Proven Winners wins Green Thumb Awards
Illuminati Tiny Tower
Philadelphus.
Peppy Le Pom
Punica granatum.
The Direct Gardening Association (formerly called the Mailorder Gardening Association) presented Proven Winners ColorChoice Illuminati Tiny Tower Philadelphus and Peppy Le Pom Punica granatum, with 2019 Green Thumb Awards for best new plants in the plants, bulbs and seeds division. Selected for its narrow, columnar habit and unique four-sided “tower” effect, Illuminati Tiny Tower mock orange features hundreds of fragrant white flowers along dramatically upright branches, each nestled within dark green foliage. Peppy Le Pom ornamental pomegranate is a dwarf shrub that blooms early and all summer long, peppered with bright orange blooms that give way to small, ornamental fruit.