{"id":12906,"date":"2021-01-10T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2021-01-10T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T22:27:00","slug":"plant-awards-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/01\/10\/plant-awards-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Awards Of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Monarda-6-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Monarda-6-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Monarda-6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Monarda-6-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NGB Perennial of the Year &#8211; Monarda (Beebalm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2021, the National Garden Bureau (NGB), the non-profit organization promoting gardening in North America, has\nannounced the five (5) plant classes that will be featured in the 2021 \u201cYear of\nthe\u201d program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Annual:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ngb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6b87cbdbca7a158540d881d9e&amp;id=d44593daa4&amp;e=6b304f9626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Year of the Sunflower<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Vegetable\/edible:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ngb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6b87cbdbca7a158540d881d9e&amp;id=e8533d3a3e&amp;e=6b304f9626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Year of the Garden Bean<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Perennial:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ngb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6b87cbdbca7a158540d881d9e&amp;id=6847bb537d&amp;e=6b304f9626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Year of the Monarda<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Bulb:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ngb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6b87cbdbca7a158540d881d9e&amp;id=c56ad4e20c&amp;e=6b304f9626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Year of the Hyacinth<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Flowering\nShrub:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ngb.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6b87cbdbca7a158540d881d9e&amp;id=ad34725a29&amp;e=6b304f9626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Year of the Hardy Hibiscus<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hosta-Rainbows-End-4-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hosta-Rainbows-End-4-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hosta-Rainbows-End-4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hosta-Rainbows-End-4-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hosta &#8216;Rainbow&#8217;s End&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hosta of the Year<\/strong><strong> &#8211;\n&#8216;Rainbow&#8217;s End&#8217;<\/strong> a&nbsp;<strong>small- to medium-sized hosta. It is a <\/strong>sport\nof Hosta &#8216;Obsession&#8217; boasts very thick, glossy, canoe-shaped leaves with bright\ngolden streaky centers surrounded by a wide, green\/black border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perennial Plant of the Year:  Calamint (<em>Calamintha nepeta <\/em>subsp. Nepeta)\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to southern Europe north and west to Great Britain. Plants grow up to 18 inches tall and wide, and work well as a front border or a rock garden planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Calamintha1-Midwest-Groundcovers-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Calamintha1-Midwest-Groundcovers-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Calamintha1-Midwest-Groundcovers-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Calamintha1-Midwest-Groundcovers-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Calamint + Allium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2021, the National Garden Bureau (NGB), the non-profit organization promoting gardening in North America, has announced the five (5) plant classes that will be featured in the 2021 \u201cYear of the\u201d program. Annual:&nbsp;Year of the Sunflower Vegetable\/edible:&nbsp;Year of the Garden Bean Perennial:&nbsp;Year of the Monarda Bulb:&nbsp;Year of the Hyacinth Flowering Shrub:&nbsp;Year of the Hardy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1439,657,747,1319,1226,749,1190,1037,1498,645,1282,1324,1138,1289,877,599,1008,891,1421,730,745,1407,853,890,627,1476,1102,843,812,1059,729,777,630,705,706,1050,1,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}