What is AAS? What are the breeding trends we see? What are the newest AAS Winners? What does NGB do?

1. Cool Things You
Never Knew About

2. “A non-profit
organization, founded in
1932 by Mr. Ray
Hastings, that promotes
new garden varieties
judged to have superior
garden performance in
impartial trials
throughout North
What is AAS?

3. How many AAS Winners were
introduced that first year?

4. AAS continues as the oldest, most
established international testing
organization in North America.

5. Four Trials for Entries
Breeders enter new, never-before-sold cultivars
to be judged in one of four categories:
1. Seed Ornamentals
2. Vegetative Ornamentals
3. Edible/Vegetables from Seed
4. Herbaceous Perennials

6. On average, how many total
entries do we get per year?

7. AAS Trial Site:
Green Bay Botanic Garden

8. AAS Trial Site:
Costa Farms in Florida

9. AAS Trial Site:
University of Georgia

10. AAS Trial Site:
Syngenta in California

11. How many AAS Trial sites do
we have for 2020?

12. • Horticulture professionals
• Seasoned trialing experts
• Unpaid – they volunteer their time
• Unbiased - cannot judge entries from their own
company
• The basis of our trialing program
AAS Trial Judges

13. Introduction Time
• Variety name
• Publicity photos
• Inventory
• Testing complete
• Priced and ready
By now, it can be
declared an “AAS
Winner”

14. Trivia:
How many photos do we allow
the breeder to post on our
website, per variety?

15. Publicity Program

16. Our Website

17. Publicity Program
Social Media
Pinterest
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Slide Share
• Etc.

18. Publicity Program
Display Gardens
Public Gardens, Garden Centers,
Extension/Master Gardener Groups grow and
display the past five years of AAS Winners.

19. How many AAS Display
Gardens do we have for 2020?

20. Easy to Find A Display Garden
4 in Indiana!

21. Display Garden:
SW Indiana MG Demo Garden

22. Purdue Extension-Marion
County

23. MG Assoc of Tippecanoe
County

24. MG Assoc of Tippecanoe
County

25. AAS Winner availability
You can purchase AAS Winners from your
favorite retailer. Just ask for them by name or by
“AAS Winners”

26. Let’s Talk About

27. Coleus Main Street Beale Street
2020 Ornamental Vegetative Winner

28. Cucumber Green Light F1
2020 Edible Winner

29. What year did our Herbaceous
Perennial Trial begin?
What year did we announce
our first Winners from that
trial?

30. Echinacea Sombrero® Baja Burgundy
2020 Herbaceous Perennial Winner

31. Nasturtium Tip Top Rose
2020 Ornamental Seed Winner

32. Pumpkin Blue Prince F1
2020 Edible Winner

33. Rudbeckia x American Gold Rush
2020 Herbaceous Perennial Winner

34. Tomato Apple Yellow F1
2020 Edible Winner

35. Tomato Buffalosun F1
2020 Edible Winner

36. Tomato Celano F1
2020 Edible Winner

37. Tomato Chef’s Choice Bicolor F1
2020 Edible Winner

38. Tomato Crockini F1
2020 Edible Winner

39. Tomato Galahad F1
2020 Edible Winner

40. Tomato Early Resilience F1
2020 Edible Winner

41. Watermelon Mambo F1
2020 Edible Winner

42. Begonia Viking XL Red on Chocolate F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

43. Marigold Big Duck Gold F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

44. Marigold Big Duck Orange F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

45. Marigold Big Duck Orange & Yellow F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

46. Melon Orange SilverWave F1
2019 Edible Winner

47. Nasturtium Baby Rose
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

48. Pepper Just Sweet F1
2019 Edible Winner

49. Trivia:
Which flower class has had the
most Winners?
How many?

50. Petunia Wave® Carmine Velour F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

51. Potato Clancy F1
2019 Edible Winner

52. Tomato Firefly F1
2019 Edible Winner

53. Tomato Mountain Rouge F1
2019 Edible Winner

54. Tomato Red Torch F1
2019 Edible Winner

55. Tomato Sparky XSL F1
2019 Edible Winner

56. Vinca MegaBloom Polka Dot F1
2019 Ornamental Seed Winner

57. For More…www.aaswinners.com

58. “A non-profit
organization, founded in
1920 by James Burdett,
who believed the home
gardener needed basic
instruction in backyard
gardening.”
What is NGB?

59. NGB Programs

60. 2020 Year of:

61. NGB’s Social Media
Community
Reach of
almost
100,000
strong!

62. For More…www.ngb.org

63. Questions?
Email:
dblazek@aaswinners.com
or dblazek@ngb.org
PH: 630-963-0770
Thank you!