AAS Winners are flowers and vegetables that have been "Tested Nationally & Proven Locally" Each AAS entry is tested for superior garden performance by horticulture professionals across North America.
Find these All-America Selections on display at the Backyard Farmer Garden.
Basil Piedmont
This vigorous basil forms dense, bushy plants with a strong aroma and classic basil flavor. Its refined habit, with shorter internodes, ensures easy management and excellent post-harvest keeping quality.
Cauliflower Murasaki Fioretto 70 F1
Murasaki (“purple” in Japanese), a new addition to the Fioretto long-stemmed cauliflower series (from the Italian word for “flower”), is a culinary and visual delight. Its vibrant purple florets and long, tender stems offer a sweet, mild flavor and are easy to harvest.
Celosia Flamma Pink
This semi-dwarf pink variety boasts exceptional flower power, thanks to strong basal branching and abundant secondary heads. The result is a vibrant, long-lasting display of upright blooms that create a striking visual impact in the garden or in bouquets.
Dahlia Black Forest Ruby
Black Forest Ruby is a “gem” of a plant featuring striking deep black foliage and abundant ruby-red flowers. Blooms range from semi‐double to double, enhancing its diversity and charm. This is a seed-raised variety with pinnate leaves that has impressive overall durability.
Dianthus Interspecific Capitán™ Magnifica
It’s smooth sailing with these blooms, whether in your garden or on your patio in containers. AAS Judges were very impressed with this new dianthus as it continued blooming and growing even through summer’s heat. One quick shearing after blooming and it bounced back with a profusion of beautiful pink blooms that sport a consistent, light pink edging.
Kohlrabi Konstance F1
This new purple kohlrabi has an improved smoother skin and an attractive, vibrant purple color that extends out through the leaf margins. No matter if you grow in spring or fall, Konstance continues to produce flavorful crunchy bulbs that are crack-resistant and long-lasting. A bonus to the crisp, sweet, peppery bulb is that the leaves are also highly flavorful when roasted or sauteed or, eat them raw when the leaves are young and tender.
Marigold Mango Tango
Mango Tango dances through the garden strutting its stuff: a stunning, super-saturated bi-color flower of yellow and red. Compact, vigorous plants bloom prolifically over a long flowering window to make an eye-catching display that will wow your audience.
Nasturtium Baby Gold
The Baby series is known for being a petite-flowered, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The golden yellow color contrasts beautifully with the dark green foliage. Bonus: both the leaves and flowers are edible!
Nasturtium Baby Red
If you love Baby Rose then her sister Baby Red is another great addition! The Baby series is known for being a floriferous, petite, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. AAS’ expert judges praised the uniformly compact plants that produced rich, red flowers. The red blooms provide a nice contrast against the dark green foliage. Bonus: both the leaves and flowers are edible!
Nasturtium Baby Yellow
The Baby series is known for being a floriferous, petite, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. AAS’ expert judges praised the uniformly compact plants that produced soft yellow flowers. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The soft yellow color provides a nice contrast against the dark-green foliage. Bonus: both the leaves and flowers are edible!
Pepper Pick-N-Pop Yellow F1
These are cute, snack-sized mini peppers that are extra sweet with just the right amount of juiciness and crunch. They produce continuously on a moderate sized plant with outstanding bacterial leaf spot resistance and produce a prolific number of bright, canary yellow-colored, uniformly shaped peppers.
Petunia Dekko™ Maxx™ Pink
This petunia dazzled the judges throughout the summer trials with its fast, compact spreading habit featuring LOADS of beautiful pink blooms. Delicate yet vibrant pink non-fading flowers literally covered the plant that held up extremely well to heavy rains and inclement weather throughout the season. Dekko’s versatile habit works well in garden beds, borders, and landscape installations. It is a top performer by keeping a nice habit all season with a tremendous number of flowers that are resilient and maintenance-free.
Petunia Shake™ Raspberry F1
Petunia Shake™ Raspberry has the coloration of a blended raspberry milkshake swirled with lemon-lime green sorbet on a superior performing petunia. Naturally compact, this petunia will not melt in summer heat but instead will provide season long, delicious color. What an eye-catching and unique flower to serve up in your garden.
Snapdragon DoubleShot™ Yellow Red Heart F1
This is one tough cookie that won’t break any hearts as she blooms early and holds up well through summer’s heat better than the comparison variety. The fans (the AAS Judges) of this variety loved the early blooms, healthy plants, vibrant colors, and long-lasting flowers. An additional bonus is that this snapdragon will hit you with an amazing candy-like scent!
Squash Green Lightning F1
The nice medium and light green rind has an attractive glossy sheen. The small seed cavity on a smaller squash means more delicious edible flesh. No downsides to this beauty!
Squash Thriller F1
Thriller squash brings new psychedelic color patterns to your fall décor. The 1-2 pound dumpling squash have shallow vertical ridges that alternate between a variegated cream and green with bright orange. The dark green stems are decoratively twisted and well attached. The semi-bush plants mature in 75-80 days from planting. The fruit colors shift and change as they mature for early to late season color.
Vinca Sphere Polkadot
This new vinca boasts a charming, compact, and uniformly rounded habit, creating a sphere of flowers that bloom profusely all summer. Its key benefits include excellent disease resistance, strong performance in hot dry conditions, and superior resilience against heavy rain and storms; a crucial advantage in regions experiencing increasingly severe weather.
Zinnia Crestar Mix
Crested zinnias, also known as scabiosa-flowered zinnias, are known for their distinctive semi-double blooms with a pronounced central disc. Crestar Mix brings together a vibrant palette of colors—including pink, orange, red, white, peach, and yellow—in a single planting. For a stunning display and a continuous supply of cut flowers all summer long, plant Crestar Mix in masse and try succession planting.
Zinnia Zydeco™ Fire
Picture a kaleidoscope of fiery orange blooms, swaying on sturdy stems all summer long, right up until the first frost. Judges across North America couldn’t resist its infectious charm – the Zydeco boasts not only incredible flower power but also long-lasting blooms on disease-resistant foliage. This AAS Winner is the perfect way to add a vibrant melody to your garden’s symphony of color!
