Winning Flower Seeds, Vegetable Seeds for 2013

By All-America Selections
Published on November 20, 2012
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All-America Selection's Canna South Pacific Scarlet is one of the 2013 flowering plant award winners.
All-America Selection's Canna South Pacific Scarlet is one of the 2013 flowering plant award winners.
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All-America Selection's Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit won a 2013 award.
All-America Selection's Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit won a 2013 award.
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Geranium Pinto Premium White to Rose is one of the flowering plants to win the 2013 All-America Selections awards.
Geranium Pinto Premium White to Rose is one of the flowering plants to win the 2013 All-America Selections awards.
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Tomato Cherry Jasper F1 is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.
Tomato Cherry Jasper F1 is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.
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Melon Melemon F! is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.
Melon Melemon F! is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.
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Watermelon Harvest Moon F1 is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.
Watermelon Harvest Moon F1 is a 2013 vegetable award winner for All-America Selections.

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – The All-America Selections (AAS) Board of Directors approved two flowering plants from previous trials as the first two winners for the 2013 gardening season. The second batch of winners, in a sign of the continuing trend in the home garden market, features three plants from the vegetable category, even though two are classified botanically as fruits, and one is debatably a fruit. A fourth winner, a geranium, is always a garden-favorite.

Each of these winners was trialed next to two or three other similar varieties that are currently on the market. The AAS judges grew each entry, and then did a side-by-side analysis of growth habit, taste, disease resistance and additional characteristics to determine if these were truly better than those already available to home gardeners. Only those entries with superior garden performance (and taste, for edibles) are granted the honor of an AAS Award.

Canna ‘South Pacific Scarlet’ F1, AAS Flower Award Winner

Allow ‘South Pacific’ to add a touch of the tropics to your garden with showy, 4-inch flowers that bloom all summer long in a delicious shade of scarlet.

AAS judges raved about this first F1 hybrid canna from seed because it is such a floriferous bloomer. ‘South Pacific’ grows up 4 to 5 feet tall and 12 to 18 inches wide, providing a great grouping of specimen plants or a back-of-the-border focal point. The colorful blooms are produced on a flower spike held above the large leafed statuesque plants.

Home gardeners will love the robust nature and the many flower-laden branches it produces. ‘South Pacific’ boasts six to seven stems per plant and delivers larger flowers than other seed cannas. The scarlet flowers appear early, bloom consistently all summer and withstand a light frost better than comparisons. As with other cannas, ‘South Pacific’ tolerates wet conditions so it can be used as a pond border or in other similar growing conditions. It requires full sun, spacing of 18 to 24 inches, and will take 11 to 12 weeks from seed to flower.

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