The start of a new year in gardening always generates all sorts of previews stating what’s new and notable when it comes to plants and products. A few emails in my inbox recently caught my attention. It started with ‘Garvinea Sweet’ gerberas being named the Canada Blooms plant of the year. A couple of weeks later, an email subject line enticed me with “2016 Perennial Plant of the Year.” A day later, I received another email proclaiming that 2016 is the year of begonias! How can so many plants be the “plant of the year?”
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