Current Years Winners
2023 Honorable Mention
Established in 1950, this award is the first official “stamp of approval” by the AHS, where good performance goes beyond the regional level.
To win, a cultivar must receive a minimum of fifteen votes achieve the HM. These votes must come from no fewer than four different AHS regions. In voting for this award, Garden Judges must cast their votes only for cultivars observed in their own region. Cultivars are nominated for the Honorable Mention by their hybridizers. To be eligible it must have been registered for at least three calendar years. The Awards & Honors Committee may also nominate a maximum of ten cultivars each year that have been previously overlooked. Hybridizers may nominate a cultivar a maximum of three times, though not necessarily in consecutive years. After its third nomination, a cultivar cannot be nominated by the hybridizer.
(Go to bottom of page for link to spreadsheet with votes by region for all 2023 Cultivar Awards and Runners Up)
Award Winners






















Ghost Ranger | (Elliott-S., 2015) | 68 |
Raspberry Ripple Cupcake | (Herrington-T., 2007) | 62 |
Adventures in Oz | (Herrington-H., 2014) | 60 |
Quasar Cutie | (Nordstrom., 2018) | 48 |
Here's to you Bill Robinson | (Salter-E.H., 2018) | 39 |
Ruth Gets it Done | (Elliott-S., 2016) | 32 |
Windyhill's Dreamsicle | (Quinn, 2015) | 31 |
Doris and David | DeVito, 2014) | 30 |
Wacky Wednesday | (Seifert, 2015) | 29 |
Pray Without Ceasing | (Emmerich, 2019) | 28 |
Undefinable | (DeVito, 2014) | 28 |
Boom Boom Kabloom | (Selman, 2018) | 26 |
Weird Science | (Selman, 2017) | 25 |
Bedbug | (Williams-S., 2019) | 22 |
Wise Blood | (Elliott-D., 2015) | 22 |
Going Grand at the Strand | (Douglas-H., 2018) | 21 |
Spacecoast Alpha Wolf | (Kinnebrew-Gossard, 2019) | 21 |
Browns Ferry Debutante | (Douglas-C., 2019) | 19 |
Royal Girls | (Davisson-J., 2014) | 19 |
Artillery Fire | (Waldrop, 2015) | 18 |
Bob Marley | (Laprise, 2017) | 18 |
Golly Poly | (Herr-D., 2015) | 18 |
Absolutely Stellar | (Pierce-G., 2019) | 17 |
Hotter than the Fourth of July | (Wilkerson, 2010) | 17 |
Lynnstar | (Anderson-H., 2006) | 17 |
Mayelle | (Elliott-S., 2016) | 17 |
Vampire Lady | (Gossard, 2016) | 17 |
Black Fury | (Stadler, 2008) | 16 |
Green Tea | (Murphy-J.P., 2019) | 16 |
Little Tutu | (Williams-S., 2017) | 16 |
Magical Morning | (Waldrop, 2017) | 16 |
Pimiento Pepper | (Joiner, 1993) | 16 |
Birthday Wishes | (Selman, 2016) | 15 |
Fours are Wild | (Herr-D., 2011) | 15 |
Jefferson's Legacy | (Murphy-J.P., 2017) | 15 |
Kennesaw Orange Plush | (Waldrop, 2018) | 15 |
Master Sergeant Kenneth Lane | (Waldrop, 2018) | 15 |
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