Seven new varieties earn prestigious AAS Winner Award

Begonia Viking Explorer Rose on Green.

DOWNER’S GROVE, USA:  All-America Selections (AAS), North America’s most well-known and respected non-profit plant trialing organisation, is pleased to announce the following new winners for the 2022 garden season. In a record-setting comeback, after a 17-year drought, the organisation is now proud to have three breeding breakthrough Gold Medal Winners in just the past 12 months, demonstrating the top-quality genetics that are being submitted to the AAS Trials:

Begonia Viking™ Explorer Rose on Green F1 | All-America Selections

Petunia Bee’s Knees | All-America Selections

Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor | All-America Selections

All AAS Winners are trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grow new, never-before-sold entries next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class. Only those entries that had garden performance superior to the comparisons are granted the AAS award designation. Comparison varieties can be found on each AAS Winner webpage and in the descriptions below.

The newest AAS Winners are:

Begonia Viking™ Explorer Rose on Green F1 | All-America Selections

Pepper Dragonfly F1 | All-America Selections

Sunflower Concert Bell F1 | All-America Selections

Tomato Pink Delicious | All-America Selections

Tomato Purple Zebra F1 | All-America Selections

Tomato Sunset Torch F1 | All-America Selections

Torenia Vertigo Deep Blue F1 | All-America Selections

The most recently announced AAS Winners from the past 12 months are:

Celosia Kelos® Candela Pink | All-America Selections

Echalion Creme Brulee (BGS-270) F1 | All-America Selections

Eggplant Icicle F1 | All-America Selections

Lettuce Bauer | All-America Selections

Leucanthemum Sweet Daisy Birdy | All-America Selections

Pepper Buffy F1 | All-America Selections

Pepper Pot-a-peno F1 | All-America Selections

Petunia Bee’s Knees | All-America Selections

Squash Goldilocks F1 | All-America Selections

Watermelon Century Star F1 | All-America Selections

Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor | All-America Selections

Growers, retailers and consumers will find these AAS Winners for sale as supply becomes available through the distribution chain. Newer AAS Winners are featured in custom videos in social media posts and on the AAS YouTube channel.

All AAS Winners are marketed through social media, public relations and trade shows and are proudly grown in 200+ AAS Display Gardens across North America. In addition, the AAS office creates and maintains a wide variety of marketing pieces and resources such as Printable brochures and Bench cards and variety markers.

AAS launched the Introduction Gardens programme in 2021 as a way for industry to view the AAS Winners at their favorite Field Day, Grower Open House, Customer Day, etc.

The AAS website also now includes a page of Wholesale Sources to make it easier to source and purchase AAS Winners. www.all-americanselections.org