{"id":5107,"date":"2014-01-01T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2013-07-11T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T02:56:05","slug":"past-winners-of-the-perennial-plant-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/01\/01\/past-winners-of-the-perennial-plant-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Winners of the Perennial Plant of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEach year PPA members choose a Perennial Plant of the Year\u2122. Since 1990 24 great plants have been selected. Some of the selection criteria include:
\n\u2022\tSuitable to a wide range of climatic conditions
\n\u2022\tLow Maintenance
\n\u2022\tPest and disease resistant
\n\u2022\tAvailability at garden centers
\n\u2022\tMultiple seasons of color (beauty)<\/p>\n

The list of Perennial Plant of the Year winners:
\n1990 Creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera)
\n1991 Palace Purple coralbells (Heuchera micrantha \u2018Palace Purple\u2019)
\n1992 Moonbeam coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata \u2018Moonbeam\u2019)
\n1993 Sunny Border Blue veronica (Veronica \u2018Sunny Border Blue\u2019)
\n1994 Sprite astilbe (Astilbe \u2018Sprite\u2019)
\n1995 Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
\n1996 Husker Red penstemon (Penstemon digitalis \u2018Husker Red\u2019)
\n1997 May Night salvia (Salvia \u2018May Night\u2019 (\u2018Mainacht\u2019))
\n1998 Magnus purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea \u2018Magnus\u2019
\n1999 Goldsturm blackeyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii \u2018Goldsturm\u2019)
\n2000 Butterfly Blue scabiosa (Scabiosa columbaria \u2018Butterfly Blue\u2019)
\n2001 Karl Foerster feather reed grass ( Calamagrostis x acutiflora \u2018Karl Foerster\u2019)
\n2002 David summer phlox (Phlox \u2018David\u2019)
\n2003 Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum \u2018Becky\u2019)
\n2004 Japanese painted fern (Athyrium niponicum \u2018Pictum\u2019)
\n2005 Lenten rose (Helleborus x hybridus)
\n2006 Firewitch dianthus (Dianthus gratianoplitanus \u2018Feuerhexe\u2019)
\n2007 Walker\u2019s Low catmint (Nepeta \u2018Walker\u2019s Low\u2019)
\n2008 Rozanne cranesbill (Geranium \u2018Rozanne\u2019)
\n2009 Aureola Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra \u2018Aureola\u2019)
\n2010 Wild indigo (Baptisia australis)
\n2011 Arkansas bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii)
\n2012 Jack Frost brunnera (Brunnera macrophylla \u2018Jack Frost\u2019)
\n2013 Variegated Solomon Seal (Polygonatum odoratum \u2018Variegatum\u2019)<\/p>\n

For a complete description of each plant, log onto the Perennial Plant Association Website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year PPA members choose a Perennial Plant of the Year\u2122. Since 1990 24 great plants have been selected. Some of the selection criteria include: \u2022 Suitable to a wide range of climatic conditions \u2022 Low Maintenance \u2022 Pest and disease resistant \u2022 Availability at garden centers \u2022 Multiple seasons of color (beauty) The list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[736,911,652,690,768,780,969,674,806,774,779,625,912,630,705,706,680],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107"}],"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=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5111,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}