The Confirmed Winners workforce has introduced its high picks listing of probably the most excellent and distinctive varieties from its 2024 new introduction lineup. Chosen for sturdy client enchantment and backed by Confirmed Winners nationwide advertising, these are varieties growers and retailers “will want of their 2024 packages” in keeping with the corporate.

Amongst this yr’s class of High Picks are two novel colours of double Calibrachoa, probably the most compact Hardy hibiscus so far, and a savory rose chosen for its fruity flavored petals and sturdy progress. Every of the High Picks has been rigorously examined for superior backyard efficiency together with illness resistance, vigor, sturdiness, and extra.

“Our plant improvement and trialing packages convey forth awe-inspiring, high quality new crops which are rated for warmth, humidity, and hardiness,” says Confirmed Winners Vice President of Gross sales, Dave Konsoer. “The High Picks could have sturdy client enchantment, incomes them elevated consideration throughout our advertising efforts, which construct additional client pleasure and demand. They need to be in each grower’s and retailer’s 2024 program.”

2024 High Choose Confirmed Winners Annuals

• Calibrachoa ‘Superbells Double Redstone’ – For one thing actually distinctive, do that new absolutely double, vermillion and gold bicolor choice. The petite blooms seem prolifically on sturdy, well-branched, mounded crops from spring into fall with out deadheading.
• Calibrachoa ‘Superbells Double Classic Coral’ (pictured in slideshow) – The whole lot classic is trending with shoppers, and this vintage amber- orange veined, absolutely double-flowered calibrachoa is the whole lot they’re on the lookout for. Obtained high marks in Florida trials for its sturdy behavior and season-long efficiency.
• Petunia ‘Supertunia Hoopla Vivid Orchid’ (pictured above) – This picotee-patterned petunia is the perfect Confirmed Winners has trialed in years. It meets Supertunia requirements for season-long efficiency with out deadheading, has a well-branched behavior, and reveals a constant, daring shade sample.
• Petunia ‘Supertunia Saffron Finch’ – As yellow continues to development with shoppers, Confirmed Winners is worked up to introduce this new sunny yellow Supertunia with a full, well-branched, rounded behavior. It’ll work nicely in your spring and summer time recipes and ship a stellar backyard efficiency.
• Verbena ‘Superbena Pink Cashmere’ – This pastel pink Superbena captured Confirmed Winners’ consideration in trials with its delicate flower shade, extraordinarily vigorous progress, large umbels, and exemplary resistance to powdery mildew.
• Caladium hortulanum ‘Coronary heart to Warmth Rain or Shine’ – Probably the most distinctive and vigorous caladiums Confirmed Winners has trialed, it sprouts and finishes rapidly in manufacturing, leading to attractive completed crops. Massive, bronze pink-red leaves with comfortable pink speckles and black veining stand out simply on grower and retail benches.

2024 High Choose Confirmed Winners Perennials

• Artemisia ‘Silver Lining’ (pictured in slideshow) – Grown for its spectacular foliage, this native cultivar types a low, huge mound of dissected silver foliage that retains its form all season. It’s reliably perennial and doesn’t unfold by underground runners. Use as a filler on the border’s edge or a spiller in container recipes. Hardy in zones 4-9.
• Hemerocallis ‘Rainbow Rhythm Blazing Glory’ – This hanging daylily bears very giant 6-inch golden yellow flowers with a daring burgundy crimson eye and matching picotee edge that extends across the total margin of the petals. A aromatic, semi-evergreen tetraploid with a excessive bud rely, blooming first midseason and reblooming in late summer time. Hardy in zones 3-9.
• Hibiscus ‘Summerific All Eyes on Me’ (pictured above) – One in every of Confirmed Winners’ most compact hardy hibiscus introductions so far. Effectively-rounded crops with dark-green foliage bloom high to backside with very giant 8-inch, blushing pink blossoms with a shiny crimson eye from midsummer to early fall. Closely overlapping, ruffled petals give the impression of being semi-double. Hardy in zones 4-9.
• Hosta ‘Shadowland Love Story’ – This medium-sized hosta bears lengthy, heart-shaped, inexperienced leaves with chartreuse jetting that bleeds into the creamy white middle. It’s made extra-special by variegation which extends from petiole to leaf tip and wavy piecrust leaf edges. Tall scapes maintain giant clusters of white flowers in early summer time. Hardy in zones 3-9.
• Phlox paniculata ‘Luminary Prismatic Pink’ – Basic bubblegum pink flowers with a dark-pink eye kind giant, dense panicles atop the clump of mildew-resistant, dark-green foliage for a number of months starting in midsummer. A great match for the sequence; excellent measurement for mid-border and an important reduce flower. This native hybrid is a pollinator favourite. Hardy in zones 3-8.
• Sedum ‘Rock ‘n Develop Midnight Velvet’ – This hanging upright sedum creates curiosity from the second its deep purple foliage emerges in spring. The total, domed behavior is adorned in late summer time with giant clusters of mauve buds which open to disclose rose-red flowers that entice pollinators earlier than transitioning to darkish crimson seed heads. Hardy in zones 3-9.

2024 High Choose Confirmed Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs

• Hibiscus syriacus ‘Starblast Chiffon’ (pictured above) – A stellar plant with giant, pure white flowers artistically inked with outwardly radiating crimson and pink veins to create a festive flower in contrast to some other. This selection flowers earlier and longer than typical and has a low seed set. Hardy in zones 5-9.
• Hydrangea macrophylla x serrata ‘Let’s Dance Sky View’ – A standout cultivar famous for its constant bloom and rebloom, whether or not you develop it in Michigan or Florida. The compact cultivar is loaded with blooms which shift simply to sky blue. Hardy in zones 4-9.
• Hydrangea paniculata ‘Puffer Fish’ (pictured above) – Consider this new choice as a bigger, extra puffed-up Bobo, with fluffy white blooms that engulf your entire plant, almost obscuring the foliage. The distinctive blossoms age to lime inexperienced reasonably than pink. Hardy in zones 3-8.
• Rosa ‘Flavorette Honey-Apricot’ – This edible rose was chosen particularly for its lush, full flowers, vigorous progress, in addition to the sensuous texture and candy, fruity taste of its petals. The aromatic blossoms seem constantly all through the summer time. Hardy in zones 4-8.
• Syringa × pubescens ‘Bloomerang Purpink’ – Unquestionably some of the prolific rebloomers on this sequence; classically aromatic flowers are produced in spring, summer time, and fall. Dependable illness resistance creates sturdiness within the panorama. Hardy in zones 3-7.

Growers and grower-retailers fascinated about Confirmed Winners 2024 new releases ought to contact their most popular dealer or Confirmed Winners propagator for particulars.