All-America Selections announces winners for 2025

Bring the flavors of Piedmont, Italy to your garden with this disease-resistant new basil. Its exceptional downy mildew resistance means healthier plants and weeks of extra harvests compared to other varieties. This vigorous basil forms dense, bushy plants with a strong aroma and classic basil flavor. Its refined habit, with shorter internodes, ensures easy management and excellent post-harvest keeping quality. Even in challenging conditions, this basil thrives, offering a rewarding and abundant harvest.

Murasaki (“purple” in Japanese), a new addition to the Fioretto long-stemmed cauliflower series (from the Italian word for “flower”), is a culinary and visual delight. Its vibrant purple florets and long, tender stems offer a sweet, mild flavor and are easy to harvest. This heat-tolerant variety maintains its striking color through various cooking methods, transforming to fuchsia in vinegar and a rich golden brown when sautéed or roasted. Enjoy it raw as a colorful crudité. Murasaki’s compact habit, early maturity, and excellent field holding make it a rewarding choice for home gardeners.

This semi-dwarf pink variety boasts exceptional flower power, thanks to strong basal branching and abundant secondary heads. The result is a vibrant, long-lasting display of upright blooms that create a striking visual impact in the garden or in bouquets. Its vigorous field performance ensures it thrives even in hot and humid conditions, offering excellent display and shelf life that lasts well beyond expectations. Perfect for bedding or cutting, this easy-to-grow celosia delivers continuous color and beauty.

Black Forest Ruby features striking deep black foliage and abundant ruby-red flowers. Blooms range from semi‐double to double, enhancing its diversity and charm. This is a seed-raised variety with pinnate leaves that has impressive overall durability. Plants are sturdy, do not flop open and are disease free all season long. Bring this picturesque beauty to your garden for a dramatic statement that is sure to please.

This new dianthus continues blooming and growing even through summer’s heat. One quick shearing after blooming and it bounced back with a profusion of beautiful pink blooms that sport a consistent, light pink edging. New interspecific breeding gives this beauty more heat tolerance than traditional dianthus varieties which also have stems long enough to be used as cut flowers. Bonus, the more flower stems you cut for indoor enjoyment, the more blooms this Capitan puts forth.

This kohlrabi holds steadfastly in the garden to give a longer harvest window for kohlrabi fans. This new purple kohlrabi has an improved smoother skin and an attractive, vibrant purple color that extends out through the leaf margins. No matter if you grow in spring or fall, Konstance continues to produce flavorful crunchy bulbs that are crack-resistant and long-lasting. A bonus to the crisp, sweet, peppery bulb is that the leaves are also highly flavorful when roasted or sauteed or, eat them raw when the leaves are young and tender.

This is the only marigold you’ll need to make an impressive garden statement with a stunning, super-saturated bi-color flower of yellow and red. Compact, vigorous plants bloom prolifically over a long flowering window to make an eye-catching display that will wow your audience.

A petite-flowered, mounding variety with healthy, dark foliage ideal for containers and small space gardens. Their compact habit means less “flower flopping” with their blooms remaining upright throughout the season. The golden yellow color contrasts beautifully with the dark green foliage. Bonus: both the leaves and flowers are edible!

A new color in the popular Baby series of nasturtiums! The red blooms provide a nice contrast against the dark green foliage and both leaves and flowers are edible.

Another new color in the popular Baby series of nasturtiums! The soft yellow color provides a nice contrast against the dark-green foliage and both leaves and flowers are edible.

These snack-sized mini peppers are extra sweet with just the right amount of juiciness and crunch. They produce continuously on a moderate sized plant with outstanding bacterial leaf spot resistance and produce a prolific number of bright, canary yellow-colored, uniformly shaped peppers.

This petunia has a compact spreading habit featuring loads of beautiful pink blooms. Delicate yet vibrant pink non-fading flowers literally covered the plant that held up extremely well to heavy rains and inclement weather throughout the season. Dekko’s versatile habit works well in garden beds, borders, and landscape installations. It is a top performer by keeping a nice habit all season with a tremendous number of flowers.

Petunia Shake^™ Raspberry has the coloration of a blended raspberry milkshake swirled with lemon-lime green sorbet on a superior performing petunia. Naturally compact, this petunia will not melt in summer heat but instead will provide season long, delicious color.

This snadragon blooms early and holds up well through summer’s heat better than the comparison variety. An additional bonus is that this snapdragon will hit you with an amazing candy-like scent!

It’s early and it’s fast! This squash is an early maturing variety with beautiful color and pattern and robust flavor when cooked that stands up to added seasonings. The small seed cavity on a smaller squash means more delicious edible flesh.

Thriller squash brings new psychedelic color patterns to your fall décor. The 1-2 pound dumpling squash have shallow vertical ridges that alternate between a variegated cream and green with bright orange. The dark green stems are decoratively twisted and well attached. The semi-bush plants mature in 75-80 days from planting. The fruit colors shift and change as they mature for early to late season color.

Just when you thought you had your all-time favorite cherry tomato, Tonatico comes along to change your mind! This variety has high yield, delicious flavor, great texture, less cracking and splitting and better disease resistance. The plant also has uniform fruit clusters that held on long, easy-to-harvest trusses.

This new vinca boasts a charming, compact, and uniformly rounded habit, creating a sphere of flowers that bloom profusely all summer. Its key benefits include excellent disease resistance, strong performance in hot dry conditions, and superior resilience against heavy rain and storms; a crucial advantage in regions experiencing increasingly severe weather. This fast-flowering variety features small, sparkling blooms on glossy foliage, making it an ideal choice for walkways, borders, containers, and eco-friendly gardens.

Crestar Mix combines the best of crested zinnias in one fantastic varietal mix. Crested zinnias, also known as scabiosa-flowered zinnias, are known for their distinctive semi-double blooms with a pronounced central disc. Crestar Mix brings together a vibrant palette of colors—including pink, orange, red, white, peach, and yellow—in a single planting. For a stunning display and a continuous supply of cut flowers all summer long, plant Crestar Mix in masse and try succession planting. These beauties boast large, striking blooms on healthy, robust plants that thrive even in summer’s heat and humidity.

Inspired by the lively, foot-stomping music of Southwest Louisiana, this zinnia bursts with sunshine-bright, fully double flowers that are noticeably larger than the comparisons. Picture a kaleidoscope of fiery orange blooms, swaying on sturdy stems all summer long, right up until the first frost.