ABOUT
Proven Winners®
IT STARTS WITH A BETTER PLANT
- The right plant for all places: A plant with poor genetics or a limited range of performance requires more chemical inputs to survive and perform. Proven Winners® searches the world to find and select plants that are clearly superior to others of their type in our trials in Michigan, New Hampshire, Germany, Japan, and Florida. This selection process translates into better performance for the homeowner with fewer chemical inputs needed. These plants are often more resistant to disease and insect pests, have better heat and humidity tolerance, and the broadest geographic range of superior garden performance. All of this translates to fewer insecticides and fungicides needed and overall tougher plants
- Start healthy – stay healthy: In addition to strenuous testing for garden performance, Proven Winners® goes the extra step in protecting our plants and the home gardeners who use them. All Proven Winners® plant varieties are screened for specific plant diseases and viral organisms. Why do we do it? So that when the plants arrive at local garden centers, we know we have done everything possible to ensure home gardeners are getting the healthiest plants possible. It is really a simple concept – gardeners are more likely to succeed and see the value in Proven Winners® if they start with strong plants. We want people to remember Proven Winners® as the best plants they have ever grown! A better garden really does start with a better plant.
- Educate for success: We have made a primary commitment to home gardeners. That’s because we feel that if our customers are well informed, they will have more success in their garden and make fewer mistakes that could have an environmental impact. We reach millions of gardeners annually with accurate information, including how to water and fertilize, seasonal issues such as pruning and overwintering, gardening ideas, and most of all, a commitment to their success.
What Makes
PROVEN WINNERS® Better?
Premium Products for Successful Gardening
The PROVEN WINNERS® brand of premium plants and products was created to help gardeners at every level succeed in growing healthy, beautiful plants. It begins with high-performance plants that are tested for:
- Resistance to disease and insects
- Tolerance for heat and humidity
- Season Long Color
- Extensive Blooms
- Need for fewer chemicals
- Ease of growth
- Garden performance and appearance
Consumer Appeal
- PROVEN WINNERS® products and plants have the leading brand awareness in the industry and command premium prices at both independent and big box garden centers
- PROVEN WINNERS® brand products are sold with special identifying tags
- PROVEN WINNERS® also offers professional fertilizers matched to growers’ water profiles, consumer soils and fertilizers, and an easy-to-use home irrigation kit all with the goal of producing the healthiest plants possible.
The Creation of Proven Winners®
The PROVEN WINNERS® brand of premium plants and products was created to help gardeners at every level succeed in growing healthy, beautiful plants. It begins with high-performance plants that are tested for:
The PROVEN WINNERS® brand was developed in 1992, through the united efforts of three United States plant propagators—Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan, and Pleasant View Gardens in Loudon, New Hampshire. These companies established a network to obtain and distribute new and unusual annual plants with excellent garden performance within the U.S., and soon after, in Canada.
PROVEN WINNERS® expanded in 2004 to carry Spring Meadow’s line of shrubs as COLORCHOICE® Flowering Shrubs. The group included perennials from Walters Gardens Inc. in 2011, with the debut of PROVEN WINNERS® Perennials
PROVEN SELECTIONS®
Outstanding Regional Varieties
High-Performance Regional Varieties
When the PROVEN WINNERS® brand was created, the founding partners—Four Star Greenhouse and Pleasant View Gardens—recognized the need to supply outstanding performing regional varieties to the market. As a result, the PROVEN SELECTIONS® brand was launched.
Each of the PROVEN WINNERS® partners offer their own regional selection of PROVEN SELECTIONS® plants that best suit their growing areas. Four Star’s regional PROVEN SELECTIONS® line boasts garden-center staple varieties and Midwest hardy perennials.
We can’t wait for you to
start exploring today!
