Top 6 Retailers’ Choice Award winners
The 2025 Farwest Show’s Retailers’ Choice Awards is a spotlight of standout products that caught the attention of garden center buyers and retail professionals.
Selected for innovation, performance and market potential, this year’s Top 6 winners represent solutions retailers believe will make a meaningful impact on their businesses and customers in the seasons ahead.
1. CROSOSMIA ‘DARK FIRE’
Monrovia
(Shown above) Smoky purple-green foliage gives this plant a moody air before going ablaze with red and yellow bicolor flowers in summer.
2. SNAKEROOT ‘PINK SPIKE’
Monrovia
This herbaceous perennial features chocolate- purple foliage, making it a striking addition to a shade garden. Long, slender, light pink, fragrant flower spikes tower above the foliage in late summer and fall.
3. CAMELIA SINENSIS ‘YELLOW TEA’
Youngblood Nursery
This highly variegated camelia is a small shrub that grows to 6 feet, with shiny green and yellow variegated leaves and small yellow flowers.
4. ALPHA RUBY RUFFLE PATIO PEACH
Alpha Nursery
Part of Star Roses and Plants’ Bloomables collection, it is a compact ornamental tree and blooms with clusters of dark pink, ruffled flowers in the spring followed by burgundy foliage with wavy edges.
5. IPOMOEA ‘SWEET CAROLINA SHADOWSTORM’
Proven Winners
This new sweet potato vine has heart-shaped, near-black leaves that are speckled with green.
6. HELLEBORE ‘WINTER MOONBEAM’
Meridian Young Plants-JRT
Smoky purple-green foliage gives this plant a moody air before going ablaze with red and yellow bicolor flowers in summer.
All photos courtesy of The Garden Center Group.
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