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Doing your holiday giving?

Please consider donating to the ADS National Show Endowment Fund.
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Another successful year in our trial gardens.  Congratulations to our new Trial Garden Director, Heidi Zierdt on her first year as Director.  Check out the Trial Garden results here.

We also had some robust competition on the seedling benches across North America.  See the 2025 Final Bench Evaluation Report here.  For general seedling bench information and past … See entire post.

The Derrill W. Hart medal

Awarded to the cultivar that has the highest average trial garden score in the accredited trial gardens located across the United States and Canada during the previous year as an AA/A; B; BB; M; Ball/Miniature Ball/Pompon; ST/NX; and Waterlily. The highest three scores shall be used to determine such highest average. In case of ties, … See entire post.

A Year in Dahlias – 2026, a beautiful 11 x 17-inch dahlia wall calendar by Tina McNabb and Alan Fisher, features 19 stunning high-gloss images of dahlias on strong, high-gloss paper. The 2026 calendar is the finest that either of us has produced. To preview the calendars, use this link:

View the calendar as a flip-book

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Announcing the 2025 ADS Photo Contest and People’s Choice (2026) Photo Contest.

Get those cameras clicking…

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Our own Harry Rissetto was recently featured in American Gardener, discussing “Why Plant Societies Matter”. See what Harry has to say here.

Excerpt posted with permission from American Gardener.

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