Shrubs & Landscape Plants of The Year
The Proven Winners "Plant of the Year" Program is designed to highlight plants that provide superb container, landscape, and garden performance. For 2025, Proven Winners has designated a "best of" for a landscape plant, a rose, a hydrangea, and a flowering shrub. You can learn more about all of the National Plants of the Year here.
Hydrangea of the Year
'Little Lime Punch®' - Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
Add a little punch to the landscape this year! Proven Winners 'Little Lime Punch® - Panicle Hydrangea is similar to the original Little Lime® Hydrangea, with its emerging lime green blooms, but the color progression from lime to white to Hawaiian Punch Red from the bottom up is what sets this Hydrangea apart.
This Hydrangea has a petite habit (36"-60" tall and wide) which is perfect for small spaces, but provides an impactful color show from early to late summer. Great for landscapes and containers and can be used in fresh-cut or dried floral arrangements.
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Rose of the Year
A new rose is coming to North American garden centers that you don't want to miss! The 'Reminiscent® Coral' - Rose was developed in Serbia and was bred to bring out the best in color, fragrance, and petal count. Boastful deep pink-coral toned flowers sit atop and contrast beautifully with the deep dark green foliage, giving this rose an old-fashioned feel with the modern day care and performance.
Plant in a full sun spot in the landscape and enjoy the vibrant blooms summer through fall, without deadheading! Total size averages 24-42" high by 24" wide.
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Flowering Shrub of the Year
'Scentara® Double Blue' - Lilac
They don't call this Lilac 'Scentara' for nothing! Out of about 15 different species of Lilacs, Proven Winners 'Scentara Double Blue' Lilac is the queen when it comes to fragrance. The intricate double bluish-purple flowers fill out this shrub to give a fragrant showstopping focal point to the landscape.
Plant in a full-sun spot in well-drained soil where their showy blooms can be admired during the spring. This Lilac is disease resistant and the fragrance makes it deer resistant as well. It grows 72-96" tall and wide, does best in landscapes or containers, and looks beautiful in fresh cut arrangements.
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Landscape Perennial of the Year
'Cat's Meow'- Catmint (Nepeta)
If you're a pollinator perennial lover who wants fragrant, dense, showstopping blooms in a sunny spot, 'Cat's Meow' Catmint (Nepeta) will give you just that!
This Catmint has strong-standing stems filled with delicate lavender blooms and a refined uniform habit. The fragrant blooms and foliage make it deer and rabbit-resistant and attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Prefers full sun, gets 24"-36" tall and wide, and bloom time is summer through fall. Perfect for landscapes, containers, and cut flower gardens.
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