To help with your spring plant-selecting, here's a collection of plants that have won assorted awards for the 2025 growing season.

Magnolia, zones 4 to 9 Size: 15 to 40 feet tall and wide Gorgeous blooms in white, pink, yellow and purple balance like teacups or starbursts atop branches that later bear green leaves ...

Western redbuds sprout abundant pink flowers ... fade from pale green to white. These evergreen plants send up flower spikes in the spring and summer, as well as small reddish flowers that attract ...

The beautiful flowers hold a bright magenta pigment in their centers that soften to a delicate blushing pink petals ... not ripened and remained a pale shade of green. My bite revealed the ...

pink flowers that dangle downwards from long arching stems, the bleeding heart plant blooms in late spring. The flowers are completely unique-looking and provide a soft contrast to their green ...

The soft, pastel pink flowers beautifully contrast with its deep green foliage, and during flowering season — peaking in late spring and early summer — the ground beneath becomes a picturesque ...