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Georgia Gold Medal Winners
Panel picks
premier plants
for your yard
By Gary L Wade
For the Forsyth County News
The Georgia Plant Selections
Committee has done it again.
They’ve come up with another list
of proven landscape winners to start
the new millennium.
Each year the committee awards
four plants the Georgia Gold
Medals for outstanding garden
merit. Growers, landscapers, land
scape designers, garden center man
agers, botanical garden horticultur
ists and University of Georgia facul
ty make up the committee.
The panel picks an annual
flower, a herbaceous perennial, a
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shrub and a tree from a long list of
nominees.
Durability, versatility, pest toler
ance and consumer appeal make the
plants extremely marketable. Here’s
a look at the great Gold Medal
Award winners for 2001.
Ornamental sweet
potatoes
Few plants are as easy to grow
and as popular as ornamental sweet
potatoes (Ipomoea batatas). The
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Ornamental sweet potatoes are true vines and very vigorous. When you plant them, stand
back. They need plenty of room to grow.
