EVERY YEAR, nursery professionals and home-gardening experts in the Mid-Atlantic region choose a handful of diverse plants to add to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s list of Gold Medal Plants. These species and cultivars must be easy-to-grow, excellent performers in the Mid-Atlantic, where challenges include intense humidity. For 2023, the selection panel also made ecological value, hardiness and seasonal beauty high criteria.
For more information and to access a searchable database of past PHS Gold Medal winners, see https://phsonline.org/for-gardeners/gold-medal-plants.
