollinator paradise in your garden, but also the compact habit makes it sturdier and easier to maintain. Deep blue/purple flowers are 1½” across and continue to attract butterflies day in and day out. Vanity prides itself on performing well in hot dry conditions while remaining a showy garden plant. Once you try Vanity, you will feel the same as the AAS judge who stated: “This entry was my favorite in all of this season’s entries!”

Add a touch of blue to your garden with beautiful new AAS Winner Blue by You salvia. This perennial features rich blue flowers that bloom up to two weeks earlier than the comparisons. With excellent winter hardiness and heat tolerance, Blue by You will be a new favorite in your perennial, pollinator, cutting, and container gardens. Bursting with bright blue blossoms from late spring into fall, you’ll get repeat blooms throughout the season when spent blooms are removed. Adored all season long by hummingbirds and butterflies. Bonus; it is not favored by deer or rabbits.

A hybrid between Salvia nemorosa and Salvia pratensis, it has excellent Winter hardiness and heat tolerance.