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The 2008 Great Plant Picks are here!

Click here for fact sheets and photographs of the 600+ Great Plant Picks.

Come and meet the Great Plant Picks staff and pick up a free 2008 GPP booklet and 2008 poster at the Point Defiance Flower and Garden Show, June 6-8, 2008 in Tacoma. For more information visit www.ptdefianceflowershow.com.

In the meantime, peruse this website for information on the 600+ plants that fill a wide variety of garden niches here in the coastal Pacific Northwest. GPP booklets for 2004 through 2008 are available on the Resources page.

Great Plant Picks is an educational awards program committed to building a comprehensive palette of outstanding plants for Pacific Northwest gardens. Awards are based on the combined expertise of over forty horticulturists from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Great Plant Picks originates at the Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, Washington, and provides a forum for sharing horticultural information with the wider gardening community.

The Great Plant Picks selection committee meets three times yearly. At selection committee meetings, plants are nominated, debated, affirmed or rejected; information about award-winning plants is recorded. All committee members volunteer their time to Great Plant Picks; they are drawn from a range of sectors—botanical gardens, garden centers, wholesale nurseries and garden design firms.

The Great Plant Picks Selection Committee also depends on the advice of experts in advisory groups, which meet yearly or more to recommend selections in their field of expertise. Presently there are three advisory groups, one for ferns, one for rhododendrons and one for roses.