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| Begonia 'Top Hat' Pink, a winner of the 2018 UGA Trail Gardens Plants of Distinction |
The
University of Georgia Horticulture Department has its Trail Garden located on
the main Athens campus behind the pharmacy building. It has been there a long
time. I remember doing some work there during my undergraduate studies in the
1980s. Many seed companies send new releases
of herbaceous ornamental annuals and perennials to the UGA Department of
Horticulture. The Trail Gardens grows the plants and evaluates how well they do
in our climate. Then they generate a report to the seed companies on which ones
performed well and which ones did not. Then they compare these results to data
on the plants grown at other trial gardens across the nation. Please refer to their website at: https://ugatrial.hort.uga.edu/
Each year they release their annual Plants
of Distinction, which are ones that have the best appearance and overall
performance. Click here to see a list of ones for 2020: https://tinyurl.com/yckp4msh.
See the following pictures of the gardens in bloom:
See the following pictures of the gardens in bloom:
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