As spring unfurled its colors, Doylestown Living Magazine turned to Carolyn Pfaff—The Lawn Depot’s Turf Management & Garden Center Specialist—to serve as their Lawn & Garden Expert Contributor. In her featured piece, “Proven Winners for a Vibrant Spring,” Carolyn highlights how Proven Winners’ plants are the best choice for gardening and landscaping.
Why The Proven Winners Brand:
Each Proven Winner’s plant goes through rigorous tests and trials at their numerous growing sites worldwide to ensure it’s success. Proven Winners offers a curated range of annuals, perennials and shrubs and to earn the Proven Winners seal, each variety must be:
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Effortless to grow and maintain
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Exceptionally floriferous
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Vividly colorful
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Naturally healthy and vigorous
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Guaranteed to bloom for an extended season
Proven Winners’ Best Picks for Spring 2025:
All of the following varieties have been vetted through company trials and field-tested by Proven Winners and are avalible at The Lawn Depot.
Annuals
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Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum®: Trailing petunia with bubblegum-pink blooms, ideal for hanging baskets.
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Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry®: Mounded petunia featuring magenta-pink flowers with white edges.
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Superbells® Blue Moon Punch™: Compact million bells with lavender-pink trumpet blooms.
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Superbells® Holy Cow!™: Flecked white-and-purple million bells in a neat, low mound.
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Salvia hybrid Rockin’® Fuchsia: Upright salvia with vibrant fuchsia spikes, great for pollinators.
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Suncredible® Saturn™ Sunflower: Dwarf sunflower (24–30″) with large golden-yellow heads.
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Suncredible® Yellow Sunflower: Compact sunflower with bright yellow blooms on shorter stems.
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Golden Butterfly® Marguerite Daisy: Small clump-forming daisy with golden-yellow, butterfly-shaped flowers.
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Coleus ColorBlaze® Cherry Drop: Shade-tolerant coleus with cherry-red foliage edged in burgundy.
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Lantana Luscious® Royale Cosmo: Petite lantana with pastel pink-lavender clusters.
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Lantana Luscious® Royale Red Zone: Compact lantana boasting fiery red-orange blooms.
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Lantana Luscious® Marmalade: Small lantana with golden-orange flowers that age to apricot.
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Stratosphere™ Pink Picotee Butterfly Flower: Airy gaura with pink-edged white blooms fluttering on wiry stems.
Grasses
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Purple Fountain Grass: Ornamental grass with burgundy-purple foliage and plumes (24–36″).
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Prince Tut™ Dwarf Egyptian Papyrus: Compact papyrus forming 12–18″ mounds of umbrella-like greenery.
Perennials
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Meant to Bee® ‘Royal Raspberry’ Anise Hyssop: Pollinator-friendly spikes of raspberry-purple flowers.
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Amsonia ‘Storm Cloud’ (Blue Star): Mounded foliage with pale blue star-shaped flowers in late spring.
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Brunnera ‘Jack of Diamonds’: Shade perennial with silver-flecked, heart-shaped leaves and blue spring flowers.
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Clematis ‘Sweet Summer Love’: Vine producing lavender-pink bell-shaped blooms all summer.
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Nepeta ‘Cat’s Meow’ (Catmint): Aromatic gray-green foliage topped with lavender-blue flower spikes.
Shrubs
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Pugster Blue® Butterfly Bush: Compact shrub (2–3′) with violet-blue, fragrant flower panicles.
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Berry Poppins® Winterberry: Deciduous holly with bright red berries (female; needs pollinator).
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Rise Up Amberness® Rose: Floribunda rose with apricot-amber blooms and mild fragrance.
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Viburnum nudum Brandywine™: Multi-season interest: white spring flowers, blue summer berries, fall foliage color.
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