Two Proven Winners ColorChoice Varieties Take Top Honors in Australia’s 2025 Plant of the Year

The Plant of the Year designation acknowledges outstanding plant varieties in Australia. These plants spark innovation and interest in the industry and exemplify exciting developments in horticulture.

Proven Winners ColorChoice Fire Ball Seedless Euonymus Earns Green Thumb Award

The National Garden Bureau has released its winners of the 2025 Green Thumb Awards, and Proven Winners ColorChoice Fire Ball Seedless Euonymus alatus has come out on top in the shrub category in the Professional’s Choice division. 

13 Plants with Cocktail Inspired Names

December 19, 2024 Proven Winners

These plants aren’t edible. You can’t use them in cocktails. They don’t necessarily have anything in common other than they are named after cocktails or ingredients in cocktails. 

Proven Winners: Leaves, Bark and Movement for Winter Interest

As we move into “stick” season as we call it in New England, when mostly we’re looking at bare tree and shrub branches, it’s good to remember we can have more than “sticks” in our yards. There are herbaceous perennial flowers, grasses and shrubs that can put on quite a show, especially in locations that have less consistent snow cover in winter.

Leaves, Bark and Movement for Winter 

Many gardeners are quick to cut back their perennial flower gardens in fall. Current thinking is to leave the spent flowers, branches and leaves. They provide overwintering sites for beneficial insects and pollinators.