2024 Season Field Trials

Summer Trial Results by Location

Cincinnati Zoo

Cincinnati Zoo

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden horticultural staff and volunteers, in conjunction with several other organizations, conducts plant trials on annuals, grasses, and perennials in accordance with regimented protocols.

University of Guelph

The 1,400 square meter trial garden in Guelph, Ontario, gives commercial growers and residential gardeners ample room to see what flowers and plants perform best in Southwestern Ontario's climate.
Colorado State University Trial

CSU

Each year, CSU trials over 1,000 different cultivars of annual bedding plants...
DGI Summer Trials

DGI Propagators

DGI has been a young plant propagator for over 50 years. This year they showcased a diverse selection of quality plants from the tried and true standards to the latest new items introduced by leading plant breeders.
Lucas Greenhouses

Lucas Greenhouses

The 2024 Lucas Greenhouses Summer Trial Gardens features a wide selection of top performers and new varieties...

MAST Young Plants

The trial boasts more than 100 genera including at least 150 new additions...

Metrolina Greenhouses

This trial location at Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville, NC screens Syngenta Flowers varieties for the challenges of southeastern...
Stephen F Austin

Stephen F Austin University

It began with a single quarter-acre teaching garden. Established by Dr. David Creech, director of SFA Gardens in 1985, this small patch of land near the Agriculture Building originally served as a living classroom for SFA’s horticulture students...

Penn State

The Penn State Flower Trials covers a selection of top performers from the Syngenta Flowers...

Plantpeddler

The team at Plantpeddler in Cresco, Iowa puts varieties to the test to see which are the "Best of the Midwest"...

Raker-Roberta's

The Raker-Roberta's Trial Garden compares a wide range of perennials, container vegetables, and annuals...

Sawaya

The Sawaya Garden trial is the place to go to find the next "it" plant in Canada...
Smith Gardens Trial

Smith Gardens

This year the team reviewed 18 beds, 350 planters and 200 hanging baskets of varieties at their Marysville, Washington facility...

Syngenta Flowers

Located in the heart of the Central Coast of California, the Syngenta Flowers Summer Trials are held in Gilroy, California.

Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Morris trial has existed since the early 1970s and has been an All-American selections display site since 1990. The Team at U of MN is evaluating more than 400 varieties of annual flowers...

Texas A&M

Texas A&M's trial gardens goal is to identify and evaluate the very best of newly introduced annuals and perennials that can be recommended for the southern US climate.

Young's Plant Farm Trial Garden

The trial consists of 26,400 square feet of raised beds which include both sun and shade conditions...

University of Georgia

Every summer, UGA Trial Gardens evaluates the newest annual and perennial varieties breeders all over the world have to offer.
Dallas Arboretum

Dallas Arboretum

Check out how our heat-loving plants are evaluated at the Trial Gardens at the Dallas Arboretum.
Welby Gardens

Welby Gardens

This Arvada, Colorado-based young plant producer holds their Welby Gardens Summer Flower Trials event each year to evaluate a wide array of varieties from breeders across the globe.
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A Syngenta Flowers team member looking focus with a notepad making notes from the flowers at the trial site.

About Our Trials

Syngenta extensively trials new varieties and our top performers throughout North America. In addition to our internal trialing, we use these strategically located trials to measure performance in real conditions. Our expert team of technical leads evaluates trials in person to make sure that varieties perform for growers and that they can provide region-specific guidance to our customers.

Use the map above to find and view our top performers for locations nearest to you.