We are continuing to expand our selection of Proven Winners plants that we are growing. We make our selections of which Proven Winner plants to grow based on two criteria: flower color and popularity. The plants and colors we have chosen are unique colors that are not readily available in other lines of plants and/or a popular selling plant in the PW line.
Proven Winners plants are know for their distinctive plants and reliable performance. That’s because Proven Winners partners with the top plant breeders around the world to ensure their varieties are vigorous, healthy, vibrant, and unique.
We are excited about the Proven Winners line of plants and hope that it is successful for you. As you probably are aware, Proven Winners is the #1 Plant Brand in America. All of our Proven Winners plants are grown in the white PW pot and matching white tray to compliment the PW branding and POP which allows for garden center to create displays to drive sales.
We hope that you like the plants we have added this year and welcome any suggestions for changes or further additions.
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Ageratum Artist Blue
Ageratum is a popular landscaping plant for borders. Artist Blue Ageratum is an award-winning, top-performer Ageratum. Artist Blue is covered in blue blooms all season long. Old blooms are covered by new growth to maintain a tidy appearance.
Artist Blue Ageratum is heat tolerant and attracts pollinators and hummingbirds.
Biden Goldilocks Rocks
Goldilocks Rocks Bidens has bright, golden flowers that bloom on vigorous plants. Goldilocks Rocks loves the heat and is drought tolerant.
Calibrachoa Superbells
Superbells Calibrachoas are covered in hundreds of small, petunia-like flowers on compact plants that grow 6-12″ tall. Superbells are disease resistant and are able to handle a wider range of temperatures and weather conditions than petunias.
- Bloom Moon Punch – Blooms are lavender-purple with darker purple centers.
- Coral Sun – Blooms are coral petal edges with a yellow center
- Double Amber – Double blooms are a golden yellow with darker veins.
- Double Orange – Double blooms are orange with some lighter yellow-orange shades.
- Dreamsicle – Bloom are mostly orange with a some variation in shades of color.
- Evening Star – Blooms are lavender-purple with a yellow star pattern.
- Holy Cow! – Blooms have rosy-pink pinwheel patterns with white edges and yellow centers.
- Holy Moly! – Blooms have a splotched cherry-red pinwheel pattern with light yellow edges and a darker yellow center.
- Holy Smokes! – Blooms have purple splotched pinwheel patterns with white edges and a yellow centers.
- Lemon Slice – Bloom have a yellow and white pinwheel pattern.
- Pomegranate Punch – Blooms are a deep velvet red with dark throats.
- Tropical Sunrise – Blooms are streaked with rosy-pink and yellows.
- Yellow – Blooms are bright, sunny yellow.
Cuphea Vermillionaire
Vermillionaire Cuphea is heat and humidity tolerant. The narrow flowers are bright orange and will attract hummingbirds. This low maintenance plant will bloom from spring until the first frost.
Euphorbia Diamond Frost
Diamond Frost Euphorbia blooms with an abundance of small, white flowers over a mounding plant. It is heat and drought tolerant. Diamond Frost thrives in the summer sun, but it does equally well in partial shade. Even though it looks dainty, Diamond Frost can perform with the best summer annuals.
Evolvulus Blue My Mind
Blue My Mind Evolvulus is a great spreading/trailing annual that combines stunning blue flowers with heat and drought tolerance. Blue My Mind is a great plant of hanging baskets, containers, edges of beds or anywhere it can trail down over an edge.
Graceful Grasses
Grasses can add interesting texture to any landscape. They come in a variety of colors and sizes to fit different applications from container gardening to xeriscapes to water gardens.
- Acorus Ogon – green blades with heavy butter-yellow variegations. Ogon likes the water and can be used in damp & boggy areas.
- Carex Toffee Twist – graceful, bronze leaf blades that arch gracefully with a twist.
- Cyperus Baby Tut – sturdy green stems support an umbrella of equally green blades. Cyperus likes the water and can be planting in wet soils and up to several inches deep in water.
- Cyperus Prince Tut – large poms of fine leaves arch out from the ends of sturdy stems. Cyperus likes the water and can be planting in wet soils and up to several inches deep in water.
- Isolepsis Fiber Optic Grass – finely textured, bright green grass with small flowers at the end of the stems. Isolepsis likes the water and can be planting in wet and boggy soils.
- Juncus Blue Mohawk – a warm season rush with bluish-green stems. Juncus likes the water and can be planting in wet and boggy soils.
- Juncus Curly Wurly – dark green stems that grow in a spiral, corkscrew pattern aka corkscrew rush. Juncus likes the water and can be planting in wet and boggy soils.
- Pennisetum Fireworks – a variegated variety with showy displays of green, white, burgundy and hot pink leaf blades.
- Pennisetum Sky Rocket – green and white variegated Pennisetum with white flowers.
- Stipa Mexican Feather – tan flower plumes on slender green foliage
Helichrysum Icicles
Helichrysum Icicles has needle-like leaves that are grayish green with traces of silver. It has an upright, spreading habit that works well in containers as well as landscapes and rock gardens. The foliage is the main attraction and there are no significant flowers or fruit. This is a low maintenance plant that deer tend to pass up for tastier treats.
Ipomoea (Sweet Potato Vine) Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Mahogany
Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Mahogany Sweet Potato Vine has an attractive burgundy-red foliage color. The foliage is heart shaped. As with all Ipomoea, Sweetheart Mahogany is a great component plant in combinations. The habit is more mounded due to shorter internodes, but it does trail as it matures through the season.
Isotoma Beth’s Blue
Beth’s Blue Isotoma is a covered in dainty, star shaped, lavender-blue flowers. The leaves are lacy looking and lance shaped that add interesting texture. Beth’s Blue blooms all summer long and it low maintenance. Plants are only 10-14″ tall and do well as a border.
Lobularia
Lobularia are mounding and trailing plants that perform well in the heat. It is a close cousin of alyssum and shares its fragrant blooms.
Violet Knight has masses of violet-purple flowers on mounding plants that are heat and drought tolerant. The flowers are fragrant and will keep blooming all summer.
White Knight is better matched to Violet Knight in size and shape than Snow Princess. White Knight is covered in white flower clusters on mounding plants that are heat and cold tolerant.
Nemesia Sunsatia
Sunsatia Nemesia’s bright, bold colors make it a great choice for spring containers. Sunsatia is more heat tolerant than other nemesias, but planting in landscapes in the south should be planned carefully to provide adequate afternoon shade and water. In our opinion, Sunsatia Nemesia is best suited to containers.
Petunia Supertunia
Supertunia Petunias have been bred for heat tolerance and will continue to perform in landscapes long after other petunias have succumbed to the heat and humidity. Supertunia Petunias also do well in cooler temperatures.
- Black Cherry – eye-catching deep red blooms
- Blue Veined – blooms are light lavender-blue with darker blue throat and veins
- Honey – blooms are a menagerie of yellow and pink shades.
- Limoncello – bright pale yellow blooms with dark yellow throats
- Persimmon – salmon-pink blooms with yellow throats
- Royal Velvet – deep blue blooms
- Vista Bubblegum – long blooming bubblegum-pink blooms on vigorous plants
- Vista Fuchsia – fuchsia-pink blooms
- Vista Jazzberry – lavender-purple blooms
- Vista Paradise – blooms that are watermelon pink with salmon-pink undertones
- Vista Silverberry – very light pink to white blooms with dark pink veins
- Vista Snowdrift – pure white blooms
Sedum Lemon Coral
Lemon Coral Sedum has bright, spiky, chartreus foliage that can handle all types of temperatures and environments. It grows well in the heat and is a drought-tolerant succulent. Moderate watering will keep Lemon Coral looking great. It is hardy in Zones 7a to 11. Lemon Coral retains is bright color and looks good through the fall and winter in southern areas.
Sutera (Bacopa)
Bacopa Snowstorm Giant Snowflake – Giant Snowflake has larger blooms than standard Bacopa (sutera) varieties which produces an impressive display of large, white flowers.
Torenia Catalina
Torenia blooms from spring through fall. It has a mounding, trailing habit. Unique blooms give torenia the nickname “Wishbone Flower.”
Torenia fills out containers and hanging baskets nicely. It also does well as a groundcover in shady areas. It is heat and drought tolerant and low maintenance.
- Gilded Grape – yellow blooms with purple throats
- Midnight Blue – blue blooms with yellow throats
- Pink – two-tone pink blooms with yellow throats
Verbena Superbena
Superbena Verbena are vigorous verbenas that are also heat tolerant and mildew tolerant. Superbena are self-cleaning so that no deadheading is necessary. They do great in containers but preform well in landscape beds too. To top it all off, Superbena tolerate dry soils and lower fertility.
- Royale Peachy Keen -peach, salmon and coral shaded of blooms
- Royale Plum Wine – deep plum blooms
- Royale Romance – dark red blooms
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