Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award |
Trial |
Region | Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Best Annuals at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2006 | 6a | 6 |
| Black Pearl Pepper Capsicum | Capsicum | Best Annuals at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2006 | 6a | 6 |
| Black Pearl Pepper Capsicum | Capsicum | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Vista® Silverberry Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Hall of Fame | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2012 | 6a | 6 |
| Summer Wave® Trailing Large Blue Wishbone Flower Torenia hybrid | Torenia | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome hybrid | Cleome | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Dipt in Wine Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' | Pennisetum | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Margarita Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Superbells® Watermelon Punch™ Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2019 | 6a | 6 |
| Luscious® Basket Tangeglow® Lantana camara | Lantana | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2022 | 6a | 6 |
| Gays Delight Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Freckles Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® Hot Pink Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Superbells® Honeyberry™ Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2019 | 6a | 6 |
| 'Perfect Profusion' Perennial Salvia Salvia nemorosa | Salvia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2018 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
