AAS names 10 more winners for 2025
All-America Selections (AAS) has announced 10 new AAS Winners available now for the 2025 gardening season.
Brokers, growers and retailers will want to add these proven garden performers to their assortments to prep for demand coming in 2025. Breeder sales contacts are included below each description.
All AAS Winners are trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grow new, never-before-sold entries next to comparisons that are considered best-in-class. Only those entries that have superior garden performance, better than the comparisons, are granted the AAS award designation.
The newest AAS Winners for 2025 are:
- Dahlia ‘Black Forest Ruby’ — National Winner
- Kohlrabi ‘Konstance F1’ — National Winner
- Marigold ‘Mango Tango’ — National Winner
- Mini pepper ‘Pick-N-Pop Yellow F1’ — National Winner
- Petunia ‘Dekko Maxx Pink’ — Regional Winner (GL, HL, NE, W/NW)
- Petunia ‘Shake Raspberry F1’ — National Winner
- Snapdragon ‘DoubleShot Yellow Red Heart F1’ — National Winner
- Squash ‘Green Lightning F1’ — National Winner
- Squash ‘Thriller F1’ — National Winner
- Tomato ‘Tonatico F1’ — Regional Winner (M/SW and NE)
All AAS Winners are marketed through social media, public relations and trade shows and are grown in AAS Display and Introduction Gardens across North America. In addition, the AAS office creates and maintains a variety of marketing pieces and resources for anyone in the industry to use, such as:
Dahlia ‘Black Forest Ruby’
AAS Ornamental from Seed Winner
National Winner
This AAS Winner emerged from the AAS trials in a burst of brilliant color! Black Forest Ruby is a gem of a plant featuring 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.
Bred by Takii Europe B.V.
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Kohlrabi ‘Konstance F1’
AAS Edible Winner
National Winner
Konstance 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.
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Marigold ‘Mango Tango’
AAS Ornamental from Seed Winner
National Winner
AAS Winner Mango Tango is the only marigold you’ll need to make an impressive garden statement. Mango Tango dances through the garden strutting its stuff: 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 wows.
Bred by Ernst Benary of America
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Pepper ‘Pick-N-Pop Yellow F1’
AAS Edible Winner
National Winner
If Peter Piper picked a peck of poppin’ peppers, you’ll be pleased to plant some peppers, too! Why? Because once you harvest the Pick-N-Pop yellow peppers you are going to want to pop them in your mouth! 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.
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Petunia ‘Dekko Maxx Pink’
AAS Ornamental Non-Seed Winner
Regional Winner (Great Lakes, Heartland, Northeast and West/Northwest)
It’s a razzle dazzle petunia with the new ‘Dekko Maxx Pink’! This petunia dazzled the judges throughout the summer trials with its fast, 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.
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Petunia ‘Shake Raspberry F1’
AAS Ornamental from Seed Winner
National Winner
Is there anything more iconic in Americana than a milkshake? Is there any flower more iconic in American gardens than a multiflora petunia? Here is where two worlds collide! 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. What an eye-catching and unique flower to serve up in your garden.
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Snapdragon ‘DoubleShot Yellow Red Heart F1’
AAS Ornamental from Seed Winner
National Winner
Does DoubleShot mean double flowers or double winners? Both! Yellow Red Heart joins her sister Orange Bicolor to really make a stunning “hit” in your garden. This snapdragon holds up well through summer’s heat better than the comparison variety. The fans (the AAS judges) of this variety loved the early blooms, healthy plants, vibrant colors and long-lasting flowers. An additional bonus is that this snapdragon will hit you with an amazing candy-like scent!
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Squash ‘Green Lightning F1’
AAS Edible Winner
National Winner
Early and fast, Green Lightning squash impressed the judges with its early maturity. The nice medium- and light-green rind has an attractive glossy sheen. The small seed cavity on a smaller squash means more delicious edible flesh. No downsides to this beauty!
Bred by Joseph Stern
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Squash ‘Thriller F1’
AAS Edible Winner
National Winner
Bring a thrill to your garden with this All-America Selections Winner. Thriller brings new psychedelic color patterns to your fall décor. The 1- to 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 to 80 days from planting. The fruit colors shift and change as they mature for early to late season color. Judges across the U.S. and Canada agree that Thriller is unique, well-adapted, and easy to grow.
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Tomato Tonatico F1
AAS Edible Winner
Regional Winner: Mountain/Southwest and Northeast
Just when you thought you had your all-time favorite cherry tomato, Tonatico comes along to change your mind — offering high yield, delicious fruits, great texture, disease resistance, and less fruit cracking and splitting.
In the trials, judges were pleased with the superior sepals and pedicels, the taste and texture, and the uniform fruit clusters that are held on long, easy-to-harvest trusses. Venture out and try something new when it comes to cherry tomatoes.
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Photos courtesy of All America Selections.
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