Perennial Plant of the Year
Each year the Perennial Plant Association sends each member a ballot to select a Perennial Plant of the Year. Here are the Plants from 2000 to 2022:
2024: Phlox Paniculata "Jeana"
2023: Rudbeckia "American Gold Rush" PP28498
2022: Schizachyrium scoparium "Little Bluestem Grass" - Twilight Zone
2021: Calamintha nepta Subsp. nepeta “Lesser Calamint” Not hardy in Zone 2 Southern Alberta
2020: Aralia cordata “Sun King” - This is not a hardy perennial in Chinook Zone 2/3
2019: Stachys officinalis "Hummelo" Wood Betony
2018: Allium nutens millennium - "Millenium" -
Ornamental Onion Millenium
2017: Asclepias tuberosa - "Butterfly Weed" or "Milkweed"
2016: Anemone hybrida - "Honorine Jobert"
2015: Geranium × Cantabrigiense 'Biokovo' - Biokovo Cranesbill Geranium
2014: Panicum virgatum 'Northwind' "Northwind Switch Grass"
2013 - Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum' "Variegated Solomon’s Seal"
2012 - Brunnera Macrophylla “Jack Frost”
2011 - Amsonia hubrichtti - Not hardy in Zone 2 Southern Alberta area.
2010 - Baptisia Australis Purple Smoke
2009 - Hakonechloa macra "Aureola" - Not hardy in Zone 2 Southern Alberta area.
2008 - Geranium x "Rozanne"
2007 - Nepeta x faassenii Walker’s Low
2006 - Dianthus gratianopolitanus "Feuerhexe" (Firewitch)
2005 - Lenten Rose - Helleborus xhybridus - Not hardy in Zone 2 Southern Alberta area.
2004 - Japanese Painted Fern - Athyrium niponicum "Pictum"
2003 - Leucanthemum "Becky"
2002 - Phlox Paniculata “David”
2001 - “Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass” - Calamagrostis x acutiflora
2000 - Scabiosa Columbaria “Butterfly Blue” - Pincushion Flower
1999 - Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii "Goldstrum"
1998 - Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus"
1997 - Savia "Mainacht" (May Night)
1996 - Penstemon digitalis "Husker Red"
1995 - Perovskia atriplicifolia "Russian Sage"
1994 - Astilbe 'Sprite"
1993 - Veronica "Sunny Border Blue"
1992 - Coreopsis verticillata "Moonbeam" Not hardy in Zone 2 Southern Alberta
1991 - Heuchera micrantha "Place Purple"
1990 - Phlox stolonifera