For 2021, the National Garden Bureau (NGB), the non-profit organization promoting gardening in North America, has announced the five (5) plant classes that will be featured in the 2021 “Year of the” program.
- Annual: Year of the Sunflower
- Vegetable/edible: Year of the Garden Bean
- Perennial: Year of the Monarda
- Bulb: Year of the Hyacinth
- Flowering Shrub: Year of the Hardy Hibiscus
Hosta of the Year – ‘Rainbow’s End’ a small- to medium-sized hosta. It is a sport of Hosta ‘Obsession’ boasts very thick, glossy, canoe-shaped leaves with bright golden streaky centers surrounded by a wide, green/black border.
Perennial Plant of the Year: Calamint (Calamintha nepeta subsp. Nepeta) – a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to southern Europe north and west to Great Britain. Plants grow up to 18 inches tall and wide, and work well as a front border or a rock garden planting.
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