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Six new varieties earn prestigious AAS Winner award

All-America Selections, one of North America’s most well-known and respected nonprofit plant trialing organizations, has six impressive new winners that brokers, growers and retailers can still add to their 2022 product mix.

All AAS Winners are trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grow new, never-before-sold entries next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class. Only those entries that have superior garden performance, better than the comparisons, are granted the AAS award designation. Click the link below for full descriptions.

The newest AAS Winners are:

• Celosia Flamma Orange (National)
• Pepper Quickfire F1 (National)
• Torenia Summery Love Pure White F1 (Regional)
• Verbena Beats Purple+White (National)
• Verbena bonariensis Vanity (National)
• Zinnia Queeny Lemon Peach (Regional)

Dümmen Orange moves pot and garden mum breeding to the Netherlands

Breeder Dümmen Orange has moved its breeding facilities for pot and garden mums from Fareham (UK) to its location in De Kwakel (the Netherlands). There, newly installed and climate-controlled greenhouse compartments provide stable and monitored conditions for conducting trials.

With this move, Dümmen Orange has centralized its breeding activities for pot and garden Chrysanthemum at one location. This includes building up and maintenance of mother stock, the development of new varieties and the organization of flower trials. At the De Kwakel location, Dümmen Orange has access to a large field for extensive outdoor trials in order to assess the garden performance of its garden mum range.

Winners of the 2021-2022 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners HRI scholarships announced

Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) have announced the recipients of 2021-2022 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund scholarships.

Dale and Liz Deppe established the Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund in 1999 with the belief that backing bright, well-trained, qualified people is essential to the green industry’s protection and growth. Through HRI, the AmericanHort Foundation acts as the administrator of the endowments.

This year's winners are Yuvraj Khamare, John Nix and Runshi Xie.