By Paul A. Thomas, UGA horticulturist
Photos by Meg Green

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A Sampling From the Garden

Folks always ask for each year's top plants at the UGA Trial Gardens. Some flowers joined the UGA trials just last year and are still being evaluated by the staff. For a knockout garden, keep this list handy as you visit garden centers. While all these plants have performed well at UGA, many are new to the trade and might be hard to find in local retail centers.

Sky-blue flowers bloom in late summer and early fall. The plant colonizes well.

This subtropical plant produces a pinkish-white flower that resembles a pineapple and has bright, maroon-red leaves in spring.

All summer long 'Rozanne' produces shades of magenta blooms in Georgia's heat and humidity.

Producing a sea of rosy-pink flowers when used in mass plantings, 'Jenny' is easy to grow but lives for only two or three years.

This pink-flowered perennial has slightly larger flowers and more of them than the already popular blue pincushion flowers.

Deep, purple-blue flowers contrast with fluorescent, yellow-green, upright leaves.

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