{"id":6007,"date":"2014-02-08T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2014-02-08T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:23:48","slug":"2014-plant-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/02\/08\/2014-plant-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Plant Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Echinacea<\/a>

Echinacea (coneflower) named 2014 Perennial of the Year by National Gardeners Bureau<\/p><\/div>

\"Petunia<\/a>

Petunia Declared Annual of 2014 by NGB<\/p><\/div>
\nAt the start of each year the Motion Picture Industry awards their Golden Globes and Oscars. The Music Industry has the Grammys. Gardening associations also announce the award-winning plants.<\/p>\n

The National Garden Bureau (NGB) has declared 2014 Year of the Echinacea<\/strong> (coneflower) in the perennial category. NGB declared the mighty cucumber<\/strong> as Vegetable of The Year, and Petunia<\/strong> as Annual of The Year. Their primary purpose is to create buzz among gardeners about these great plants. NGB\u2019s website there is lots of reliable cultural information about these plants and other plants. It helps growers and garden centers to increase plant sales.<\/p>\n

All American Selections (AAS) trials annuals and vegetables varieties across the United States annually. AAS awards now includes perennials and the 2014 perennial picks are: Gaura Sparkle White<\/strong> (Bedding Plant Award) and Penstemon Arabesque Red F1<\/strong> (Flower Award).<\/p>\n

Perennial Plant Association (PPA) selected Northwind switchgrass<\/strong> (Panicum virgatum<\/em> \u2018Northwind\u2019) as the 2014 Perennial Plant of the Year. This native grass grows 5 to 6 feet tall with a narrow upright form and steel green foliage.<\/p>\n

2014 Hosta of the Year (American Hosta Society) – Hosta \u2018Abiqua Drinking Gourd\u2019<\/strong> features deeply cupped, thick textured leaves. The rich blue-green leaves are large size, heavily corrugated.<\/p>\n

2013 Stout Silver Medal Winner (American Hemerocallis Society) \u2013 \u2018Heavenly Angel Ice\u2019<\/strong> is a re-blooming daylily with 8-inch wide flowers\/white petals and green-yellow throat. Flower scapes grow 36 inches high. Note:<\/strong> 2014 winner is designated late in 2014.<\/p>\n

2014 Dykes Medal Winner (America Iris Society) \u2013 Iris \u2018That\u2019s All Folks\u2019<\/strong> is a tall bearded iris with giant brilliant golden flowers with ruffled and laced edge petals.<\/p>\n

2014 Ivy of the Year (American Ivy Society) \u2013 Hedera helix<\/em> \u2018Teneriffe\u2019 \u2013 an old ivy variety with yellow-cream colored variegated, small-leafed ivy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the start of each year the Motion Picture Industry awards their Golden Globes and Oscars. The Music Industry has the Grammys. Gardening associations also announce the award-winning plants. The National Garden Bureau (NGB) has declared 2014 Year of the Echinacea (coneflower) in the perennial category. NGB declared the mighty cucumber as Vegetable of The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[768,926,735,730,811,900,688,625,907,691],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007"}],"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=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}