Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graceful Grasses® King Tut® Egyptian Papyrus Cyperus papyrus | Cyperus | Top 10 | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2011 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Hot® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer - Hanging Baskets | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2019 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Supertunia Vista® Silverberry Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Heart to Heart® 'Scarlet Flame' Sun or Shade Caladium Caladium hortulanum | Caladium | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2024 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Sunsatia® Cranberry Red Nemesia hybrid | Nemesia | Top Performer - Hanging Baskets | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2019 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome hybrid | Cleome | Best Annuals | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2011 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Cerveza 'n Lime® Plectranthus hybrid | Plectranthus | Best Baskets | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2011 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Artist® Blue Flossflower Ageratum hybrid | Ageratum | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2021 | 6a | 6 |
| Snow Princess® Sweet Alyssum Lobularia hybrid | Lobularia | Top 10 | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2009 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Heart to Heart® 'Lemon Blush' Shade Caladium Caladium hortulanum | Caladium | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2024 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Perfect Score All Season - Hanging Baskets | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2019 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Rockapulco® Rose Double Impatiens Impatiens walleriana | Impatiens | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Vista® Paradise Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2018 | 6a | 6 |
| Diamond Mountain® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Top 10 | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2017 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2019 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Luscious® Goldengate™ Lantana camara | Lantana | Top Performer | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2019 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Supertunia® Lovie Dovie™ Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top 10 Plant | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2020 | 6a | 6 |
| Freckles Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Top Performer | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2012 |
3a 3b |
3 |
