Prize-Winning Plants
Every year since 1933, All-American Selections (AAS) gives out its top awards for the best plants and flowers of the year. AAS is a non-profit that rigorously tests new plant varieties for the home gardener. Their anonymous, impartial trials performed by professional horticulturists select the new plant introductions not yet sold to the public with superior performance. The organization was founded in 1932 by W. Ray Hastings, president of the Southern Seedsmen’s Association of Atlanta. AAS handed out its first award in 1933 when it selected seven plants, including cantaloupe 'Honey Rock' and Nasturtium 'Golden Gleam' among their winners.
Shown here: a 2010 All-American Selections winner, the dwarf snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) ‘Twinny Appleblossom’.
