Proven Winners ColorChoice crowned a 2019 Shrub Madness winner as the human race ’s only industrial plant bracket competition came to a closing for 2019 . base on the college hoops playoffs , the contest is populate with a wide variety of Proven Winners ColorChoice shrubs , which compete throughout the calendar month of March for the fortune to be crowned National Champion .
Coming from a crowded field of 64 contenders , the competition narrows to the Floral Four , then the final two after multiple rounds of vote . This year ’s Floral Four included Pugster Blue Buddleia , rent ’s dancing Rhythmic Blue bigleaf hydrangea , Suñorita rose , and Tuff Stuff Ah - Ha flock hydrangea .
The last stave of voting found Tuff Stuff Ah - Ha hydrangea with a svelte lead over challenger Suñorita rose , but it steadily gained adhesive friction . In the final few hour of the contender the fearless hydrangea soundly vote out the rose and was ultimately crowned the 2019 Shrub Madness National Champion .
stain new to garden sum in 2019 , Tuff Stuff Ah - Ha mint hydrangea has bountiful , waterlily - corresponding twofold florets . It ’s also a prolific reblooming hydrangea . All summer long , it devote its energies to produce flower buds on its raw growth so that there is a constant supplying of fabulous blooms from early summertime through frost .
" Shrub Madness is the stark fomite to find out first - mitt what shrubs are most interesting gardeners this year ” , enjoin PR specialist Natalie Carmolli . “ It ’s also a great elbow room to spur some interest group in newer mixture . " The contention also gives folks at Proven Winners ColorChoice an opportunity to challenge internal preconceived notions about which plants might be most democratic with the public . The additional information that is gained as a outcome of the contest helps to inform merchandising decisions going ahead .
When asked if the contest seems to be gaining traction , Spring Meadow horticulturist Stacey Hirvela say , " This has been a fantastic year for Shrub Madness . We go forward to have yard participants and hundreds of thousands of vote . There ’s simply no better , more cost - in effect way to bring attention to so many plants . "
This twelvemonth Shrub Madness player were once again given several opportunities to score piles of prizes . At the end of each round , samples of top - scoring plants were awarded to participants and the instrumentalist with the bracket anticipation near to the tournament ’s results was awarded the grand prize “ Floral Four and Plant Geek Swag Bag . ”
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