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Beautiful Gardens
Plant Introduction Program

Who we are: Beautiful Gardens Grow with Confidence® is a broad consortium of Virginia based public and not-for profit private entities.

What we do: Beautiful Gardens  tests, and promotes
new and underutilized plants with stable performance in
USDA hardiness/AHS heat zones 6a/2 to 8a/7, and with
excellent ornamental display
 
 
Disclaimer: The promotion is not guaranteed - it depends on the overall performance and plant appeal etc. BG does not grow the plants, it does the research, plant evaluation and marketing needed to get the best plants to the market.

Do you have a unique plant that you'd like to have evaluated?
Contact Lisa Lipsey, llipsey@vt.edu
 

      Recent News Articles on Beautiful Gardens

     

      "Hokie daylily a winner" - in the Virginia Tech Research magazine Summer 2009

 "Researchers at the Institute for Sustainable and Renewable Resources (ISRR), located at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) in Danville, have developed a triploid daylily that took a blue ribbon at the Richmond Daylily Show and a yellow ribbon at the Tidewater Daylily Show in its first two showings last summer (2008). The winning daylily, known simply as #33........" For complete article, go to:   http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2009summer/daylily.html

       

      "Master Plants" in Virginia Living magazine

"The Beautiful Gardens program is designed to spur economic growth in southern Virginia through the discovery and promotion of new plant varieties. The first offspring—nine well-tested hybrids—are now hitting the market." By Ann Wright - For complete article, go to:  http://www.virginialiving.com/articles/master-plants/photos.html
 
 
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