All-America Selections has announced its AAS winners available for the 2025 gardening season.
Brokers, growers and retailers will want to add these proven garden performers to their assortments to prep for demand coming in 2025.
All AAS winners are trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grow new entries next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class.
The AAS winners for 2025 (in alphabetical order) are:
Basil Piedmont: AAS Edible — Vegetable Winner, Regional (Great Lakes, Heartland)
Named for Piedmont, Italy, this disease-resistant new basil from GardenGenetics and Seeds by Design has strong exceptional downy mildew resistance (DMR), meaning healthier plants and weeks of extra harvests. This vigorous basil forms dense, bushy plants with a strong aroma and classic basil flavor. Its refined habit, with shorter internodes, ensures easy management and excellent post-harvest keeping quality. Even in challenging conditions, this basil thrives.
Cauliflower Muraski Fioretto: Edible — Vegetable, National
Murasaki (“purple” in Japanese), a new addition to the Fioretto long-stemmed cauliflower series (from the Italian word for “flower”) from Tokita Seed America, features vibrant purple florets and long, tender stems offering a sweet, mild flavor Easy to harvest, this heat-tolerant variety maintains its striking color through various cooking methods, transforming to fuchsia in vinegar and a golden brown when sautéed or roasted. It can be enjoyed raw as a colorful crudité. Murasaki’s compact habit, early maturity and excellent field holding make it a rewarding choice for home gardeners.
Celosia Flamma Pink: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
This semi-dwarf pink variety in the Flamma series from Clover Seed and distributed in North America by Sakata Seed Corporation boasts exceptional flower power, thanks to strong basal branching and abundant secondary heads. The result is a vibrant, long-lasting display of upright blooms that create a striking visual impact in the garden or in bouquets. Its vigorous field performance ensures it thrives even in hot and humid conditions, offering excellent display and shelf life that lasts beyond expectations. Perfect for bedding or cutting, this easy-to-grow celosia delivers continuous color and beauty.
Dahlia Black Forest Ruby: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
Dahlia Black Forest RubyThis plant from Takii Europe B.V. features deep black foliage and abundant ruby-red flowers. Blooms range from semi‐double to double. This is a seed-raised variety with pinnate leaves that has impressive overall durability. Plants are sturdy, do not flop open and are disease-free all season long.
Dianthus Capitan Magnifica: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
AAS Judges were impressed with this new dianthus bred by Selecta One, as it continued blooming and growing even through summer’s heat. One quick shearing after blooming, and it bounced back with a profusion of beautiful pink blooms that sport a consistent, light pink edging. New interspecific breeding gives it more heat tolerance than traditional dianthus varieties, with stems long enough to use as cut flowers. The more flower stems are cut for indoor enjoyment, the more blooms it puts forth.
Kohlrabi Konstance F1: Edible — Vegetable, National
This new purple kohlrabi from Bejo Seeds has a longer harvest window, an improved smoother skin and a vibrant purple color that extends out through the leaf margins. No matter if you grow in spring or fall, Konstance continues to produce flavorful crunchy bulbs that are crack-resistant and long-lasting. A bonus to the crisp, sweet, peppery bulb is that the leaves are also highly flavorful when roasted or sauteed, or they can be eaten raw when the leaves are young and tender.
Marigold Mango Tango: AAS Flower Winner, National
Mango Tango from Benary features super-saturated bi-color flowers of yellow and red. Compact, vigorous plants bloom prolifically over a long flowering window.
Nasturtium Baby Gold: AAS Ornamental Winner, Regional (Heartland, Northeast, Mountain/Southwest)
A new color in the popular Baby series of nasturtiums bred by Takii EU and distributed by American Takii, the Baby series is known for being a petite-flowered, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. AAS judges praised the uniformly compact plants that produced intense gold-colored flowers that did not fade. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping,” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The golden yellow color is contrasts beautifully with the dark-green foliage. Both the leaves and flowers are edible.
Nasturtium Baby Red: AAS Ornamental Winner, Regional (Heartland, Northeast, Mountain/Southwest)
A new color in the popular Baby series of nasturtiums bred by Takii EU and distributed by American Takii, the Baby series is known for being a floriferous, petite, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. AAS judges praised the uniformly compact plants that produced rich, red flowers. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping,” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The red blooms provide a nice contrast against the dark-green foliage. Both the leaves and flowers are edible.
Nasturtium Baby Yellow: AAS Ornamental Winner, Regional (Heartland, Northeast, Mountain/Southwest)
A new color in the popular Baby series of nasturtiums bred by Takii EU and distributed by American Takii, the Baby series is known for being a floriferous, petite, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. AAS judges praised the uniformly compact plants that produced soft yellow flowers. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping,” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The soft yellow color provides a nice contrast against the dark-green foliage. Both the leaves and flowers are edible.
Pepper Pick-N-Pop Yellow F1: Edible — Vegetable Winner, National
These snack-sized mini peppers from Seminis Home Garden are extra sweet with just the right amount of juiciness and crunch. They produce continuously on a moderate sized plant with outstanding bacterial leaf spot resistance and produce a prolific number of bright, canary yellow-colored, uniformly shaped peppers.
Petunia Dekko Maxx Pink: AAS Ornamental Winner, Regional (Great Lakes, Heartland, Northeast, West/Northwest)
This petunia from Syngenta Flowers dazzled the judges throughout the summer trials with its fast, compact spreading habit featuring loads of beautiful pink blooms. Delicate yet vibrant pink non-fading flowers covered the plant that held up extremely well to heavy rains and inclement weather throughout the season. Dekko’s versatile habit works well in garden beds, borders and landscape installations. It is a top performer by keeping a nice habit all season with a tremendous number of flowers that are resilient and maintenance-free.
Petunia Shake Raspberry F1: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
Petunia Shake Raspberry from Hem Genetics has the coloration of a blended raspberry milkshake swirled with lemon-lime green sorbet on a superior performing petunia. Naturally compact, this petunia will not melt in summer heat but instead will provide season-long color.
Snapdragon DoubleShot Yellow Red Heart F1: AAS Ornamental Seed Winner, National
Yellow Red Heart from Hem Genetics blooms early and holds up well through summer’s heat better than the comparison variety. The judges loved the early blooms, healthy plants, vibrant colors and long-lasting flowers. It also features a candy-like scent.
Squash Green Lightning F1: Edible — Vegetable Winner, National
Green Lightning squash, bred by Joseph Stern and marketed by PanAmerican Seed, impressed the judges with its early maturity. The color and pattern of the squash was novel and pretty enough to use as a decoration. When cooked, this squash had a nice robust flavor that stood up to added seasonings. The medium and light green rind has a glossy sheen, and the small seed cavity on a smaller squash means more edible flesh.
Squash Thriller F1: Edible — Vegetable Winner, National
Squash Thriller from Sakata Seed America brings new psychedelic color patterns to fall décor. The 1- to 2-pound dumpling squash has shallow vertical ridges that alternate between a variegated cream and green with bright orange. The dark green stems are decoratively twisted and well-attached. The semi-bush plants mature in 75 to 80 days from planting. The fruit colors shift and change as they mature for early to late season color. Judges across the U.S. and Canada agreed that Thriller is unique, well-adapted and easy to grow.
Tomato Tonatico F1: Edible — Vegetable Winner, Regional (Mountain/Southwest, Northeast)
Tomato Tonatico from Bejo Seeds features high yield, great texture, disease resistance and less fruit cracking and splitting. Judges were pleased with the superior sepals and pedicels, the taste and texture, and the uniform fruit clusters that held on long, easy-to-harvest trusses.
Vinca Sphere Polkadot: AAS Flower Winner, National
This new vinca from Miyoshi & Co. features a compact and uniformly rounded habit, creating a sphere of flowers that bloom profusely all summer. Its key benefits include excellent disease resistance, strong performance in hot dry conditions and superior resilience against heavy rain and storms, a crucial advantage in regions experiencing increasingly severe weather. This fast-flowering variety features small blooms on glossy foliage, making it an ideal choice for walkways, borders, containers and eco-friendly gardens.
Zinnia Crestar Mix: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
Crestar Mix from Takii Europe combines the best of crested zinnias in one varietal mix. Crested zinnias, also known as scabiosa-flowered zinnias, are known for their distinctive semi-double blooms with a pronounced central disc. Crestar Mix brings together a vibrant palette of colors — including pink, orange, red, white, peach and yellow — in a single planting. For a stunning display and a continuous supply of cut flowers all summer, plant Crestar Mix in masse and try succession planting. They feature large, striking blooms on healthy, robust plants that thrive even in summer’s heat and humidity.
Zinnia Zydeco Fire: AAS Ornamental Winner, National
Inspired by the lively, foot-stomping music of southwest Louisiana, this zinnia bred by Syngenta Flowers bursts with bright, fully double flowers that are noticeably larger than the comparisons. A kaleidoscope of fiery orange blooms sway on sturdy stems all summer long, right up until the first frost. Judges across North America couldn't resist its infectious charm — the Zydeco boasts not only incredible flower power, but also long-lasting blooms on disease-resistant foliage.
More about the AAS winners for 2025
Each of the new AAS Winners will be featured in custom videos on their individual AAS winner web page and on the AAS YouTube channel.
All AAS Winners are marketed through social media, public relations and trade shows, and are grown in AAS Display and Introduction Gardens across North America.
