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Garden Idol 2012 The Finalists
Garden Idol 2012: Where your votes decide this season's hottest new introduction!
Garden Idol 2012 Finalists
 
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You've seen 11 hot, new introductions for spring 2012. Which one will fly out of the nursery, greenhouse and garden center the fastest appearing in landscapes around the country this year? Your votes decide. Vote today for Garden Idol 2012.
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Garden Idol 2012 Meet the Judges

Your host, Lloyd Traven, introduces this season's irreverent panel of expert judges. Get ready for their no-holds-barred, expert opinions on how this year's new plant introductions will perform in the landscape, in your greenhouse or nursery, and in your garden center.

Garden Idol 2012 Conard-Pyle

Popcorn, introduces cream to yellow flowers to the Drift series, a knee-high version of the Knock-Out rose with excellent cold hardiness and disease resistance.
Sunshine Daydream is the first ever AARS winner from the "no spray" trials, with large, double, buttercream flowers.

Garden Idol 2012 Monrovia

An exciting discovery, this attractive sport of Little Rascal® Holly is a more upright grower, still having a dense, rounded form. Shiny dark green foliage takes on attractive purple-burgundy tone in fall and winter.

Garden Idol 2012 Bailey Nurseries

Add totally awesome color to your garden with First Editions® Sapphire Surf™ Bluebeard. This compact, low-maintenance shrub features an ocean of deep blue flowers from late summer through early fall.
This amazing new Physocarpus is fit for a queen with fabulous foliage in orange, yellow and gold tones. In fall, the foliage transforms to regal red and royal purple.

Garden Idol 2012 Hines Growers

Hines brings two Bloomtastic! new introductions: Lavender Veil Butterfly Bush and Amazon Queen Bahama Bay Hibiscus.

Garden Idol 2012 Plant Development Services Inc.

Plant Development Services offers two new introductions from the Southern Living Collection, bright red, Majesty Shrub Rose and Autumn Sunburst, a new addition to the Encore Azalea series.

Garden Idol 2012 Hort Couture

Fiery Hells Bells Petunia and wavy Under the Sea Coleus headline Hort Couture's 2012 introductions.

Garden Idol 2012 The Finalists

Which of our 11 hot new introductions will be Garden Idol 2012? Your votes decide.

Garden Idol 2012 And the Winner Is...?

The winner of Garden Idol 2012 is revealed. Your votes have been counted, and the winner is...
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Who will win Garden Idol 2012?
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The votes are in.....
7%
Sunshine Daydream Rose
From Conard-Pyle
31%
Scallywag Holly
From Monrovia
3%
Buddleia 'Lavender Veil' PPAF
From Hines Growers
18%
First Editions® Amber Jubilee™ Ninebark
From Bailey Nurseries
2%
Majesty™ Shrub Rose
From Plant Development Services, Inc.
20%
Under the Sea™ Coleus
From Hort Couture
2%
Bahama Bay™ Hibiscus ‘Amazon Queen’
From Hines Growers
3%
First Editions® Sapphire Surf™ Caryopteris
From Bailey Nurseries
2%
Autumn Sunburst™ Encore® Azalea
From Plant Development Services, Inc.
1%
Petunia Panache™ Hell's Bells
From Hort Couture
10%
Popcorn Drift® Rose
From Conard-Pyle
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Conard-Pyle introduces a new, high-performance, yellow shrub rose.
Monrovia delivers a disease-resistant, dark-green, male holly for your landscape.
Hines Growers introduces a long-blooming, cascading Butterfly Bush to their Bloomtastic!™
Plant Development Services introduces a new, high-performance, true red, shrub rose.
Wavy, wild foliage like you've never seen before from Hort Couture.
A fiery new introduction to the Bahama Bay™ Hibiscus series from Hines Growers.
A new, low-mounding Caryopteris from Bailey Nurseries.
This coral-pink, white edged flowerer is the latest addition to Plant Development Services' Encore Azalea series.
Hort Couture introduces the world's first Orange Petunia!
Conard-Pyle introduces a brand new color into their popular Drift series of shrub roses.
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Project and Editorial Design: Jonathan Bardzik, ANLA

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