Proven Winners offers inspiration and garden solutions for 2026

Proven Winners’ 2026 plants lineup of new varieties focuses on plants that solve both greenhouse growing and consumer gardening challenges.

The lineup includes heat and drought tolerant introductions that will thrive in even the harshest summer conditions, season-long performers, low-care varieties and more. The new annuals, perennials and shrubs offer trialed and tested performance.

“At Proven Winners, we partner with breeders who are committed to developing superior plants,” said Proven Winners Vice President of Product Development Kevin Hurd. “Together, it’s a mutual effort to keep up with modern genetics while balancing the goals of improved grower and consumer performance. We invest years of research into developing each new plant, with only 1 to 2% of new introductions we trial making the final cuts.”

A platform of resources is now available to industry partners: free high-resolution images, a comprehensive instructional video, readable presentations and more.

With 70 new varieties hitting the market in 2026, the Top Picks program helps to spot the most outstanding and unique new plants in each category.

“Top Picks are chosen for their unique features, easy care nature, tolerance to heat and humidity, outstanding vigor and season-long performance,” said Proven Winners Vice President of Sales Dave Konsoer. “They’re truly the top of the graduating class of Proven Winners plants.”

To view all 19 Top Pick plants, visit provenwinners.com/TopPicks.

Learn more about these new introductions, as well as new partnerships, programs, products and more, in the Proven Winners 2026 New Plants & Programs Video.

For more information, including the brand's 2026 Spring Preview, hundreds of professional images and more, visit provenwinners.com/2026Resources.

The GIE Media Horticulture Group traveled to Carleton, Michigan, in April for a special 2026 Plant Preview from Proven Winners. Find out everything we saw here.