What is AAS?
All-America Selections (AAS) is a non-profit organization that conducts confidential and impartial trials of new, never-before-sold annual ornamentals, perennials and vegetables throughout North America.
Each fall, we accept new variety entries that have not yet been introduced to the market.
Then, entries are trialed in more than 50 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Currently available comparison varieties are grown side-by-side with the entries for a one-to-one comparison of garden performance, earliness, flower or fruit size or any other characteristic important to the home gardener.
Our 80+ Trial Judges are horticulture professionals at universities, public gardens, extension offices, seed companies, breeding companies, retailers and commercial growers. They VOLUNTEER their time to do these trials and judge each entry on its garden performance.
Only the best trial performers, those that are superior to their comparisons, are declared AAS Winners.
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Media Contact:
Diane M. Blazek
Executive Director
PH: 630-963-0770
AAS Winner Images
All-America Selections encourages the use of AAS Winners images by the media and industry. Multiple images are found on each AAS Winner’s individual page. Please credit All-America Selections and use the variety name. To download images for digital use, go to the desired AAS Winner’s page, right click on the image of choice and select “Save image as…” For high-resolution images, please use this link. Need additional help? Please contact the AAS Staff.
AAS Winner Descriptions
All-America Selections encourages the use our AAS Winner descriptions by the media and industry. Simply visit the individual AAS Winner page on this website and copy as needed. Additional details are provided below the images in the green dropdown boxes. Please credit All-America Selections and use the correct variety name. Need additional help? Please contact the AAS Staff.
A complete, downloadable list of AAS Winners can be found here.
View recent AAS Winners by year:
2026 AAS Winners
2025 AAS Winners
2024 AAS Winners
2023 AAS Winners
2022 AAS Winners
AAS Judges, bios and locations
Judges are located in geographically diverse areas all over the U.S. and Canada. Since its inception, AAS has relied on the expertise of our volunteer judges to be the eyes and evaluators of our flower and vegetable entries. Without them, we could not confidently say that we have experts in the field who are trialing these new varieties to determine which entries are worthy of an AAS Award.
If press or media would like to contact or interview one of our AAS Judges, please contact the office for an introduction. List of all AAS Judges and their bios.
Google map of Edible/Vegetable judging locations
Google map of Seed Ornamental judging locations
Google map of Non-Seed Ornamentals judging locations
Google map of Perennial judging locations